Comment on “Bodenstown Address” September 2013. Irish Republican Comrades...
It is a shame that what started as a fairly good discussion degenerated into a mishmash of allegation, accusation and dialogue which I believe, coming from supporters of the ORM, does nothing but give...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by dilettante
Not too late to do a deal on a joint left candidacy? Murphy as candidate, Smith as first substitute. Other left as the second substitute (so that if Murphy gets elected to the Dail the seat goes to...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by doctorfive
Very good read on Ukraine, RT and the return of those pesky neocons http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_cold_war-hungry_neocons_stage_managed_liz_wahls_resignation_20140319
View ArticleComment on You may have missed this earlier: From the selection in the Left...
Thanks John. Will amend the entry. Much appreciated.
View ArticleComment on More on tax, or lack of.. by WorldbyStorm
It’s certainly a suggestion, given what we’re reading above. It’s the sheer nakedness of it that is so appalling. They simply do not care and every time they get some concession they manipulate it and...
View ArticleComment on Big parties tend to do what big parties tend to do… by Firbolg
Apart from a slightly less overt form of corruption and a greater social cachet how could one expect “reform” from tweedlee as opposed to tweedlededum? Leahy in this instance is a waste of space.
View ArticleComment on Being neutral by Firbolg
Merkel is a cautious and pragmatic politition. Sending panzers into Russia is not in Germany’s economic interest and this suggestion is simply ott.
View ArticleComment on Big parties tend to do what big parties tend to do… by WorldbyStorm
I like your unconscious Freudian slip Mark P in your first sentence. It’s actually a great way to put it.
View ArticleComment on More on tax, or lack of.. by CMK
Completely undermines the ‘trickle down theory’ as a justification for neoliberalism. Wealth so clearly goes offshore rather than trickles down. Empirical proof of that, such as the details above, will...
View ArticleComment on Tony Benn – 1925 to 2014 by doctorfive
1994 interview on Ireland in Socialist Organiser http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2007/02/17/discussion-ireland-tony-benn
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View ArticleComment on Being neutral by yourcousin
See this is the kind of rhetorical exercise that excises me. Russia annexes a portion of another country and the use of sanctions in response is called “war”. Then it’s the whole argument of “it’s too...
View ArticleComment on Being neutral by yourcousin
Yes the situation is complicated, but it can be grasped and discussed. I mean seriously, there is a whole section of this blog dedicated to dealing with leftist takes on the troubles. No one here...
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
“Hibernia was regarded as a hostile magazine by the Officials: there was little love lost between them.” >> Brian, In your and Scott Millar’s book, on p. 205, it notes: “Hibernia magazine...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by roddy
I think a more pertinant question would be what does it mean for anyone who foolishly got involved in the Boston tapes debacle.
View ArticleComment on Being neutral by Jim Monaghan
” Sanctions are not the same as sending in Panzers. ” Putin is the one who has sent in the tanks. Both the USA/EU and Russia should ceae interfering in a sovereign country.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by Jim Monaghan
I was/am shocked by it. A tankie approach similar to that of Eoin O’Murchu. The antiwar statement was so much better.http://irishantiwar.org/node/2167
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: A New Nationalism for the New Ireland – Desmond...
Gearóid, Hibernia featured articles by Officials and Official supporters in the early 70s. By 1974 relations had cooled and articles by Brian Trench and Jack Holland would have been regarded as hostile...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by shea
Did he, haven’t heard that, would be surprised if bell took part in boston, he has kept his silence for decades. in hughes contribution to boston published after his death on the matter of the Jean...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say – 19th March 2014 by roddy
Irrespective of whether Bell took part in Boston or not,those that did will now be crapping themselves ,not knowing if they will be scooped themselves or what they said about others will come out in...
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