Not necessarily among the best of the web for its insight or fresh analysis, but simply because of who it is that has broken ranks on the austerity consensus. Greek commissioner defies EU model of…
Monthly Archives For February 2011
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
One figure that is often ignored amongst the debt, interest rates and job losses may be the one that shows the biggest waste of the boom years and it may have the greatest impact on…
Workers at Gama get go-ahead for €40m claim
Workers at Gama get go-ahead for €40m claim With the election of Joe Higgins and Clare Daly to the 31st Dail, the Socialist Party, and the United Left Alliance with 5 seats, have many reasons…
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…
TASC Submission to the Independent Review of ERO and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms
TASC has made a very interesting submission to the Independent Review of ERO and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms, which provides “independent external economic and labour market evidence in support of the need for wage floors”….
New Statesman | Corporation tax rates around the world
New Statesman | Corporation tax rates around the world Ireland retains its much-cherished 12.5 per cent rate (the lowest in the OECD), but the Franco-German bid to abolish "distorting" rates means this may not be…
BallotBox.ie
BallotBox.ie If you’re an Irish person living outside Ireland – have your say in the General Election here Irish law prevents you from voting in the General Election – unlike almost any other EU country,…
Election Daze
Okay, it’s finally here. So let’s talk briefly about outcomes. The issue of coalition is problematic. It’s true that if, for example, the Labour Party went into government with Fine Gael then that might ameliorate…
Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking | Peter Hallward
Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking | Peter Hallward Is it too early to hope? Peter Hallward who spoke in Wood Quay, Dublin recently provides an inspiring piece of political optimism for…
Who Needs International Rescue?!
Is End O’Kenny. Our Very Own Tracey Ireland!! Do you remember growing up the very amazing clever animated television program show The Thrunderbirds Are Go!? No. Me neither. I am too old. In Spain, when…
D is for Deliberate: the IMF and the uses of stupidity
This article was originally published on CrisisJam. The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently reviewed the Fund’s performance between 2004 and 2007 and concluded that, far from spotting the…
WSF Dakar: the revival of alter-globalisation?
Original article by Dany Stive was published on the 12th of Feb in l’Humanité. Translated by David Lundy. The 11th annual World Social Forum (WSF), held in Dakar, has just closed its doors. Buoyed by…
Fine Gael – The Videogame
I have been playing Fine Gael’s videogame entitled ‘Go Ireland – The Videogame‘, and I think that we can glean an awful lot about the party from it. Let me, really briefly, explain some of…
Make Their Mark: Equality & Rights Alliance Poll of the Party Manifestos
How will the political parties Make Their Mark for the Equality and Human Rights Infrastructure? Here is ERA’s poll of the manifestos. A more in-depth analysis is available here (PDF). Only three of the five…
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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