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Autumn - Winter 1999       Issue 18 

Contents  

Leader Ideology and the peace process

Trojan Horse or New Challenge? 
Peter Connell looks at Dempsey's electoral reform intentions

Civil rights: then and now
P.J. McClean writes that the campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland was won thirty years ago. The fundamentalists of today should not be allowed to hinder further progress

A new model for wage bargaining

Michael O'Reilly makes the case for a new wage agreement based on economic power-sharing

Social polarisation and the Celtic Tiger

Proinnsias Breathnach considers whether Ireland is becoming a society divided into a 'cyberproletariat' and 'lumpentrash'

Mean-minded law does nothing for human rights protection

John Walsh reviews Ireland's asylum and immigration policy and concludes that recent legislation represents a backward step

Genetic engineering: a cause for concern

Sadhbh O'Neill argues that industrial agriculture is shedding jobs and bankrupting small farmers; genetic engineering will exacerbate this situation

'Throwing sand in the wheels of speculation'

Claudine Gaidoni says the Tobin Tax offers a solution to the universal insecurity caused by the globalisation of investment capital

Portugal: a revolution that worked

Rui Rebiano believes the 'Carnation Revolution' of 1974 changed Portugal for the better

East Timor: free at last?

David Shanks outlines the violent history of Indonesia's illegal occupation of East Timor

European right hardens ideology

Delma McDevitt looks at the balance of forces in the European Parliament following the 1999 elections

 

Book Reviews 

Dick Walsh reviews Memoir: My Life and Themes by Conor Cruise O'Brien 

Dan O'Neill reviews Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and Preposterous by Nick Cohen and ‘Sultans of Spin’ by Nicholas Jones


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