Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 1st of May 2013 by WorldbyStorm
I don’t think you have. It’s absolute nonsense.
View ArticleComment on Backroom on abortion. by eamonncork
It is. I’m not sure about the SBP’s contention that pro-lifers ‘fervently’ regard abortion as murder. If they did this, they’d surely be campaigning to stop Irish women going to England for abortions....
View ArticleComment on Backroom on abortion. by irishelectionliterature
The Pro-Lifers campaigned against the right to Travel in 1992, but that was lost.
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz ……… Number 29 by irishelectionliterature
2. They were asking for a Yes vote. 8. correct but there were some more.
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to…My music that’s made it...
I see the appeal but I’ve never really got into them. It’s weird. Like they’re really good, but something holds me back.
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to…My music that’s made it...
There’s a bit of, ahem, depth to Katy Perry that I wouldn’t have anticipated. Beyond the blue/pink hair she’s actually quite interesting as an artist. Bieber and One Direction, less so. Bieber’s...
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to…My music that’s made it...
Yeah, Perry is okay. Bieber’s comment was incredibly dim. And some of his fans didn’t help matters any.
View ArticleComment on Austerity: Unintended consequence… by CL
Maybe this conservative split is a squabble over who are the real heirs to Thatcher: “They like their own lives, of course, and their own kind, but they imagine the rest of Britain is mainly an...
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by que
I appreciate that as a person who is not a ULA/SWP/SP person that maybe I am not the target market but I find it hard to understand why an article which really is about why little head way is being...
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by John Goodwillie
As another person who is not ULA/SWP/SP or even WUAG, I read the article as expounding a view that it was necessary for socialists to be where the working class is and not too far ahead of it; and that...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fáil and Abortion by rockroots
The emphasis does seem to have shifted under Martin, from trying to appeal to everyone, to trying not to offend anyone else. But at 25 % that seems to be a winning formula. It’s only really on social...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 1st of May 2013 by yourcousin
cmk, Curious as to why you don’t think we’ll hear much about/from the likes of Tamás? The issues he raises are interesting and quite frankly this interview is the first time I’ve seen the situation of...
View ArticleComment on Fianna Fáil and Abortion by hjfoley
Reblogged this on <a href="http://misebogland.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/fianna-fail-and-abortion/" rel="nofollow">misebogland</a>.
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by Mark P
Trotsky wrote an enormous amount, and at different times expressed opinions that straightforwardly contradicted earlier opinions. Much of what he argued was wrong at the time, and more of it is...
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by CL
The only discernable position on economics in Paddy Healy’s long piece above is that he is against austerity. This is not a defining left-wing position. There are now anti-austerians all across the...
View ArticleComment on My Political Position—–Paddy Healy by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
Paddy Healy’s searing indictment might, just might, be a little more convincing if he acknowledged that he was the leader of a Trotskyist group for 20 years and that that group, the League for a...
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