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offsite link In Welcoming Trump, Let Us Remember Henry VIII Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
We're all feeling a little giddy after the inauguration, but let us remember to put not our trust in princes, says Joanna Gray. After all, Thomas More effused at the coronation of Henry VIII, and look what happened to him.
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offsite link Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? Fri Jan 24, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
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offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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offsite link Should we condemn or not the glorification of Nazism?, by Thierry Meyssan Wed Jan 22, 2025 14:05 | en

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offsite link Trump and Musk, Canada, Panama and Greenland, an old story, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 14, 2025 07:03 | en

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national / miscellaneous Monday November 28, 2005 - 23:34 by Colm Breathnach   text 90 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 00:29)
At a recent meeting a campaign to build a new party of the working class has been launched by a number of groups and individuals. ... read full story / add a comment
starbucks workers demand 12 dollars per hour
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 28, 2005 - 12:31 by eeekkkkkk   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 19:50)   image 1 image
national / miscellaneous Sunday November 27, 2005 - 17:12 by David L   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 30, 2005 - 13:50)
About 40 people gathered in the Teacher’s Club on Saturday, November 26th to discuss the practicalities of disinvestment and boycott of Israel as a means of defending Palestinians. This is a report on that conference. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 26, 2005 - 22:37 by Irish Friends of Ungdomshuset   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 10, 2006 - 10:39)   image 1 image
Irish support for Ungdomshuset, an autonomous social centre in Copenhagen. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 26, 2005 - 17:55 by Daithí Mac Lochlainn
Register now for the next semester! ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday November 26, 2005 - 17:44 by Bastian
The Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico, announce their plans for a intergalactic encounter “from below and from the left”. Intergalactic because they struggle for “a world in which all worlds can fit”. ... read full story / add a comment
carlow / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 26, 2005 - 03:55 by Escalinator
The front page of the Carlow Nationalist today carried reports of an emerging protest at the gates of a building site in at Fruithill, in Carlow town. The unofficial dispute arose after two members, block layers both, of the Carlow branch of BATU approached the site only to be told they were "not employing anyone who is a member of a union." ... read full story / add a comment
The sign on the way into the 'right of way' through the proposed incinerator site (just like the Rossport compound or the East Galway superdump building site!)
cork / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 23:30 by Terry   text 15 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 16:30)   image 7 images
Brief report, and some photos, on the struggle around incineration in Ringaskiddy, Co.Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:59 by Bryan   text 22 comments (last - saturday march 10, 2012 - 16:15)   image 1 image
In the next few days, the Catholic Worker Crew are setting off from Brisbane in a Citizen's Inspection Vehicle, powered by recycled fish 'n chip vegetable oil, to confront the U.S. NSA Pine Gap Base near Alice Springs.

Pine Gap sattelite targets for U.S. first strike nuclear weapons and also recent drive by cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan, Sudan & Iraq.

Some of the folks go to trial Monday in Rockhampton, Queensland for blockading joint U.S./Australian military Operation Talisman Sabre exerecises this past June.

The Australian government erases civil liberties on the basis of anit-terror hysteria while hosting State terrorist facilities. The Australian Defence Minister has recently threatened the CW crew with svere punishment if they go ahead with their nonviolent action. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:24 by Not RTE   text 22 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 16:00)
Ignoring expert medical advice, the EPA has licenced a Belgian corporation to operate three waste incinerators - two in Cork ,one in Meath. ... read full story / add a comment
Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, London.
mayo / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 06:42 by Terry   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 19:04)   image 12 images
Over the course of the last month participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp have been speaking at public meetings in UCC, Tallaght IT, UCD, Trinity, NUI Maynooth, Dundalk town, as well as at twelve meetings in England; this is a report of the English part of the tour; we are still looking for more meetings, make contact at the above e-mail address, the purpose is to garner sufficient recruits and logistical support for the new ‘construction season’ in the spring of 2006, when the camp re-opens. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 20:16 by Dave   text 23 comments (last - saturday december 03, 2005 - 18:19)
Speculation is mounting on the future of former Sligo-Leitrim Labour TD Declan Bree after a complaint he made against party leader Pat Rabbitte was rejected by an internal disciplinary committee. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:55 by Socialist Party   text 1 comment (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 14:24)
Two members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Russia and a sympathizer were arrested yesterday ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday November 24, 2005 - 13:59 by ,,,,   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 17:10)
I have just heard that there are deportations arranged for today. I spoke briefly to a member of Residents Against Racism and I understand they will be down at Burgh Quay at 2pm.
If you are in the city centre please get down there.
If I get any more details I will post them here. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 15:33 by ollie   text 5 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 14:11)
breaking news: According to rte's website, in the last hour 'A report published today by the Centre for Public Inquiry into the €900m Corrib Gas Project says the controversial gas pipeline carries a real and substantial risk of failure.' ... read full story / add a comment
WTO Hong Kong Scales Poster Comhlámh
international / summit mobilisations Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 15:22 by Comhlámh   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 23, 2005 - 17:02)   image 1 image
1 Dáil Debate on WTO Hong Kong


2 Understanding Hong Kong - an educational poster ... read full story / add a comment
Meath on Track public meeting, 21.11.05
meath / environment Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 00:28 by Meath on Track campaign   text 3 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 10:24)   image 2 images
Meath on Track's first public meeting was held tonight in the Ardboyne Hotel, Navan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday November 21, 2005 - 16:53 by Aisling Walsh
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is symbolically served with the legal documents the US Government has failed to serve him with for 4 months, demanding his return to Bolivia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday November 21, 2005 - 15:20 by diet simon   text 4 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 - 21:30)
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 21, 2005 - 14:56 by ElSuper   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 - 13:13)   image 1 image
ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, is concerned at the news that Basque-language newspaper Euskaldunon Egunkaria remains unable to resume publication following its closure by the Spanish authorities in 2003, due to alleged links with the banned terrorist group ETA. Euskaldunon Egunkaria, established in 1990 as the first and only Basque-language daily newspaper, reportedly with a readership of 15,000 and widely respected throughout the Basque community, was raided by the authorities on 20 February 2003. On this occasion, documents and computers were seized, and the newspaper’s assets frozen. In addition, ten individuals who were or had been members of staff, including the newspaper’s managing director Iñaki Uria and former editor Pello Zubiria, were arrested in dawn raids and held incommunicado for up to five days. ... read full story / add a comment
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