Nearly half of the population would struggle to pay an unexpected bill of €1,000 in the next twelve months, according to a new Eurobarometer study. Forty-five per cent of Irish respondents to the Europe-wide survey…
Monthly Archives For October 2009
The Future of the Irish Left: Video from the 2009 Peadar O’Donnell Weekend in Dungloe
The 9th Peadar O Donnell Weekend took place from the 16th – 18th October. On the Sunday morning there was an excellent debate on the future of the Left in Ireland. Below are a series…
The Rise and Rise of the Irish Left
Let’s think happy thoughts for a brief while because much else is… well, less than happy. So, here’s something that cheered me up at least a bit and it’s a point that is rarely touched…
Irish Workers Group (1976) / Class Struggle
[Not to be confused with the 1960s Irish Workers Group.] [19 November 2009. Jim Larragy, formerly of the Irish Workers’ Group, has made some important clarifications/corrections to this article. Please see the comments below.] The…
The Many-Legged Irish Recession: The Recession Diaries – October 28th
Professor Terry McDonough made an interesting point at the recent TASC conference when he pointed out, using the US experience during the Great Depression, that a statistical end to economic decline doesn’t mean an end…
When the Sun Dance in the Sky, It is Mean False Pope Must Die
The Sun Have Got His Legs On There have been great escitement in Holy Pissing Ireland over the past couple of week all because the Sun have been dancing in the sky as was predict…
Arthur Scargill, Matt Merrigan Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, 27 October 2009
Below is a short video file, with the full audio file underneath, of Arthur Scargill’s talk on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Arthur gave insight on the background to the…
Arthur Scargill talk: 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin,Tuesday, October 27, 2009
To mark the 25th anniversary of the miner’s strike Arthur Scargill is speaking in the UNITE Hall, in the UNITE Union Office at 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin this Tuesday, October 27th at 8pm to…
Our Battle at Boots: The Recession Diaries – October 23rd
Sometimes, something happens that takes your breath away. The chain store Boots is engaged in a deplorable assault on their employees’ wages and working conditions – employees who are some of the lowest paid in…
The NTMA’s New Pitch: The Recession Diaries – October 21st
Such is the success of the National Treasury Management Agency, it has created a new economic and fiscal pitch for us – one that progressives should now seriously consider playing on. I won’t go over…
No Platforms for Fetishists!
Si! Is One-Eyed British Warmongrel Nick Griffin Looking Already Like Prime Minister Material I am being all very entertained this week by the amusing kerfuffle taking place in “Great” Britain where the liberal atheist communists…
The Market and High Incomes
I think – but would be happy to be corrected – that one of the weaknesses with the Left is a shortage of ambitious and feasible policy ideas to change a key source of inequality…
District 9: Is it an Allegory or an Action Movie?
Director Neil Blomkamp constructs a sci-fi allegory to explore the violence, cruelty and exploitation of South African segregation and poverty, apartheid and after. The result, however, is an awkward collage of documentary, body-horror, corporate exposé,…
The Decline of Militant Irish Republicanism
Ideologies are not issued self-developed and completed into the aether of the idea rather they are generated by the development of specific historic processes in the real world. Ideas are not primary but secondary reflections…
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe