Statement from Eamon Gilmore as part of Labour’s campaign to get the Irish people to vote yes in the second Lisbon Treaty referendum. The Lisbon Treaty has won support from the overwhelming majority of Socialist…
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After the Green Party
Recently on the Cedar Lounge Revolution smiffy raised an interesting point which was that the future path of the Green Party might be quite similar to that of Democratic Left. I hadn’t thought about it…
Lawyers Against Lisbon
The following is a statement from Lawyers Against Lisbon We, the undersigned, have decided to vote “No” on Friday and recommend that our fellow voters do so as well. We each have slightly different reasons…
Whither SDLP?
Sunday’s news that SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, would stand aside if he was re-elected as the MP for Foyle came as a surprise to almost everyone. It was assumed by many that his time as…
Lisbon and Development
I have previously argued here that the military implications of the Lisbon Treaty constitute an argument for a NO vote on 2 October. I now want to argue that the implications of Lisbon for ‘developing…
It is No Coincidence Why Socialist Parties Across Europe Support the Lisbon Treaty
It is no coincidence that the Lisbon Treaty, so strongly opposed by the far-right, has won support from the overwhelming majority of Socialist parties across Europe and from the European Trade Union Confederation (which groups…
Stop NAMA Protest Wed 16th Outside Leinster House
Last minute mention is better than none, but the Labour Party and others are organising a protest against NAMA: 1pm next Wednesday, 16th September, 2009 – Leinster House
Desmond Greaves Summer School 2009: “Remembering 1969: memory and history”
It’s been a busy week for Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, authors of Lost Revolution (reviewed here). The book launch was held on Thursday while on Saturday the Desmond Greaves Summer School had a session…
Irish Election Literature: The Stuff You Thought You’d Thrown Away
Last May we had a our local and European elections, we are now in the midst of another Lisbon referendum campaign, and at the moment even the well groomed terriers and mongrels sniffing each other’s…
ILR Notice Board: Protests, Petitions, and Reports
There are a number of things that have been brought to my attention recently, so to cover everything I’m going to give each of them a short mention. No To NAMA Tomorrow, the 12th of…
Joe Higgins MEP on Lisbon & Workers Rights
UPDATE: A response to the claim made by Blair Horan of the Charter Group about references made to Article 52 As originally written, there was a minor error in this article in the wording of…
Right turn ahead: Ireland, the Lisbon Treaty and the New World Order
This is an analysis of the background to the forthcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum which was originally written for Znet. Here we go again These days in Ireland, people are mostly either a ’Yes’ or a ‘No’. There are also,…
Lost Revolution: Invite to Book Launch in the Teachers’ Club
There has been loads interest in Brian Hanley and Scott Miller’s book The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party here, on Dublin Opinion and on Cedar Lounge Revolution. So…
The Politics of Crisis
The nature of crises is a multi-faceted one; they seem, at first, to come from nowhere yet they are the unfolding of underlying laws of motion to their ultimate and destructive conclusion; they are both…
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