Must have been a slow news week. The Sunday Tribune reported on ICTU’s proposals to combat inflation. They claimed they were submitted to the national pay talks two weeks ago. However, the pay talks had already collapsed. In fact, this is old news. The proposals were published two months [...]

So, ‘curbing’ public spending growth is the only option. Thus spake Paul Tansey in last Friday’s Irish Times. Working from figures supplied by the Department of Finance, he attempts to show how public spending has ‘ballooned’ and now it has to be popped.
Let’s go through his apocalyptic presentation of numbers and see if [...]

The advertising agency Whittington, Burgher + Leveque was founded by three soixante-huitards in 1974, in the aftermath of the failure of the European social revolution. Disappointed by the turn of history, the company’s founders nevertheless put their experiences to good use, courting controversy (and in the process getting great publicity!) by taking the Situationist slogans [...]

In case there are other people who have not read the book ‘Sugar Blues’ by William Dufty - originally published in 1976 - it can surely be highly recommended. Dufty was an ardent exponent of trade unionism who died in 2002 at the age of 86. He is also known for his interest [...]