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 [...]

A new generation of Irishmen are creating a new revolution in Ireland and this time they will not be satisfied with half-measures.”
In the run-up to the 1972 Irish referendum on E.E.C. membership, Official Sinn Féin set up a radio station in Dublin in order to propagate its message for a No vote. The station had [...]

(The following is taken from an article by John Goodwillie which appeared in issue 9 of Gralton, Aug/Sep 1983. It was a supplement to a family tree of the Left which John created , and which I posted a couple of weeks ago here. Apologies in advance to John Goodwillie for copying and posting his [...]

History is such a malleable thing. It can be twisted this way and that to support or oppose any contemporary position. Take An Bord Snip Nua - this is a grand thing altogether. How do we know this? Because, sure, its predecessor was such an outstanding success. Yes, it brought pain but it set the [...]

Is the Usurper Pope in a Usurper State!
All the papers this week are being raging about the news of the False Pope, Benedinct, and his visits to the bit of Palestine called Israel and the bits of Palestine called Palestine in order to finally bring peace to that dreadful place, although his real message to [...]