Comment on Public sector: Revolution without end… by WorldbyStorm
Thanks CL, a timely link.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th April 2013 by survey remover
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View ArticleComment on Brid Smith to contest European seat… by Mark P
Dilettante: Brid Smith has zero chance of winning. And the SWP know that, as they show by also running her in the elections. The issue isn’t whether it’s “fair” that Brid is a no hoper spoiler...
View ArticleComment on Brid Smith to contest European seat… by dilettante
Mark P: I don’t think my point was/is based around being “fair” or not. We could equally say that Paul Murphy has zero chance of winning. It’s more about whether you want to hegemonise the political...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… The Blades by Dr.Nightdub
Anyone going on Saturday is in for a treat, almost wishing I’d bought tickets for both nights because tonight was just sublime. I’ve cried at gigs before but tonight my cheeks were moist for the guts...
View ArticleComment on As others see us… part of a continuing series by workers republic
+1 And we mustn’t forget that Bertie Ahern was applauded when he said that people who “talked down the economy “, should go and hang themselves ; and who it was that applauded.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 11th December 2013 by Michael...
This might be of interest to some around here, the archive of The Newsletter: This initiative is not merely a form of reminiscence, but is about exemplary journalism and communist principles. The...
View ArticleComment on As others see us… part of a continuing series by workers republic
Naoimi Klein in her important book The Shock Doctrine, deals very well with how the IMF used the cynical capitalist doctrine of the “never miss the opportunity of a crisis” to promote privatization and...
View ArticleComment on The Border Campaign by Gearóid Ó Faoleán
There is some good stuff in the Seán O’Mahony Papers at the National Library of Ireland for anybody knocking around Dublin.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by crocodileshoes
Is there any point in remarking that Coleman’s last sentence makes no sense? (I’m not referring to its ‘message’, just its syntax).
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by richotto
I think in that last sentence if he said “those amongst us” rather than “amongst those of us” it would have been grammatically correct.
View ArticleComment on As others see us… part of a continuing series by CL
Its noteworthy that the second-in-command to Lagarde at the IMF is David Lipton’ From 1989 to 1992, he teamed up with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs then at Harvard University, working as economic advisers to the...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 11th December 2013 by CMK
Good to see some unions making arguments beyond a narrow industrial relations remit, hopefully we’ll see more of this. I won’t be holding my breath for similar initiatives from SIPTU or IMPACT but fair...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by ejh
Yes, I think that’s right. Usually this happens when you start writing a sentence in one way and then decide to change it round.
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Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by crocodileshoes
Which all goes to show that the Sindo’s subs are more overpaid than the ESB workers – whatever they’re on.
View ArticleComment on After Smithwick… redux by Ed
The main strategy now, since collusion between British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries can no longer be denied, appears to be to dilute the meaning of ‘collusion’ so that everybody and nobody...
View ArticleComment on The Border Campaign by Saoirse go Deo (@United_Irishman)
Here is the original short story which “The Quiet Man” is based on. The film differs quite a bit: http://www.apex.net.au/~mhumphry/QManSEP.html
View ArticleComment on The Border Campaign by Saoirse go Deo (@United_Irishman)
Robert White’s biography of O’Brádaigh is excellent and indeed worth reading.
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Shankill Bulletin – October 1981 by Bob Smiles
Where are the left loyalists gone? Is there any NILP type space now?
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