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In the latest issue of LookLeft:
THE 1913 LOCKOUT
1913 It’s 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
Save Our Forests – plans to sell off harvesting rights to State forests are an attack on the public good reports PADRAIG MANNION
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
History Marches On – the political theory of Eric Hobsbawm outlined by ULTÁN GILLEN
Meath raises the Red Flag – Seamus McDonagh of the Workers’ Party gives progressive voters a voice in the Meath East By-election
The Lions of Lisbon – ULTÁN GILLEN reports from the 19th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party
The Abortion Rights Campaign – the struggle for reproductive rights.
CAHWT – KEVIN SQUIRES reports on the continuing battler against the household tax
ALSO: Mandate’s Fair Shops campaign, G8 Not Welcome, More TDs back the LookLeft stop former Ministers’ pensions campaign, the launch of Derry Antifa, Commemorating International Brigadista Frank Conroy
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
Obits: Tony O’Reilly, Mike Dollard, Sean Redmond and James Stewart
LETTERS:
Colm MacGeehin on the Children’s Referendum, the Stop the War Coalition, Post Office privatiSation
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
The Jemmy Hope Column on Islamists, the Magdalene Laundries Ultra-Catholics and Vincent Browne
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