Comment on Talking about flags – more from that RedC poll… by Joe
Those figures surprised me when I saw them too. Just a gut instinct but I say it’s a don’t want to know syndrome in the populace down here. That people just don’t care about what goes on in the north...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 16th January, 2012 by Joe
I’m a simple man. A maximum wage of €100,000 is a simple demand which I understand and would support. And if something isn’t fair, and someone says “it’s not fair and we’ll make it fair”, I would...
View ArticleComment on Report on Pay Talks-Beware of Choreography! by R obert
With the best will in the world the Country is Bankrupt and we are at present living on the Charity of others. Can we afford to keep borrowing money so that our Garda, Teachers and Medical Staff can...
View ArticleComment on More on that RedC/Paddy Power poll… by Julian Assandwich
It also doesn’t factor in the SWP CC’s ultra sectarian aggressive manouevring to run Brid Smyth against incumbent TD (and fellow People Before Profit affiliate) Joan Collins and her organization in the...
View ArticleComment on Report on Pay Talks-Beware of Choreography! by smiffy
“Can we afford to keep borrowing money so that our Garda, Teachers and Medical Staff can aspire to a certain standard of living?” That’s one way of putting it. Another way would be to ask whether we...
View ArticleComment on Terminology… by hardcore for nerds
‘Pro-freedom’ is worse than ‘pro-life’ in that it’s completely meaningless, and pro-lifers will obviously point to the ‘freedom’ of an unborn child from death. None of the arguments made against...
View ArticleComment on The failure of Technocracy… and the shift from democracy… by CL
The Eurozone ‘technocrats’,-Monti, Draghi, Rehn-are also neoliberal ideologues, with a highly developed ‘trained incapacity’ in orthodox economics. In most instances repressive measures accompany the...
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by Jim Monaghan
The only way to preserve left purity is to stay in a monastery. Be a DeLeon or worse.Even having a job involves a compromise with the system according to some.Being a trade union official was...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 15th August, 2012 by Jim Monaghan
The highly paid will be the last to be outsourced. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. I think the internet revolution is of sismic proportions. Look at some recent things HMV etc. On a footnote, out...
View ArticleComment on The failure of Technocracy… and the shift from democracy… by ejh
They’re also almost entirely insulated from suffering any consequences for their decisions, and therefore from taking any real responsibility for them.
View ArticleComment on Talking about flags – more from that RedC poll… by Joe
I agree with you Séamus that the unionists are British.
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by Jimmy Scutclife
Clare Daly sold her soul for a blonde bombshell – Doyle’s piece is very good.
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by Jimmy Scutclife
McCann can use the language, achieved fuck all else though.
View ArticleComment on Democracy vs Fascism? by Joe
Just noticed Dev is carrying a club like yer typical monkey-Paddy.
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by WorldbyStorm
I’d agree with Ed that there just aren’t the conditions in the contemporary period for a CNT style approach – however much one might like it, and I think there’s a lot in that tradition to admire and...
View ArticleComment on A free market in money…well…not so great… by WorldbyStorm
Hadn’t thought of it that way Ciaran before. ejh, there one has it. There’s an amazing disconnection between a lot of libertarian right thinking and the actuality of sales and purchase. In a way that’s...
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by sonofstan
young people who didn’t pay much interest in politics this time last year are now tuned in & active on abortion issue. +1 on this. Just back from the planning meeting of the campaign formerly...
View ArticleComment on Anarchist Lens article… by ejh
<i>I don’t think it’s any surprise that the Italian far-left groups failed to make much progress in the long 68</i> When I was a young history student I was ticked off for referring to...
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