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.

The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish Workers League, which was a communist organisation, the antecedent to [...]

In September 2009 I interviewed John Throne about his own history, as well as the Irish left and working class. We talked for about two hours and after I had stopped recording, I asked John would it be ok to ask him about his expulsion from the Committee for a Workers’ International. He said yes, [...]

Yesterday I talked to Michael Burke, an economist with 25 years experience working in the Financial Services sector in the UK, including a 5 years period as a senior economist in Citibank. Recently he entered the economic debate here by saying that the Government’s current strategy of cutting government spending could lead to an even [...]

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.

Sinn Féin launched their pre-budget submission yesterday with a press conference in Buswell’s hotel, and a document which it claimed would provide the road to economic recovery. Within the current debate dominated by the rethoric of slash and burn, it was good to find out that Sinn Féin are arguing against the strategy of cuts [...]

The following recordings are from the final session in the dayschool organised by Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite.
The session was held today, Saturday 7 November 2009, in the Central Hotel, Dublin.
The title of the session was: Building a 21st Century Left
Chair: Mick O’Reilly
Speakers: Murray Smith (New Anti-Capitalist Party, France), Ciaran Perry (independent councillor [...]

John Throne was heavily involved with the establishment of Militant Irish Monthly, the newspaper of the Militant Tendency in Ireland. It began publication in June 1973, and a copy of the first issue, as well as some information on the Militant Tendency, is available on cedarlounge here.
The interview below is part of an Irish [...]