Trade Union TV | Special needs protest to Dail opening 14th September 2011
Special needs protest to Dail opening 14th September 2011
Articles from September 2011
An Audit of Irish Debt Launched Today
An Audit of Irish Debt carried out by Dr Sheila Killian, Dr John Garvey, Frances Shaw of the University of Limerick and sponsored by Action from Ireland (Afri), Debt and Development Coalition Ireland (DDCI) and the Unite trade union was launched this morning in Buswells Hotel, Dublin.
Click here to download or view on the Debt and [...]
Understanding the Euro Crisis
Just a reminder of the following tonight. Michael Taft and I interviewed Yanis Varoufakis in Leinster House yesterday and I will be posting that as a podcast this evening hopefully. Also Yanis was on the panel of Tonight with Vincent Browne last night, which can be viewed on the TV3 site.
Public Meeting
Understanding the Euro Crisis
Thursday [...]
Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
L’Humanite interview with Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
For sociologist Monique Pinçon-Charlot, the campaign against public deficits is an ideological weapon being used by neoliberals to do away with social rights all over the world.
Among the budgetary proposals to be discussed by the French government is a move [...]
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class - Part Three
This is the third part of a three part review of Owen Jones’ book, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class. Part 1 was published on Tuesday and Part 2 was published yesterday. Click here to see all three together.
Book Review: Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. London: Verso, 2011. 298 pages. [...]
From the Wires
There is a passage in Adam Phillips’s most recent book On Balance where he quotes Freud biographer Ernest Jones as observing that it is not the people we hate the most that we want to kill, but the people who arouse in us the most unbearable conflict. Thinking about its media campaign around its ‘crackdown’ on [...]
100th Anniversary of foundation of Sligo branch ITGWU
A Public Meeting to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Sligo branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (I.T. &.G.W.U.) will take place in the Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo on this Saturday the 17th September at 8.00.p.m.
Speakers at the event, which is being organised by the People First/United left Alliance will include Dr [...]
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class - Part Two
This is the second part of a three part review of Owen Jones’ book, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class. Part 1 was published yesterday, and the concluding part will appear tomorrow.
Book Review: Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. London: Verso, 2011. 298 pages. £14.99
It’s your own fault
No longer do we hear [...]
DCU’s Model Graduates | Dr ANDREW LOXLEY; Dr AIDAN SEERY; Dr JOHN WALSH
DCU’s Model Graduates | Dr ANDREW LOXLEY; Dr AIDAN SEERY; Dr JOHN WALSH
Lecturers from Trinity College’s Cultures, Academic Values and Education Research Group, in the School of Education take exception to DCU plan to generate ‘model’ graduates in a letter to the Irish Times.
The recent announcement by Dublin City University proclaiming its intention to embed the [...]
The Shirt Off My Back Protest | Weds 14th September, 14:00 - 15:00 Government Buildings.
The Shirt Off My Back Protest | Weds 14th September, 14:00 - 15:00 Government Buildings.
Tom Boland of Fermoy Says No (Burn the Bondholders campaign) has requested support for a protest today at 3pm at Government buildings outside the Dept. of Finance. Bring an old shirt which that you can hang from the railings as part [...]
