Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Dear TD/Senator,
I write to demand that the so-called “debt” of 1.25bn Euro (one billion, two hundred and fifty million) due to be paid to UNSECURED Anglo bondholders be not paid.
Since the Irish people had no hand in this debt; we do not consent to paying it. Since the Irish people will not benefit from its [...]
Book Review: End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, Wang Hui (Verso 2011)
Apologists for Beijing sometimes like to say that nobody died on Tiananmen Square in 1989. This is the kind of statement whose technical accuracy is meant to be deceptive. It’s long been documented, if not fully embedded in public understanding, that [...]
Dear TDs, Senators, and MEPs,
As a gesture of goodwill towards the families across the country dependent on the assistance of the Saint Vincent De Paul, I ask that those of you in receipt of Children’s Allowance donate your December payment to the SVP urgent Christmas appeal which was launched on 21 [...]
Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011)
David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He is blogging at Arab Spring in My Step.
Massive social phenomena are not easily predicted.
The CIA for instance, was pumped full of [...]
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 [...]
rabble is a non-profit, newspaper from the city’s underground. It’s collectively and independently run by volunteers. rabble aims to create a space for the passionate telling of truth, muck-raking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority. We stand within, and with, Dublin as it struggles from below against the ghost of the Celtic Tiger [...]
This is the first of a three part analysis of Owen Jones’ book Chavs. The second part will be published tomorrow, with the concluding part appearing on Thursday. All three can be read here.
Book Review: Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. London: Verso, 2011. 298 pages. £14.99
To get rid of class-distinctions you [...]
The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. [...]
Kevin Higgins, The Boy With No Face (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2005)
Kevin Higgins, Poetry, Politics and Dorothy Gone Horribly Astray (Belfast: Lapwing, 2006)
Kevin Higgins, Time Gentlemen, Please (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2008)
Kevin Higgins, Frightening New Furniture (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry, 2010)
To write a positive review of Kevin Higgins’ work for the Irish [...]
The Dublin City Council passed the following resolution:
“That this Council supports the Irish Peace Movement’s campaign to terminate the use of Shannon Airport by US troops on their way to and from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and calls for Shannon Airport to be established an an international hub for the storage and distribution [...]
