Friday, Mar 12th 2010
The proper meaning of class, as it is used in an analysis of political economy and sociology internationally, is not much discussed in Ireland either in academia or more broadly, despite the overriding fact that so much of how the economic crisis has played out and how the government here has chosen to deal with [...]
Gilbert Achcar: Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World | Mediapart Magazine
An interview with Gilbert Achcar about his soon to be published book Arabs and the Holocaust. ILR interviewed Professor Achcar in January 09, during the conflict in Gaza. In this most recent interview he explains that anti-semitism is not implicit [...]
Anne Enright | Ireland’s Recession
From the most recent London Review of Books, Irish novelist Anne Enright provides a sort of diary of Ireland’s recession.
Telling the truth was, in the circumstances, not just boring, it was also unlucky, hexed, taboo. It might even be unclean. Careless talk costs jobs. If the bubble burst it would be [...]
Turbulence 5: Left-wing Political Magazine | Editorial: And Now For Something Completely Different?
Issue 5 of Turbulance, a British Left-wing magazine provides plenty of interesting articles on the various crisis' across a range of issues:
"Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ‘quack’ and a ‘crank’, as lacking the most [...]
Böhm/Dabhi | Upsetting the Offset | mayflybooks.org
Something for the Xmas stocking, I seriously doubt, unless you take the contrary notion of giving it to the aspiring carbon-neutral person in your life with an energy sponge e-reader. Upsetting the Offset is available as an e-book. Still post-Copenhagen 09 it is worth reading.
“Upsetting the Offset engages critically [...]
The latest Socialist Register, which was published in October 2009, is called Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitialism. As one of the editors, Colin Leys says, the aim was to show that health is a subject that currently isn’t but needs to be considered as part of Political Economy and should be something that is an [...]
New Data on Residential Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions | Financial Regulator
The Financial Regulator today published new data on mortgage arrears and repossessions. The data show that as at end September 2009 there were 791,634 private residential mortgage accounts to a value of €118.6 billion. Of these 3.3%, were in arrears for more than 90 days [...]
The latest CSO Earnings and Labour Costs Survey
The CSO Earnings and Labour Costs Survey shows that average weekly earnings fell overall by 1.1% from €706.03 in Q2 2008 to €698.43 in Q2 2009. However, while there was a fall in the average unit cost of labour in the private sector, connected principally to the [...]
Democracy Now | Study Reveals “Revolving Door” Between Capitol Hill Staffers and Healthcare Lobbyists
A new study on healthcare lobbying published in the Chicago Tribune has found that healthcare companies have spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years. At least 166 former congressional aides involved in shaping healthcare legislation have registered to lobby [...]
The following is a short extract from the recently published biography of political activist and former Labour Party Councillor Joe Deasy by Brian Kenny, published in association with the Hugh Geraghty-Crumlin, Drimnagh, Walkinstown Branch of The Labour Party. Details of how to get Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left are at the end of [...]