Comment on 9: Jack “Adh Mór” Kelly: Political Background by peadar
“”"YouTube has a short clip of a him speaking in French in July 1971 at an Anti-Imperialist Festival organised by Official Sinn Féin in Dublin’s Mansion House. (This was before he grew a ‘tash and...
View ArticleComment on Apologies… and before and after… by Joe
WBS says: “But it is interesting how little was actually done.” I would suggest the reason so little was done is that the govt down here was concentrating on governing that big bit of the island that...
View ArticleComment on 9: Jack “Adh Mór” Kelly: Political Background by Joe
Just to be clear, the video we are looking for is of Eoghan Harris addressing the meeting in French. And just to add my tuppence worth of gossip, I heard that Harris got a severe reprimand from the...
View ArticleComment on WP Easter Oration 2013 by EAMONN WALSH FORMER TD AND COUNCILLOR...
THE WORD SOCIALIST IS COMMON PLACE THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND MOST PEOPLE IN EUROPE HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN VOTING SOCIALIST. POLITICS IN IRELAND IS CONFUSING FOR IRISH PEOPLE AND MUST BE BEWILDERING TO OUR...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… London MCs & the police...
Upon returning to the starting line, the first player must pass the sugar cube to the next teammate in line and so on. Unfortunately for me as an addict, I need my crime fix. Now, one of my co-workers...
View ArticleComment on 9: Jack “Adh Mór” Kelly: Political Background by eamonncork
Fair play JFC. Classic.
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by Liam Cullinane
I like how it decided I was an emergent service worker without asking me if I worked in the service sector. Also, the main thing about the poll is the fact that it is extremely revealing of how utterly...
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by WorldbyStorm
Best of luck with that Neil.
View ArticleComment on A basic argument for equality in education and health in the Irish...
There’s that too, without question.
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by ECL
As I noted in Autumn in Tiblisi Stalin stated: As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of class, must be united....
View ArticleComment on Vote “NO” to Croke Park 2. Defend Education. Defend Public...
Ireland isn’t paying 13 billion a year to pay public sector salaries and government services. It’s borrowing that money to pay the almost 10 billion euro interest bail attendant on bailing out the...
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by neilcaff
Unfortunately they pulled the discussion. Oh well.
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by sonofstan
Vaguely relevant – or maybe not – but re comment above about income supplement being the biggest item in the UK SW budget: the IMF review issued today calculated that if you add the ‘involuntary...
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by Rydon
What a load of tosh and promoted by the BBC. Labelling people is as useful as it was when ‘class ‘ was used to restrict and 50 years later we’re still looking at surveys still advocating it! We need to...
View ArticleComment on That Great British class calculator by doctorfive
IMF looking increasingly to the left of the Labour Party as time goes on but smells a lot like good cop-bad cop in the Troika tbh. IMF are the old hand to our European wing after all. Yesterday’s...
View ArticleComment on After the SWP (UK)… by doctorfive
The revolutionary parties are often the worst culprits of pseudo keynesian rhetoric though.
View ArticleComment on After the SWP (UK)… by que
I am tempted to point to a person like Adh Mor who was self educated yet an incisive analyst available to many a faction. Who is this generation’s Adh Mor? On economic policy I have a suspicion and am...
View ArticleComment on After the SWP (UK)… by RosencrantzisDead
That’s really interesting, SoS. I suppose the SWP might, as a revolutionary socialist party, be generally resistant to the idea of formulating economic policy. It is still rather disappointing that so...
View ArticleComment on After the SWP (UK)… by Mark P
The British SWP does not pay its fulltimers the sort of money that would allow them to maintain a staff of highly trained specialists. Neither do any other small left groups. The British Militant had...
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