Comment on Remembering Ann Lovett by doctorfive
Cannot recommend this enough. Great points all round but Dr Crowe on property and the family especially
View ArticleComment on Noonan on income tax. by sonofstan
I was at an SMT briefing today where our faculty dean repeatedly bigged himself up for the ‘difficult’ decision of getting rid of courses that are expensive to run, and the ‘equally difficult’ decision...
View ArticleComment on Remembering Ann Lovett by benmadigan
Eurofree3.wordpresss.com also commented on Ann Lovett’s tragic death, linking it with prevailing attitudes towards unmarried mothers , the stigma of illegitimacy, catholic church attitudes and...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Ireland – Past, Present and Future, The Socialist...
the late Andrew Boyd of Belfast got into a spat with an ultra-conservative castle catholic. A law suit was threatened – damages were demanded. It was all hushed up. Boyd was disappointed “I didn’t want...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Ireland – Past, Present and Future, The Socialist...
The SPGB (notoriously) hold that no other groups or parties are truly socialist, and in particular that any demand for any reform under any circumstance is reformist, and thus capitalist. It’s an...
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by Lightweight
“…there is no real attempt to portray the DPRK as the logical continuation of pre-colonial Korea…” – not sure about this. Lot of attempt for better or worse to link DPRK to ‘pure’ Korean culture.
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by workers republic
+1 and not to forget Pol Pot and the piles of skulls in the killing fields of Cambodia .Trotskyists will call these tyrannical states examples of Stalinism, but if Trotsky had become ruler of the USSR...
View ArticleComment on LGBT and Africa and class and the right and religion… by doctorfive
Anyone ever read up on the adoption end of things? Craaaazy stuff, way way beyond the kind of thing still unresolved on this island. Same colonial thing with these White American churches.
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by Michael Carley
“Incidentally one of my sons visited Cambodia and Laois a few years ago and the ordinary people there were living miserable lives.” So true, so true.
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by CMK
‘Laois?’ They seemed happy enough last time I was in Portlaoise but, I suppose, you can never tell. Maybe there was famine in the areas around the town?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by ar scáth a chéile
http://venezuelanalysis.com is obviously pro Bolivarian but is always worth a look Michael Albert at Znet bemoans international left’s failure to engage with Venezuela...
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by Lightweight
Really??? Laois is a grand country – if he never saw extreme poverty and exploitation in Thailand he didn’t look.
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by workers republic
You make good points there Ceannaire. “a lethal cocktail” it certainly is, and one that the W.P.were able to swallow; I wonder what’s their position now regarding N. Korea? The imperialist powers of...
View ArticleComment on Just what is the DPRK? by doctorfive
Was a few inches from the place along the northern border a few years ago. And could see in for miles of empty fields and mountain from part of the Great Wall (Someone else has uploaded snaps...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by ar scáth a chéile
ah come off it, he had his eccentric turns but Cockburn was a man of the left
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by ar scáth a chéile
meant that in response to Starkadder..I agree with Michael that he was mistaken on climate change
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by ar scáth a chéile
..and i remember reading here on CLR that he apologised for that nasty piece he wrote on Afghanistan…
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by dilettante
I’m puzzled by the fact that the SP run as the AAA in the locals (with non-socialists), but insist on running exclusively as the SP in the Europeans (with nobody on the list but SP members). Is the EU...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th February 2014 by Starkadder
I didn’t say Cockburn abandoned the left, merely I found it hard to understand how he was able to reconcile being a leftist with some of the positions he took. For instance,while it was worth looking...
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