East Wall History Week – 16 to 24 October 2011
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Oct 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Oct 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Irish social history, Ireland on Oct 16th, 2011 3 Comments »
This is from last Tuesday. I was asked to give a short talk (around 16 mins) at the Dame Street Occupation/Assembly and I was chuffed to be able to do so.
Thanks to verysharpknives for putting it up and for irishelectionliterature for highlighting it on cedarlounge.
Corner Speaker, Occupy Dame Street […]
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Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Bastards, Banks on Oct 13th, 2011 10 Comments »
‘progressive’ is a word that I hate to see used these days. It’s meaningless. On the face of it I understand it to mean someone who is generally pointing in a positive direction without trying to get into how the ‘progressive’ individual stands on knotty issues. So we don’t know what ideology they espouse or […]
Posted in EU, Ireland on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Media on Oct 12th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Wikipedia]
Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics.
Albert identifies himself […]
Posted in Ireland on Oct 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in EU, Ireland on Oct 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish journalism on Oct 6th, 2011 1 Comment »
LookLeft - in Easons countrywide and good independent book and newsagents
In this issue of LookLeft -
Can trade unions lead a fight back? Paul Dillon examines the strategic choices which face the trade union movement North and South
LookLeft looks at how class defines health Outcomes
Nama plays no constructive economic role so why was it created asks […]
Posted in Ireland on Oct 6th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Diarmuid O’Flynn of the Ballyhea Bondholder Bailout Protest Group]
Our 32nd weekly protest march in Ballyhea coming up this Sunday (11.30am, meeting at the church) and we’re being asked – ‘How long more are ye going to keep up these protests?’
I don’t speak for anyone else among our regular group, nor for anyone in […]