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This is a difficult time to be involved in organisations that seek a more equal, environmentally sustainable and participative society. Poverty, unemployment and emigration are increasing. Key public services and welfare provisions are being diminished. Funding for ‘civil society’ is being cut with organisations closing or reducing their work. The political system is increasingly unresponsive […]
By Harry Browne As much by luck as by design, I have found myself in recent months spending some days in two of the world’s great conurbations, Chicago, Illinois, and Naples, Italy. It occurred to me that the cities had something in common other than my visits, and even beyond the great food and largely, […]
Interview: Seán Barrett: Still telling it straight. By Derek Owens Fine Gael’s trusty Sean Barrett, spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, with 37 years in electoral politics, champions the market and the European project. “You cannot make commitments like that to anybody… Governments don’t create jobs”, insisted Sean Barrett. He looked evenly at the studio audience (and […]
Post-War consumerism and licentious liberalism are senseless. by Desmond Fennell “There were whispered arguments between our parents while we watched TV—arguments about changing the rules, we gathered, that applied to all of us, the dads and moms as well as the kids…” Naomi Wolf in Promiscuities (1997) on San Francisco in 1970. During the last […]
Agenda for reform: a rightist programme. The events of recent months have clearly shown that current policies only serve to maintain the status quo. This is the sole and unavoidable conclusion currently being reached by all independent analysts and commentators, whatever their ideology. It is a non-partisan concern that informs the rising tide of discontent […]
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Ireland should abandon the Euro which was established for political not economic reasons and so has not worked Anthony Coughlan The political purpose of establishing the Eurozone was to reconcile France to German reunification following the USSR’s collapse. This political agenda used economic means that most economists who were not EU-ideologues regarded as quite unsuitable […]
End division of Dáil representatives on the real left, from grass-roots campaigners Richard Boyd Barrett Fianna Fáil and the Greens face electoral disaster at the next general election. Fianna Fáil promoted the greed of bankers, developers and the super-wealthy, which has brought the economy to its knees. They championed the neo-liberal economic madness of ‘light […]