On 8 October 2011 a group of people pitched tents on the plaza outside the Central Bank in Dame Street and began a protest against Irish and international finance. Inspired in part by events in New York, as well as the M15 movement in Spain, the Occupy Dame Street protest has become not only a [...]

The November edition of the Socialist Voice is out now
Areas cover in this issue are:-

Should Ireland remain in the euro?
Occupy Dame Street: The left must become involved
Occupy Dame Street:A positive development but lacking a class understanding
Did Lenin ask for a stimulus package?
The unemployment experience.
Job losses batter Co. Waterford
Crisis in social housing worsen.
The impact of the [...]

This was originally posted yesterday on Anarchist Writers. Republished with permission.
What do you do when the people making the right arguments are manipulative idiots who have so alienated people that opening their mouths amounts to emptying a full magazine into their feet? I started this blog having just come from an Occupy Dame Street [...]

Considering The Issues
If you got (but never opened) an envelope
from a convicted smuggler,
which turned out to contain
five thousand Euro
you knew nothing about. If you know
what you think it’s okay for old
men to do with underage boys
while visiting the Temple of Zeus,
you’ve got my vote.
If you have questions to answer
about incest and blackmail;
if last Thursday [...]

With the election of Michael D Higgins to the Presidency and with another TD by virtue of the Dublin West election, the Irish Labour Party has been given a lift from their slippage in recent opinion polls.
But what will they do with this extra ammunition?  Higgins has a track record of support for progressive politics, even [...]

From #occupydamestreet
Stop The Billion Dollar Heist:
On November 2nd 2011, next Wednesday, a $1,000,000,000 bond comes due at Anglo Irish Bank. This bond is unsecured, unguaranteed, a bond we have absolutely no obligation to pay. If you disagree with paying this money we ask you to come to the march to show your opposition.
Last week thousands [...]

I’m finding the whole inquiries referendum debate rather baffling.
We’re not supposed to trust politicians to inquire into things, because they could be biased. And because the kindly misters Sutherland and McDowell tell us too.
No, we should trust the judiciary who, of course, are completely unbiased in any respect. This is a judiciary every one of [...]

In general social and political movements need good writers who in gathering their thoughts on what is a dymanic situation in the all important early stages of that movement manage to provide for others the means to focus on its most important aspects. It requires an understanding of the wider situation which has spurred the [...]

The decision by Pat Rabbitte, Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources, to issue thirteen new exploration licences for oil and gas in Irish territorial waters is nothing more than the complete abandonment by this state of any control of these resources that belong to the Irish people or the right to derive any significant [...]