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| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: December, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: The Disappeared: Scraping The Barrel |
| The political campaign, waged in humanitarian guise, to remove Gerry Adams from Southern politics and to undermine the Agreement in the North, was intensified during the month. The SDLP is increasingly co-operating with the Official Unionists and facilitating fundamentalist Unionist opposition to the Agreement in the Northern Assembly, and a joint British/Irish television programme which attempted to connect Adams with the killing and/or burial of Jean McConville was broadcast in prime TV time in both states.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: November, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Some Home Truths.... |
| Ireland is a capitalist democracy. This means that Ireland democratically chose capitalism—doesn't it? Can it be said that a capitalist democracy did not actually chose capitalism? That it had no choice in the matter because it lives in a region of the world where nothing else was possible, or allowable? When Bill Clinton was President of the United States, and decided most of what went on in the world, he said that liberty was democracy and free markets—or was it that democracy was liberty and free markets? Anyway, free markets were an essential element. And America had the means of ensuring that what it considered essential was what existed. And Irish democracy was happy to comply with what America judged to be essential. It made itself an instrument of the American campaign, seconded by Britain, at the end of the Cold War, to ensure that nothing but freely-operating capitalism could exist in the world—that is to say, capitalism that operated freely in the service of Ameranglian hegemony.Read Full Article |
| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: November, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Shedding Crocodile Tears over the Strivers |
| The recent Resolution Foundation report on Living Standards has provoked a minor political stir. It shows that most people can expect their living standards to remain stagnant until 2020. For lower paid workers this will mean stagnation or decline since 1993. Thatcherism and its New Labour successor have failed to show that their version of capitalism benefits the mass of people who work for their living and its weakness is now becoming painfully obvious.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: October, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Political Resolution Of The Euro |
| It is said that, in the current crisis of the Euro, power has shifted to the bankers. The appearance is of a technocratic monetary policy dictating political developments, which is hardly surprising in a technical monetary crisis. But it is only an appearance, as what is being resolved through what modern jargon might call technical-monetary "adjustments" is the unresolved political contradiction at the heart of the Euro project since its launch... Read Full Article |
| From: Church & State: Articles |
| Date: October, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: The Ulster Covenant Of 1912 |
| The declared purpose of the Solemn League And Covenant, signed by close to half a million Ulster Protestants in September 1912, was to defend their "cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom". The outcome nine years later was that six Ulster Counties were formed into a devolved system of government within the United Kingdom but excluded from the political arrangements by which the UK state was governed. Northern Ireland was neither a separate state, nor a federal component of the UK state, and its voters did not participate in the electoral contests to determine how the UK state was to be governed. In recent decades the setting up of the Northern Ireland entity has been widely described as an "experiment in devolution". A more unsuitable region for experimenting with devolution would b difficult to imagine. It consisted of two hostile communities, one twice the size of the other, which were at war with each other...Read Full Article |