Herbert Remmel has forwarded the following newspaper account of the swing to the Alliance For Germany Party in and the rout of the previous 'Party of Government': the Christian Democrats Preliminary Thoughts Towards An Assessment Of The Election Results in Saxony-Anhalt From An Anti-Fascist Perspective by Ulrich Schneider [National Executive member, Die Linke] The high … Continue reading German Perspectives:
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Education Reforms in Northern Ireland Part 2
In part 1 of this article, Mark Langhammer explored the Michael Gove education reforms in England, 2010-14, and their ‘philosophical’ or ideological underpinnings. This article considers the education reforms currently proposed by the DUP Education Minister, Paul Givan for Northern Ireland—widely seen as a “cut and paste” version of the Gove reforms. What is Paul … Continue reading Education Reforms in Northern Ireland Part 2
Casement On The Couch!
Rory Carroll, the Ireland correspondent of the Guardian newspaper and author of A Rebel And A Traitor, was interviewed on 1st August by Pat Kenny on his Newstalk radio programme, for the commemoration of Casement’s execution on 3rd August 1916. When Kenny asked Carroll to comment on the content of the 'Black Dairies', he … Continue reading Casement On The Couch!
Roger Casement: Jeff Dudgeon Responds
In September Irish Political Review there were five Roger Casement articles over ten pages, with fifteen, mostly vituperative, mentions of me. One item concerned my response to a public challenge by the Group of Four led by Paul Hyde and Jack Lane to eliminate “serious doubts about the authenticity” of the Casement diaries. It was … Continue reading Roger Casement: Jeff Dudgeon Responds
Organised Labour
@@@@@@ Public Service Pay Agreement: "The Unions are not hanging around!" "THE UNIONS are not hanging around. Just days after announcing what could be a highly disruptive work-to-rule in the health sector, scheduled to start on 30th September 2026, they set dates for strikes" (Irish Independent, 12.9.2026). Public servants are set to hold two 24-hour … Continue reading Organised Labour
Labour Comment
The Politics of Virtue (August 2010) It remains to be seen if the era of Fianna Fáil dominance has come to an end or if the mould of Irish politics has been broken. Labour Comment cannot claim to know the future. It can only go on the evidence presented to it. On the evidence of … Continue reading Labour Comment
Ireland And The World—Editorial
The history of Ireland has been about emerging from the shadow of England. That has been the objective right up until the present time. Irish nationalism was never isolationist. Roger Casement believed that the dominance of Britain prevented Ireland from connecting with Continental Europe. The seminal event in our recent history was the 1916 Rising, … Continue reading Ireland And The World—Editorial
Red Eddy—Gusty’s Brother
Reading Brendan Clifford’s article about the BICO in the August issue of the Irish Political Review jogged a few memories. I was a comrade of Eddy Spence in the Sixties: He was a member of the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) and I was in its youth wing the Communist Youth League (CYL). As Brendan Clifford points out, Eddy … Continue reading Red Eddy—Gusty’s Brother
Casement: The Scientific Proof of Forgery?
Is it possible to identify a writer from the words of a text? Or more to the point, in the case of forgery, is it possible to prove that a person could not have written a text? The premiss of forensic linguistics is that an individual expresses himself in a unique way. Similar, to the … Continue reading Casement: The Scientific Proof of Forgery?
Béal na Bláthair
David McCullough, the radio journalist, was the chief speaker at the Béal na Bláth celebration of Michael Collins' War against opponents of the 1921 'Treaty' this year. However, according to the Irish Times report (24 August), he did not actually mention that War. But that was the one big thing for which Collins had definite … Continue reading Béal na Bláthair
