Comment on Perhaps it is me… by Jim Monaghan
A bit of context. The Catholic right wanted corporatism. A la Portugal. Rule by employer run Guilds. Based on the nonsense of papal bulls**t. DeV being a cunning rogue gave the the shadow of this in...
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View ArticleComment on Anonymous again… by Forbenius
“have to admit, that their targets in the main seem well chosen” Have you heard of Adria Richards? And her firing from SendGrid?
View ArticleComment on Anonymous again… by WorldbyStorm
It’s just depressing the way you comment on here Forbenius. The term ‘in the main’ qualifies the statement ‘well chosen’. You do appreciate that – no?
View ArticleComment on They say the situation is… by Alpha
This is how we thank the Serbs who were our allies in both world wars by sucking up to the Mafia Fascist Molestor Habib-Huggers because Choochtown had Clinton’s crotch codes? 9/11 was Yugo-Crimean...
View ArticleComment on Solving Ireland’s problems? An unusual suggestion from a...
Taking RockRoot’s point – I’m been straining hard, but I find IONA hard to picture – given the post-colonial baggage. And given the continuing globalisation of capital, such a unit is just to small to...
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by Jolly Red Giant
Let’s be absolutely clear – the level of compliance is significantly higher than for the Household Tax. I sat beside workmates over the past few days trying to dissuade them as they registered online....
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by Ceannaire
The fact that CAWHT is the only campaign to have “shown any capacity to involve and mobilise people on an ongoing basis” owes more to the moribund nature of much of the Left than anything about the...
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by WorldbyStorm
Well, the CAHWT is broader than the SWP or the SP alone, though in fairness the latter has been particularly good in terms of support. But… I don’t know how one would go the route you propose, even if...
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by Pangur ban
There is a historical precedent here -after internment in 1971 NICRA launched a rent and rates strike. It ended up some years later with people paying up plus a 50 p a week admin charge Bin charges...
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by Logan
It is going to be a problem for the campaign if there is a fairly high compliance rate. The minority who dont can be more easily portrayed as “spongers”, which the establishment will slowly but...
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There’s got to be an acronym or two we could conjure out of potentially appropriate names! But I tend to think as you all seem to that it’s a non-starter.
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by Ceannaire
“Which ‘far more serious victims of austerity’ would that be?” It would include the hundreds of students forced into prostitution to pay college fees which have increased to an amount that makes the...
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by The Caretaker
A more pertinent question would be how much previously inactive people have been damaged by their association with the ‘serious’ left.
View ArticleComment on The Household Tax campaign – So, what happens now? by WorldbyStorm
That’s a very important point about the divergence between rhetoric and reality. I live in an area where I know there’s an high activism, and yet, in real terms the numbers participating despite...
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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 29th of May 2013 by WorldbyStorm
Ah, I wouldn’t hold that against him… too much!
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 29th of May 2013 by WorldbyStorm
Though some of the sexual politics side is a bit dodgy, to put it mildly though in my reading of it, and I don’t want to wish it away as such it seemed to me to be of a piece with the baroque, almost...
View ArticleComment on Unleash the Creighton! All will bow before our ‘internationally...
Great point re the contradictions between the line on these different issues.
View ArticleComment on Unleash the Creighton! All will bow before our ‘internationally...
I’d love to know what Google, Apple etc are getting in ‘R & D’ grants too. Of course the grants are open to all companies but theres a mini industry in ‘consulting’ when it comes to filling out the...
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