New LookLeft out now!
May 19, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
Ireland’s leading magazine for progressive news, views and solutions – available in Easons stores and selected newsagents across the country – 48 pages for just €2/£1.50
In the new issue of LookLeft:
Features
Rising tide against austerity: Working people and the Fine Gael/Labour Government are on a collision course over the property tax and attempts to cut public [...]
New LookLeft out now! In shops countrywide!
March 10, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
Ireland’s leading magazine for progressive news, views and solutions – available in Easons stores and selected newsagents across the country – 48 pages for just €2/£1.50
Find out where to get your copy.
In the latest issue of LookLeft:
THE 1913 LOCKOUT
1913 It’s importance then and now – historian BRIAN HANLEY discusses the events of 1913 and what [...]
LookLeft Forum – Erik Olin Wright on Realising a Left Alternative
March 6, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
Distinguished Marxist scholar Erik Olin Wright spoke to the LookLeft Forum on 2nd March on the topic of ‘Realising a Left Alternative’. Erik spoke on three different ideas of how social change will be achieved: the ruptural (revelutionary), interstitial (cooperative) and symbiotic (social democratic) approaches. He outlined his own approach which combines the symbiotic and [...]
Grotesque pension payments to former Ministers must end
January 23, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
Legalisation must be introduced to curtail the massive pension payments being made to former Government Ministers – estimated to be costing the Republic nearly €9 million a year – Francis Donohoe reports
Taxpayers’ money is being paid out in pensions to approximately 100 former Ministers, many of whom have lucrative new jobs and positions despite their [...]
Turning back the clock on housing
January 10, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Northern Ireland Executive seems intent on allowing profiteers to once more take control of housing provision, with citizens set to lose out, reports Justin O’Hagan.
Throughout Northern Ireland in the 1960s many thousands of people were living in cramped and squalid conditions in Edwardian or Victorian houses, many of which were unfit for habitation. This [...]
