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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Sep 10, 2025 00:47 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Labour Must Halt its War on Pubs Tue Sep 09, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
One pub is closing every day. And Labour's 'banter ban' ? Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill ? is only going to make it worse as pubs are left with the escalating bills to cover their legal costs.
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offsite link What Has Gone Wrong With Books About How-Everything-Has-Gone-Wrong-and-What-To-Do-About-It And What ... Tue Sep 09, 2025 17:48 | James Alexander
Ben Ansell, in Why Politics Fails, outlines "five traps of the modern world and how to escape them". Professor James Alexander wonders how he can escape yet another book that tries to save the world with Left-wing dogma.
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offsite link The African Countries Demanding Reparations Are Astonishingly Hypocritical Tue Sep 09, 2025 15:46 | Will Jones
The African Union's demand for colonial reparations is an act of cynical opportunism that ignores that slavery was already endemic in Africa, and African kingdoms resisted abolition even as the British forced it on them.
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offsite link Brighton Council Ignores Van With Palestine Flag for Months ? But Tows it Days After St George?s Fla... Tue Sep 09, 2025 13:04 | Will Jones
Brighton Council has been accused of "two-tier" hypocrisy after ignoring a van with a Palestine flag for months only to tow it days after a St George's flag was added.
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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New credit crunch book

category national | anti-capitalism | press release author Tuesday December 14, 2010 13:08author by jon - socialist democracy Report this post to the editors

Ireland’s Credit crunch.
Review copies available
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Ireland’s Credit crunch.
Review copies available

A limited number of review copies are available for distribution. Text details of review journal or site to
00 353 830 028 959 or email webmaster@socialistdemocracy.org. Copies will be distributed on a first come first served basis. With a final distribution date of 22nd December

In many ways Ireland has been a test bed for the working out of the crisis of modern capitalism. In the guise of the Celtic Tiger it was the most exuberant and uncontrolled of the neoliberal models. After the crash it was the model of savage austerity coupled with appeasement of the banks. Now, quietly, on Black Thursday, 30th September, it has become the first economy where capitalist strategy hit the rocks and left Ireland and Europe facing into the abyss.

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