Thursday, May 24th 2012
29/11/11 - A turning point in British history | Paul Mason
Paul Mason on good form talking about the “Autumn Statement”.
And don’t kid yourself that Britain is somehow immune, either, from the “government by technocrat” virus sweeping Europe. We saw last night the Lib Dems forced to effectively write their manifesto on the set of Newsnight; [...]
The domestic economy is headed into a double-dip recession according to the ESRI. And that’s just the beginning of the bad news. Government ministers and certain commentators will put it down to the Eurozone crisis (‘we’re doing a good job, hitting our targets, it’s those darned Greeks, and Italians and Germans‘) but the fact is we [...]
Worth highlighting…
Two UCD students Aoife O’Neill and Michael Smalle recently completed an extended interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913, which has now gone viral (in the nicest possible way).
The full audio version is on: http://soundcloud.com/the-1913-lockout
The edited Video Chapters are on: http://www.youtube.com/user/lockoutwiki
[The full report is available as a 144-page PDF. The "Double Irish" "Dutch Sandwich" is mentioned. This post contains the introduction]
Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services
Edited by Laura Figazzolo and Bob Harris
Published by The Education International Research Institute, Brussels.
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The purpose of this project is to highlight, on the basis of existing [...]
As Eyre Square remains ‘Occupied’ by citizens anxious to change the way the system works, the Scariff-based Irish Seed Savers Association (ISSA) and Galway One World Centre (GOWC) are hosting an all day gathering which will consider how that alternative system might look.
‘Another World Is Possible - reflections on power, seeds and change’ will combine [...]
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books | Review of Anderson’s The New Old World
In 2000 when he was relaunching the New Left Review Perry Anderson claimed “For the first time since the Reformation there are no longer any significant oppositions - that is, systematic rival outlooks - within the thought-world of the West: and scarcely [...]
Dublin Council of Trade Unions March Against Austerity 26th November 2011
On November 2nd Ireland handed over €700 million to the unsecured bondholders of Anglo-Irish Bank. Over the next nine months, €3.5 billion in total will be handed over to individuals who received extra high rates of interest precisely because it was unsecured.
This is money that [...]
This NYT piece confirms what Michael Burke and Michael Roberts have already shown. Corporate profits are up as wages are driven down, taxes are lower than expected and the economy (along with public service provision)
The government’s first estimate of corporate profits in the third quarter was released two days before Thanksgiving, at the same time [...]
No, no, no. Ireland is, alas, not an austerity role model | Real World Economics Review
Larry Elliot is wrong in his chirpy assessment of the Irish economy today, lazily suggesting that Ireland has become a poster child for implementing austerity programs. There is no doubt that the Irish government’s appetite for it is undiminished. He suggests [...]
Our Minister for Social Protection has finally got around to one of the most pressing issues facing Ireland today. Last Friday, Joan Burton announced new legislation on the issue of sham marriages. She wants to give increased powers of investigation to registrars and the Gardaí to investigate and prosecute marriages of convenience, where residency is [...]
