The Exchequer figures are out. And they are not good. Coming into this year, the Government had a strong wind at its back, with €1 billion being carried forward from Budget 2011. That wind has…
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The policy of transferring incomes to capital and the rich
Over at Progressive Economy Michael Burke reproduces a very revealing table from the CSO’s Irish National Income and Expenditure for 2011 report which illustrates just exactly what is behind the policy of increasing austerity even though…
The Greek Elections and the Change of Political Cycle in Europe
This is a translation of a unattributed piece published on Madrilonia.org on the 21st of June. The change of cycle in Greece, and in Europe, has already begun. Despite Syriza’s narrow defeat last Sunday, the…
@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 ‘bailout’ or the ‘loan’: a veritable looting – at gunpoint
This is a translation of a piece from John Brown’s blog on the Spanish bank bailout. Thanks to John for allowing us to publish it here. A cursory analysis of the general budgets of the…
Challenges of Indignation
This is the third of three translations of pieces that appeared originally on the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org. All three were translated by Liz Mason-Deese. This article was originally published on May 31st, 2012. The 15M is very alive, we…
Imagining the Revolution of the 99%
This is the second of three translations of recent articles that appeared the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org. All three were translated by Liz Mason-Deese. This was originally published on the May 14, 2012. On May 15th of last year we…
Seven Questions about May 12-15 (12M-15M) in Madrid
This is the first of three translations of recent articles that appeared the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org about the first year of the 15M Movement and the events organised to mark it. We will be publishing…
Austerity Works
It’s time to stop saying austerity doesn’t work. It works very well. It is designed to support incomes. Greece, for example, has just paid 400 million euro to Kenneth Dart, a man whose fortune was made…
UK’s poorest families face tightest squeeze on income, figures show
UK’s poorest families face tightest squeeze on income, figures show Austerity and class war in the UK The UK’s poorest families are facing the tightest income squeeze of any group due to higher rates of inflation…
EU in Crisis Conference: Analysis, Resistance and Alternatives
As the European Union faces an ever-deepening crisis over its economic policies, economists, activists and trade unionists will gather in Brussels on the 5th-6th May 2012 to call for an alternative way forward. More than 250…
The Household Charge – How They Failed to Shape Our Perspectives
“The media…is by far the most powerful agency in shaping people’s perspectives on social and political issues” [Vincent Browne, Irish Times, 18/04/12] Discussing the highly concentrated ownership of Irish media on the eve of Gavin O’Reilly’s…
The Regressive Season
Following on from the Household Charge debacle the Government intends to introduce (a) water meter installation charges, (b) water metering charges, (c) residential property charges. This is a heavy agenda of new charges and taxes. …
Welcome to the Inequality Cycle
This was originally written for Progressive-Economy.ie We are now starting to get data to assess just who in society is getting hit and who is getting by. Of course, we know about unemployment rates, deprivation…
Sins of the Father
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