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Some reflections on a demonstration (and by extension, the Irish left) 5 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
James O’Toole of the Socialist Workers Party address a ‘Jail the Anglo Bankers’ rally in Dublin. Photo Credit: Paul Reynolds/Rabble Note: This is a post I published on Facebook earlier this evening. ...
Audio: Jodi Dean – The limits of the web in an age of communicative capitalism 3 Jul 2013 | 03:40 am
In association with the Left Forum, Jodi Dean gave a talk on what she terms “communicative capitalism” and the Communist horizon in Connolly Books on Friday 28th June 2013.. Download the MP3 here (au...
RTE: Contextless and vacuous 27 Feb 2013 | 01:12 am
Today, RTE News online ran a story about Palestine, headlined ‘Rocket fired from Gaza explodes in southern Israel’. This in itself would be a perfectly factual way to frame the story if, for example, ...
Why is Ynet News using an image from just before the Breivik massacre to illustrate an anti-EU piece? 11 Jul 2012 | 01:16 am
Well now, this is kind of interesting. The rightwing Israeli English-language news service Ynet News has just published a rant against the EU, headlined ‘Europe united against Israel‘. Reading it, one...
Israeli Deputy Ambassador/Culture Officer in Dublin advocates intimidation and smearing human rights activists; suggests humiliating them by associati... 13 Jun 2012 | 06:37 pm
In an exposé by Israel’s Channel 10 News, it has been revealed that Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Ireland, Nurit Tinari-Modai, advocates a campaign of intimidation, smears and falsification against Is...
Audio: 21st Century Republicanism (McKearney, Leeson, Ó Broin & Redmond) 16 Apr 2012 | 12:50 pm
L-R: Tommy McKearney, Eoin Ó Broin, Mary Cullen, Brian Leeson & Tom Redmond On Saturday 14th April 2012, a very interesting meeting took place upstairs in Connolly Books, Dublin. The meeting, entitle...
Audio: Haiti’s history and present day occupation – a talk by Elsie Hass 2 Mar 2012 | 09:01 am
Elsie Haas speaking in Dublin Elsie Haas, a Haitian journalist and former editor of the Haiti Tribune, spoke in Dublin’s Pearse Centre on Tuesday 28th February 2012 at an event commemorating the 8th ...
Anti-Household Tax march in Newbridge 26 Feb 2012 | 01:26 pm
On Saturday there was a large (for Newbridge!) march against the government’s new household tax that will attempt to further wrest more money from ordinary people to throw down the banking black hole ...
Audio: Discussion with ISM founders Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro 25 Feb 2012 | 11:30 am
Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf, two of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign has posted the audio I recorded of last night’s discussion...
Demons, ghosts, warriors and superheroes: Irish comics today 23 Feb 2012 | 01:36 pm
Demons, ghosts, warriors and superheroes: Irish comics today LookLeft #9, December 2011 Growing interest in recent years has seen a burst of activity in the home-grown Irish comic/graphic novel scen...
