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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
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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