Eamon Dyas The Irish Times reported (6.7.26) that Ireland is leading European talks on strengthening maritime legal controls with a European Ocean Act. This idea could not claim to be a component of international maritime law without UN approval. Of course there is nothing to stop the EU embarking on such a course but the … Continue reading Proposed changes to EU Maritime Law
Assassination: The Expediency Of War!
When President Trump, in his first term, killed Qasem Soleimani, a member of the administration of the Iranian state, he was indignant when the killing was described as an "assassination". But he did not say what the right name for it was. And we do not recall that any of the Governments in "the rules … Continue reading Assassination: The Expediency Of War!
Exporting Revolution 1920
Book Review Exporting Revolution 1920 The Polish/Soviet war in 1920 regularly gets a mention in books dealing with European and Soviet history. In the main it is dealt with briefly or as a footnote. This is a little surprising, given the dramatis personae involved in the War, including such major political figures as Pilsudski, Tukhachevsky, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, … Continue reading Exporting Revolution 1920
The B&ICO, Part 2
The British and Irish Communist Organisation (Part 1 appeared in Irish Political Review, April 2026). In Part One of this article it was described how the Irish Communist Group was constructed in the course of discussions within a loose grouping of people drawn from a wide variety of sources on the initiative of Liam Daltun and Pat Murphy. Daltun … Continue reading The B&ICO, Part 2
ORGANISED LABOUR AUGUST 2026
ORG.LAB.AUG.26 ******************** The legislation allows eligible workers to choose to remain in employment beyond their contractual retirement age, where that age is below the State pension age of 66. RETIREMENT AGE RIGHTS—New retirement age rights for employees have come into effect. The legislation allows eligible workers to choose to remain in employment beyond their contractual … Continue reading ORGANISED LABOUR AUGUST 2026
The Yanks Arrive!
LABOUR COMMENT De Valera On Arrival Of United States Troops In The Six Counties (Irish Press, 28.1.1942) The Yanks Arrive! EVERYBODY knew…. that Ireland had twenty years ago been partitioned and the Six Counties being cut off from the rest of the country by an Act of the British Parliament, despite the expressed will of the … Continue reading The Yanks Arrive!
Hague Tribunal Rejects Ukraine’s Crimea Claims
The ruling marks a “convincing victory” in a decade-long maritime dispute, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said A Hague-based arbitration tribunal has rejected Ukrainian maritime claims against Russia, including attempts to challenge Moscow’s sovereignty over Crimea and surrounding waters. Ukraine launched the case in 2016 before the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention … Continue reading Hague Tribunal Rejects Ukraine’s Crimea Claims
The Middle East Cauldron!
The Growing Israeli/Turkish Rivalry Might Soon Expand Into Jordan! Turkiye, Syria, and Jordan signed a trilateral MoU in early April on transport cooperation that followed their meeting more than half a year prior last September where they first committed to reviving the Hejaz Railway. This late-Ottoman project connected Istanbul with Medina and Mecca but collapsed … Continue reading The Middle East Cauldron!
The US Bombing Of Libya’s Water Supply!
It has been fifteen years since NATO bombed Libya’s Great Artificial River—a vast aquifer mega-project, built by Gaddafi to green the Sahara and parts of the Sahel by tapping into ancient underground fossil water. The Great Artificial River was a network of 4,000 kilometres of underground pipelines, designed to extract fossil water from the Sahara … Continue reading The US Bombing Of Libya’s Water Supply!
