This is the conclusion of Maybe It’s Because, Vincent’s autobiography which has yet to find a publisher. Vincent wanted to make it available online so people could read it, share and let him know what they think. The links to each section are available on facebook or you can browse his blog, as each section has [...]

A video of the photo-call this morning outside Dáil Éireann to initiate the nation-wide Household tax non-payment campaign.
There is also a Fight the Household Tax National Forum at the Teachers Club, 1.30 pm Sat, 10th Sept.

More info about the campaign is available here.
See below for more links to videos from today’s press conference [...]

The September edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
This edition includes an article by Conor McCabe on the myth of a middle class majority in Ireland. The article is replete with fascinating data, including the fact that
“With regard to wage distribution, the top 1 per cent of PAYE earners had a combined wage that [...]

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

On Europe’s northwestern fringes there are two small countries, each with populations of 4-5 million, and an economic background of small farming and fishing, with large-scale emigration in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, independence in the early twentieth century from a larger and more powerful neighbour [...]

It is time to draw a line under my 30 year membership of the Labour Party. It is past time actually, as I have not been active at branch or constituency level for the past 15 years. There were many reasons for this, including the demands of my academic job. I did remain active politically, [...]

Pamela Izevbekhai and her daughters, Naomi (10) and Jemima (9) were deported from Ireland on Tuesday morning. Having been arrested at 1.30am, they were flown to Amsterdam at 6am, to be placed on a flight to the Nigerian capital Lagos later that day. Following the failure, last month, of her case in the European Court [...]

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 [...]

Remember the banking crisis?  You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions.  Er, not really.  Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change what seemed inevitable.  They are laying low alright, but will play a long game. Here in Ireland, a change of [...]

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 [...]