Politico

In this very special, pewter coated, ermine lined commemorative edition, Gavan Titley reflects, maturely, on symbolism, politics, and domopolitics; Hugh Green looks at symbolic gestures and symbolic symbolism; Dublin Dilettante considers Ireland\'s New Emergency; Cian O\'Callaghan looks at the Queen in the postcolony; and Adam Larragy finds parallels between Ireland in 2011 and Ireland in 1911.

As March 8th marked the centenary of International Women\'s Day, CrisisJam takes the opportunity to focus on issues affecting women both at home and abroad. In a bumper issue,Therese Caherty puts forward the case for feminism, while Justin Frewen sheds light on the rarely reported realities of violence against women. Mary Murphy explains the necessity of gender quotas and Denise Charlton looks abroad for solutions to prostitution and sex trafficking ...

Since the foundation of the state, no matter how corrupt or incompetent, Fianna Fáil\'s ability to command loyalty, to bounce back and even to engender in the electorate a strange kind of sly regard for their own brown envelope crookedness seemed permanent. Last week\'s election has been called everything from a democratic revolution to a mandate for austerity. Whether you\'re inclined to view elections as a democratic right or a hollow spectacle, there is no denying that at least on the lev...

In the political debates of the last few weeks it has been genuinely remarkable how little has been said about those vulnerable groups within Irish society who have borne most of the impact of a crisis visited upon us by the greed and negligence of the political and corporate elite. In this week\'s CrisisJam, we will try and bring the focus back to the principal victims of the recession – the unemployed, poorly paid and migrant workers, young working class people imprisoned for the most inn...

Election 2011 is the most important political event in the history of the state. It provides the people of Ireland with the chance to play Bill Cullen and hire the best, those with the liathróidí, nimbleness and expertise to find different ways of telling us there is no alternative. In light of this, CrisisJam presents a bumper edition curated by Gavan Titley. The will of the people, adjusted for reality, approved by experts. It\'s time for Technocracy Now!

• The boys are back ...

What a week. So limited were the parameters of Tuesday night\'s TV3 Future Taoiseach debate, it\'s a wonder the papers succeeded in eking more than a tweet\'s worth of commentary out of it. CrisisJam felt the Empty Chair put on an excellent show. Student nurses and midwives took to the streets to protest against government plans to gradually eliminate their pay and an Independent candidate in Dublin South East returned to

ESRI forecasts have a notoriously wide margin of error, so their prediction this week that 50,000 people would leave Ireland this year may be way off the mark. Not least because of one of those \'unforeseeable events\' that can throw statisticians\' forecasts off - this time the unforeseen was a series of absurd political meltdowns that, whatever their effects on economic stability, will surely have had hundreds thinking about escape from the lunatic morass that has become Irish public and po...

Crisisjam: exposing and challenging the myths, the half-truths and the occasional outright lies disseminated by a largely uncritical and frequently complicit media; providing a space for new alternative and radical ways of talking and thinking about the crisis, as well as a forum for original research and reporting.

This edition is curated by Colin Coulter.

• How the Hunt Report is compromised
• Naming the Shameless
• Health is Wealth: What Ireland needs -...

BudgetJam is an intervention and a resource for people opposing the bankrupting of Ireland. Through budget week in 2010 this forum brings together challenges to the key myths of the political-economic crisis, an ongoing engagement with media coverage and information on the growing resistance. Read more here.

Recent public discourse has featured a remarka...