Category: Politics
“The Most Important Election Since 1989”
Maria (Marysia) Pachowicz 06/11/2023
On the 15th of October 2023, a record-breaking number of Polish citizens both in Poland and abroad took to polling stations to cast their vote in …
Getting the Future Back
Gerry Mitchell 17/10/2023
Source: @Vuelio The narrow constraints that the Labour party has set itself were present at every fringe event at this year’s conference and …
What Is The Point? The Difference The Left Can Make
Stella Creasy 16/10/2023
In his essay Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages James Joyce quotes Oscar Wilde saying ‘We Irishmen have done nothing, but we are the greatest …
Major Issues where Mainstream Economists Failed - Part 1
Paul Sweeney 04/07/2023
In the last blog, I examined the President of Ireland's speech critical of the lack of heterodoxy (or differences) in Irish economics. I argued that …
Energy poverty, environmental degradation, lack of affordable housing and the rise of the far right
Shana Cohen 09/05/2023
This article was first published in The Irish Times on the 9th of May 2023. President Michael D Higgins’s
Is an All-Party, Power-Sharing, Governmnet in Ireland Possible?
Peter Emerson 24/03/2023
As currently (undefined but) practiced, majority rule implies that any party or group of TDs/MPs which constitutes more than 50% of the …
Make Agriculture Exciting Again
Kieran Harrahill 18/10/2022
The question of how agriculture in Ireland can adapt to the need to reduce emissions has become a contentious issue recently. Agriculture has a large …
From Free Market to Subsidised Capitalism
Paul Sweeney 13/10/2022
There has been a revolutionary transformation of Capitalism, the western economic system, in just over a decade. Four extraordinary events have …
We Must Strengthen the Democracy We are Trying to Defend
Shana Cohen 12/04/2022
First Published in the Irish Times 6 April 2022 The conflict in Ukraine has united democracies around the world, just as it has pushed Russia further …
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Passerose Mantoy is the CEO of Chrysalis Community Drug Project, a community-based drug …
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Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …