Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Conflict of interest is so deeply embedded in Ireland, no one seems to notice
The cops were very swift to close down the demonstration in the NAMA building that Unlock NAMA occupied on Saturday the 28th. They haven’t been as swift though to investigate Anglo Irish Bank. A big blow to that investigation is due, apparently, [...]
There are more high earners than there were pre-recession and they are paying less tax | Colm Rapple
Colm Rapple’s most recent column finds something odd in a recent posting on the Revenue Commissioners website. The wealthy earned more in 2009 than in 2005 and paid less tax, and this was known before the budget yet [...]
This is the third part of a three part review of Owen Jones’ book, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class. Part 1 was published on Tuesday and Part 2 was published yesterday. Click here to see all three together.
Book Review: Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. London: Verso, 2011. 298 pages. [...]
This is the second part of a three part review of Owen Jones’ book, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class. Part 1 was published yesterday, and the concluding part will appear tomorrow.
Book Review: Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class. London: Verso, 2011. 298 pages. £14.99
It’s your own fault
No longer do we hear [...]
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 [...]
Darcus Howe & Richard Seymour on UK Massive Social Unrest and Riots (Democracy Now!)
Part 1
Part 2
Book Review: New Finnish Grammar, Diego Marani (Dedalus Books)
A man is found battered and close to death on the quayside in Trieste during World War II. His identity is unknown and the man himself has completely lost his memory. Who he is and why he was so violently attacked remains unknown. Is he Sampo Karjalainen, [...]
Visit of King George V - James Connolly (1910)
Fellow-Workers,
As you are aware from reading the daily and weekly newspapers, we are about to be blessed with a visit from King George V.
Knowing from previous experience of Royal Visits, as well as from the Coronation orgies of the past few weeks, that the occasion will [...]
Since 2008, the number of middle class jobs in Ireland has fallen by about five per cent. During the same time, the number of working class jobs has fallen by about 15 per cent - three times the rate of that for professional and managerial occupations.
However, when we look at the amount of jobs lost [...]
I’m usually not partial to terms like ‘class war’ but readers might be able to provide an alternative description to what is happening.
First, we find that AIB employees were informed over the airwaves that there would be 2,000 redundancies plus with no guarantee that it will all be voluntary. A spokesperson from SIPTU - which [...]
