Tuesday, Mar 16th 2010
The following is my translation of an article by Tasos Iliadakis, first published on January 25 2010 in the daily paper ‘The Country’ in Crete.
- all those who forget the past cannot have a future
A. The background
During the early 1940s, Berlin, in order to have financial means of securing its strategic objectives in the Balkans, [...]
Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city by Greg Grandin, Metropolitan Books, New York 2009
This book uncovers the complex history of Henry Ford’s attempt to create a secure source of natural latex in the Brazilian Amazon in the 1920s and ‘30s. But it also reveals the complex and often contradictory character [...]
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett. Faber and Faber, 448 pp.
About a quarter of the way into Guardian journalist Andy Beckett’s impressive account of Britain in the 1970s, self-satisfied Labour Party politician Denis Healey, who served as Harold Wilson’s chancellor of the exchequer, observes that he knew “bugger [...]
Roger Casement’s life does not fit neatly into one book. As the child of a mixed marriage his early years are an account of rural Ulster life in the late 19th century. His encounters with the vicious exploitation of rubber workers in the Belgian Congo and South America are tales of moral courage and physical [...]
Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike
Brian Hanley, author with Scott Miller of The Lost Revolution has some thoughts on the issue of whether those working in universities and colleges should join the strike today and provides his own thoughts on the matter. There is also a good discussion in the comments [...]
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
I am have notice this week that it is being the 200th anniversary of the collapse of the Walls of Berlin, the famous dividing line which separate the Christian West from the atheist Communist East. Like many people, I for one would have like that wall to remain in place, if only [...]
Ken Livingstone’s Socialist Economic Bulletin has a piece by Michael Burke on the Irish Economy (Ireland – the Nature of the Crisis). It is written for a non-Irish audience, but it provides a thorough left-wing analysis of what has happened in the Irish economy, the government’s response, and suggestions about how they can be resolved. [...]
Origins of Casino Capitalism[1]
When capitalism first began to emerge as the dominant economic system around the turn of the 19th century in Western Europe and North America, the role of the financial sector in the system was simple and straightforward. When individuals or groups wished to set up a new company, they sold shares in [...]
Last May we had a our local and European elections, we are now in the midst of another Lisbon referendum campaign, and at the moment even the well groomed terriers and mongrels sniffing each other’s butts in the street are making small talk about a coming general election. The one thing that we are all [...]
There has been loads interest in Brian Hanley and Scott Miller’s book The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party here, on Dublin Opinion and on Cedar Lounge Revolution.
So readers who may be around Dublin city centre later on this week might like to go to the launch of the [...]