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 [...]

I have just come back from three weeks in England, most of which spent in London.  I watched events unfold and how the media covered it all from the initial understanding of the Police shooting a man who may or may not have had a gun through to the more rabid hang ‘em and flog [...]

This article was originally posted today on Socialist Economic Bulletin.
There’s a very good piece on LabourList titled ‘Who Didn’t Predict a Riot?’ It lists many of the bodies or leading individuals who warned that deep cuts to public spending would lead to social unrest and violence. The short piece is worth reading in full, but [...]

Last Saturday night when disturbances in Tottenham began I tweeted the following “Its a bus and a few cars. Bigger problems in London that 24 hour news doesnt tell you to talk about.Keep calm and carry on. #tottenhamriot“.
It was not my intention to be as dismissive as it now seems I was . Rather, [...]

People’s Movement
Public Lecture
Ireland in Crisis: Radical Alternatives
Professor Lars Mjoset, University of Oslo
Saturday, 16 October 2010, 3.00pm
The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Professor Lars Mjøset of the University of Oslo will deliver the Inaugural Raymond Crotty Lecture, ‘Ireland in crisis, radical alternatives’  in Butler House, 16 Patrick Street, Kilkenny on Friday 15th October at 7.30 [...]

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY LECTURE SERIES 2010
Prof James Wickham
Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Financial markets and social power - the new inequalities of turbo-capitalism

Wednesday 10 February 2010
7.00- 9.30 pm
Synge lecture theatre, Arts Building, TCD

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Poverty is set to increase in 2010 according to Social Justice Ireland (SJI). The anti-poverty group has this week published a detailed briefing paper saying that the numbers of children and ‘working-poor’ living in poverty will rise as a direct consequence of Budget 2010.
Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that in 2008, 615,000 [...]

One of the most beautiful novels that I have read is The African Child by the late Guinean author, Camara Laye. This autobiographical work retraces his childhood, ending with the author on a flight to France, having won an academic scholarship.
Set during the colonial period, one of the things that stand out in the novel [...]

Thornton Hall to go ahead despite overwhelming evidence that ‘super-prisons’ do not work
300 prisoners is the maximum manageable size of a prison, according to incontrovertible international evidence presented at the ‘Re-imagining the Role of Prisons in Irish Society’ Open Forum last week, yet the government - whose officials were in attendance at the IPRT event [...]