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Sinn Féin's Response to the Economic Crisis – A Naive Social Reformism

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:51 am
Sinn Féin recently published its pre-budget submission with some fanfare yesterday. This exercise being the latest attempt by the party’s representatives in Leinster House to appear as a government...
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20 Years of Collapse

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 11:08 am
With the bourgeois media reliving the now distant glories of 1989 in a patent attempt to undermine any popular sense of an alternative, Socialism or Barbarism has decided to afford a platform to one o...
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Economic Shock Therapy for Northern Ireland

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 5:55 pm
Citizens across the Republic have been inundated by a deluge of announcements of pay cuts, job losses, tax increases, public sector cutbacks and widespread threats of privatisation. In its attempts to...
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The Decline of Militant Irish Republicanism

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 9:01 am
Ideologies are not issued self-developed and completed into the aether of the idea rather they are generated by the development of specific historic processes in the real world. Ideas are not primary ...
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The Decline of Militant Irish Republicanism

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 6:07 am
Ideologies are not issued self-developed and completed into the aether of the idea rather they are generated by the development of specific historic processes in the real world. Ideas are not primary ...
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Sinn Féin Keep Left - An oxymoron?

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 9:42 am
The Sinn Fein Keep Left site has promoted internal discussion within that party for the promotion of the goal of a socialist republican vision.The site has repeatedly posed the need for Republicans to...
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Guest Article by former Sinn Féin Councillor

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 5:06 am
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh was a Sinn Féin councillor in Fermanagh for two years before resigning his membership of the party to join the Socialist Party.Before this he had held posts in various central ...
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Bailout Rip-off - Exposed by the Market!

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 6:32 am
Unlike the capitalist media, financial markets do not lie. They can’t afford to. Share prices reflect the prognostications of traders after having considered all the available information. So while ...
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Is the recession over?

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 9:27 am
The media is highlighting the greenshoots breaking through the ashes after the wildfire of financial contagion has now largely passed - yet, is it true that things are looking up or are journalists si...
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On the materialist analysis of the economic crisis

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 7:26 am
As regular readers may be aware, Socialism or Barbarism! attempts to provide a rigorous marxist economic analysis. This is in contradistinction to the sort of 'surface-only' analysis propounde...
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The response to the Irish economic crisis

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 3:57 am
There has been some analysis coming out of various websites criticising the government’s response to the economic collapse from a centre-left position. Socialism or Barbarism considers that these ar...
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Socialists and the Protestant Working-Class

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 6:03 am
The recent increase in coverage of Éirigí by the mainstream media, specifically the Irish Times, has resulted in some significant discussion on the Cedar Lounge Revolution Blog which included some v...
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NAMA Rip-Off Exposed

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 31, 2009, 10:46 am
The legislation that will be speedily passed through Leinster House in order to set up the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) has been published by the Dublin Government. The documentation faile...
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Power-Sharing in the Crisis

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 24, 2009, 9:00 am
The St Andrew's Agreement, like the Good Friday Agreement before it and Sunningdale before that, was predicated on power-sharing institutions. The representatives of unionism and nationalism share...
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Economic Shock Therapy - Irish Style (Continued)

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 16, 2009, 7:24 pm
This is the second part of a review of the recent report of An Bord Snip Nua and reviews the detail of the proposed cuts across the government.Selling-Off the Family SilverThe report targets the prope...
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Economic Shock Therapy - Irish Style

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 16, 2009, 5:06 pm
The publication of today's report by the 'Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure' was always going to herald painful times. The Republic of Ireland is caught in the midst ...
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Sinn Fein Looks Rightward

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 12, 2009, 12:15 pm
Readers will know that Socialism or Barbarism maintains close attention to the dynamics of Sinn Féin - a party that projects itself as committed to a Socialist Republic. However, our view is that the...
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Support the Striking Engineers!

Socialism Or Barbarism posted an article on - Jul 7, 2009, 6:13 am
Over 10,000 members of the Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union are now in the the second day of one of the first major strikes to hit the Republic after the European elections.These strikers a...
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