Belfast Solidarity picket for Afghans in hunger strike meets with Irish government officials
Discusses structural racism in immigration and asylum policy

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The bullying and intimidation of workers in the Social Economy in Ireland has gone unpublisised for far to long. read full story / add a comment

Monthly meetings of Depression Dialogues take place on the first Thursday of each month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at 2 Eden Park, Glasthule, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin read full story / add a comment

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Monthly meetings of Depression Dialogues will take place at 2 Eden Park, Glasthule, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin on the first Thursday of each month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm read full story / add a comment

The NRA throws around groundless allegations: and those who protest find the price of exercising their democratic rights comes very high indeed. read full story / add a comment

Shell to Sea activists will assemble this evening at 6.30 p.m. at the Belvedere Rugby Club where the Norwegian ambassador will be hosting a reception, to protest at the Norwegian government's involvement in the Corrib gas scandal through its 36.5 share in the Corrib gas field. read full story / add a comment

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On Sunday 15th May and Monday 16th May members of the Peace network, including Irish Anti-war, some unmanageables , individuals from residents against Racism
and concerned individuals gained access to St Patrick's Cathedral and spent large parts of the day and evening inside talking to the men and to the authorities on their behalf.
I do not speak on behalf of this group, but as an individual who was a part of it. read full story / add a comment

"Interference by the major powers for more than two decades has plunged Afghanistan into being one of the most violent and disturbed countries on Earth. First the Russians and then the CIA and Saudi Arabia and the rest intervened with their national interests in mind. Latterly, the CIA and Saudi Arabia called both the jihad and the horrific Taliban, which has been a major source of the instability and violence, into existence." read full story / add a comment

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id...=8851 read full story / add a comment

Families of the 1981 hunger strikers along with H-block protest veterans have denounced Sinn Fein's main support group in the United States for selling plates commemorating the death fast. read full story / add a comment

I got caught up in Monday's Rail Strike and Iarnród Éireann tried to trample on my rights read full story / add a comment

AFTER-WORK ANTI-WAR SOLIDARITY VIGIL, ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, 6.30pm

The anti-war vigil held earlier this evening in solidarity with the Afghan hunger strikers was a modest success. In total, about 40 or so anti-war activists, from a wide range of groups (and none), turned up outside St Patrick's Cathedral. This was a wonderful turnout, when one considers that the vigil was called that morning. We expect the numbers to increase as word of these daily anti-war solidarity vigils spreads.

As of tomorrow, solidarity vigils will be held outside the cathedral at 12.30pm and 6.30pm daily. Please ensure that you attend at least one of these events. The 12.30 vigil is especially important.

Anti-war activists have decided to offer tangible support to the Afghan hunger strikers by continuing to organise the 6.30pm vigil. Residents Against Racism, and others, are putting enormous work into organising solidarity during the day and it is only right that the anti-war movement mobilises in support of their efforts. We must offer more than mere words.

At a meeting held in the wake of last night's (Tuesday) vigil, anti-war activists agreed to continue with the 6.30pm vigil. These will be held each evening between 6.30pm and 7.30pm, and it is very important that everybody makes a genuine effort to be there. If you are free during the day, go to the vigil at 12.30pm; if you are working, turn up at 6.30pm. But do something!

Please bring placards (preferably home-made and colourful!) and your solidarity to tonight's vigil. And spread the word!

Warm regards,

Fintan Lane,
Anti-War Ireland
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One of the most famous celebrity islamophobes has been exposed as a fraud and is fleeing Holland to join the payroll of the American Enterprise Institute. Cited often on Indymedia and other venues as an exemplar of feminist criticism of "islamofascists" it turns out that many details of her ordeal at the hands of Somali islamicists may be false.

The fact that she is so allied to neocons ought to give pause to those that are too enthusiastic in their blanket attacks on Islam. Of course it doesn't discredit /all/ critics of Islam, or even some of her own criticisms, but it does show that such criticisms are happily amplified and exploited by sinister forces. read full story / add a comment

Let them Stay!
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at the 12 noon protest day it was confirmed that there will be protests each day at 12.30 and 6.30pm at st patricks cathedral-friday at mcdowells office and saturday at two pm at st patricks cathedral-spread the word read full story / add a comment

Irish Republican Information Service (no. 66)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 15 Bealtaine / May 2006 read full story / add a comment

The traditional view of Irish history is based on the premise that the Irish people had a moral right to fight for their political, economic, social and cultural independence from Imperialist Britain.

According to Dr. Christine Kinealy,(A New History of Ireland, This Great Calamity, etc.) an opposing view began to emerge in Ireland in the 1930s, when a number of leading Irish Academics, following the lead of earlier British historians, set an agenda for the systematic revision of traditional Irish History, which they claimed was rife with “nationalist myths”. Their declared mission was to replace this so-called mythology with objective, “value-free history”.

In her essay, “Beyond Revisionism”, Dr. Kinealy says that the revisionist movement gained a new prominence in the battle for Irish hearts and minds during the 1960’s when the IRA campaign intensified: “Challenging nationalist mythology became an important ideological preoccupation of a new generation of historians”. read full story / add a comment

Just how low the garda will stoop has been shown again when they arrested Pat Rossiter and put him into the cell where his 14 year old son had sustained the injuries which killed him.
Pat has now won the Public Order case against him and intends to sue the gardai for wrongful arrest. read full story / add a comment