Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Italian unions advocate common European action | European Conference Against Austerity & Privatisation
Piero Bernocchi, the national spokesman for Italian trade union COBAS, explains the importance of common European action:
‘As the crisis broke three years ago, here in Italy we said, “We won’t pay for the crisis”. But, up to now, we – the weakest and more unprotected [...]
From the Greek Streets | Greek government announces yet another round of cuts, as unions call for General Strikes on October 5 and October 19
"On the afternoon of September 21st, the government in Greece announced another round of cuts aimed at pleasing the ‘troika’ (the EU/IMF/ECB representatives) and securing the sixth installment of the loan [...]
ekathimerini.com | With eye on loan, Greece unveils austerity measures
Evangelos Venizelos, Greece's Minister for Finance is the useful idiot of the European Governmental Financial Complex….
"Speaking in Parliament before the cabinet meeting, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos admitted that a series of failures and the worsening recession made it necessary for the government to go on a [...]
It’s recently become fashionable in some parts of Dublin to declare (loud and long) that one has decided to ‘prioritise’ the education of one’s child[ren] by choosing a fee-paying school. I’m tempted to say that the parents of anybody who attended such a school but nonetheless uses prioritise as a verb should be getting a [...]
Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Amy Goodman on the under-reported, almost completely ignored (here) Occupy Wall Street protests.
"If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street last [...]
Richard Drayton | Arts and Humanities: An Endangered Species?
Richard Drayton on the history of imperialism and the contemporary treatment of the arts and humanities as a luxury that only the very rich can enjoy. There is the dangerous situation too where all too modest academic dissidents becomes nothing more than “intellectual lapdancers”, tolerated for the [...]
This was originally co-written for Progressive-Economy.ie with Michael Burke and Tom McDonnell.
The Anglo-Irish and Irish Nationwide debt must become a major political issue. The Anglo/INBS debt-burden is an unjust and unwarranted charge which the Irish people ought have no responsibility for, a charge which will continue to drain the productive economy for years to come. [...]
Just to let people know that Tom O’Connor, lecturer in economics and social policy in Cork Institute of Technology reviews Conor’s Sins of the Father in the Irish Examiner today. Here’s an excerpt:
Conor McCabe’s The Sins of the Father is the latest attempt to explain our economic collapse and is by far and away the [...]
The international financial system is passing through the agony of a new round of the Eurozone debt crisis for the simple reason that European governments, like that in the US, refuse to deal with the core of the economic recession in Europe for reasons of economic dogma.
Anyone who looks at the economic data for the [...]
Below is an interview with Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis which I recorded on Wednesday the 14th of September in Leinster House. Michael Taft, Research Officer with Unite the trade union was also on hand to ask some questions.
Yanis is the author of several books, two which were published during [...]
