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WorldbyStorm - 08:18 Thu Mar 06, 2025 There’s a lot to this piece by Ash Sarkar in the Guardian about how the left keeps getting identity politics wrong, and how the right is benefitting that. She gives a compelling example at the top of the piece: There are many things to be grateful to the musician Sam Fender for: reviving socially conscious […]
WorldbyStorm - 10:59 Wed Mar 05, 2025 Depressing report on propublica which notes that the heightened rhetoric around federal workers is impacting on them yet further after massive rounds of firings: A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees Friday to ?use discretion? in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers ? part of an effort, the agency […]
guestposter - 10:00 Wed Mar 05, 2025 Watching the Taoiseach at Leader?s Questions yesterday there he was dealing with the opposition/government speaking time controversy with two arguments. Firstly he mounted attacks on opposition leaders not being available for meetings they?d sought. This is a troubling line from him, he tried this with Cian O?Callaghan a few weeks back suggesting that in government […]
guestposter - 09:06 Wed Mar 05, 2025 The March issue of Socialist Voice can be found here. Content: Women, Capitalism, and Class: Women are forced to carry an unequal burden by Laura Duggan Indisputably, the exploitation of women under capitalism is deeply rooted in the class structure of society and the economic system itself, and even a rudimentary class analysis quickly reveals how capitalism […]
guestposter - 07:03 Wed Mar 05, 2025 As always, following on Dr. X?s suggestion, it?s all yours, ?announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose?, feel free.
WorldbyStorm - 10:15 Tue Mar 04, 2025 A number of columnists in various news media decided this weekend was the time to put out a very similar line. We saw Eoin O’Malley in the Sunday Independent argue that ‘Democracy wasn’t in danger’. In the same paper a former Senator came out with much the same: “Irish democracy is not under threat”. Imagine the […]
WorldbyStorm - 09:50 Tue Mar 04, 2025 As publicised widely this last few weeks, the government is keen to abandon the triple-lock mechanism. Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs has said changes to the ‘triple lock’ will cause “significant risk” to Irish neutrality. The triple lock guarantees that no more than 12 Irish soldiers can be sent into battle zones without the […]
guestposter - 06:59 Tue Mar 04, 2025 Look who?s back! That’s right, the irrepressible . . . Peter Casey has confirmed his intention to run in this year?s presidential election, saying he would make use of ?rarely used? powers such as pardons and refusing to dissolve the Dáil early for snap elections. The Donegal businessman and former Dragons? Den panellist finished in […]
irishonlineleftarchive - 10:55 Mon Mar 03, 2025 Looking through the Archive there’s still, despite it being around for the best part of two decades (2008 to now), a number of documents that would be good to have. For example there’s no copy of the United Irishman from 1970 in the Archive, though we have plenty of copies from the years ahead and […]
WorldbyStorm - 10:02 Mon Mar 03, 2025 So, another week another poll. This from Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks. Headline figures? Fianna Fáil 22 -2 Fine Gael 22 +2 Sinn Fein 21 -1 Social Democrats 7 NC Labour 4 NC Aontú 4 -1 Independent Ireland 5 +1 Green Party 2 -1 PBP-SOL 2 NC Others/Independents 11 +2 All pretty minimal movements. I guess one […] |
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