Comment on Zero-hour Ireland? What is the situation in the ROI? by A call for...
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View ArticleComment on A call for help – Left resources we could collate by Michael Carley
I wouldn’t worry about the nature of the `campaign’. At some point, you can say that consumerism (feeble, if well-meaning) becomes boycott (vigorous, effective, militant)?
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: DIRECT RULE: ‘Civil Rights NOT Civil War’ Northern...
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View ArticleComment on Private schooling redux… by CMK
Private school representatives says ‘parents are looking for equality for their children’ and urge government not to cut funds to the sector: http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0905/472390-education-fees/
View ArticleComment on That last RedC/Paddy Power poll… by business electricity price
My partner and I stumbled over here coming from a different page and thought I might check things out. I like what I see so now i am following you. Look forward to looking over your web page repeatedly.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by...
One significant criticism I’d have of the ‘anti-political party’ piece is that it makes more of the SWP than it actually was in the 1970s (and the revolutionary potential of the times) in order to...
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I didn’t until you mentioned it. Interesting.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by...
I know, I know, but what can one do? There’s no PM’s exchanged between us in the context of WordPress and I’m fairly circumspect in email communication. My working assumption though has always been...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by Justin
I based my comments on Heartfield’s Review and mischaracterised his views in one major area. Heartfield’s view is that rather than being slaves to dogma the SWP showed “from the outset, a convenient...
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by EWI
Interesting to see if this Lucey claim is something he came up with on his own, or if it’s a “cherished myth” (to coin a phrase) among the ex-PD set to which he belongs.
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by EWI
You’re missing the “truthiness” of the Vast Bulk fact, CMK.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by ejh
I think that argument's trying to do a lot more work than it's capable of. Not least because I think this <i>the SWP’s refusal to challenge the Labour Party for leadership of the working class in...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by Justin
Wbs Yes, i agree on both the elision of disparate issues to make a point and that the SWP probably weren’t ever going to take on Labour in the early 1970s and win.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by Justin
Ejh Yes I think Heartfield would have to present some good evidence to convince me of that. But there may have been a more modest opening for the kind of party that RESPECT would later try to be.
View ArticleComment on 1913 and all that… by Brian Hanley
I think 2/3s of SIPTU’s membership are private sector workers- though I could be wrong on that. The majority of UNITE’s would be private sector as well. They should be shouting this from the rooftops....
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 2nd of September 2013 by sonofstan
I first heard the metaphor used to describe the difficulty of leaving a lock-in at a certain Dublin pub: anyone who tried to leave was dragged back by everyone else with ‘you’ll have one more’...
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More than likely they forgot to note the date.
View ArticleComment on Interview with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin… by Jim Monaghan
No friend of Church but they are opposing war in Syria. Perhpas they know more than Obama
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I did not suggest that Ted Tynan was anti-Semitic. I do not know him nor am I familiar with his views. I do know the WP and I believe that this nonsense is inconsistent with many of their stated...
View ArticleComment on Characteristically gracious in victory… by sonofstan
I haven’t the first clue, but does anyone know if the Irish vote in Australia is ‘traditionally’ Labour the way it is in the UK, and Democrat in the US?
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