The Provisional University, an activist research and autonomous education project based in Dublin is posting a series of articles on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or PAH), a Spanish movement…
Monthly Archives For August 2012
Dan Froomkin | The Jobs Crisis Obama, Romney and the Low-Wage Future of America
Dan Froomkin | The Jobs Crisis Obama, Romney and the Low-Wage Future of America Same here, init? Politician’s talking about creatin’ job, but never addressing the fact that the majority of workers in the state,…
PRESS RELEASE – TARGET SIT-IN CORK PLANT
[Click here for source] We, the workers at Target Express, Cork Depot, strongly dispute the version of events at the company as put out by Mr.Seamus Mc Brien yesterday. The contention of Mr.McBrien is that…
What Money Can’t Buy
Book Review: Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy, the Moral Limits of Markets (Allen Lane 2012) Michael Sandel’s book powerfully articulates what the majority of people across the globe know is happening: markets and finance…
Britain’s Second Empire
Recently Conor published a piece on the Irish shadow banking system and we regularly discuss it here in relation to its role in the Irish economy. So when I read New Left Project’s interview with Ronen…
Money as a Social Construct – Talk Given by Mary Mellor
Here’s a very good talk given by Mary Mellor in Jan 26th 2012 which provides a great overview of her book The Future of Money. The first part of the talk deals with the limits…
Galloway on Rape and Law’s Own Repugnant Diatribe
This was originally published today on Critical Legal Thinking. On August 18th, the youtube channel ‘molucca Red,’ ‘[t]he only fully authorised GG channel,’ posted ‘Good night with George Galloway (Episode 5).’ This episode featured Galloway discussing various…
Shooting and Lying: Useful Zionism, Useless Film
[The former Israeli soldier] talked slowly about his time in Gaza. He spoke about 20 Arab teenagers filled with ecstasy tablets and sent running towards the base he’d patrolled. Each strapped with a bomb and…
Julian Assange, Sweden, Ecuador and the USA
Originally published on the Ice Moon Blog on Friday the 17th of August, but as the debate continues to rage it seems appropriate to post it here now as it provides a very balanced and…
The Bottomless Pit that is the National Debt
Statement from Repudiate the Debt The recently published report of the Central Bank of Ireland entitled “Irish SME credit supply and demand: Comparisons across the surveys and countries” exposes as never before what the bank…
Thinking Allowed Discusses Social Capital and Class Two very interesting Thinking Allowed recent episodes/podcasts on employment (in the media particularly), internships, class and social capital. Jobs for the Boys?’ Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Irena…
PROFITS OUT OF POVERTY FILM | War on Want
UK banks and the debt crisis | War on Want This short film from 1986 very clearly illustrates how banks, in this case UK ones, pushed debt on to developing countries as a form rent…
CRIME AND PUSSY RIOT | Why Our Entirely Reasonable Support For Jailed Russian Punkettes Could Trigger World War III
CRIME AND PUSSY RIOT | Why Our Entirely Reasonable Support For Jailed Russian Punkettes Could Trigger World War III Good piece from Mark Ames on the violent reaction by Faith No More’s Russian fans against Pussy…
The Right Reasons to Back Pussy Riot
The Right Reasons to Back Pussy Riot The real reasons to like Pussy Riot How many fans of Pussy Riot’s zany “punk prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s erudite and…
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Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
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- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
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