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international / eu / other press Friday June 20, 2008 18:36 by Chekov   text 1 comment (last - friday june 20, 2008 22:17)
A new detailed look at the Lisbon treaty campaign, the European Context, the significance of the vote, the media coverage and why the campaign went the way it went.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 20, 2008 18:31 by pat c
Chris Strafford reports on the HOPI School which had sessions on Women, Sanctions, Working class in Iran, National Minorities and 1979. Full text at link.

Hopi chair Mark Fischer opened the event by explaining that Hopi’s message has found a “resonance” in the workers’ movement. Two important unions, PCS and Aslef, have affiliated, proving the majority of the Stop the War Coalition leadership wrong. At both conferences the delegates found Hopi’s principled stand - against imperialist war, against the theocratic regime - was not too complex, but blindingly obvious. Mark reminded comrades of the growing threat of imperialist attacks on Iran, either directly from the USA or from its regional watchdog, Israel.

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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday June 20, 2008 16:38 by Ois
6pm Wednesday 25th of June in the WSM offices, 5 Merrion Row

Map to WSM offices: http://tinyurl.com/5pjpr7

Meeting to organise protest on Saturday July 5th against recent firing of CNT member in Spain and continuing anti-union discrimination in Grand Rapids, Illinois, USA. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Friday June 20, 2008 14:36 by O. O'C.   text 36 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2008 00:01)
* Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Minister Michael Martin give in to Franco-German and EU Commission pressure to permit the remaining Lisbon ratifications to continue, when they could have stopped these by saying that Ireland cannot and will not ratify the Lisbon Treaty, as the Irish people have rejected it.

* The Irish Government lines up with Brussels against the Irish people rather than stands by the people's democratic decision of last week to defend it vis-a-vis Brussels - so as to bring about a 26/1 situation by year's end with which to bludgeon Irish voters in a referendum re-run.

* Talk of "respecting" Ireland's vote turns out in practice to be a cover for setting out to overturn it in a referendum re-run, with Brian Cowen's, Michael Martin's and Dick Roche's full support - and behind a thick barrier of hypocrisy, spoofing and lies. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday June 20, 2008 10:14 by Frank Keoghan
People's Movement
Press Release
19/06/2008

Unelected EU Commission uses ECJ to attack workers
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday June 19, 2008 23:03 by Nikita
There will be an open discussion meeting on "The Transition From Socialism To Communism" at 6pm in Connolly Books on Monday the 23rd of June. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday June 19, 2008 22:25 by Howard Holby
As we all know by now, the imperial classes of Europe are busy looking for new creative ways to continue to impose the Lisbon Treaty on the member states, regardless of its rejection by Ireland. The very same philosophy that drives them doing so can be captured in the following highlights.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday June 19, 2008 11:37 by Katie Weider
When: 10 July at 7pm
Where: Medecins Sans Frontieres, 9-11 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 2
Who: Everyone is Welcome! No registration is needed! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 19, 2008 01:19 by Reporter 12   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 05, 2008 22:32)
6 AM Thursday June 19, Ceasefire in Gaza . read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 22:47 by Nesty
Without looking at the past and blame things that were left to do, confident that the future of Puerto Rico depends on their children, that true independence depends on them and not the will of an empire increasingly eager to hold new lands. Booting the shackles imposed by the visitor, who said that visits send in our home? read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday June 18, 2008 19:25 by Sean Clinton   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 19, 2008 20:12)
This morning the Lisbon Campaign for Middle East Justice and Peace sent the following letter to An Taoiseach Mr. Brian Cowen T.D., the Minster for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Michael Martin T.D., leading European Officials and all Irish MEP's to convey our reasons for campaigning for a NO vote in the Treaty of Lisbon referendum.

Despite the fact that Israel killed 58 Palestinian children since the start of 2008 (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights) EU foreign ministers yesterday agreed to strengthen ties with Israel. The EU policy of rewarding Israel, the aggressor, has caused the Irish electorate to loose confidence in the EU's competence to espouse a foreign policy which represents the views of most Irish people, especially in regard to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday June 18, 2008 18:13 by pat c
Perry Anderson will discuss the current collapse of American global hegemony and the situation of the contemporary left in a now rapidly-changing international arena. Perry is a founder-editor of the New Left Review.

8pm National Gallery of Ireland (entry Merrion Square West entrance).

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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday June 18, 2008 18:07 by pat c
Economic historian Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing, will discuss the economic decline of American empire and the Rise of Asia.

8 pm, National Gallery of Ireland (entry Merrion Square West entrance). read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday June 18, 2008 17:25 by Phier   text 19 comments (last - friday july 04, 2008 11:22)
Further information including who to contact (in regards to http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87991 ) read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday June 18, 2008 16:06 by m
Discussions between the sacked airport shop stewards and representatives of the Unite union over a way of resolving the long running dispute that led last month to a hunger strike at Transport House, have failed to lead to agreement with Gordon McNeill. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 13:44 by Howard Holby
Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty with a decisive majority and very high turnout, period. Yet, the Commission and the European Council declared the dead Lisbon Treaty still ‘alive’. The fallacious premise the EU has chosen as a basis for continuing to justify the unjustifiable course of Lisbon: “the Treaty has been ratified by 18 states”. The factual premise however is this: 1) The Lisbon Treaty has been rejected by Ireland; 2) The Lisbon Treaty, in its earlier form as the ‘EU Constitution’ [1], had already been rejected by France and Netherlands long before the said 18 countries started to ratify it under a new name. For many of the NO voters one of the main reasons to reject the Lisbon Treaty has been the fact that the Lisbon Treaty is already a dead treaty to begin with.

If the EU insists that Europe’s ‘problems’ can be solved only without the agreement of its 500 million voters and only with a version of Lisbon Treaty - that is the real problem of Europe.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 19:34 by SP   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 18, 2008 12:34)
A 15 minute video on the detention and deportation of Scott Parkin by the Australian Security Intelligence Oraganisation. In 2004 Scott Parkin a nonviolent anti-war activist organiser from Texas was detained in Australia as a possible national security threat and deported. Video contains interviews with Scott and Australian activists.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 17:10 by tomeile   text 15 comments (last - tuesday june 24, 2008 23:28)
Spiegel Online writes that a broad ,cross party consensus is emerging in Israel for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilites. Dani Yatom an ex Mossad chief ,but a Knesset member for the Israeli Labour Party and not considered a hawk ,is quoted as saying "We no longer believe in the effectiveness of sanctions .A military operation is needed if the world wants to stop Iran."
Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert who spent many years working for the CIA, says that an Israeli strike before the end of Bush’s presidency is the most likely scenario and that , if that happens , the middle east will go up in flames. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:53 by Zapata
Working Class voted overwhelmingly against the Lisbon treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:17 by Micky Joe anarchist   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 08:52)
being on the winning side good news for fishermen. read full story / add a comment
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