Government exposed with U-turn on burning bondholders
In June the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, was in Washington DC and held talks there with the International Monetary Fund and with the
Mortgage crisis: Government has no solution!
Right now in Ireland one in eight mortgages are in trouble. This represents 95,158 households which are in arrears or have already had their
America’s Strange Fruit: The Execution of Troy Davis
In 1939, Billie Holiday sang of blacks hanging from trees in the protest classic “Strange Fruit.” Since then, the means of racist execution have
Karl Marx – the relevance of his ideas today
“So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalisation, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth distribution of
Euro crisis – democracy diminished to facilitate austerity
In scrambling to avoid a break-up of the eurozone, the approach of the elites in Europe has been characterised by two common themes –
Dail returns – prepare for battle
‘We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men/Leaning together/Headpieces filled with straw.’ So opens the famous poem by TS Eliot and closes with
Libya: Imperialists salivate at the spoils of war
The tremendous revolutionary uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, represent the clearest indication, along with the great recession in the world economy,
Blanchardstown Hospital: Staff and community must act to save A&E
The HSE has cut the funding of Connolly Hospital from €104 million in 2009 to €84 million in 2011 – a massive 20% in