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| From: Labour Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: March, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Is There A Labour Movement? |
| Twenty-five years is a long time in politics. So some explanation is needed as to why a magazine produced for such a long time without interruption should change its name. It should be said clearly that the name change does not represent a change in the basic orientation of the Bevin Society. It remains committed to its basic principle of promoting industrial democracy as an essential element in political life. But, while the Bevin Society remains constant and true in its objects, it cannot be denied that the political and social situation has changed out of all recognition. In 1987 there was still a Labour Party. There was still a Trade Union movement with a political input into the Labour Party. Indeed in 1987 there was still a working class that recognised itself as such. Britain retained a substantial industrial base. Social services were in public ownership and control. There were nationalised industries. Working class culture remained dominant in society at large. It was a comfortable time to be a socialist....Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: February, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: The Right To Desert |
| "Minister for Defence, Alan Shatter, has said that serious examination is taking place into the possible pardoning of Irish soldiers who deserted from the Defence forces to fight for the Allies in World War 2. Speaking on Morning Ireland Minister Shatter said these soldiers had fought against fascism and contributed to the future of freedom and democracy in Europe. He said they were penalised by a regulation barring them from being employed in any public service job. He welcomed the passing of a motion in the Stormont Assembly earlier this week calling for a pardon for the soldiers. Minister Shatter said he believes that it is right that the Republic of Ireland now revisit how this issue was dealt with historically"Read Full Article |
| From: Labour & Trade Union Review: Editorials |
| Date: February, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Milliband's New Labour Runs Up The White Flag |
| For the present we are stuck with the politics and the party system that we have, together with the electorate that shapes and is shaped by them. Neither is capable of bringing about a just society with which we can identify. There is therefore a two-fold task of changing the parameters of the debate —setting out a different perspective of development—whilst also making sense of what the parties are up to at the present time. By making sense to our readers in this way, it is hoped to generate new thinking that will gradually come to capture the public imagination and replace the liberal attitudes which have become deeply ingrained into the social consciousness of our society. This journal has never entertained great expectations of the reconstituted New Labour project under Ed Miliband, but the swiftness and abject nature of the surrender of Miliband and Balls to the Mandelson-Blair cuts agenda is quite sobering. The Labour Party has now trussed itself up in a way that will make it difficult to put any space between itself and the Coalition.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: January, 2012 |
| By: Jack Lane |
| Title: The European Union vs. The Euro-Zone! Has Micheál Martin Lost The Plot? |
| All politicians across Europe will remember where they were on 9th December 2011. Enda Kenny was sitting next to David Cameron and left the EU Council meeting with him. But he had to jump, and he jumped in the opposite direction to Cameron—though there is no doubt went against his instincts. With an agreed and determined Franco-German position, he had little choice, which is just as well. Irish Taoisigh in recent years have got themselves into a mindset where hard choices need never be made as regards Europe. But Kenny has had to make his bed and if there is to be a referendum he is committed to the Euro whether he likes it not. What then of Fianna Fail? It is necessary to consider the position of that party, as it could be critical to getting a referendum passed. The omens so far are not good. Martin made clear where he was on the 9th of December and he was quick out off the mark in opposition...Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Foreign Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: January, 2012 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: European Disunion |
| The decision of all the members of the European Union, minus Britain, to adopt a course of action which Britain opposed, raises the prospect of Britain becoming more substantially foreign to Ireland than it has been since the time of Charles Haughey. Martin Mansergh of Fianna Fail, who was adviser to many Taoiseachs before entering the Dail as a Fianna Fail TD, has denied that Ireland and Britain stand on a footing of foreign relations at all. His view seems to be that Irish is a variant of British, and that British is the default position of Irish. There is much to be said for that view of the matter as an objective description of Irish-British relations during the last forty years, leaving aside the years when Haughey was Taoiseach and acted as if Ireland was an independent state in the European family of states, rather than an Anglo-Saxon adjunct. But, of course, it is not just a matter of objective description. The relationship described by Mansergh coincided with the actual relationship to a considerable extent. But that description was not dispassionate reporting of what existed—it was the statement of an ideal. Dr. Inge, a famous Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in the 1920s, said that the loss of Ireland was the most shameful event in British history. Raymond Crotty, founder of the Anglophile ‘Irish Sovereignty Movement’, which campaigned vigorously against the European Union on the same line as the British Eurosceptics...Read Full Article |