This is a very interesting instalment from an interview that the Scottish branch of Unite the union conducted with Yanis Varoufakis in which he provides a very damning assessment of social democratic parties in Europe.
From the Unite Scotland’s description of interview:
“Unite Scotland’s fourth and final instalment in the Varoufakis series puts focus on [...]

Speech given after the October 15th march at Occupy Dublin, outside the Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street
When you have lived a long life, you will find that the years blur together, but some years stand out. 2011 will be a stand out year.
For some of us active on the left for many years, we [...]

Book Review: Prison Notebooks Vol 1, Antonio Gramsci, Columbia University Press (2011)

“Culture is a fundamental concept of socialism because it integrates and concretizes the vague concept of freedom of thought.” Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s cultural awareness permeates every single reflection recorded in his notebooks. Arrested and imprisoned in 1926 on conspiracy charges of an alleged attempt [...]

OccupyDameStreet website with link to the Livestream, which is worth checking when its up.
“A group of people are continuing to protest outside the Central Bank plaza in Dublin city centre.
The protests are under the banner of “Occupy Dame Street”, which saw demonstrators set up camp outside the building on Saturday afternoon.
The group has said its [...]

George Pontikos, a trade union leader in PAME (All-Workers Militant Front) one of the leading forces in the current struggle in Greece will be speaking at:
The Teachers’ Club,
36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Thursday 13th Oct at 6pm
PAME is the most militant trade union formation and has called numerious general strikes and mass protests.

With public opinion being informed by the presidential contest in seems that there is some movement in support for progressive politics.
With Fine Gael able to go it alone in government, there remains an opportunity for the Labour Party to be part of a process of contributing to a movement away from the failures of deregulated capitalism.
The decision [...]

Michael Albert, writer, activist, author of ‘Parecon - Life after Capitalism’ and co-founder of ZNet, will be speaking at various locations in Dublin on 11th and 12th of October 2011 (details below).
Subjects include media, participatory economics, the creation of a new international organisation for a participatory society, and strategy for social change.
The events are part of [...]

The October issue of Socialist Voice is out now. View it here or right-click this link and select save as. It includes an interview with Kóstas Papadákis, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, on developments in Greece and the capitalist crisis that took place over the weekend 1st - 2nd October.
Full table [...]

What was described by European Commission President as a “silent revolution” was passed in the European Parliament on Wednesday with hardly a mention in the mainstream media. The implications of the so-called six-pack of economic governance measures are vast. This package represents a qualitative leap forward in terms of the institutionalisation of austerity and neo-liberal [...]

Book Review: Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism, Kieran Allen (Pluto Press, 2011)

“It is true that labour produces wonderful things for the rich - but for the worker it produces privation … It produces beauty - but for the worker, deformity.” Karl Marx
Kieran Allen’s treatise dispels the conventional opinion that Marxism is obsolete - [...]