Thursday, Sep 2nd 2010
The Central Bank Governor, Patrick Honohan, is outraged. In particular, he is outraged that Irish bond spreads are so high, ridiculously high. Don’t the ‘international markets‘ realise the dynamism of our export sectors, the budgetary and tax reforms, the pain we have suffered to get our public finances under control? Why are they still doing [...]
The Irish Anti War Movement (IAWM) and the Peace and Neutraility Alliance (PANA) are organising a two-day Conference on Sept 3-4 at the Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, with the title The Irish Independent Foreign Policy Conference.
This is the first time such a conference has been organised in Ireland and it is our [...]
An alarming report in the English Independent newspaper of 14th July (but unreported in the Irish media as far as I can tell) indicates that at least one Irish army officer is involved in an EU mission training Somali soldiers in Uganda for action against the al-Shabaab movement inside Somalia. Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for [...]
Imagine what would happen if Irish politicians from across Dáil Éireann - from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, The Green Party, Labour, and Sinn Fein - came together to demand a policy change that they all agreed on, and, what is more, if they were willing to make a very visible public demonstration of their agreement [...]
Statement on the Euro Crisis from ATTAC, the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens.
We stand together for peoples-based solutions. Make finance pay and reclaim democracy.
Several European ATTAC welcome and support the just resistance of the peoples of Greece and of other southern European countries in their refusal to pay [...]
Étienne Balibar | Europe is a dead political project
Étienne Balibar on the Euro Crisis:
“We are witnessing a transition from one form of international competition to another: no longer (mainly) a competition among productive capitals, but a competition among national territories, which use tax exemptions and pressure on the wages of labour to attract [...]
Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC2’s “Newsnight” and author of “Meltdown: the End of the Age of Greed” has an excellent article in the May 19th edition of the New Statesman. Like the Simon Johnson and Peter Boone article in the New York Times Economix blog on Ireland yesterday, its one of those [...]
Birkbeck Debate The Greek Crisis: Politics, Economics, Ethics
A very interesting discussion held last week (before UK election and EU bailout), on the Greek Crisis in Birkbeck College, London.
Speakers’ Comments
order of speakers:
* Costas Lapavitsas, Economics SOAS
* Kevin Featherstone,Director, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
* Peter Bratsis, (Politics) Salford University
* Stathis Kouvelakis, King’s College London
* Etienne Balibar
* Costas Douzinas, (Chair) [...]
The Greek social-democratic government of PASOK is facing a massive general strike today and a crucial Parliamentary vote tomorrow Thursday (May 6th).
One aspect of the Greek situation that has received very little attention in the Irish and International Press is the fact that Greece is one of the major arms purchasing states in Europe spending [...]
Greece is in trouble. On May 19 the government has to pay an €8.5 billion bill for money borrowed on the private markets 10 years ago.
But the Greek government is broke and can’t borrow any more from the private sector to pay its debts. It runs the risk of being the first developed capitalist economy [...]