rabble is a non-profit, newspaper from the city’s underground. It’s collectively and independently run by volunteers. rabble aims to create a space for the passionate telling of truth, muck-raking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority. We stand within, and with, Dublin as it struggles from below against the ghost of the Celtic Tiger [...]

[Text of Peter Bunting's talk which was given on Sunday, 11 September 2011, at the 23rd Annual Desmond Greaves Summer School.

Peter Bunting is Assistant General Secretary of the ICTU with responsibility for Northern Ireland.]
Comrades,
Discussing an all-Ireland economy is a bit like discussing a European-wide currency. On the surface, we can talk the economist talk about [...]

Audio recording of Professor Fred Magdoff’s presentation at the Greaves School on Friday (9 September).
The title of the talk is: The international economic crisis – making the periphery pay.
The session was chaired by councillor Catherine Connolly, Galway City Council and barrister.
Fred Magdoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and [...]

Income is not a determinant of class. It can be used, however, as an indicator of class relations. Wage levels are usually, though not always, related to the type of positions people hold within the work-place, the type of work they do, the amount of power and influence they have over their working environment, conditions [...]

I spent last week going through the Census of Industrial Production reports, 1983 to 2006, in order to find out just how many jobs in Ireland are provided directly by foreign investment.
This graph is what I got.

Notice how there is virtually no change in foreign-based industrial employment from the early 1980s onwards - in fact, [...]

Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For [...]

The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. [...]

BOOK LAUNCH
The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament:
by Tommy Mc Kearney
Published by: Pluto Press London
Wednesday 10th August
5-30 - 6-30pm
Connolly Books
43 East Essex St,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2:
All welcome

Short clip from an interview I recorded with Sean Garland as part of the Irish Left Oral History Archive.
Sean is currently fighting extradition to the United States. The following is taken from a letter of support which is signed by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU; Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary, UNITE; and Eamon Devoy, General [...]

For directions, click here.
See also, The Wire and Sins of the Father on Dublin Opinion.