The EU’s “silent revolution”

Paul Murphy, Socialist Party Dublin MEP
What European Commission President Barroso has described as a “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union. A further diminution of democracy is being pushed through in order to facilitate the imposition of a permanent economic shock doctrine. Cutbacks, privatisation and downward pressure on wages will be institutionalised through the [...]

The Real Economy: The elephant off our coast

The southern state’s natural resources were systematically handed over to foreign multi-national corporations by a Fianna Fáil regime mired in corruption but the political class has no appetite to right this wrong writes Stewart Reddin.
The so called ‘’democratic revolution’’ as Enda Kenny described the outcome of the recent southern general election, has simply reaffirmed politics [...]

LookLeft in shops now

Interviews with Sean Garland, Bob Crow, the Galway Utd story and much more…

Citizens in the cradle

Mary Diskin outlines the case for wider state intervention in order to break a cycle of educational underachievement that has entrapped some working class communities.
The recent publication of ‘Educational disadvantage and the Protestant working class: A Call to Action’ is a much broader assessment of how poverty and inequality impact on educational achievement than its [...]

The toll road double tax scam

Hard pressed commuters are being forced to provide profits twice over to private companies when simply travelling to work writes Alan Myler.
While mortgage concerns continue to dominate the household budgets of many families, hard pressed workers in the commuter belts are equally concerned with the rising costs of transport. Many workers, who moved to Meath’s [...]

Banking on the illogical

The EU’s policies to overcome the Europe wide banking crisis seem beyond the understanding of all but the self-appointed economic elite. That is because, as Conor McCabe explains, they actually do not make sense.
It is often said that a definition of insanity is to do the same action over and over again, each time expecting [...]

The people’s champion

United Left Alliance TD Joan Collins chats about electoral success and the future with Kevin Brannigan.
It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon; Joan Collins TD is sipping coffee on Dublin’s middle Abbey Street. A constituent stops and congratulates her on election success joyously recounting how he dealt with the Fianna Failers who darkened his door during the [...]