Comment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week: CrowdSourced by...
Some other mean soul called Ronan Mullen a ‘cabbage f**k’
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 28th November, 2012 by Mark P
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1202/breaking19.html O’Connor doing what he does best.
View ArticleComment on The Socialist Party “ULA – Not measuring up to political...
I was talking about the process in the SP. The ULA for all its problems does offer some agency for the membership and the decision making is far more transparent.
View ArticleComment on The Socialist Party “ULA – Not measuring up to political...
I discuss process and structure because in the end that is where the political content comes from and as you know I believe it is a key problem of the Irish and British left.
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And that it is political, it is in the end a key area of Marxist methodology.
View ArticleComment on The Socialist Party “ULA – Not measuring up to political...
I don’t think that process is unimportant, CMR, I just don’t think it’s the only thing that’s important. And I don’t use it as an all purpose excuse to avoid talking about actual political...
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How do you figure that, structure is one of the main political disagreements in the ULA?
View ArticleComment on From Spain: 25 November 2012 by Tomboktu
Your second-last link deserves a bit more of a profile. <blockquote>More than 200 judges across Spain have come out publicly to manifest their anger with the Popular Party (PP) government over...
View ArticleComment on The Socialist Party “ULA – Not measuring up to political...
But it’s not the only political disagreement. What’s more, the structures appropriate reflect the nature of political disagreements in the organisation and the balance of forces within it. Discussing...
View ArticleComment on Labour defections over Budget? Who would that be then? by smiffy
Was that the Workers Party split in 92? If so, there’s a big difference, in that the 6 TDs who left at that stage left the party entirely. I don’t think any of the Labour ‘dissidents’ have gone that far.
View ArticleComment on Labour defections over Budget? Who would that be then? by sonofstan
I thought he meant the PDs?
View ArticleComment on Hold the coffee… by melfamy
Every business owner is anti-union, but when you work at a smaller company, like I do, knowing the boss, and being able to talk directly to management is better done without going through a union rep.
View ArticleComment on Hold the coffee… by CMK
Oh yeah, and what if the boss says ‘OK, there’s the door’? Talking to management is one thing; negotiating with them another thing altogether. There’s a fair chance that you and your boss are unaware...
View ArticleComment on Hold the coffee… by CL
-Two hundred workers from dozens of fast food outlets in New York City—including McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Domino’s, and Taco Bell—walked off their jobs Thursday morning to demand $15 an hour...
View ArticleComment on Hold the coffee… by melfamy
We tried organizing, and our goal was $400/day. the vote was defeated, but within two years, we were making that much anyway, and now I pull down over $500/day. Of course, I work in a field where my...
View ArticleComment on Three extracts that puzzle… by steve white
Committee for the Prevention of Torture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Prevention_of_Torture ) They are elected for a four-year term by the Committee of Ministers...
View ArticleComment on Three extracts that puzzle… by steve white
is there possibly a tradition of abstaining when it comes to our own country? thus the issue was sown up by then
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