DUBLIN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS SAYS : VOTE LEFT
DUBLIN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
The present economic crisis having its roots in international capitalist contradictions was accentuated by decisions taken by the Fianna Fail government serving the interests of bankers, speculators, and developers. The Fianna Fail solution to solve this crisis was by imposing austerity measures on social welfare recipients, low and middle income earners. These measures must be vigorously resisted and reversed.
The four year Fianna Fail plan approved by the IMF/ EU and supported in broad terms by Fine Gael promises more austerity. This policy will solve nothing. This agreement must be renegotiated with the minimum demand to uncouple the bank debt. Read the rest of this entry »
Declan Bree, ex Sligo-Leitrim TD, Joins United Left Alliance
Maman Poulet Reports :
http://www.mamanpoulet.com/declan-bree-to-join-united-left-alliance/
Good News
And More Here :
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0213/breaking12.html
Richard Boyd-Barrett Talks About His Biological Mother Sinéad Cusack
Congratulations to Richard for doing this interview :
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/interview-with-richard-boyd-barrett/
talking openly about his biological mother Sinéad Cusack, and how adoption worked in the 1960’s when the Catholic Church exercised near-dictatorial social control.
Another life touched by the hypocrite Father Michael Cleary :
“Richard’s brother, Douglas Boyd Barrett, was one of the two sons Fr Michael Cleary fathered with his housekeeper Phyllis Hamilton”
Richard’s support for a pro-choice abortion policy and the decriminalisation of drugs is very welcome.
Opinion Polls – All Saying the Same Thing?
Reading this article is refreshing –
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/ah-these-polls-you-bring-us-surprisingly-consistent/
if you check out various articles on the political reform.ie site – for example :
You will see that most analysts who have studied statistics agree that the variation in reliable polls is within the margin of error.
Hindsight usually brings us close to perfection, we get the benefit of 20-20 vision.
Death of the Sunday Tribune
Ed Moloney has written a very good obituary of the Sunday Tribune :
http://thebrokenelbow.com/2011/02/08/the-death-of-a-newspaper/
For many years it has been an excellent independent news-source on six-county issues, way ahead of the establishment media which has lived by an old discredited motto “we must say or do nothing which….damages the peace process”.
This followed naturally from its parent “we must say or do nothing which helps the Provisional IRA” ; a policy which got its supreme moment when Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave made a state-wide TV and Radio live broadcast hours after loyalist bombs had killed over 30 civilians in Dublin and Monaghan car-bombings in May 1974. The Fine Gael leader denounced the IRA – no wonder the police investigation failed miserably!
One of the few sane voices those days was the radical North Munster workers’ magazine the Bottom Dog, which featured Mr Cosgrave on its cover, shortly before his discredited government left office after a humiliating general election defeat :
Let us draw inspiration from these sources, as a Fine Gael / Labour government looms after February 25, likely to be headed by Mr Cosgrave’s spiritual son, Enda Kenny.
Make a Bonfire of Irish Banking Vanities
The magazine Vanity Fair has published a sensational article “When Irish Eyes are Crying” –
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103?currentPage=1
It caught the attention of the Guardian Correspondent Lisa O’Carroll who observes :
“Any Irish reader who wants to save being offended can skip the last quarter of the article which leaves an impression that the Ireland is a land of fairies, potato farmers and rural unsophisticates.
But the article is well worth reading. It packages the drama of the last two years and particularly last November brilliantly.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2011/feb/02/ireland-merrill-lynch-research-note-irish-banks?INTCMP=SRCH Read the rest of this entry »
Table Quiz, Support Joan Collins United Left Alliance, Dublin South-Central
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Thursday February 10, 8.30pm, in the Teachers’ Club,
36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
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Joan Collins, a Dublin City Councillor, is running for a Dáil Seat in the Constituency of Dublin South-Central. The General Election is coming soon – on Friday February 25.
Joan is a People Before Profit Candidate, part of the United Left Alliance (ULA), which is tipped to win six or more seats in the new Dáil.
http://politicalreform.ie/2011/02/01/irish-independent-poll-2nd-february-2011/
Joan hit the media headlines by interrupting an RTÉ interview with former Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil Leader Bertie Ahern about his last days in Leinster House, headquarters of Dáil Éireann, the Irish Parliament.
http://www.youtube.com/PeopleBeforeProfitTV#p/u/9/uAL2OPGg-ak Read the rest of this entry »
They Make a Desert and They Call it Peace
Andy Storey says we can learn a lot from engaging with “some mainstream (or even right-wing analyses” of the Irish and European Debt Crisis :
Also Published Here :
http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/01/31/desert-call-peace/
Tomás Ó Flatharta 