Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
On Europe’s northwestern fringes there are two small countries, each with populations of 4-5 million, and an economic background of small farming and fishing, with large-scale emigration in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, independence in the early twentieth century from a larger and more powerful neighbour [...]
John Quiggin | Marxism without revolution: Class
[John Quiggin has posted the last of his three short essays on the theme of "Marxism without revolution"]
For those engaged in attempts to achieve a better, more equal and more sustainable society, Marx’s theory of value has little to offer. What can it tell us, for example, about the [...]
Imagine What We Could Do
It’s a site run by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, showing what the province of Saskatchewan should do if it raised resource royalties.
It would be great to see Irish unions getting involved in that kind of activism. And to see somebody regularly reminding Pat Rabbite what could be achieved with [...]
Mark Weisbrot | Emerging out of the IMF’s shadow
There have been some significant changes in the IMF in recent years, mostly in the area of research, where the fund has acknowledged that controls on capital inflows are a legitimate tool for governments to use. There has been some limited lending without conditions. And although the [...]
The Majority of the World’s Countries Can Change the IMF
By Mark Weisbrot, on Real-World Economic Review
As finance ministers, bankers, and other interested parties from around the world flock to Washington for the semi-annual IMF-World Bank meetings, the Fund is experiencing its most serious infighting in decades. The fight is over how to [...]
The following is a short extract from the recently published biography of political activist and former Labour Party Councillor Joe Deasy by Brian Kenny, published in association with the Hugh Geraghty-Crumlin, Drimnagh, Walkinstown Branch of The Labour Party. Details of how to get Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left are at the end of [...]
Mission accomplished! Unfortunately, the euphoria is short-lived as we return to the dismal news coming out of our own economy: unemployment rising to over 260,000 with the increase in October nearly equaling the entire rise in 2007; service business activity contracting at an alarming rate; the EU Commission opening excessive debt procedure against the [...]
