2011 Desmond Greaves School
Friday to Sunday, 9 to 11 September 2011
The Pearse Centre, 27
Pearse Street,
Dublin 2

Friday, September 9th at 7.30 pm
The International Economic crisis:
The Crisis of 21st Century Capitalism - A US View
Speaker: Fred Magdoff
Monthly Review Magazine
Chairperson: Catherine Connolly
Saturday, September 10th at 11.00 am
Is Ireland a Democratic Republic?
Speakers: Sinéad Pentony
Kevin McCorry
Harry Browne
Chairperson: Fionnuala Ní Bhrógáin

The following is an extract from the book The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin, which was published by Zed Books on July 10th. The preface was written by the Guardian and The Nation journalist Gary Younge and is available on The Nation website. There is also [...]

The July edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
See it online here, or download the PDF. In this editions the articles include:

Growing assault on workers’ terms and conditions
First World democracy-In whose interests?
The time is long overdue for the people to have their say
Austerity is working!
Hope and defiance: Picnic in [...]

Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s correspondent in Europe, has a report on the recent ULA conference on the Links IJSR site, which was originally published on the 16th of July.
Ireland’s seven-month-old United Left Alliance is the “new kid on the block” of European anti-capitalist parties. Launched on November 27 [...]

The July edition of An Phoblacht is out now, and includes Eoin Ó’Broin on the continuing failures of social housing and a review of Conor McCabe’s Sins of the Father.

Editorial: The march has begun
We are beginning to see a concerted workers response to the on-going attacks on our living standards. In the North the Con-Dem cutbacks have provoked strike action by public servants and delivered a clear mes- sage to Dave Cameron and his Tory boys that their agenda of increasing profits by striping [...]

Sins of the Father is now available in Easons, O’Connell St, Dublin and Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street, and hopefully throughout the country soon. This is the first review of the book to appear in print. Originally published in the June edition of Liberty, SIPTU’s newspaper. Thanks to Scott Millar for allowing me to republish [...]

I am coming to the conclusion that even the most progressive of political parties are stalling.
I know that there are very sound people working away at policy positions and that the left still manage to oppose the worst excesses of the continuing neo-liberal onslaught, but it seems to mean that the problem remains that we [...]