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UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler interviews historian and activist Howard Zinn. (2001) Series: Conversations with History

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[Not to be confused with the 1960s Irish Workers Group.]
The Irish Workers Group (IWG) was formed sometime around the end of 1975 following a series of expulsions that year from the Socialist Workers Movement (SWM). In 1977 the IWG produced Class Struggle, a theoretical journal of which twenty issues were produced over the next ten […]

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Below is a short video file and the full audio of Arthur Scargill’s talk on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Arthur gave insight on the background to the strike, its course and consequences, as well as some thoughts on the trade union movement and the European Union.
Enjoy.

 

 Arthur Scargill, Dublin, 27 October 2009: Play Now | Play in Popup

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To mark the 25th anniversary of the miner’s strike
Arthur Scargill is speaking in the UNITE Hall, in the UNITE Union Office at 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin this Tuesday, October 27th at 8pm to mark the 25th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Please pass this onto everyone you know. I appeal […]

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It was Donagh who first told me about this. For the last few weeks David Harvey has been putting up on the web his lectures on Marx’s Capital. The idea is to read the book in tandem with the lectures themselves. I’ve tried to read Capital before, but always gave up. This time I’m […]

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About a year ago, a number of Irish left-wing bloggers met up in Cusack´s pub on the North Strand Road in order to talk about creating a new online left-wing journal. Today, the journal finally went online. It´s name is the Irish Left Review, and it can be found here.
The idea for the journal is […]

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The ongoing American writers´strike, as explained by the writers of the Daily Show.

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