Comment on Unusual… by CL
EC. I know that you don’t believe that ‘sectarianism and ethnic cleansing is at the core of the republican movement’s struggle for Irish independence’ and my terse comment (yes, with a question mark)...
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‘companies that specialise in harassing unemployed workers off their legal benefits’-this is Reaganite workfare. That a Labour minister, Joan Burton, is applying it in Ireland surely makes a mockery of...
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Wow, I’m so glad that I had a Marxist-Leninist to tell me what any dog on the street knows, namely that unions set wage conditions for the non union workers in their given sectors and that as union...
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The Fitzpatrick story hasn’t been picked up by other media outlets so far- nothing about it on the IT, Indo or Examiner.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by Ally
Is this news? Labour are a liberal party with a few union bewildercrats and god bothers ala bishop Begg attached
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by CMK
Richard Boyd Barrett wiping the floor on Vincent Browne. Not a huge fan of his style but he has already reduced Nicola Cooke of the SBP to stuttering spluttering incoherence about jobs being created...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by Tomboktu
On the crime, I too am enjoying Sjowall and Wahloo and recommend them. Was introduced to them by BBC Radio 4, which did a series of some of them as Saturday plays before Christmas.
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Because Marxism, let alone Leninism will never be a tenable solution in America (thankfully IMO). I would also argue that it is a failed and hopefully dead ideology meant for a group that no longer...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by Dr.Nightdub
@ WBS Make sure “Red Harvest” is on that Hammett reading list. I’m convinced it was the basis for the Kurosawa film “Yojimbo” which in turn was remade as “A Fistful of Dollars”. Down these mean streets...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by shea
florrie there is a post of a letter circulated from coughlan on that political world page 13 of a tread called the IRA 1956-69: Rethinking the Republic” by Matt Treacy....
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz… Number 20 by The CLR Political Quiz …....
[...] Answers to CLR Political Quiz 20 1. Ruairi Quinn 2. Believed to be the first traveller to stand for the Dail. 3. Peoples Party of Ireland 4. Jerry Cowley in Mayo 5. Lowest recorded number of...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by Michael...
I would second the recommendation of Red Harvest. It is a cut above the stereotypical hardboiled thriller, for its proper handling of the politics (and also has one of my favorite tough guy lines)....
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by JoeKing
Speaking of “Strumpet City” – heres the first novel to feature the Lockout , reprinted last year by the East Wall community : http://1913committee.ie/blog/?p=462#more-462...
View ArticleComment on Splanc Dheireadh na Gaeltachta – Documentary on the Gaeltacht...
Just added a 1969 election ad for Peadar Mac An Iomaire to the post, should that be of any use to you Laura.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th February 2013 by Michael...
Speaking of the Lockout, this was almost an excellent novel: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13155590-after-the-lockout
View ArticleComment on LookLeft Forum – Realising a Left Alternative – Erik Olin Wright...
@RP: “A strange sort of “Marxist” who barely refers to class..” Apart, that is, from authoring the following books: Class, Crisis and the State, London: New Left Books, 1978; . Class Structure and...
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Comment on Left Archive: Citizenship and Racism: The Case against McDowell’s...
I tend not to drop a leave a response, however after looking at a few of the comments here Left Archive: Citizenship and Racism: The Case against McDowell’s Referendum, Kieran Allen, SWP, 2004 | The...
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The implication being that his ideas are fresh and new untainted by a grubby association with any existing organisation. However the truth is that behind the academic veneer of his new jargon in terms...
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Actually of you read the conclusion to the linked piece you see him reject “rupture” politics in favour of a combination of the other two.
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