1913 Unfinished Business

19/01/2018

Dublin folk/post-rock group complete large-scale studio retelling of the 1913 strikes and labour crises.

12/02/2017

Give the Tesco Workers Together page a like and a share...

Tesco workers in Ireland standing together to resist cuts to pay and conditions of employment.

23/01/2017

Event page + info -> https://www.facebook.com/events/200800163721646/

21/10/2016

Rally for Justice, Central Bank 1pm tomorrow/Saturday

https://www.facebook.com/events/561627634030128/

04/05/2016

Please support the Tesco Workers Together campaign. The longest serving workers are facing severe pay cuts...

Sign the petition and share.

Underneath their family friendly brand Tesco are treating their own family pretty badly: trying to force huge cuts to pay and hours for their longest-serving staff. Tell Tesco this hurts, a lot

17/04/2016

"On the other side, SIPTU’s Jack O’Connor has called for Labour to re-take their post in government with Fine Gael, fighting to defend us all at the Gates of Hell. Labour, realising they are totally fu**ed, are thinking if they’re going down anyway (according to another poll this weekend), they might as well do it with their noses in the trough."

https://www.facebook.com/wearerabble/posts/1052115588167287

The Week In Politricks. RagbagsApril 17, 2016Blog, PoliticsLeave a Comment It’s Sunday night and you might be a bit tender and in the grips of the Fear. So, what you don’t need is that headf**k of noise coming at you from the mainstream meeja. While you poke around the fridge and takeaway menus to s…

29/03/2016

Great piece on why socialists should campaign for Brexit

Socialists do not have the luxury of choosing the conditions in which we fight; however unfavourable the current balance of forces, our task it to argue for an exit from the un-reformable EU on lef…

20/03/2016

More great art from Paul Kirby

21/01/2016

The text of Justine McCarthy's article on 1916 from the most recent Sunday Times. Well worth circulating for people to read:

"Today's commentators would have us believe that everyday life for the citizenry in Ireland mirrored England's. This is a fallacy. The Rising came three years after the Lockout and its concomitant destitution, with civilians in some of Europe's worst slums left dependent on soup kitchens. It was two years after Erskine Childers's gun-running to Howth on the Asgard when, in response to jeering by a crowd on Dublin's Bachelor's Walk, British soldiers fatally shot and bayonetted four civilians and injured 38 others.

[..] In the absence of elections that genuinely gave the people their say, the second-best medium for assessing public opinion in 1916 is contemporary media coverage. This is largely dependent on the pro-establishment Irish Times and William Martin Murphy's Irish Independent. Murphy, a former Irish Parliamentary Party MP offered a knighthood by King Edward VII, was in the employers' vanguard against James Larkin in the Lockout. He was, therefore, not ideally placed to know or to express the mood of the majority. Even after the executions had commenced in Kilmainham jail, he was still writing in the Irish Independent that more of the leaders ought be put to death.

Ireland had its own powerful conservative class at the time of the Rising. They were stolid, middle-class men who wanted to keep the status quo because it served them well. They were the guardians of the establishment, with an Irish accent."

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31/12/2015

its that time of year for Reviews!!! have a read and share away

Capital’s strategic offensive to open up new areas of profit, weaken the collective and reform education continued during the past year. However, there has

30/12/2015

The great Woody Guthrie's New Years resolutions ! Take bath and Wake up and fight!!!! Very important !

21/12/2015

The WFTU expresses its solidarity to the migrants and refugees from Syria and all the other countries. We support their demands for dignified humane condit