Comment on DDI, Gilroy, Independent Resistance and other populist reactions...
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View ArticleComment on Oh really? by Darragh McCurragh
I wonder has it really dropped or does the number shrink because people give up looking for work? this is one of the “drivers” of -on-paper-recovery in the United States.
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Ok Here goes trying to give a picture of these groups who I term as a melange – ‘the unacceptables’. Direct Democracy Ireland is basically a Gilroy Creature. He pretty much hijacked the idea (stealing...
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IRB heads – sorry – are basically auld fella Freeman legalese style nitpicking nationalists. Never met them but I heard them on the Freeman radio show that does be doing the rounds.
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I wrote this about the Freeman phenomenon a few months back: If a couple of thousand people — I think it was less than that — vote for someone standing on a platform of Direct Democracy in a...
View ArticleComment on The Ulster Citizen Army and other groups… by Dr. X
As I say, I can’t quite remember where I read that one, but it’s a little detail that’s stuck in my mind ever since.
View ArticleComment on The Ulster Citizen Army and other groups… by Ed
The guy with the Che Guevara books mentioned by Dillon and Lehane was Ernie Elliot (at least, the anecdote about the books comes from Dave Fogel, also of the UDA). Peter Taylor has a description of...
View ArticleComment on The Ulster Citizen Army and other groups… by workers republic
In the early 70s Belfast P. IRA Vols told me that a UVF man tipped them off that the IRA/UVF agreement not to kill civilians would be reneigned on. He was subsequently killed by the UVF. A member of...
View ArticleComment on SYRIZA by Ed
Some interesting things I’ve read lately on SYRIZA, would recommend them all: http://mondediplo.com/2013/07/07syriza http://socialistworker.org/2013/07/30/the-battle-for-syriza-goes-on...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 18th of September 2013 by...
Slavery by any other name!
View ArticleComment on SYRIZA by Roger Cole
What’s SYRIZA’s position on Greek membership of NATO and the militarisation of the EU? I don’t know, I am just asking.
View ArticleComment on SYRIZA by Ed
These were the last 4 points of SYRIZA’s forty-point programme last year; haven’t seen a more recent statement on NATO: “37. Withdrawal of Greek troops from Afghanistan and the Balkans. No Greek...
View ArticleComment on SYRIZA by Dr. X
The Golden Dawn’s provocations will likely lead to it being banned. That ban will very easily be extended to other ‘extremists’ such as Syriza....
View ArticleComment on Meeting Room, documentary on Concerned Parents Against Drugs...
I’ve (finally) put the entire film on YouTube. If anyone needs a hard copy that can be arranged. Enjoy.
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Comment on ASTI Fightback statement on the outcome of today’s ballot by...
+1 CMK. It’s absolutely essential to communicate. And I’d agree, perhaps the single most important skill I learned in the last twenty years. I learned through one of those Mavis Beacon apps. I’d make...
View ArticleComment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by EWI
What a disaster of an interview. Doesn’t he have PR people to vet this stuff before consenting to publication…? Or is it just that he has no idea how this stuff sounds to the general public?
View ArticleComment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by CMK
Any residual respect I may have had for U2 was utterly annihilated by Harry Browne’s ‘The Frontman’. We know now.that Jimmy Saville was a ruthless sexual predator; we know now that U2, from the outset,...
View ArticleComment on ASTI Fightback statement on the outcome of today’s ballot by CMK
I find it amazing that a person could enhance their entire experience of the internet etc by mastering a 19th century skill. I think Karl Marx would appreciate the irony. Alas, typing skills may have...
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