As opinion polls keep rolling in and showing either a FG/Labour coalition of a majority FG government, perhaps its time to turn some attention to what is likely to happen in the few months after the election.
If any of what FG and Labour is saying is to be accepted then the incoming government will be putting [...]

Here’s a song and message from Gary Dunne.
Hi all,
I have pledged, to myself and to those who like my music, to release a new track every month in 2011.
This is the first of them – ‘What Kind Of Country Are We Living In?’

The track was written in late Dec 2010, in response to the [...]

JUST TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT THIS IS TOMORROW 5th of FEBURARY
Addmission 5 Euros on the door
Political Change and People Power
‘New Political Possibilities in Ireland for all Left-Wing Parties in Partnership with Civil Society’
Saturday, 5th February 2011

Gresham Hotel, Dublin
People Power and Left Unity: Towards a New Ireland for All People

This conference will allow left [...]

Now we know.
In early 2010 the Government was projecting nominal GDP growth to be 12.1 percent over the two years 2011 and 2012.

Now the ESRI is projecting growth to be 4.2 percent while the Central Bank is predicting an even more pessimistic 3.9 percent.

In early 2010 the Government was projecting nominal GNP growth (which more [...]

This article was first published in #CrisisJam on politico.ie.
In December 2010, Afri published a report entitled ‘The IMF and Ireland: what we can learn from the Global South’. We looked at the record of the IMF around the world (generally appalling) and argued that the Irish ‘bail out’ deal would have similarly terrible consequences [...]

On Prime Time Tuesday night, debating the Finance Bill, Fianna Fail’s Michael McGrath thought he was scoring a point on Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty by stating:
‘Your plan is to have 80 percent of the [fiscal] correction by increasing taxes and 20 percent by reducing spending. So without any equivocation or [...]

Browse the links below or head over to politico.ie/crisisjam to see it in all its glory.

They make a desert and they call it peace
Radical analyses of the Irish and European debt crisis can benefit from engagement with some mainstream (or even right-wing) analyses - there is much to be learned there, and sometimes a surprising [...]

Whatever about the disputes over facilitating the passage of the Finance Bill, what people want to know is what parties are going to do about it when they get into office. And this is where progressives can stop feuding with each other and get the debate back to where it belongs - showing how Budget [...]

Ex-commissioner Günter Verheugen is not the only Commission official who just ignored the rules about seeking approval for a new job (Verheugen failed to inform the Commission of his new lobby consultancy firm, the European Experience Company). John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister and EU ambassador in Washington DC until November 2009, failed to notify [...]

Many thanks to Robert for sending on Toni Solo’s piece which argues that Ireland should join ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas). Read on…
Why Ireland should join ALBA by toni solo, January 24th 2011
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is under pressure from the country’s political opposition to bring forward a general election scheduled for [...]