17th May and ISIS capture Ramadi and with it another huge stock of modern US weaponry. Something like 6000 US trained Iraqi soldiers have fled the city without putting up much of a fight. From all accounts the ISIS force was considerable smaller and reliant on a waves of suicide car bombs for its final […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Syriza are not the limits of our dreams
Austerity was never going to be defeated by the vote. We don’t live in an economic democracy, we live in an economic dictatorship where only those with vast wealth determine its course. Parliament provides a useful illusion, one that limits our dreams and stops us acting to make them a reality. The real defeat in […]
IMF back Syriza demand for debt write off while EU leaders wish for soft coup
Last night (2 July) the IMF in effect put its weight behind the Syriza government and the call for a No vote (OXI) in the referendum. An image of Chile’s socialist president Allende, murdered in the 1973 US coup ‘backing’ the No vote captured for us both the contradictions and dangers of Sunday’s vote in […]
Syriza confirm electoralist road is wrong road to another world
It now appears that the Syriza’s insistence that the severe nature of what the Trokia demanded meant that the Greek people had to directly decide through referendum on whether or not to comply has been replaced with the more standard ‘We can decide for you’ of electoralist politics. That is unless the letter from Tsipras […]
On the Greek online funding campaign – lets not neo-liberalise solidarity
The ideas of each age tend to become that of the ruling ideology and we are seeing an extraordinary example of that at the moment. As a response the ECB/IMF attack on Greek democracy an online fund it campaign has been set up to fund the 1.6 billion interest owed and so far 1,863 people […]
Terrorist white supremacist suspect behind the Charleston murders
The terrorist white supremacist suspect behind the Charleston murders has been identified as Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old from Lexington County, S.C. In this photo he is wearing the apartheid-era South African flag and the flag of the racist Rhodesian state on his jacket. Another photos shows that his car had a ‘Confederate States of America’ […]
The social cost to us of O’Briens massive debt write offs
The vast sums of our money that the state gave in load write offs to the billionaire Denis O’Brien are so big that they hard to get your head around. None of us are ever likely to see one million, short of winning the lotto, never mind 336 million, the amount written off when O’Brien […]
The New Property Boom: More Dublin Homeless than 1925
Irish government policy is creating a fresh property boom that is once more driving the most marginalised onto the streets and into insecure accommodation. The deliberate creation of housing scarcity has seen huge numbers being evicted by greedy landlords, normally making use of the rights stripping clause that allows them to claim they are intending […]
Vulture capitalist games lose 460 jobs at Clerys store in Dublin – respond with permanent occupation
Friday June 12ths shock closure of the iconic Clery’s department store in Dublin shows how the law is set up to favour capital and screw workers. Workers are being told there may be no additional redundancy or owed holiday payments as the company is in debt. But this is only the case because right before […]