Open letter sent by the Coalition to Protect the Lowest Paid to Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation about his proposal to reduce the incomes of workers covered by the JLCs. Dear Minister…
Monthly Archives For June 2011
Sins of the Father: The DCTV Interview
Conor’s interview with DCTV about his book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy. Just to remind people that the book launch is this Thursday, 30th of June 5.30 to…
The Greek Crisis
This article was originally published on Socialist Economic Bulletin. Republished with permission. The Greek economic and social crisis continues to unfold. Around it a series of myths have arisen and been perpetuated. It is necessary…
Domestic Violence in Ireland Today
“… one in five Irish women who have ever been in a relationship experience physical, emotional, financial or sexual abuse.” (Margaret Martin, Director Women’s Aid) The recent launch of the annual statistics report for 2010…
Gillian Tett | Shadow spreading across international banking
Gillian Tett | Shadow spreading across international banking Gillian Tett is looking at investment firms and hedge funds and explains how ‘non-banking’ (and non-regulated) firms are expanding rapidly and taking business from the banks that…
Des Derwin | ULA forum: a resounding success
Des Derwin | ULA forum: a resounding success Great coverage of the ULA Forum on Saturday from Des Derwin and plenty of discussion. Nevertheless all involved must take credit for a phenomenon that would have…
Save Our Public Services 3: Making Public Sector Reform Work for People and the Economy
In previous posts I showed that Irish public services were already grossly underfunded by EU norms and that, using ESRI data, cutting public sector employment will have only a trivial impact on the fiscal deficit….
When French Folly and German Naiveté unite against Greek debt: Another sorry episode of how not to deal with a systemic crisis
This article was originally posted on Yanis’ blog today. Republished here with the kind permission of the author. While crises are the laboratory of the future, the euro crisis is proving more like the alchemist’s…
The Soft Underbelly of Dave Lordan
The Soft Underbelly of homo lordaniensis-being sort of a review, but more an anatomy I’d like to think, of Invitation to a Sacrifice (Knockeven: Salmon, 2010) pbk, 124pp Most English-language poetry suffers from its practitioners’…
The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe
This article is based on a contribution to a seminar held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities last Friday called The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe. Audio from the event is available…
Book Launch Sins of the Father: Connolly Books, Essex St. Dublin, Thursday 30th of June
It’s PLAY Time: Play Poland – Irish/ Polish Film Project
What do you get after mixing shining stars of the independent cinema, the Irish Film Bord, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, BFCE Irish School of Animation and the Film School in Lodz? A…
Marxism without revolution: Crisis
Part two of John Quiggin’s series of three posts on posts has now been published Marxism without revolution: Crisis [...] Closely related is the question of what, if anything, can and should be done to…
Socialist Voice Supplement: The Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe’s Periphery
A special supplement of Socialist Voice dealing with debt question in Greece, Spain, Portugal and here at home is now available. In the supplement we posed a series of questions to each of the four…
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