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The hollowing-out of Irish Independence: How the Irish people were made citizens of an EU federation
Cogent case for Ireland quitting a federal Europe
THE WRITING'S ON THE BILLBOARD: Roadside exhortation by Sinn Fein in Ireland
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left
DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women
IN THIS pamphlet, Anthony Coughlan examines the political and economic roots of Eurofederalism and asks who loses and who wins from it, given that Ireland is now a net contributor to the EU.
“The EU is … a supranational anti-democratic system that deprives Europe’s diverse peoples of their democracy,” he writes, “while serving the interests of its big states, in particular Germany and France … through their ruling politico-economic elites, interacting with the Brussels bureaucracy … on the economic side it serves the interests of EU-based transnational finance and corporate capital.
“Free movement of labour and capital provides cheap labour and freedom from democratic control to the European and American transnational firms that are the principal economic backers of the EU ‘project’.”
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