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Stop the Presses! Cutting Public Sector Employment Actually Increases the Debt 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Well, well, well. You know that policy of reducing the number of public sector employees? Nurses, Gardai, civil servants, local authority workers? The Government trumpets the success of this down...
Unfinished Business 1913 Podcast #6: Irish Trade Unionism Today 27 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
The final 1913 Unfinished Business podcast in this series - which aired on NEARfm last week - is now available to stream and download. Available here and below. It will be available on our bandcamp,...
Report: Unmasking Austerity: Lessons for Australia, on the disastrous economic and social effects of austerity in Europe and North America 20 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
UNMASKING AUSTERITY: Lessons for Australia, by Dexter Whitfield This new report, Unmasking Austerity: Lessons for Australia, documents why austerity failed and its disastrous economic and social effe...
The First Marxist 19 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Book Review: Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life, Jonathan Sperber (Norton, 2013) It seems like good news when a new book about Marx is not a hatchet job, is widely reviewed (though not, of course, ...
Big Bust Bank Poem 19 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Big Bust Bank Poem fff I’d just finished my 7 Mins of poetry at the Irish embassy in London, my poems and cursing delighted and shocked the crowd. ffff He came over: handmade suit, free glass ...
A Bridge for Rosie: Public Meeting @ 6.30, 20th Aug, Liberty Hall, Dublin 19 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
A Bridge for Rosie: What’s all this racket about Rosie Hackett? Date: Tuesday 20th August 2013 Time: 6.30pm Location: The Connolly Hall, in Liberty Hall, Dublin Speakers: Tara Flynn, c...
Sponsor This Poem Or I’ll Kick Your Head In 31 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
I won’t name the entity that’s colonising creativity except to say that it has been turfed off the sportsfield for low tackles and foul behaviour already, you will find it in a million spewed up bu...
A Bridge for Rosie 29 Jul 2013 | 02:35 pm
An article on Rosie Hackett and the naming of the Marlborough street bridge by Angelina Cox, Jeni Gartland, & Lisa Connell. The bridges arching over the sleepy river Liffey project the memories of ch...
To the Crucible II: A Further Irish Engagement with the Greek Crisis and the Greek Left 29 Jul 2013 | 02:03 pm
This is a sequel to To the crucible: An Irish Engagement with the Greek Crisis and the Greek Left published on the 21st of January, 2013. The Dominant Narrative “Things have gone very quiet in Greec...
Hold Your Breath – We’ll be Underwater for a Very Long Time 26 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
Kevin O’Rourke links to an interesting paper by Jeff Frankel which discusses different ways recessions are measured. The standard European measurement says that when an economy falls two quarters in ...
