A Conference entitled ‘New Political Possibilities in Ireland for all Left-Wing Parties in Partnership with Civil Society‘ will be held on Monday January 31st in the Davenport Hotel, Dublin. The conference will give TDs and…
Monthly Archives For December 2010
Films of the Year 2010
It wasn’t the greatest of years for cinema, to be honest, and it’s hard to figure why, unless the planets pulled sufficiently at once to put filmmakers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo to Rome sufficiently…
Enough is Enough
Enough is Enough My ghost stepped in from the fog to the theatre, it fished out my tenner, was duly admitted to the warm innards, and in there it found that when furious people already…
The Beast Is Among Us (Again!!)
Is Julian Donkey-Boy. Everything About Him Is Scream “Antichrist”!!!! The always-reliable Bible (New Testament) is tell us that when the Antichrist is come to Earth, everything about him will make people think that he is…
The Emerging Progressive Consensus
The following is a speech I delivered at a public meeting in Dublin hosted by the Communist Party. The fundamental division in the economic debate is between those who support austerity and those who support…
December Edition of the Socialist Voice Now Available
The December edition of the Socialist Voice is now available. The articles in this edition are: * Break the connection with the euro! [EMC] * The budget delivered as ordered * Have faith in the…
Fintan O’Toole’s Own Cultural Revolution
Book Review: Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic, Fintan O’Toole, Faber, £12.99 Suppose you were swept to power on the back of a massive popular vote – say something like 80%, the…
Refoundation
Refoundation Shine light on the edge of the square and there a clutch of the creatures brass necks and ostrich eyes guffaw grins and slapped sore thighs walk without waking through the lanes the baton…
Stalking the Monsters
I was never a fan of social partnership. It was based on a flawed economic premise – limiting wage increases in return for income tax cuts; it was hardly a partnership (employers had the legal…
You, Me, Everybody
In the weeks leading up to the budget, as the IMF were descending upon us to ‘talk’ and the plans were being laid out to widen the gap between rich and poor, a billboard campaign…
After Lisbon: A Report on the No to War – No to NATO Lisbon Counter-Summit
The international network No to War – No to NATO was founded in Stuttgart in October 2008. More than 650 organizations from over 30 countries signed the establishing call, the “Stuttgart Appeal”. Our network conducted international…
RIPENING OF TIME, ISSUE THREE, 1976: THE STATE OF IRELAND, PT.1
Of the Cosgrave administration [1923-1932], D.R. O’Connor Lysaght has written: “Irish credit remained dependent on British. Irish credit had to be backed by British credit. Irish currency remained a prettier form of British currency. Irish…
‘Embedded’ with the police, Channel 4 and the UK student protests
I thought it would be worthwhile drawing attention to a blog entry relating to the recent student protests in the UK by a senior journalist in a mainstream news outlet in order to highlight prevailing…
The IMF (And the EU) In Ireland: Denying Democracy, Defending the Rich
This is an extract from a just published paper prepared for Action from Ireland (Afri), December 2010. Click the link to access the full paper (PDF): The IMF and Ireland: What We Can Learn From…
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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