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international / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday November 29, 2014 17:45 by Shane Cassidy
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This article examines the Transatlantic Free Trade agreement and it's potential repercussions.
In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2]. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday November 28, 2014 14:13 by Rua
RNU have forced Stormonts regional development minister to amend the law to ban water meters being installed. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Thursday November 27, 2014 17:49 by Rua
RNU took direct action to disable water meters in Belfast. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday November 25, 2014 17:54 by Rua
RNU call on the people living in the occupied 6 counties to actively engage in opposing water meters that have recently been installed by NI Water. read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Monday November 24, 2014 22:31 by john throne
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Tens and tens of thousands of Irish workers and youth have taken to the streets and confronted the government and the state. What is the nature of this movement and what is its potential? Should it just be seen as a movement to bring down this government and replace it with another government. Or should it be seen as having the potential to bring down the system and replace it with another system. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday November 23, 2014 16:55 by system failure
It is certain that various US think tanks will be monitoring right now the rise of the Left in Greece with the radical-Left party SYRIZA, as well as Podemos in Spain and other countries in Europe. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Sunday November 23, 2014 01:40 by Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports
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The recent death of ex-senator and architect, Jack Fitzsimons of Kells, County Meath, has been keenly felt by his family and by the many people who knew him in his former professions. Readers of his best-selling book, Bungalow Bliss, will remember him too for his professional and easy to follow advice on affordable house designs. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 18, 2014 14:23 by somethinghastobedone
SERIOUS BREACH - LEINSTER HOUSE WASTING TAX PAYERS MONIES - LET THEM PAY THE WATER CHARGE read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2014 20:14 by Political Hostage
In the meantime, Michael McKevitt sits in his prison cell, unlawfully detained, thirteen years into a sentence that was handed down on the word of a paid MI5/FBI informer who operated illegally within the twenty-six counties with the full connivance of the Dublin government. read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2014 11:37 by anon
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It is clear that the governments is seeking to split the anti-water charges campaign by modifying the water charges and publicly attacking any violence surrounding the protests. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 16, 2014 22:43 by WISE Up Wales
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Policing for the G20 summit in Brisbane this past weekend was of overkill proportions. There was very little in the way of serious resistance, the Guardian reported that cops (6,000) outnumbered protesters and only 14 arrests were made. One of these was Irish-Australian Manning and Assange solidarity and anti-war activist Ciaron O'Reilly, who has been held in custody all weekend and will be brought before Brisbane Magistrates on Monday morning. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 14, 2014 22:20 by Paddy Hackett
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Romanticising the working class as much, as the radical left do, merely holds back any chances of authentic political development. It is almost a taboo among this Left to make any serious criticisms of this working class. Left communists are not obliged to pander to a working class that has been backward for so long. read full story / add a comment
News Release: Vermilion's Luxembourg tax deal will further reduce revenue from Corrib – by how much?
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday November 12, 2014 23:34 by shell2sea
Shell to Sea has called on Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Alex White to clarify what impact Corrib Gas partner Vermilion's Luxembourg tax avoidance deal – revealed in today's Irish Times – will have on the revenue the exchequer thinks it will earn from the Corrib gas field. [1] read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday November 12, 2014 17:56 by aa
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Today G4S has been victim of a fake press release spread in the name of the company, which made circulate the false rumour of a serious accountancy scandal concerning G4S. This false release induced G4S' shares to temporary fall down. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 11, 2014 22:46 by Blanca Gasco
A high level technical analysis of why MH17 crashed down and how it was worked out. Clear evidences show that the airplane was shot down by an ukrainian fighter jet. Eyewitnesses have seen and heared a second airplane near the passenger plane. Look for these You Tube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_R2NA1txc ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czqmeMhWyFo ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Friday November 07, 2014 16:54 by john throne
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Workers move en masse against the water charges. Their leaders can no longer hold them back. The left no longer have an excuse not to themselves be able to build a mass force. The left sectarianism, ultra leftism and opportunism of these groups has to be confronted. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / press release Thursday November 06, 2014 23:06 by Internationalist Group
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Get the journal of revolutionary Marxism -- contact an Internationalist supporter or send US$0.50 to Mundial Publications, Box 3321 Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008 USA. Five issue/one year subscription $10. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 05, 2014 22:26 by William Wraithwrite
It may very well be coincidence that just when Israel was starting to take some heat for its atrocious war crimes and policy in Gaza at the end of this summer of 2014 along comes a newly name-minted entity engaging in sensational beheadings for news-grabbing attention. Whether red herring cover just happens to be luck for Israel and the United States in regards to committing and tolerating war crimes or whether there was some conspiracy is not that relevant but what is relevant is that the people of the world cannot let other more recent events erase from memory what the world witnessed in Gaza. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 05, 2014 13:34 by Paddy Hackett
It does follow that truth is unattainable. However it is not easily acquired. Its acquisition is a struggle. To strip off illusion and much of ambiguity contemporary society needs replacement by a communal form that precludes social oppression read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 05, 2014 13:14 by Peter Simple
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A response to Miriam Lord in the Irish Times 23 October 2014: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/this...73438 The big man protecting the little woman. That explains the sexist picture dominating the Irish Times front page on 23 October, of Taoiseach Enda Kenny looking out for Mairia Cahill. In our patriarchal society men hold the material and physical upper hand. Women often fight back with emotional and psychological weapons. These are being exploited in this fight, but not by men on the one side and women on the other, but by men and women on both sides. The spouse of First Minister Peter Robinson, Iris, was in an exploitative relationship with a younger man. He is forgotten (I forget his face and name), while Mrs Robinson was publicly rehabilitated by President Mary McAleese and the Queen of England at a live televised public event in Dublin. She received therapy and expiated her sins, while he was left to his own devices. Who cares, f**k him. read full story / add a comment |
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