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WorldbyStorm - 14:45 Thu May 23, 2013 POLITICAL STATEMENT 18 May 2012 At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland evaluated the present political and economic situation in the country, north and south. What is most clear is that the crisis of the system is deepening: the contradictions are deepening and spreading as the ruling elite […]  A
WorldbyStorm - 13:42 Thu May 23, 2013 16th May The current May issue of Socialist Voice can now be viewed online. From the front page article: Austerity is working, on many levels. It is the main vehicle for the transfer of wealth upwards from working people to the wealthy; it justifies the growing assault on workers? rights and the wholesale privatisation of […]  A
WorldbyStorm - 08:23 Thu May 23, 2013 …or so one would think to read about the so-called ‘reprisals’ by EDL members in Woolwich last night – after the grim events of the day – which involved running street-battles with police and a suspected attack on a mosque. As someone noted on twitter what can it be like to be an actual person […]  A
WorldbyStorm - 07:58 Thu May 23, 2013 I?ve meant to write about a piece in the Phoenix from a few weeks back for a while now. It?s an useful overview of Fianna Fáil?s shifting profile in the last year and what that may imply for future political activity in the state. The Phoenix argues that: FF has gradually moved to the left […]  A
irishelectionliterature - 19:54 Wed May 22, 2013 The Student History Ireland project has some wonderful sets of photos and documents up on Flickr The most recent addition is a selection of old Student Union Manifestos… including Brendan Doris, Joe Duffy and Mark Little which is well worth a look.  A
WorldbyStorm - 19:24 Wed May 22, 2013 ? exemplified in the calls by Apple CEO Tim Cook that? …[the US government] cut a deal with multinationals to encourage them to bring back, or repatriate, the billions of dollars kept offshore to avoid tax. Cook said he had no plan to bring back the $102bn built up by Apple at current tax rates, […]  A
WorldbyStorm - 13:01 Wed May 22, 2013 This is well worth a read. I like the format, looking back across the 30 years of the Phoenix and engaging with those years in various different ways. Highly entertaining are a number of individual pen portraits of figures like Haughey, Harney, FitzGerald (a man, who as the Phoenix says, was far from the image […]  A
WorldbyStorm - 07:54 Wed May 22, 2013 As always, following on Dr. X?s suggestion, it?s all yours, ?announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose?, feel free.  A |
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