Choonara, McNally and the US rate of profit | Michael Roberts As readers of my blog will know, ad nauseum… Oh go on then, say it again, once more with feeling…. I think there has been a…
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Eurozone Debt, Monetary Union and Argentina
Apologies to Michael Roberts of the Next Recession blog for taking such a long quote, but many important points are made. It doesn’t include, however, his argument about why it is unwise to say that…
Understanding the Crisis
This article is a response to the review by NC of The Failure of Capitalist Production by Andrew Kliman in the January issue of Socialist Voice. It was originally published in the April issue of the Socialist…
Davos dilemma | Michael Roberts
Davos dilemma | Michael Roberts The majority of those at Davos think that Capitalism isn’t working, but don’t feel there is a need to change anything because its working rather well for them. It’s up…
World economy: where are we now? | Michael Roberts
World economy: where are we now? | Michael Roberts The growth forecasts just published by the World Bank confirm Michael Roberts arguments that the world economy is not going to experience a double-dip recession, but will…
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci “The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a…
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State Good interview with Michael Perleman for his local NPR station which he would have given to a Occupied Chico State teach-in broadcast if the location for the talk hadn’t…
Michael Roberts | Europe: default or devaluation?
Michael Roberts | Europe: default or devaluation? Marxist economist Michael Roberts has an excellent post which goes through the arguments made at a plenary session at the Historical Materialism conference last weekend. The most interesting…
Book Review: Prison Notebooks Vol 1, Antonio Gramsci
Book Review: Prison Notebooks Vol 1, Antonio Gramsci, Columbia University Press (2011) “Culture is a fundamental concept of socialism because it integrates and concretizes the vague concept of freedom of thought.” Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci’s…
Diary of an Escape – Antonio Negri
Book Review:Diary of an Escape – Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010) “The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable…
Étienne Balibar – Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism | Backdoor Broadcasting Company
Étienne Balibar – Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism | Backdoor Broadcasting Company Facinating talk by Étienne Balibar author of The Philosophy of Marx (Verso) who provides an updating of his thoughts on how Marx…
“You Have To Do More Than Just Tell War Stories”: Michael Zweig, Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives, University of Strathclyde
This recording is from the opening of the Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, which took place last Friday. Have a listen to Zweig’s address to the conference, it’s…
The Irish Economy – A leftwing perspective from Leo Panitch
Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, Professor Leo Panitch provides an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective. Leo Panitch is the author of many books, including the recent In…
The Whistlers – a new revolution
I was reading a fascinating article in the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music recently. The article was about AL Lloyd, the great English collector of folksong. Lloyd had a remarkable life – orphaned at 15,…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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