Ireland
Las elecciones municipales y europeas en Irlanda: crecimiento de la izquierda
Lynn Boylan, Sinn Fein.
European elections: Hope in the gloom as left gains in Greece, Spain, Ireland
Ireland: Left surge in South’s local and European elections
Sinn Fein's Lynn Boylan is one of the party's three MEPs in the South.
An Irish republican perspective on Tony Benn
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in conversation wit
Eyewitness report: 'Things have gone very quiet in Greece, haven’t they?'
Syriza congress: Alexis Tsipras (left), Manolis Glezos.
Tariq Ali: 'Thatcherism continues'; Gerry Adams: `Thatcher did great hurt'
For more on Thatcher and Thatcherism, click HERE.
April 9, 2013 -- SinnFein.ie -- Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams commenting on the death today of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said:
Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister.
Working-class communities were devastated in Britain because of her policies.
Her role in international affairs was equally belligerent whether in support of the Chilean dictator Pinochet, her opposition to sanctions against apartheid South Africa; and her support for the Khmer Rouge.
Here in Ireland her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering. She embraced censorship, collusion and the killing of citizens by covert operations, including the targeting of solicitors like Pat Finucane, alongside more open military operations and refused to recognise the rights of citizens to vote for parties of their choice.
To the crucible: an Irish engagement with the Greek crisis and the Greek left
Syriza poster, Synaspismos office in Athens, Helena Sheehan on the streets with Syriza in Athens.
[For more discussion of SYRIZA, click HERE.]
By Helena Sheehan
January 21, 2013 -- Irish Left Review, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at the author's suggestion and with her permission -- A monumental drama is playing out before our eyes. It is a true Greek tragedy. The plot: A society is being pushed to its limits. The denouement is not yet determined, but survival is at stake and prospects are precarious. Greece is at the sharp end of a radical and risky experiment in how far accumulation by dispossession can go, how much expropriation can be endured, how far the state can be subordinated to the market. It is a global narrative, but the story is a few episodes ahead here.
Ireland: Shock, austerity, Sinn Féin and the United Left Alliance
Austerity in Europe: Susan George on the rise of neoliberal and undemocratic Europe
Susan George interviewed for the Transnational Insti
