Comment on Mandela and the SACP by WorldbyStorm
Great stuff Michael. I hadn’t thought about the Manifesto crew in years so your refs sent me back to have a look! One thing that strikes me is how broad the PCI was by the late 1960s. It clearly was a...
View ArticleComment on This Week At Irish Election Literature by WorldbyStorm
That’s a very interesting question.
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by MIchael Carley
They always tended to be as independent as it was possible to be under the circumstances, c.f. Gramsci’s letter to Togliatti. They were in the odd position after the war of having liberated quite a bit...
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by WorldbyStorm
That last point you make seems very convincing to me. There’s another side as well. To an extent even greater than the Spanish and French parties, though similar to them, it was large enough to...
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View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by Michael Carley
Although one question might be why a party which had to develop as a semi-clandestine organization (there was also an open leadership based in Moscow) managed to become such an open, fairly transparent...
View ArticleComment on Interview with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin… by Hank Tree
Martin is a credit to the church in Ireland.
View ArticleComment on Mandela and the SACP by WorldbyStorm
Size perhaps? A bit chicken and egg admittedly but perhaps the simple dynamic of a party which grew bigger required greater and more open accountability eventually?
View ArticleComment on The year in guff by WorldbyStorm
Brilliant post. And what a year it was. “These are ordinary people Joe, he just wanted to buy a bank”… wow. In a way it catches the spirit of the age. Unfortunately. BTW kudos for keeping these on...
View ArticleComment on The year in guff by sonofstan
More and more human rights are being used to frame the approach to justice in our society. This is a disaster happening before our eyes I’d actually be prepared to defend that proposition, though...
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Comment on The year in guff by gfmurphy101
Listened to Fergal Quinn….. and some people think that through dialogue ….one can bring people around to a ‘synthesis’…….. well there’s your answer
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by Bartley
<i> ... on a Para <b>of</b> a Royal Marine ...</i> Dear CMK, When basing one`s arguments on that most mature of debating styles, the old snigger-at-the-typos line, it is...
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by CMK
Touché, Bartley. But the question: remains, are you referring to your heroes in the SAS when you refer to our friends in the North and their use of the Armalite?
View ArticleComment on The year in guff by doctorfive
Almost forgot this one http://soundcloud.com/oireachtasretort/facepalm-of-the-week
View ArticleComment on Interview with Archbishop Martin – Part Two by Forbolg
On economic issues the RCC is far to the left of the mainstream Irish political parties. On same sex marriage,abortion etc. the RCC/Martin position is entirely predictable and as likely to be opposed...
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