New LookLeft – in the shops today

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Reports on student protests, Occupy Dame Street, turf wars in Kildare, AFA action against Nick Griffin, defending health services, the community fight against drugs, Occupy Wall Street, the sex industry, doctors in El Salvador, Ship to Gaza, turmoil in Egypt, the Greek Communist Party , Belfast’s Fresh Claim Café, WP Northern Ireland [...]

New LookLeft in shops now

LookLeft – in Easons countrywide and good independent book and newsagents
In this issue of LookLeft -
Can trade unions lead a fight back? Paul Dillon examines the strategic choices which face the trade union movement North and South —-
Health
LookLeft looks at how class defines health outcomes——
NAMA: So why was it created?
Nama plays no constructive economic role [...]

Going it alone

Kevin Brannigan meets former Progressive Unionist Party leader Dawn Purvis to find out what made her finally break with the UVF-connected party and why she believes it is important the Loyalist working class has its own voice.
It’s May 28 2010, and Dawn Purvis MLA, the new leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), is attending [...]

Never waste a crisis

Reactions to the current financial crisis have produced a number of initiatives and proposals that don’t necessarily arise from a desire to solve the problem, according to Brian McDermott.
Let’s go over this just one more time. The current financial debacle has been caused by the greed, selfishness, short-termism and fraudulent practices of banks and major [...]

Give my head politics

The ‘peace process’ starkly changed Northern Ireland’s media portrayal but Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin ask did these developments assist a depoliticisation that may leave people vulnerable to the renewed conservative onslaught.
Symbols in Northern Ireland have always been politically loaded. In December 2007, Northern Ireland’s newly elected First and Deputy First Ministers, Ian [...]

Which side are you on?

The last issue of LookLeft saw Labour Party Councillor Cian O’Callaghan outline his views, from his position on the left of Labour, on the then new coalition. John Jefferies (Cork WP) uses this issue’s forum to question the stance of those on the Labour left.
The last issue of LookLeft contained an article by Labour [...]

LookLeft in shops now

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

New LookLeft out now!

The new issue of LookLeft is in shops now – including all Easons outlets in the North of Ireland and Easons in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. Full list here
Articles include interviews with the newly-elected ULA TD Joan Collins, band The Vagabonds and Comedian & activist Mark Thomas.
‘White Noise, bleak hope’, Irish media crisis: [...]

The End of Fianna Fáil?

Historian Brian Hanley outlines how southern Ireland’s most successful political force has curtailed the development of functioning democratic politics but he sounds a word of caution to those who maybe premature in celebrating the party’s demise.

It is vital that the Free State be shaken at the next general election, for if an opportunity is given to it [...]

New LookLeft out now!

The new issue of LookLeft is in shops now – including all Easons outlets in Northern Ireland and Easons in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. Articles include – Free Education for Everyone: The student fightback – the End of Fianna Fail?:Brian Hanley – The Zapatistas 17 years of Rebellion: Andrew Flood – Northern Ireland needs [...]

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