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| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: October, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Miliband’s Clever Trick |
| Is ‘One Nation Labour’ a Fraud?Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: September, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Northern Ireland:—Proconsul Politics |
| In Northern Ireland the Government is under attack from the State. The State says it wants normal democratic politics. The governing system is in breach of the first rule of democracy, which is that the majority rules. The representative of the State is the Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, a strongly nationalistic, or Imperialistic, English Tory. In England nationalism and Imperialism have been the same thing for hundreds of years. When England asserted an absolute nationalism for itself it was not in support of a general principle of nationalism, which it recognised as applying to others too. Its declaration of absolute national independence, made in the course of the political event known as the English Reformation, took the form of an assertion that England was an Empire. Being an Empire meant, for it, that it was subject to no authority but its own will, and that it had the right to do as it pleased with others, subject only to the limits of its power...Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Foreign Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: September, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: On Ireland’s financial sovereignty and our “Gallant Allies in Europe” |
| The 1916 Proclamation declared the establishment in arms of the Republic by the Irish Volunteers with the support of Ireland’s “exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe”. For Connolly, Casement and others, the world war had been engineered to destroy the threat to the British Empire represented by a new Europe with “German Socialism” at its core. Ireland’s future would be secured through a close alignment with Europe. The world financial crisis since 2008 has again forced the hand of Europe, and required it to develop along a new path by consolidating the Eurozone outside the structures of the increasingly marginalised and atrophied “European Union”. The moment of truth came in November 2011 when Britain ensured that monetary consolidation could not occur through the EU structure. Read Full Article |
| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: September, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Parliamentary Democracy and the Working Class |
| The UK is a parliamentary democracy. Two parties organised around different dominant interest groups within the state contend for and alternate in power. The Liberal Democrats do not fundamentally alter this feature of the British state. In theory such a system ought to give a voice to interest groups whose interests do not coincide and who seek to reach an accommodation with each other on how the State conducts itself. In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries one party coalesced around the aristocracy (the Whigs), while another coalesced around the Crown (the Tories). In order to broaden their power base the Tories would seek alliances with the unenfranchised peasantry and would, to a degree, further those interests against those of the aristocracy. Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: August, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Euro Crisis: Politics of Recovery Vs. Politics of Illusion |
| There are certain immutable economic laws that cannot be wished away by fine words or good intentions. If a country continues to consume more than it produces, it will develop a dependent relationship with its creditors. To reduce its dependency it will either have to produce more or consume less. If the creditor is benevolent the debtor might obtain some concessions. But that is not a very dignified position for a debtor country to be in. Since 2008 Ireland has made a decent attempt at solving her economic crisis and has been hoping for concessions on the basis of what may arise elsewhere. But it appears the Euro summit agreement of 29th June on separation of bank debt from sovereign debt is far less than it was widely taken to be. The prescription for the Spanish financial crisis is looking remarkably like the one for the Irish crisis. Ultimately the State must pay...Read Full Article |