New LookLeft: In Shops Now Across the Country March 13, 2013
Posted by Garibaldy in The Left, The Workers' Party.trackback
Ireland’s leading magazine for progressive news, views and solutions – available in Easons stores and over 600 newsagents across the country – 48 pages for just €2/£1.50
In the latest issue of LookLeft, highlights include:
THE 1913 LOCKOUT
1913 Its importance then and now – historian BRIAN HANLEY discusses the events of 1913 and what they tell us about modern Ireland
Lockout Timeline – the events leading up to the Lockout and what happened
Lockout Events – calendar of some of the major events planned to commemorate the Lockout
FEATURES:
No Left turn for Northern Ireland – PAUL DILLON speaks to some Northern Left activists on the problems facing progressive politics
Again across the oceans – DARA MCHUGH examines who are the victims and who profits from emigration from the Republic
Owen Jones Interview – KEVIN SQUIRES talks to the author of Chavs about the future of the Left
Securing the future of your home – Rising rents, less secure tenure and an unaccountable system is the future for Northern Irish public housing tenants, reports JUSTIN O’HAGAN
Working Class: No one called that round here – CONOR MCCABE on why the Republic’s working class is right to be apathetic towards the demise of an uncaring State
Meath raises the Red Flag – Seamus McDonagh of the Workers’ Party gives progressive voters a voice in the Meath East By-election
VIEWS:
The LookLeft Debate: Unions and the Household Tax – The Workers’ Party’s James Coughlan and Socialist Party’s Mick O’Brien discuss
Austerity (Class War) is working – Eoghan O’Neill
Sideshows and circuses – the flags dispute – Brian McDermott
Women are paying for the recession – Stephanie Lord
Suicide Prevention – Donal O’Driscoll
The military adventures contiune – Padraig Mannion
REVIEWS:
Irish Left Review, An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, Rising Expectations (and Rising Hell)
CULTURE:
Inflammable Material – Sam McGrath on the career of Stiff Little Fingers
The Derry Sound – Kryton Son meets Barry Healy
Bow down before Luther Blissett – the unusual tale of the former Derry City player told by Kevin Brannigan
For more information visit www.lookleftonline.org or email: lookleftonline@gmail.com
Interesting contributor for one of the book reviews. The stick doesn’t fall too far from the tree it seems.