Back in 2007 I wrote an article for An Phoblacht about a debate within Sinn Fein on taking a position on coalition with Fianna Fail. I ventured a view that having upwards of 20 TDs…
Posts By Vincent Wood
Austerity To Crush The Labour Movement
The crisis that has brought us to the dire economic situation we face today is not one caused by a few rogue bankers or reckless policy decisions made by successive Finance Ministers. The Elephant in…
Leading With The Chin
The progressive political parties represented in the Dáil, Assembly and Council chambers around the country have been slow to understand the potential opened up by the Occupy movement. During the recent Presidential election, with all…
Time to Change Tack
With the election of Michael D Higgins to the Presidency and with another TD by virtue of the Dublin West election, the Irish Labour Party has been given a lift from their slippage in recent…
Occupied by the Arts
Progressive people are delighted by the blossoming of the Occupy…phenomenon. Many of us are not quite sure where it all came from so quickly and heaven knows where it is all going on to, but one…
Otherwise Occupied
It appears that progressive political parties are holding back from overt support for the Occupy protests around the world in general and Ireland in particular. Perhaps it is because they see the occupiers lacking in…
New Thinking
With public opinion being informed by the presidential contest in seems that there is some movement in support for progressive politics. With Fine Gael able to go it alone in government, there remains an opportunity for…
Maybe It’s Because – Concluding Chapter
This is the conclusion of Maybe It’s Because, Vincent’s autobiography which has yet to find a publisher. Vincent wanted to make it available online so people could read it, share and let him know what they…
Rioting!
I have just come back from three weeks in England, most of which spent in London. I watched events unfold and how the media covered it all from the initial understanding of the Police shooting…
Don’t (Just) Shoot the Messager
Remember the banking crisis? You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions. Er, not really. Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change…
We Still Need to Shift the Paradigm
I am coming to the conclusion that even the most progressive of political parties are stalling. I know that there are very sound people working away at policy positions and that the left still manage…
A (friendly) challenge to progressive economists
What if an easily accessible paper was drawn up illustrating the following: What may have been earned for the people if the banks were nationalised when there were profitable What effective and efficient public utilities…
A Progressive Oppostion
It looks likely that there will be 14 Sinn Féin and up to 10 progressive left deputies in the incoming Dáil. These 24 progressive left representatives need to eclipse Fianna Fail as the opposition to…
Tough Negotiators
As opinion polls keep rolling in and showing either a FG/Labour coalition of a majority FG government, perhaps its time to turn some attention to what is likely to happen in the few months after…
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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