The following is an extract from the ISN pamphlet A Force for Progress? Five Myths About the European Union. which was launched earlier on this week by Harry Browne at Connolly Books. The European Union…
Politics
JOHN THRONE ON THE CWI AND EXPULSION
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…
DAYSCHOOL: Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
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…
JOHN THRONE: IRISH MILITANT
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…
Book Review: Le Monde Selon K. by Pierre Péan
When newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy named Bernard Kouchner Minister for Foreign Affairs in May 2007 there were few eyebrows raised. It had been an open secret in French political circles for weeks beforehand…
Democratic Double-Standards
In a sign of things to come, whatever the result of the next General Election, Ken Clarke has announced Tory plans to sell off the Royal Mail. The democratic choice facing the electorate will be…
The Rise and Rise of the Irish Left
Let’s think happy thoughts for a brief while because much else is… well, less than happy. So, here’s something that cheered me up at least a bit and it’s a point that is rarely touched…
Irish Workers Group (1976) / Class Struggle
[Not to be confused with the 1960s Irish Workers Group.] [19 November 2009. Jim Larragy, formerly of the Irish Workers' Group, has made some important clarifications/corrections to this article. Please see the comments below.] The…
The Decline of Militant Irish Republicanism
Ideologies are not issued self-developed and completed into the aether of the idea rather they are generated by the development of specific historic processes in the real world. Ideas are not primary but secondary reflections…
Irish Socialist Network Dayschool: Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative Saturday November 7th, 10am – 4pm Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin Hosted by the Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite
2.5 More Years…2.5 More Years
It’s not up there with “5 more years”, battle cry of both Republicans and Democrats in the not too distant past, now is it? But that’s the reality we’re now facing in the wake of…
Greek Elections: The Social Democratic Party PASOK’s Victory is a Major Defeat of New Democracy – the Neo-Liberal Right
In last Sunday’s elections, Greece’s major social-democratic party PASOK has been returned to power, while the governing New Democracy, the traditional right wing party, suffered its worst ever defeat in its 25-year history. PASOK leader…
Lisbon Vote Not Endorsement For Hated Government
A significant 2/1 majority, on a higher turnout, passed the Lisbon Treaty overturning the decision of June 2008. It is clear that the economic crisis served to shift opinion across the board to a yes…
ILR’s Lisbon Treaty Debate: Continue the Discussion
With the day that is in it, you have either decided by now how you are going to vote today, have already done so, or are in the final stages of making a decision. So…
Sins of the Father
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