Below is Hugh Green’s penultimate post on The Punishment of Sloth. Here’s the final one. We look forward to more words and translations from him where ever, and how ever they may appear. Many thanks for allowing us to publish this post here.
On his excellent blog La pupila insomne, Cuban blogger Iroel Sánchez Espinosa collected [...]

Let me recap on what I think is the effectiveness of the idea of Real Democracy Now / Democracia Real Ya element of the 15-M movement. When it works, it engages people as citizens - but not merely as formally constituted political subjects but also as the primary constituents of society- and enables them to develop [...]

Whatever you wish to call it -euro-pact, Pact for the Euro, Euro Plus Pact- and from here on it will be known simply as the Euro Pact, public knowledge of its scope and function, in Ireland at least, has been extremely limited.
Whilst both the parties presently in government, and those that preceded them, campaigned [...]

Many people in Ireland are only too aware that some Greek protesters, at the start of last year, chanted ‘we are not Ireland, we will resist’ in response to the policies of austerity unleashed upon the population. In Ireland, the chant stung leftists and cheered ruling elites.