Kevin Keating is a trade union activist, a long-standing opponent of social partnership in the Irish Trade Union movement and advocate of rank and file organisation. Jonathan Morrison is a researcher with a wide knowledge of the political development of emerging economies. Joe Corrigan is an accountant with a background in economics and author of Prisoners of Social Partnership, an analysis of the corrosive effects of collaboration between the Irish government and Trade Union leadership. In Ireland’s Credit Crunch they discuss the roots of the current crisis in Ireland, the unprecedented scale of the threat to workers in Ireland and Europe and details of the programme that workers should advance to build a real alternative to the economic famine they are facing. Further analysis of the Irish Crisis is available at: www.socialistdemocracy.org