[Interview from Near FM.]
NEAR-fm has been covering the Occupy Dame Street protest since its inception in October 2011. It has since gone on to become one of the longest running of such protests that are taking place globally. Finbar Markey is a spokesperson for the movement and he joins Michael FitzGerald to give a [...]

Below is an interview with Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis which I recorded on Wednesday the 14th of September in Leinster House. Michael Taft, Research Officer with Unite the trade union was also on hand to ask some questions.
Yanis is the author of several books, two which were published during [...]

Conor’s interview with DCTV about his book Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy. Just to remind people that the book launch is this Thursday, 30th of June 5.30 to 7pm, Connolly Books, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Speakers include Michael Taft, Scott Millar and Mick O’Reilly. All Welcome. [...]

Here’s Pirooz Daneshmandi’s Near FM interview with Noam Chomsky, which aired on the 1st of March 2011. In it Chomsky explains his analysis of the causes of the current economic crisis and how to avoid a future one as well as the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the wars in Iraq [...]

This recording is from the opening of the Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, which took place last Friday.
Have a listen to Zweig’s address to the conference, it’s great.
Michael Zweig, Glasgow, 11 March 2011
For more on Zweig, here’s something I wrote a couple of years ago.

Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, Professor Leo Panitch provides an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective.
Leo Panitch is the author of many books, including the recent In and Out of Crisis and Renewing Socialism and is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He also co-edits the Socialist [...]

On January 10th this year Near FM’s Under the Sun program broadcast an interview with Peter Hallward, the author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment to coincide with the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which is estimated to have affected three million people, killing 316,000 and leaving 300,000 injured [...]

As Kevin Doogan mentioned in a comment on the ILR post about his article in the New Humanist, he has written about whether or not globalization, technological change, and the new corporate economy has changed the nature of work itself in his book New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work.  Using a substantial amount of empirical [...]

Below are recordings of some of the comments and questions that came from the audience at Thursday’s meeting on the budget (see below or here). Those making comments include Paul Dillon (Labour Party), Tom Redmond (CPI), Scott Millar (journalist and historian), Mick O’Reilly (ATGWU retired) and one man whose name I did not catch.

Below are recordings of the principal speakers at the CPI meeting on the Budget, which took place in the Merrigan Hall, Abbey Street, on Thursday. The speakers were Michael Taft, Cian O’Callaghan, Cathleen O´Neill, Eoin O’Broin, and Eugene McCartan.