Comment on DCTU March… by irishmarxism
See my own review of the demo here: http://irishmarxism.net/2012/11/25/thousands-march-in-dublin-against-austerity/
View ArticleComment on DCTU March… by RosencrantzisDead
Good to see you adopting class politics, Bartley. It is a sign of how appalling Fine Gael are that even you have to adopt this stance. Your concern for the new arrivals into the public sector is...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by RosencrantzisDead
Oh, I know; it is just that that particular piece was brilliant in its irony. These people have no idea what they are coming out with. Pakistan? We are going to have to be cheaper than Pakistan?!
View ArticleComment on DCTU March… by greengoddess2
There were also Labour people there. CLP and Uni’s. Members marching under union banners too. Taft for instance. I may have been the only PLP Member there. Spied by sindo. I got some verbal stick from...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by gabbagabbahey
also, if that’s the case, better tell workers in Pakistan that their incomes, standards of living, national development etc. can’t increase because Ireland is coming down to meet them.
View ArticleComment on DCTU March… by Jolly Red Giant
The only people ‘influencing’ Labour is the ECB and IMF – the LP is welded completely to the policies of austerity and the capitalist financial markets – the defeat of those policies necessitates the...
View ArticleComment on DCTU March… by fergal
on a different matter but related. Anybody au fait with maternity leave and labour law? A friend has just returned to work after maternity leave,back a few weeks. She was called in by her superior on...
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Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by paul
Another aspect of this is less comical but equally serious. the apparent logic unlerlying austerity is that we all allowed ourselves to become uncompetitive during the boom, and must now restore...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by paul
to expand on that (I have loads of work to do, so I’m doing this instead), the pro-austerity logic seems to be: in order to become rich, we must first become poor, and in order to stay rich in the...
View ArticleComment on Is there a Socially Liberal wing left in Fine Gael ? by Ivorthorne
Marriage isn’t really about autonomy though. If it was, would people have balked in the way they did when it was suggested that civil unions might be useful to people in non-romantic relationships? And...
View ArticleComment on Is there a Socially Liberal wing left in Fine Gael ? by WorldbyStorm
Surely it – or a civil union – is if people want it to be? Particularly if one is forbidden from getting marriage (and divorce of course extends autonomy if the marriage fails). Isn’t the point about...
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by sonofstan
First quote should read '<i>non</i>-means tested Jobseekers Benefit' shouldn't it?
View ArticleComment on Is there a Socially Liberal wing left in Fine Gael ? by dmfod
That’s projecting today’s standards onto the past. Divorce, contraception and decrimininalising homosexuality might seem like low hanging fruit from the standpoint of 2012 but were all controversial at...
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by greengoddess2
I warned about this. If this goes on the safety net may be removed completely .
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by anarchaeologist
That was the first thing I read this morning and it points to sloppy writing or subbing or perhaps both. In any event it’s quite indicative of a paper with little appreciation of what the majority of...
View ArticleComment on Is there a Socially Liberal wing left in Fine Gael ? by ejh
I was vaguely under the impression that Labour were courting the voting-for-somebody-else-next-time demographic.
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by sonofstan
I was going to pull them up on a possible misplaced apostrophe as well, but the DSP seems unsure itself in its own literature as to whether it is a benefit paid to a single jobseeker (thus ‘Jobseeker’s...
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by CL
Since capitalism is based on the commodification of labour those in the reserve army of the unemployed must be forced to take any job at whatever wage ‘the market’ decrees. To protect those without...
View ArticleComment on A ‘labour activation’ measure? It is like f… by LeftAtTheCross
Sort of related to labour activation, but did anyone hear the interview on RTE Drivetime with the Irish woman living in Greece? She describes an acquaintance of hers, college educated, who was...
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