January 2000
1969: Past And Present. Editorial
The Irish Budget Crisis. Angela Clifford
Fifth Column: Dancing With Wolves?; Reply To Radex
A Radical Budget. John Martin
Northern News Digest: Left Twisting; Us & No One Else; No, Minister; Orange Poll; Mo Bugs Gerry; Split Milked; Faul Guy; Guns In Bunkers
Northern Ireland: End Of Ice Age? Pat Walsh
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: BUDGET BLUES!
February 2000
Belfast And Vienna: Democracy vs. Elections. Editorial
In Quest Of Pushkin! Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: Racing To Wreck Reform; Income Gap--Optical Illusion?; West Brittannia Loses The Plot
New Labour And Fine Gael. Pat Muldowney
Grozny—Sarajevo. Sean McGouran
News Digest: Glass Ceiling Smashed; Review Of Quangos; Black On The Agenda?; Integrated Schools; Rack And De Bruin; Loyalist Vendettas; Mandelson To Recollapse?; Curiouser & Curiouser
Northern Ireland: Are Class Politics A Possibility? (Report of Article by Billy Mitchell, with reply by Mark Langhammer)
Individualisation And British Taxation. Angela Clifford, David Morrison
Revisionism: The Australian Angle. Letter from P. O'Beirne
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: SOCIALISTS AND THE FAMILY
An Australian Republic. Letter from R. Burrage.
March 2000
Master Strategies? Editorial
Thoughts Of An Oxford Scholar (review of Regan book). B. Clifford
Fifth Column: Income Gap—Optical Illusion?; I Have In My Hand A Piece Of Paper; Fagin Blair?; Smug, Smugger, Smuggest
Austria: A Suitable Case For Carpet Bombing? Sean McGouran
Conflicting Views On The IRA Ceasefire And Belfast Agreement—Report
Pacification Or Peace Process? Pat Walsh
Ambush! Pat Walsh
Aubane—Dublin 4's 'Vietnam'? Sean McGouran
The Irish Empire SMcG
The Observer And Felon-Setting SMcG
Northern News Digest: State Tampring; Terrorist Chic; Demilitarisation; Layers Of The Union; IRA Deny Gesture; Filling The Vacuum; Dirty Protest; Terrors Of The Earth
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney:: Farmers: The Lie Of The Land
April 2000
Northern Ireland: The Reasons For Rubbish! Editorial
Statuary Conflict—Report
Fifth Column: The Pope, King Billy, Joe Stalin—And The Holocast; Consolidated Ethnics
Austria: Postscript. Editorial
Edmund Burke And David Trimble (Reader's Letter)
Arms's Length Pacification. Pat Walsh
Northern News Digest: Promising Politics; Harland & Wolff; Loopy-hole; Ulster Unionist Council; Fault Lines;
Stay Away!; Snap!; Trimble humbled
Salisbury's Boer War. Brendan Clifford
Thoughts Of An Oxford Scholar: Postscript
Colonialism As Rape. Sean McGouran
Views Of The USSR. SMcG
Shaggy Dog Story? David Morrison
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Boom Time Pay Deal!
May 2000
Northern Ireland: Running On The Spot. Editorial
C.C. O'Brien On David Irving. Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: Pond-Liffe; The Polish Pope's Last Victory?
Strategies. Reader's Letter
Republicans And Dissenters. Pat Walsh
Northern News Digest: Weir Saying No; Back To Base; Cap That; Step Forward, Bertie; Orange Squeeze; Brits Out; Rights On!
The Clueless Crew. Pat Walsh
The Washington Report On Middle East Affairs. Esme Geering
Decommissioning. An Edited Letter. David Morrison
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: 1) Africa: A Plan Of Campaign. 2) Being And Nothingness. Jack Lane
June 2000
Republicans Call The Shots. Pat Walsh
Ireland: A Nation Running On Credit? John Martin
Fifth Column: Biafra, Mon Amour (?)
The Scandals In Ireland. Angela Clifford
Imprecations! Brendan Clifford
Northern News Digest: Who Is Lying?; PUP Guns; 'Appalling'; Ructions; Musical Seats; Constantinible; Employment Fairer
Spying Under Cover Of Aid: Kosovo, Major Stiv Pret & Problem NGOs. Patrick O'Beirne
OSCE As Spies. E. Courtney
Industrial Espionage Scandal—Report
The Last September. A Film Review
Orange March In Dublin. AC
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: The Zimbabwean Land War; Mugabe's Irish Connections; MDC; Mugabe & The Gay Movement
July 2000
Northern Ireland: Topsy-Turvy. Sinn Fein And The Unionists. Pat Walsh
The Celtic Tiggers !
Fifth Column: OK, it wasn't jazz, but we liked it
Ernest Shackleton:More Censorship From The Irish Times. (Of a letter sent to them by Manus O'Riordan)
Poor Labour Result In Tipperary South. Angela Clifford
Northern News Digest: DUP Poll Win; Real IRA News; SF Win Erne; War On Drugs; Orange Snub To PC; Agreement; Burnside Nominated; EEC Aid; Miss N. Ireland; No Surrender; Beatings Call
Irish Wartime Neutrality (Review). Brendan Clifford
Artificial Famine In Ukraine 1932-33. Letter from Esme Geering
The Australian Republic: A Reply. Letter from Patrick O'Beirne
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Inflation: while control of wages is a must, control of prices is economic heresy!!
August 2000
Deserters In The Hour Of Need. Editorial
Holocausts. Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: 'Flegs'--Yet Again!; U-571: WWII Refought
Ourselves Alone. Songs Of The Nation. No. III.
Northern News Digest: Patten Illegal?; Yawnionism; Coat-trailing; O'Reillygraph; Die Hards; Paper Dragons; Diplock; Mandelscandel.
Fiji—Report
Letter From Austria. Herta
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney; In Praise Of Manufacturing: (review of book by Eamonn Fingleton)
September 2000
Now, Two Hundred Years Later . . . Editorial
Film Censorship. Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: Thoughts Of An Oxford Scholar, West Britain, Latter-Day Marxists, And Spiritual Independence; Orange Awry; Ballymena—Slipping Buckle On The Bible Belt?
Adair Dragging Us Into The Future Backwards. From Lá, translation of article by Eoghan O'Neill
The Silence Of The Unionists. From Lá, translation
Northern News Digest: Flag Flaunting; Federalism; Admission?; Vicious Circle; Ultras; Your Turn, Martin; UDA vs UVF
Borders In Irish Literature: Roy Foster—Report
Hospital Provision In Northern Ireland. Tom Hagen
In Brief: Money And Sport; Maze Library And The Linenhall; African Land War; Euro; Language & Lyricism
Famine In The Ukraine. Sean McGouran (Letter)
Frank Kearney: An Obituary. Patrick O'Beirne
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Workers In The Maze Of Industrial Relations
October 2000
Supporting The Belfast Agreement: As A Rope Supports A Hanging Man! Editorial
The 'Irish Empire'. Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: 'Ballymena Revisited; Hang The Kaiser?; Futile (?) Journey Of Reconciliation
Ceasefire Soldiers. Pat Walsh
Who Fears To Speak For RTE?. Malachi Lawless
Frank Kearney: A Funeral Note. Cartha Maloney
Northern News Digest: Harland & Wolff; Trimble; Tory Split; Real IRA Grows; His Story; Omagh Inquest; Trimble Backs RUC
Canon Sheehan On Martin Luther
Novel Priests (Review). Sean McGouran
The RIC: Conor Brady's Contortions. Jack Lane
Two Corrections
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: National Sabotage (Sale of Whitegate Oil Refinery) A Bank Raid! John Boland: The 'Squire' Of Fine Gael Individualisation Resolution
November 2000
"Steak-Knife" Unionism, Trimble's Provo-cation, Pat Walsh
Stop-Press: Trimble's Ultimatum. Editorial
Yugoslavia And Hubert Butler. Brendan Clifford
Fifth Column: Back To The Future; Cradle Of The Queen
A Challenge To Voting Arrangements Under The Belfast Agreement By Councillor Mark Langhammer
The Problems In Fiji. Reader's Letter from Patrick O'Beirne
Northern News Digest: Martin Again; Omagh; No Guns; Saville Row; Pressure Mounts; Indentity Monger; Curran Murder; Trimble Wins Again
The Mayor, The Professor And Plaster Saints. Pat Muldowney
LABOUR COMMENT edited by Pat Maloney: Freedom Of What Press?
December 2000
The Belfast Agreement: Donaldson's High Plateau. Editorial
Celtic Tiger: Quo Vadis? Pat Murphy
Fifth Column: Rememberance Of What Exactly; Bush versus Gore
Two British Council Conferences:
Brief encounter In Limerick. Sean McGouran
Kilkenny Love-In. Hubert Butler Centenary. Authors, various
Eoghan Harris And False Memory. Sean McGouran
Northern News Digest: Don't Inhale; Destabilisation; The Bill; Turning Screw; Hoist Bye
LABOUR COMMENT by Pat Maloney: A Labour Party Christmas Cracker!
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