Comment on Britain and Europe… by dmfod
Oh come on France intervened militarily in its former African colonies 46 times between 1960 and 2005 and in the last couple of years it’s intervened in Chad, Cote D’Ivoire, Mali and probably a few...
View ArticleComment on Britain and Europe… by doctorfive
Shaun Connolly knocking great rise out of Gerard Howarth on radio one there
View ArticleComment on Britain and Europe… by CMK
This is worth a read, the review at least the book itself is only available in French: http://newleftreview.org/II/77/augusta-conchiglia-ghosts-of-kamerun Covers France’s role in Cameroon, very bloody,...
View ArticleComment on Britain and Europe… by dilettante
Not forgetting that in Chad Irish forces were the ones supporting French imperial interests.
View ArticleComment on Britain and Europe… by soubresauts
I’m finding it hard to identify the Eurosceptics on the Left… Who/where are they?
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 23rd January, 2012 by doctorfive
However, the problem with the paper is that it never makes the link between the kind of economic policies it advocates in the business section and the kind of problems it covers in its ‘special...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 23rd January, 2012 by CL
Eric Foner’s ‘The Fiery Trial’ is a good account of Lincoln and slavery. Foner is a nephew of Phillip Foner, historian of the American labor movement. His father Jack D. Foner, also a historian, was...
View ArticleComment on One step forward. One step back. by revolutionaryprogramme
The use of Spartoid is regularly used against me (as it was in this case) when whoever I am having a discussion with doesn’t want to deal with the substantive political points I am making…
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 23rd January, 2012 by CL
In the U.S the phrase is ‘makers and takers’.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 23rd January, 2012 by ivorthorne
Joe Higgins is impressing on Vincent Browne. It’s a good panel – the kind you’d never see anywhere else.
View ArticleComment on A legacy of FF? by smiffy
I’m not suggesting that the very fact that unions exist in the public sector means that they will somehow automatically spring up ex nihilo in other areas. What I’m saying is that the fact that...
View ArticleComment on One step forward. One step back. by Jolly Red Giant
The term spartoid is used referring to you when you come up with obscure sectarian nonsense to try and beat people with a big stick because they don’t conform to the wierd and wonderful world you...
View ArticleComment on A legacy of FF? by richotto
Theres a lot of rhetoric there which was nothing to do with what I was saying above, first invoking the Sindo and now the Mail, disregarding what I said about keeping to the facts or merits of the...
View ArticleComment on A legacy of FF? by smiffy
“You keep referring to public sector workers as if they are homogeneous but as I mentioned many times that the ordinary workers in the public sector would not be threatened if only the most highly paid...
View ArticleComment on A legacy of FF? by richotto
I think the best way to protect those at the bottom is to take the most morally defensible line. Instead of taking a defence line of “not an inch” in which the public would stand fully behind the govt...
View ArticleComment on A legacy of FF? by richotto
Sorry, I know I should proof read before I send. Words here and there are out of place.
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 18 by maddurdu
3.Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Gerry Adams, Martin Ferris, Dessie Ellis + <b>Luke 'Ming' Flanagan</b> ( on two occasions I think)
View ArticleComment on One step forward. One step back. by revolutionaryprogramme
I actually don’t mind whatever term people want to use to describe the political tradition I come from as long as it is done in a serious way that addresses the substance of the issues being discussed.
View ArticleComment on One step forward. One step back. by WorldbyStorm
It was a bit odd in a way. It went strong on the Buswell’s Four stuff on CD, JC, MW, LMF and also threw, I think Maureen O’S's name into the mix. I think that’s all a stretch. I can’t see them becoming...
View ArticleComment on One step forward. One step back. by WorldbyStorm
Well that’s it precisely. You’re never less than serious about yours and indeed others politics even whereyou disagree. And it’s reasonable for people to reciprocate.
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