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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday April 11, 2012 15:26 by Gernika Bombing Commemoration Committee
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We will be comemorating the bombing of Gernika and other Basque towns by the German Condor Legion in support of the Spanish fascist forces fighting the elected Popular Front Government. It was the first urban civilian population bombing and all of the countries in the world,except the USSR,stood by and let it happen. Today Franco is dead but his spirit lives on in the repression of the Basques by the Spanish state. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Tuesday April 10, 2012 22:25 by Bernie Wright
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School children to be introduced to gambling and animal abuse. Who would have thought the school curriculum in Ireland would be introducing children to Gambling and animal abuse? The Irish Greyhound Board, the IGB, are now offering students and teachers tours of Greyhound stadia around the country. These same racing tracks allow children to bet their pocket money as no age limit applies to anyone placing bets. The IGB, synonymous with trying to export Greyhounds to China and with cruel treatment towards unwanted hounds are using school tours to indoctrinate children into gambling. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Tuesday April 10, 2012 10:36 by Nick Martian
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The idea of the worldwide Children's Revolution on May Day is for the women and children in the environmental movement to lead the marches all over the earth, and show that the World Revolution is peaceful and will save humanity from being driven to extinction by the burning of fossil fuels. The proposal for the worldwide Children's Revolution is for kids' marches to be at the front of all the protests during the global General Strike, and for everyone else to lend their support by displaying banners reading “CAN YOU SAVE THE HUMAN RACE?” to help ensure the survival of future generations. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Monday April 09, 2012 18:05 by Eric
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Monday April 09, 2012 14:49 by Gillen Hardesty
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(Somewhat belated sorry!) Report on successful actions on st Patrick's day by "Occupy Galway" and weeks events leading up to this. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday April 08, 2012 18:38 by Shelver
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This year's Good Friday walk in Kilcommon took place from Glengad to Aghoos along the L1202. This is the road beside Sruth Mhada Chonn estuary - where Shell intend to bore a tunnel to house 5km of the 8km planned onshore Corrib gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday April 08, 2012 07:50 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Gunter Grass published a poem on Wednesday of this week in which he said that Israel's nuclear program and not Iran’s is a threat to world peace. The poem calls for Germany to stop supplying Israel with submarines, and warns against an Israeli strike on Iran. The following is a translation of it; read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday April 08, 2012 00:13 by Nico
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Here in Ireland there are many 1916 commemorations that are held annually by various groups and parties, but unfortunately, only a very divided fraction of those celebrate it from a revolutionary point of view. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 07, 2012 19:38 by @
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Amazing footage of an Antifascist attack with yogurts and eggs in Greece during a live TV interview. The TV presenter was attacked in this manner because a week before he hosted an interview with the representative of the greek Neo-Nazi party "Golden Dawn". read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday April 07, 2012 08:33 by LCW
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Photos http://tinyurl.com/cf5wk6w 27 people associated with the Catholic Worker communities based in Harringay, Rickmansworth and Oxford, undertoook a five hour contemporary Stations of the Cross procession through downtown Westminster/ London on Holy Thursday. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 07, 2012 06:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Mounties were apparently well-bred Englishmen defending the ideals of the British empire according to English writers. However. that's not exactly how writers from the rest of the world see them, with their history of shootouts and extra-judiciary killing and kidnapping. The Mountie according to Brit writers could ride into a hostile native American camp and arrest a chief 's son without raising his weapon, because of a violent reputation of power. residing not in himself but in the history of the British Empire he symbolized. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday April 07, 2012 01:13 by lefty
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It's outrageous that John Kiriakou, a whistleblower, is the ONLY INDIVIDUAL TO BE PROSECUTED IN RELATION TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TORTURE PROGRAM. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday April 06, 2012 18:50 by Patrick McCarthy
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An Appeal to the People of Ireland
Citizens, Immigrants, and Asylum Seekers: In the name of your homes, your livelihoods and your childrens future we beg you to set aside your differences and join together to restore Irelands sovereignty. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Friday April 06, 2012 15:13 by Eric
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Join us this Thursday April 12th in Solidarity Books for a screening of "Virtual Revolution" by Dr Aleks Krotoski. Film description below. read full story / add a comment |
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