Posted in United States, Marx on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
David Montgomery, now in his eighties, is one of the founders of new labor history in the U.S. He’s a contemporary of E.P. Thompson, and his works include the seminal The Fall of the House of Labor, and Workers’ Control in America. Below is an audio of his 45 minute presentation at the WCSA conference, […]
Posted in United States, capitalism, Marx on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is an audio recording I made of Bill Fletcher Jr´s talk at the Working Class Studies Association´s Conference, which was held in Pittsburgh this month (June 09). Bill is a long-time political and labor activist, and is also executive editor of Black Commentator. I’ve also uploaded seven minutes of video of the same talk, […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Marxism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, Media on Jun 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
This is the second progamme in the four-part series, Looking Left, which is being made for DCTV. The topic here is the Ripening of Time, the political journal of the Ripening of Time Collective, thirteen issues of which were published between 1976 and 1980. On the panel are Ursula Barry, UCD Women’s Education, Research and […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Marx, Irish Labour History, Media, politics/Ireland on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is the first of four programmes on various left-wing publications in Ireland in the 1960s to 1980s. This one discusses the Irish People, which was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, later Sinn Féin the Workers Party, later The Workers Party.
On the panel are Dr. Brian Hanley, Queens University, Padraig Yeates, former editor […]
Posted in Marx, Irish Labour History, Media on May 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Both myself and Donagh are part of a group called the Alternative Media History Group and over the next few weeks we’ll be working on a series of four programmes for DCTV which will look at various Irish left-wing publications from the 1960s to the 1980s. The first one will focus on The Irish People, […]
Posted in Marx, Economy on Apr 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
Always a pleasure to listen to David Harvey. Here he’s talking about the American and world economies, but still some insights for ourselves with regard to the way the Irish situation is being spun, as well as housing and the housing market in general.
Enjoy.
Posted in capitalism, Marx, Economy on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Two more videos from Brendan M. Cooney, where he gives a reading of the labour process under capitalism, with particular regard to Harry Braverman and his classic, Labour and Monopoly Capital.
The full text of the videos is available on Brendan’s website, here.
Posted in capitalism, Ex Members of Fall, Marx, Economy on Feb 8th, 2009 No Comments »
No dodgy quotes from Karl Marx here, just Brendan M Cooney’s explanation of Capital.
Enjoy.
Posted in capitalism, Marx, Economy, Government on Nov 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
This is a lecture David Harvey gave on 14 November 2008 at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The MP3 is hosted on Harvey’s website, Reading Marx’s Capital.
Harvey begins the lecture by talking about the current banking crisis, and whether this is a fatal crisis for neoliberalism. He states quite quickly that […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, dublin, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 30th, 2008 15 Comments »
Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, drinking […]
