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 [...]

Delirium of the brave

Recently graduated from University College Cork Lily Murphy gives her view on the ‘Tiger Cub’ generation who are waking up to the disaster bequeathed on them by the Fianna Fail Tigers.
Being unemployed makes me think a lot, I think about what my next face book status should be, I think about how the dirt [...]

The culling of community development and the silencing of a social class

After years working for Kilbarrack community in north Dublin, Cathleen O’Neill realises there is a wider
poltical agenda at play in the elite’s attack on the community sector.
Like most women of my class at the time, I was an early school leaver. I started work at 13 using a doctored birth cert. I returned to school [...]

The Legacy of James Connolly

Guess who’s back?
Historian Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh considers the life and ideas of Irish socialism’s most important thinker, whose legacy is crucial to shaping the new Ireland:
This year marks the centenary of James Connolly coming back to Ireland from the US, the start of six hectic years of activity ended only by the firing squad. But [...]

LookLeft Winter 2010 issue in the shops NOW!

The selfish are currently in the ascendency, but if history has one constant lesson it is that change is
inevitable.

The Great Mortgage Swindle

A generation in the Republic has been left in hock to the banks by one of modern Ireland’s biggest cons. Conor McCabe explodes some of the myths that drove the property bubble.
There are those who will tell you that Irish people have a unique love-affair with property, that home-ownership is part of our DNA – [...]

Unemployment as a Policy

Rather than placing job creation to the fore, right-wing governments in London and Dublin are intent on pushing hundreds of thousands more people into the dole queues, reports Conor McCabe.
Northern Ireland is currently experiencing a ‘second wave’ in unemployment. The initial job losses in construction and manufacturing, and subsequent reductions in consumer spending, have had [...]

Slash and Burn Economics Must End

As the Tories plan a massive onslaught on Britain’s public expenditure the evidence mounts that indiscriminate cut backs only further damage the economy, but Europe’s ideological diehards will not listen, according to Aidan Regan.
The Spanish government introduced a massive austerity package on 27th May 2010 amounting to €15 billion, the deepest budget cuts in the [...]

Privatisation is Not the Solution

The Republic’s Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, recently announced the establishment of a Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities fronted by economist Colm McCarthy. It is claimed the Group will advise on “the proper stewardship of state assets and on opportunities for the better use of those assets.” However, Jim Stewart believes it to [...]

A Fresh Start for the Roma Community in Ireland?

Paul Dillon writes that education and representation must be the starting point for integration of the Roma community. 
Anita Elena is a Romanian woman, who has lived, worked and studied in Ireland for 7 years. As part of her postgraduate work in Trinity College Dublin, she is conducting research on the life experiences of the 3,000 [...]

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