Belabored Podcast #101: Ireland Rising, with Ronan Burtenshaw

Belabored Podcast #101: Ireland Rising, with Ronan Burtenshaw

A conversation with Irish journalist Ronan Burtenshaw about the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, its legacy, and the Irish left today.

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One hundred years ago this April, a small group of socialists, schoolteachers, and other nationalist rebels staged an uprising in Dublin designed to put an end to British rule in Ireland. The Easter Rising was unsuccessful, but it set forth the ideals for an Irish Republic that are still resonant today, as Ireland’s labor unions and left parties attempt to turn the tide after years of austerity. Irish journalist and former vice-chair of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Youth Ronan Burtenshaw guest-edited a special edition of Jacobin magazine all about the Rising, its legacy, and the Irish left today, and he sat down recently in Dublin to discuss all of that with Belabored. 

We also bring you reports from the picket lines of the Verizon strike and the latest Fight for $15 actions, some news on the court that struck down Scott Walker’s latest attempt to bust unions, and the latest on worker cooperatives. With “Argh,” we revisit welfare reform and its very intended results, and the myth of the progressive capitalist. 

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News

Verizon Workers on the Line (Labor Notes)

Michelle: We are Winning the Fight for $15 (The Nation)

What does California’s new minimum wage buy? A long commute and a room (Guardian)

Wisconsin’s Right-To-Work Law Struck Down Last Week. What’s Next? (The Cap Times)

Michelle: Worker Cooperatives are More Productive than Normal Companies (The Nation)

Conversation

Ronan Burtenshaw, Irish journalist, former vice-chair of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Youth, and editor of Jacobin‘s new issue on the Easter Rising, Between the Risings

Ronan Burtenshaw & Seán Byers: Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution (Jacobin)

Sarah: Getting Your Irish Up (Baffler)

Argh, I Wish I’d Written That!

Michelle: Paul Blest, The Myth of the Progressive Capitalist (Jacobin)

Sarah: Zach Carter, Nothing Bill Clinton Said To Defend  His Welfare Reform Is True (Huffington Post)