End The Dictatorship of Fear! Support the Greek People on Bloomsday The Spire, O’Connell Street, 1pm. “God, Kinch, if you and I could only work together we might do something for the island. Hellenise it”…
Tagged By Democracy
@Greece Solidarity March Saturday, June 16th, at 1pm at the Spire on O’Connell Street
On Sunday June 17, the people of Greece will have a choice. They can vote, if they are moved by fear and threats, for political parties who will continue to oversee the enforced impoverishment of…
The Brus$els Business – Who Runs the European Union?
A new film, released in cinemas in Austria on 16 March, puts the spotlight on the power of the lobbying industry in Brussels. Corporate Europe Observatory was approached by the filmmakers at the start of…
Catastrophic Event
As we approach the centenary of the Republic’s Proclamation in a state of economic chaos and democratic underdevelopment will we be remembered for our failures rather than our resolution? On the face of what we…
Where are the ‘indignados’ going?
Translation of an article by Manuel Castells, originally published in La Vanguardia, 21st January 2012. The indignados movement that burst forth in 2011 in Spain, Europe and the United States is a breath of fresh air in…
Take Europe Back!
There was no need for Mario Draghi’s words to understand that the crisis has already reached an irreversible threshold in Europe. A crisis of “systemic dimensions” was what Jean-Claude Trichet said a couple of months…
Book Review: End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity
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…
Ceding Sovereignty
Since the European Union entails the free movement of capital, fiscal and labour sovereignty had to be ceded. This was one of the most important criticisms from the left regarding the way a perfect European…
Block the revolving door: why we need to stop EU officials becoming lobbyists | Alter-eu.org
Block the revolving door: why we need to stop EU officials becoming lobbyists | Alter-eu.org John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister and EU ambassador to Washington DC until November 2009 went through the revolving door…
Mariano’s Trench
A loose translation: Aggressive Begging for Change. This past month has been demonstrating the various ways in which the different nationalities of the world make clear their personal innate characteristics through their response to the…
We Are Hammers Not Nails
Michael Roberts has a very good post on the appointment of the technocrats, Lucas Papademos in Greece and Mario Monti or Giuliano Amato in Italy, who are supposed to lead Greece and Italy through those…
Occupy & Democratic decision making – consensus v majority – SWP v ODS
It is worth reading this long and very thoughtful post from Andrew Flood at Anarchist Writers on the decision making processes (that should be a plural) involved in the Occupy Movement, but with particular reference…
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike
The following was first published in Spanish by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which began with the mass protest organized by Real…
‘We will see many more Puertas del Sol’
Below is Hugh Green’s penultimate post on The Punishment of Sloth. Here’s the final one. We look forward to more words and translations from him where ever, and how ever they may appear. Many thanks…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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