Friday, Jan 27th 2012
With the Government to publish its four-year plan in the next few weeks, we should try to nail down some basic numbers. No doubt the plan will present an avalanche of numbers and percentages and projections; so much so that the Government may well try to hide some discomforting statistics. Does this sound cynical?
Let me [...]
The latest edition of the Irish Anarchist Review published by the Worker’s Solidarity Movement on the 5th of Oct, is available here.
It includes Paul Bowman on organising to beat the household tax. Kostas Avrimidis writes about Greece and Cathal Larkin reviews the excellent Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937 by Chris [...]
Publication of the latest estimate of GDP data shows that the recession was much sharper than previously thought. The revision shows that GDP contracted by 7.1% rather than the 6.4% previously estimated. The recovery which began in the 3rd quarter of 2009 was also slightly stronger than previously estimated, the economy expanding by 2.8% until [...]
Wolfgang Münchau | Why Europe’s officials lose sight of the big picture
Wolfgang Münchau writing in the Financial Times yesterday says expansionary fiscal contraction is a fairy tale and cites a new IMF paper with considerable data to prove his point.
A senior eurozone policymaker, who was upset by my criticism of eurozone policy in the past, [...]
The decision by Pat Rabbitte, Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources, to issue thirteen new exploration licences for oil and gas in Irish territorial waters is nothing more than the complete abandonment by this state of any control of these resources that belong to the Irish people or the right to derive any significant [...]
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike
This text was written by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which began with the mass protest organized by Real Democracy Now on the 15th of May 2011 and inspired Europe with the [...]
Michael will be talking at #occupydamestreet about financialisation and the real economy at 5pm today.
The EU-IMF deal does not require the Government to privatise state assets. I’ll repeat that. The EU-IMF deal does not require the Government to privatise state assets. Those who claim otherwise have either not read the EU-IMF Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) [...]
It appears that progressive political parties are holding back from overt support for the Occupy protests around the world in general and Ireland in particular.
Perhaps it is because they see the occupiers lacking in political sophistication or any clear program for change. If so, this misses the point. The chips have been thrown in the [...]
This is a very interesting instalment from an interview that the Scottish branch of Unite the union conducted with Yanis Varoufakis in which he provides a very damning assessment of social democratic parties in Europe.
From the Unite Scotland’s description of interview:
“Unite Scotland’s fourth and final instalment in the Varoufakis series puts focus on [...]
Speech given after the October 15th march at Occupy Dublin, outside the Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street
When you have lived a long life, you will find that the years blur together, but some years stand out. 2011 will be a stand out year.
For some of us active on the left for many years, we [...]
