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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 23, 2009 - 10:42 by pat c
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In southern Iran an independent workers union is defending a legal case taken against them by the Revolutionary Court and they need your support. In June 2008, 5,000 workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Plantation and Industry Company in the city of Shush formed an independent trade union following a 46-day strike. Official organizations created by the government (Workers House and Islamic Labour Council) have for years utterly failed to protect the workers and their conditions. The Haft Tapeh workers have had to resort to repeated strike action to fight for their basic rights, including regular payment of wages. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 23, 2009 - 00:04 by Michael Gallagher
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All pics are copyright of Michael Gallagher. 10 images More on www.myspace.com/libertypix ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 22, 2009 - 22:48 by Richard Whelan
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Photo essay of yesterdays protest March by over 100000 people through Dublin ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 22, 2009 - 13:23 by Dave Donnellan
2 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 - 15:37)  1 video file
A protest was called for Saturday 21st February, 2009 to protest against the imposition of a 7% pension levy on all public sector workers. As daily revelations details the level of corruption in the financial sector anger is mounting. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday February 21, 2009 - 21:57 by Contaminated Crow
A natural gas pipeline, an incinerator, a golf development, a windfarm, pylons and a farmer factory ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 21, 2009 - 12:59 by Alan M.
16 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 - 23:48) 1 image 1 video file
For those of you, like myself who can't make it along to the march today, I'll be posting updates from texters at the march as the day goes by. ... read full story / add a comment 
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2009 - 20:36 by robert
3 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 00:05) 1 image 1 video file
Pat O’Donnell and Maura Harrington addressed a public meeting in Sligo on Thurday evening. They gave an inspiring presentation of a campaign that even after ten years of intense struggle could not be broken. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 20, 2009 - 10:12 by Paula Geraghty
7 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 - 12:32) 1 video file
Thousands of CPSU members, who are on the lowest grades of pay and are mostly women, took part in a lunchtime protest outside the Dail on Wednesday in opposition to the Pension levy. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday February 20, 2009 - 01:34 by Citizen of the Autonomous Republic of Creative Practitio
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Series of autonomous zones expected to follow Dublin independence declaration ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu Thursday February 19, 2009 - 20:48 by Feminist Open Forum
3 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 - 21:30) 1 video file
Useful activist and information video on the consequences of a possible re-run of the Lisbon Treaty, by Susan George author activist and campaigner for the interests of Civil Society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday February 19, 2009 - 20:09 by Laura Broxson
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Hi, On, Tues. 17th February, almost 20 members of CAFT Ireland officially launched Ireland's newest expose of Irish fur farms, outside the Dept. of Agriculture - as they are responsible for licensing these death camps. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 19, 2009 - 19:36 by imc-napoli
about the congress are available english translation and web tv ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 19, 2009 - 14:47 by Final Nail Party
4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 22:49) 6 images 2 video files
In a desperate bid to raise more money for the starving Irish bankers, activists from the Final Nail Party took to the streets this morning to collect money from people on their way to work. On top of cuts in wages and conditions of employment, a reduction in services such as public transport and education, and various spurious "levies" and increased taxation; this morning's collection was an opportunity for ordinary workers to contribute directly to help the bankers, some of whom will earn less than two million euro this year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 19, 2009 - 12:09 by Jay
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Do you think strikes by drivers are an appropriate response to proposed cutbacks at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday February 19, 2009 - 00:35 by Nostradamus
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Father and son, Patrick and Jonathan O'Donnell, Porturlin Shore, Ballina; and Enda Carey, also of Porturlin, appeared before Castlebar Circuit Court to appeal a three-month prison sentence imposed at Belmullet District Court. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 23:44 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, two incinerators, a sewage plant, two telemasts, a windfarm, a metal recycling plant, an industrial site, Tara and a county council depot ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 11:10 by Andrew
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Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very ICTU leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2009 - 19:44 by Margaretta D'Arcy
Copies of a Shell2Sea document and a Kilcommon parish document have been faxed in vast quantities to clog people's fax machines and create ill will toward opponents of Shell. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 16, 2009 - 17:44 by TD
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"It's a living organism that has a very nasty, evil side to its ideology, but it ends there, it begins there and it ends there and we shouldn't, again, exaggerate our analysis of Zionism beyond the fact that from a Palestine perspective, it is a destructive ideology, it's bad enough, it has nothing else to it and nothing else should be added to this." "They (EU politicians) don't want to talk about Zionism as colonialism, as racism, they don't want to talk about genocidal policies, ethnic cleansing policies, crimes against humanity, war crimes" "It is the only prison in the world that children are being born in it that have no chance of getting out of it" ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 14, 2009 - 20:19 by John Jefferies
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The Workers' Party today held a protest at the constitutency office of Junior Minister Billy Kelleher who earlier this week strongly hinted at moves to cut the statutory Minimum Wage. ... read full story / add a comment |
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