Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012
Dear TD/Senator,
I write to demand that the so-called “debt” of 1.25bn Euro (one billion, two hundred and fifty million) due to be paid to UNSECURED Anglo bondholders be not paid.
Since the Irish people had no hand in this debt; we do not consent to paying it. Since the Irish people will not benefit from its [...]
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 [...]
What if we bought a modern telecommunications system, bringing Next Generation Broadband to every household and business in the country?
- What if we purchased a state-of-the-art waste and water system to secure an increasingly scarce resource?
- What if we provided one-on-one intensive tutorials for all those with literacy and numeracy problems that keep [...]
International business news and other TV channels are offering a Babel-like interpretation of the current slump in world financial markets. European (including British) stations are reporting the Wall Street-led declines as a response to the continued debt crisis in Europe. But this makes no sense. An EU crisis would have been felt first in EU [...]
Dear TDs,
It’s time for an election. It really is.
How long more can this charade of pretending you have a mandate from the “people” go on? You never had a mandate from the people in the first place - at most you had about 41% of a mandate from the 40% that voted [...]
Below is a recording of Harry Browne at the launch of the Irish Socialist Network’s latest pamphlet, A force for progress? Five myths about the European Union. The event took place in Connolly Books, Essex St, Dublin 2.
Income is not a determinator of class, and to think of class in such terms is to miss the point that class is a social relation, not a category. Income, however, can be used as an indicator of class relations, as wage levels are usually, although not always, related to the types of positions people [...]
What a good news week for Fianna Fail was last week. It wasn’t just the latest Irish Times poll even if it’s only a honeymoon result. There was also that report– the ESRI’s Medium -Term Review: a little rough patch and then clear skies and calm waters for . . . well until 2025 minimum. [...]
That ol’ red herring - Labour’s links with trade unions - is raising its head again. Kevin Rafter suggests the Party’s 21st Century Commission (an internal review body) should:
‘ . . . look at Labour’s relationship with the trade union movement.’
Mr. Rafter likens this relationship to that which the State used to have with religious [...]
Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 - a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact that there are over 720,000 poor people living amongst us. Not only that, there are now more poor people today than there were at [...]
