I read the above book over the Christmas period by Caroline Moorehead. I could not put the book down as it was an account of women mainly Communist women who initially fought against the Nazi’s and the filthy French traitors who helped the Germans during that country’s terrible occupation in 1939.
The book reminded me of [...]

A lot of people are going to find it difficult in 2012, what with the economy returning to recession and all.  But for one group, it will be business as usual: Anglo-Irish creditors.  And that business will mean that they will be repaid in full.
Indeed, it’s already started.  On Tuesday, a payment of €2.1 million [...]

Preliminary Report for the European Initiative on the Standardization of Emotional Response Measurement(EUI #32549/P)
In an effort to further facilitate administrative alignment among the various members of the European Union, the Bureau of European Policy Advisers has initiated a process of defining and determining the full range of emotional and psychic attitudes exhibited by citizens of [...]

Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci

“The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a poor consciousness of class (understanding of the state exists not only when one defends it but also when one attacks [...]

As previously mentioned, Look Left 9 or Vol.2 No.7 is now available in Easons and other outlets both north and south. There is plenty in there for everyone, but I thought as Look Left have published it on their site that I should link to Conor McCabes’ piece Gombeens, Spivs and Bankers. It provides a [...]

Stephen Collins bothers me. Every time I read his Irish Times column I get an uncomfortable feeling. Something just doesn’t seem right.
At first I thought it was because my views were diametrically opposed to his. Maybe it was the ideological gulf between us that bothered me.
But then I realised that I read a great many [...]

10 years of austerity?  What is the ex-ESRI researcher Richard Tol talking about?  Wasn’t austerity to only last until 2015?  Is this what we have to look forward to?  In a word, you bet.
Tol’s reference to a decade of austerity is well-founded.  While the debate is focused on what’s going to be in the next [...]

The beginning of 2012 is a suitable moment to assess China’s economic prospects for the year and coming period. This overall perspective is clear - China will grow strongly, remaining the world’s fastest growing major economy, and will continue to substantially outperform Western pessimist predictions. This is the same fundamental analysis maintained by the author over the [...]

History Ireland Hedge School
National Library Kildare Street D.2 Wed. Jan. 11th  2012  7.00 pm
“War of Independence -

Four Glorious Years or Squalid Sectarian Conflict ?”
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2011 has been a very interesting year for the southern Irish party political left.
The general election in February brought the largest number of left wing deputies into the Oireachtas in its 90-year history. Sixty-three TDs were elected on a variety of social democratic, left republican, revolutionary socialist and independent left platforms.
The combined left vote broke [...]