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national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday November 17, 2009 23:41 by Ógra Shinn Féin
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Last weekend saw in excess of a hundred young republican activists, gather at the Felons Club in Belfast for the Ógra Shinn Féín national congress. The weekend was the conclusion of a significant year for Ógra in which the republican youth movement remembered the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the original republican youth movement, Na Fianna Éireann. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 17, 2009 22:24 by Cathal
On Saturday, Sept. 4, five* political activists were arrested in Belgrade on trumped up charges. The five, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrovic, are activists in or associates of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative, the Serbian section of the International Workers’ Association (IWA). (* The sixth person sought by police, Ivan Savic, was also arrested some days later.) read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday November 17, 2009 17:25 by Ronan OD
If you would like to get involved with our next Palestine solidarity event, come on in to our branch meeting on Thursday. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday November 17, 2009 15:20 by Harry McIntyre
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The Socialist Workers Party has split. There has been some speculation on Indymedia and elsewhere that the SWP was having internal difficulties in Belfast. The dust has now settled, and the bulk of their Belfast organisation is now outside of the party. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday November 17, 2009 11:57 by LD
On Feb 16th 2009, using contact.ie, I sent an e-mail to all public reps re: Anglo Irish Bank and members of the gov. As far as I can remember the mail I sent was a cut up of a comment/ letter written by someone on some blog I read at the time and the article I mention in the mail from the Irish Examiner. Today, going through my unopened mail I discovered the minister decided to reply by including me in his list of contacts to recieve waffle ten months later via Niall Blaney T.D. Below is the correspondance. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday November 17, 2009 10:28 by swp
international / environment / other press Tuesday November 17, 2009 10:04 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Brazilian Workers Charge Shell with "Environmental Crimes" Brazilian WorkersLeft to right: Rasteiro, Cascone, de Lima (November 12, New York City) -- Brazilian chemical workers addressing a New York audience of students, academics, and union members said that the Shell Oil Company, one of the world's largest, had willfully ignored life-threatening exposures to its workers who handled hazardous chemicals in South America. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday November 16, 2009 19:05 by Paddy Hackett
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These left wing parties, such as the SWP and the SP, claim that there are pro-working class solutions available to the Irish state within a capitalist paradigm. In making such reactionary claims they are merely attempting to fool the working class. There are only two solutions: a capitalist or a communist solution. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday November 16, 2009 14:55 by People Before Profit
Special needs child, 11 year old Angel Mc Donagh faces into another week without schooling because of the failure of the Department of Education to provide the necessary resources to St Michael’s House, the special needs school, which her father was told could cater for her needs. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday November 16, 2009 14:33 by john arden
Novelist/playwright John Arden will read his new short story read full story / add a comment
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 16, 2009 13:20 by Republican Network for Unity Kildare
END POLITICAL INTERNMENT IN IRELAND NOW! FREE COLIN DUFFY! POLITICAL STATUS FOR REPUBLICAN PRISONERS! read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Monday November 16, 2009 00:21 by Ardoyne Republican
“Earlier today a Republican Network for Unity Ard Comhairle delegation, returning from a series of meetings in Glasgow, was detained at Belfast International Airport arrivals by a group of approximately twenty (20) uniformed and plain clothed RUC/PSNI members. As one an Ard Comhairle member from Derry was being questioned, the plain clothed RUC/PSNI man menacingly told him that he was well aware of the make up of the individual’s family and of the details and names of his children. The same plain clothed RUC/PSNI man then inquired if he had any information on those he was travelling with and/or of the RNU in general. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday November 15, 2009 20:15 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on how workers confidence has increased in the ongoing demonstrations in Iran. While the militias beat many protesters, they were also opposed and in some cases forced to retreat. Full text at link. No-one in Iran will ever forget November 4 2009. It was the day when illegal demonstrations in at least six separate locations in Tehran and 20 cities and university campuses throughout the country overshadowed the state-organised event. As the national broadcasting service was showing live pictures of the gathering outside the former US embassy, shouts of “Death to the dictator” from protesters on neighbouring streets and squares were so loud that it was difficult to hear the minister’s speech. In Tehran the six locations were Enghelab Square, Ferdowsi, Haft Tir, Enghelab Square, Vali Asr and Vanak Square. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday November 14, 2009 17:08 by The Oh-Aissieux
Scéalaíocht le Máirín Mhic Lochlainn cois tine Club Áras na nGael, 45 Sráid Dominic, An Gaillimh 21 Samhain óna 2-4 iarnóin Saorchead isteach (ach glacfar le deontais). Fáilte roimh chách. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday November 14, 2009 16:52 by The Oh-Aissieux
Lost Souls Variations - tales of the dead and the undead. Featuring Adam Wilson and The Oh-Aissieux Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2. Tuesday 17 November. From 8 to 10.30 pm. Doors 7.30. Admission EUR 6 / Concessions EUR 2 / Celtic Tiger victims sneak in the back door. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday November 14, 2009 15:34 by Contaminated Crow
A landfill, a waste transfer site, a World Heritage site, two masts and turf-cutting read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday November 14, 2009 12:42 by big_ron
Heather Milton Lightning from the Indigenous Environmental Network Canada will be discussing the campaign against enviromental desctruction in Canada by Shell and BP. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday November 14, 2009 12:11 by Eugene Mc Cartan
From boom to bust. Public Forum. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / event notice Friday November 13, 2009 19:57 by anti-fascist
The IBCC has organised a Spanish Civil war - lecture and wreath laying, Dec. 5th All welcome read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday November 13, 2009 19:55 by pat c
Yassamine Mather interviews Ali Pichgah a leader of the Iranian oilworkers strikers during the revolutionary period.Ali emphasises the importance of opposing all Imperialist sanctions. Full text of interview at link How do you evaluate the recent political protests and the role of the working class in them? The protest against the regime’s rigged elections took such dimensions because the majority of the population are opposed to the absence of political freedoms in Iran. In particular the youth, who constitute a high percentage of the population, feel contempt for the way the religious state interferes in their private lives. People are losing patience and in general opposition to the regime has reached unprecedented levels. I think what is different this time is the terrible economic situation. Inflation above 25%, mass unemployment, the growing gap between rich and the poor ... and from this point of view one can say that the relentless workers’ struggles of the last two years against job losses and poverty, against non-payment of wages, as well as the demonstrations by teachers, nurses and so on against the economic policies of the government, were precursors to the huge demonstrations we saw this summer. Of course, many of these protests were defensive (wage-earners trying to maintain what little they had), yet the working class has remained the most persistent opposition to the entire regime over the last few years, in the run-up to June 2009. Coincidently we see the continuation of the mass protests of early summer in the unprecedented level of workers’ struggles in recent weeks, the victory of the Iran Khodro workers (where the regime clearly retreated), the revolutionary tactics of Pars Wagon workers (from ransacking the refectory to mounting hunger strikes), workers bringing their families along to demonstrations . read full story / add a comment |
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