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international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 18:46 by C Murray
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The LPR in Poland had attempted at the end of 2006 to force through an amendment to the article 38 of the Polish Constitution which would have transcended the already legislated for abortion rights of Polish women. The amendment was to have read ' to protect human life from the moment of Conception'. The campaigners launched a global letter of protest which went through many women's groups and a political campaign to raise awareness of the issues surrounding women's reproductive rights. The Vote happened and the LPR lost. Marek Jurek has been forced to resign. During the almost five month campaign which saw deep division in the Polish Parliament, the Alicia Tysiac case was heard in Strasbourg, The ECHR ruled that the Polish State had failed in their legal obligation to provide the mother of three with a legal abortion on medical grounds, despite three doctors advising that she would lose her sight if she was to proceed with her pregnancy. read full story / add a comment 
galway / politics / elections / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 16:50 by TD
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"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36). Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 14:09 by german communist
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The black forest city of Freiburg, in Germany's southwest, yesterday held a burial with full state honors for the former Nazi navy judge Hans Filbinger. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 12:15 by Alan MacSimoin
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The Workers Solidarity Movement, along with anarchist organisations throughout the world, refuses to take part in parliamentary elections. Is it not downright weird, or even hypocritical, when anarchists claim to want more democracy than anyone else? Is this a rejection of democracy? Alan MacSimoin tries to answer some of the questions that arise again and again read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 10:23 by Edward Horgan
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Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early. Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 03:41 by Seán Ryan
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When water is finally privatised we will thank our masters for it read full story / add a comment |
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