A 2 minute video report from the striking Bus workers picket lines in Dublin today. All Bus Drivers unions were out, not just the NBRU who called the strike. SIPTU and TSSA drivers didn’t pass…
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Video: May Day 1913-2013- Unfinished Business, DCTU march 1st May 2013
May Day 1913-2013- Unfinished Business organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Dublin, 1st May 2013.
Trade Union TV: Save Our Woods
Thousands walked in Avondale, Co. Wicklow- a re-alignment of old and young united to protect our natural resources & fight privatisation. Just an amazing day, hope the video captures a little bit of that.
Dublin Youth workers protest at Joint Oireachtas committee hearing Dublin, 19th April
On Friday 19th of April, youth workers held a protest at the Dail. SIPTU members and supporters staged a rally against further cuts to youth work budgets outside Dáil Eireann on Friday, 19th April. The protest…
International Traveller & Roma Day, Dublin, Ireland 8th April 2013
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Ireland Opting Out of EU Directive to Allow Asylum Seekers to Work is Political not Economic
Last week in the Dáil Alan Shatter justified Ireland opting out of an EU directive to allow asylum seekers to enter the workforce if their application has not been processed after a year on the…
The Veil of Deception over Money
A very interesting paper from Norbert Häring, Economics correspondent of Handelsblatt, which has just been published in the Real World Economics Review. The veil of deception over money: how central bankers and textbooks distort the…
AlJazeeraEnglish: Inside Story Americas – Death of a ‘dictator’: Chavez and the media
Also refers to the Associated Press article which declared: Chavez invested Venezuela’s oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains…
Grillismo: An Interview with Wu Ming
When I posted a link to an article by Wu Ming, about Beppe Grillo it was characterized as another attempt to blame the people for the failings of the ‘left’. The argument in that article…
Response to the Minister
UNITE’s Croke Park Report Walter Cullen, UNITE’s Regional Co-ordinating Officer, responds to comments made by Minister Brendan Howlin on RTE’s The Week in Politics: ‘The Minister claims there is a hole in public finances which…
Video of Nurses protest against pay cuts Young trade unionists fight back!
Video of Nurses protest against pay cuts Young trade unionists fight back! Nurses protest at pay cuts for new workers at Health Service Executive HQ, Dublin, 1st Feb 2012.
Seth Ackerman: The Economics of a Feasible Socialism
From Conor McCabe on Gods Away on Business. Radicals have a habit of speaking in the conditional. Underlying all their talk about the changes they’d like to see in the world is the uneasy knowledge…
Something Rotten and its more than horsemeat
“Food is a class issue. And food policy is determined by revolving doors between legislatures and agri-food businesses. The fact that the brother of Simon Coveney, Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, is the Chief Executive of…
L. Randall Wray — MODERN MONEY: the way a sovereign currency “works”
What is Money? Why is at accepted? What is the relationship between money & government? What backs up our money? Can the US government run out of money? You may be surprised by the answers!…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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