Posted in Marx on Jun 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
David McWilliams thinks that Ireland’s problems were caused by the gombeen men.
Fintan O’Toole disagrees. He thinks it was the cute hoors.
David Harvey has a slightly different take on what was happening in the worlds of business and finance while McWilliams and O’Toole were flicking through their Carleton for metaphors and similes.
Enjoy.
Posted in Marxism, Marx, Economy on May 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Second video in Brendan Cooney’s series on Marx’s Law of Value. Brendan’s blog is here, kapitalism101. The text of the video is here.
Posted in Marx, Economy, Irish Economy on Dec 18th, 2009 9 Comments »
A short ten-minute video from Cliff Bowman, Professor of Strategic Management at the Cranfield School of Management at Cranfield University, explaining Marx’s theory of economic crisis.
Posted in Irish Marxism, Marx, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 13th, 2009 20 Comments »
It’s been a busy week for Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, authors of Lost Revolution (reviewed here). The book launch was held on Thursday (reviewed here and here), while on Saturday the Desmond Greaves Summer School had a session entitled: “Remembering 1969: memory and history” at which Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan were speaker and […]
Introduction: Remembering 1969: Play Now | Play in Popup Brian Hanley, Main Talk: Play Now | Play in Popup Discussion highlights: Play Now | Play in Popup Johnson, Hanley, Ryan: Play Now | Play in Popup Mick Ryan on IRA, 62-68: Play Now | Play in PopupPosted in Marx, Irish Marxism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, politics/Ireland on Aug 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Below is a reproduction of the entry on Irish Trotskyism in Robert Jackson Alexander’s book, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). An edited version of the book, including an edited version of the entry on Ireland, is available on Google Books, here.
The article below is simply […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Marx, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jul 28th, 2009 5 Comments »
Here’s the fourth and final programme in the Looking Left series, and the topic is the newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland, the Irish Socialist. Cedarlounge has a great post on the paper here.
The panel is made up of Dr. Ann Matthews, Tom Redmond, Mick O’Reilly, and myself, and is presented by Daniel […]
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Posted in Marx, Irish journalism, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is the third programme in the series, and hosted by Donagh of this blog and Irish Left Review.
There were ten issues of Gralton published from 1982-83, and three issues of Z Magazine, all in 1989.
Looking Left 003 from DCTV on Vimeo.
For online copies of Z Magazine, and issue one of Gralton, see below.
