An Irish emigrant in Sydney - life, work & radical politics

James McBarron
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:15:23 +0000
Australia, Capitalist crisis, Marian Price, Migration / racism, International, Newspaper, News, a poor irish emigrant

In Sydney's Sun Herald there's a graph of unemployment in Europe with the title "Painful Recovery" it has percentages from Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and the overall EU.It says "Monthly unemployment. Ireland's unemployment is no longer surging but that is largely because 1600 people emigrate every week to find work". So apparently all that guff about how generous social welfare is in Ireland is a lie, as thousands seek work elsewhere and quite a few in Australia. (Sunday March 10th page 29).