Comment on Nelson Mandela RIP by WorldbyStorm
That’s a lovely way of putting it doctorfive. Genuinely.
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by que
Yeah I would agree. The man went on an extra-ordinary journey. He was forged in hardship without becoming hard.
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by CMK
Good way of putting it, que. Brings to mind our legions of Right wing hardchaws who were were forged in comfort and effect a ‘hardness’ or ‘realism’, as they’d no doubt call it, directed exclusively at...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by crocodile
Guilty feeling: just back from the newsagent where I caught myself thinking: ‘If there was a newspaper available that wasn’t full of Nelson Mandela’, I’d buy it’. No disrespect to Mandela – I yield to...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Voice of Revolution, Communist Party of Ireland...
Hi there would you mind stating which blog platform you’re using? I’m going to start my own blog soon but I’m having a tough time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll mostly be listening to…My sound track from elk...
Top selections, YourCousin, and your references to needing a good cd for when the radio reception runs out reminds me of needing a mix cassette for much the same contingency, in rural seventies...
View ArticleComment on December 2013: Socialist Voice from the CPOI by John O'Neill
Reform or Revolution I have to agree that a simple reform or revolution is ridiculous but I don’t know who on the left the article is targeting? Both the SWP and the SP are currently engaging in...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Ed
The line about unionist opposition to Sunningdale just being based on the Council of Ireland was something that BICO cooked up to make the UWC look less reactionary than it was. The following year,...
View ArticleComment on Neo-liberalism and Dan O’Brien? Call off the search party! by Enya...
I gave up reading D. Brown sorry O’Brien some years ago. Mainly because of the laziness of the positions expressed and and the utter lack of research beyond his comfort zone. So my diagnosis (and I...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Ed
“By the time of the mass movements in the 1980s Mandela had been in prison for 20 years.” Good thing we have JRG around to remind us of this. I mean there I was, thinking that Mandela had been running...
View ArticleComment on December 2013: Socialist Voice from the CPOI by richotto
All the above entities are not so much engaged in popular front-ism as trying to market themselves slightly differently. Theres not a serious engagement with outside society in terms of allowing...
View ArticleComment on December 2013: Socialist Voice from the CPOI by Enya Rand
Perhaps ironically intended? I can’t read it – the graphic I mean.
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Enya Rand
That’s a great article by Kasrils Ed – thanks for the link – must read his book. Yes, leaving the economic issues to the “experts”, is where it generally goes wrong. Some further details: It was a dire...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Jim Monaghan
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ed-curran/nelson-mandela-was-against-ira-decommissioning-29384673.html And the IRA assisted the ANC at one stage.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Jack Jameson
Heard RTÉ Industry Correspondent Ingrid Miley on News saying how “concessions to the trade unions” in new legislation would have been made more difficult by an ESB strike. Concessions? RTÉ – voice of...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by WorldbyStorm
But your own words in your response continue to push the focus back to the ANC and the SACP as functional impediments to any sort of progress. Let’s be clear about the role of unions they were...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by WorldbyStorm
That’s incorrect by the way what you say to Ed : “Lastly, I willl point out that Mandela did actually accept a deal that secured the rule of capital in South Africa that led to his release.” His...
View ArticleComment on Speaking of the economy: HSE health cuts. by DerBlutendeRabe
@FergusD: “Is there an Irish equivalent of NICE?” http://www.ncpe.ie/ NICE actually does a lot more than the pharmacoeconomics. They produce very sensible and concise guidelines for health...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by dmfod
It wasn’t only an end to apartheid they wanted though WbS, or at least they saw an end to apartheid as involving a lot of socialist measures that Mandela and the rest did cave on. whether this was...
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