| All Articles |
| Articles By Author |
| Articles By Magazine |
| Articles By Subject |
| Full Text Search |
| Aubane Historical Society |
| The Heresiarch Website |
| Athol Books Online Sales |
| Athol Books Home Page |
| Archive Of Articles From Church & State |
| Archive Of Editorials From Church & State |
| Archive Of Articles From Irish Political Review |
| Archive Of Editorials From Irish Political Review |
| Belfast Historical & Educational Society |
| Athol Books Secure Online Sales |
| Irish Writer Desmond Fennell |
| The Bevin Society |
| David Morrison's Website |
Subscribe Securely To
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: March, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Promissory Notes, Croke Park and the Euro |
| The brief moment of rule by bankers in Europe has passed. As the Goldman Sachs technocratic 'leaders' propelled into power by the financial crisis gradually leave the stage, the political revolution initiated by the Fiscal Compact in December 2011 continues to take its course. The consequences of the British veto and the decisive move by Europe to re-arrange itself as an inter-Governmental affair outside or alongside the structures of the EU are coming home to roost. The political deal on Ireland's Promissory Note is a further decisive step in this process...Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: February, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Indigenous Democracy ! |
| The leader of Fianna Fail, Micheal Martin, has intervened in the Union Jackery crisis in the North with an article in the Irish News (16.1.13). He has the pretence of Fianna Fail party organisation in the North but he does not let it develop. So, when a Fianna Fail Statement has to be made about some issue in the Six County section of the British state, it cannot be made by the indigenous section of the Party in the North. It must be made by the leader of the Party in another state, who does not actually participate in the politics of the North, or allow party members in the North to do so. Being absent from the North, with only the pretence of a presence within it, Fianna Fail can do nothing towards resolving the Union Jack crisis, or any other crisis. It can only preach from the outside. And preaching from the outside during the past forty years has been either a complete irrelevance or an irritant...Read Full Article |
| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: February, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: THE EU DEBATE – WHERE IS LABOUR? |
| The most obvious fact about the UK and the EU is that Britain’s membership and why it should remain in it, is, after 40 years of membership of the EEC cum EU an issue that is still a defining issue in British politics. This speaks volumes. There is not such an issue in other Member States and that also speaks volumes. Britain clearly has an endemic existential problem with Europe that may be approaching a resolution. For Britain, problems in Europe are to be exploited, for Europeans they are there to be solved.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Foreign Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: February, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Irish Soldiers in Mali |
| In February Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter announced that Irish soldiers, under British control, will go to Mali in support of France’s re-occupation of its former colony. He did not say why. The British-Irish military intervention in Mali can be traced back to the western coup against Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi. France has moved to protect its strategic economic interests in the region. Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: January, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Trade Unions: time to grasp the nettle. |
| Is money a thing in itself with no relationship to the real economy? The boom seemed to have created a load of it, easily accessible and easily spendable. Wage determination in 1990s Ireland was a State-funded affair. Under Social Partnership the Trade Unions agreed to restrain demands for wage increases to help restore the competitiveness of the economy. In return workers’ real take home wages were to be increased gradually by way of generous tax reforms. And the Unions got to play a central role in economic and social planning. It was a strategy that worked and was seen to have helped create the growth environment of the 1990s....Read Full Article |