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national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday May 01, 2008 02:30 by John Fitz
 7 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 14:13)
We're told Lisbon is to make the EU efficient. Why then haven't the parliamentarians that want this efficiency reduced their numbers (to about 60 TDs in Ireland) to reflect the fact that two thirds (80% reported for Britain & Germany) of their law-making functions are already transferred to Europe. TDs are rapidly making themselves powerless, redundant, and sidelining democracy and the Constitution. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 01, 2008 02:04 by James
May-June 2008 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday May 01, 2008 00:32 by hasan i sharba
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1985 marked not only Thatchers attack on the working class via the miners strike, terror in NI, inner city riots,but also Thatchers sending in paramilitary Police to stop the emergence of a counter culture made up of mainly unemployed young people who sought to challenge Thatchers material society. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 19:18 by O.O'C.
Proponents of the Treaty of Lisbon insist there is nothing new with regard to tax harmonisation in this treaty; this is positively wrong - and we can show you the facts to prove it. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 19:09 by Justin Morahan
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ONE-SIDED REPORT OF CASE INVOLVING JUDGE Yesterday, 29 April, the report of a case for defamation in several national newspapers failed to cover in a fair manner much of what happened in Dublin Circuit Court on Monday but gave a one-sided account which favoured the Plaintiff (a Judge) and denied the Defendant fair reportage. Journalist Ray Managh wrote a lopsided piece pubished in most morning newspapers in one form or another. In all cases the reports make no mention of the case for the Defence but recount at length much of tthe Presiding Judge's remarks and the Prosecution's case. This report tries to redress the balance in the interests of fair reportage. Any errors are regretted and are entirely the reponsibility of this author read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 18:46 by Chekov Feeney
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Review of Nick Davies' Flat Earth News read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 14:24 by Sean Crudden
I have heard it said that our idea of home is a "socially constructed" one. So home could be a doorway in Hume Street with a few companions whose position in life is similar to one's own? read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:33 by pat c
This is the May Day statement from the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). More information is available from the links below and Rahe Kargar may be contacted at [email protected] International solidarity is our global capital to confront global capitalism *Neo-liberal globalisation is nothing more than the globalisation of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, hunger, a bleak future and constant fear for the majority in this world. *Under the flag of democracy capitalists spread the dictatorship of free markets on our planet. *The rich are getting fewer and richer while the poor are getting more numerous and poorer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:06 by Darren C
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2008/04/29 The leaders of the Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) argue socialists should not fight for the withdrawal of US/UK troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim that were the occupation to end immediately the Iraqi labour movement would be annihilated by reactionary Islamic forces. At a recent AWL day school, leading member Mark Osborne specifically claimed that the movement behind cleric Muqtada Al Sadr had a policy of "killing trade unionists". Curious to know whether there was any truth in this claim Simon Hardy contacted Iraqi exile and academic Sami Ramadani, from Iraq Occupation for Focus, for his thoughts. Sami replied quickly, exploding the argument of the AWL that the occupying forces provide any cover for the Iraqi labour movement. With thanks to Sami, we publish his reply here. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 30, 2008 10:19 by Justin Morahan
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Members of a brave Christian Peacemakers team, hoping by their sleep-in to prevent the threatened eviction of the orphans in an Orphanage in Hebron, were helpless this morning as about 40 Israeli soldiers raided the workshop of the Orphanage, terrorising the children there and carrying away all of its equipment worth about €28,000. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 06:34 by Ploughshares
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STATEMENT OF THE WAIHOPAI ANZAC PLOUGHSHARES They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4 read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 00:24 by No One's Business by Mine
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A personal account of how my right to privacy was signed away by the act of simply signing my employment contract: read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 23:18 by CWAG
Celebrate International Workers Day over the May Bank Holiday Weekend read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 20:05 by Joe Moore
A public meeting marking the 40th anniversary of May 1968 will be held on Thursday 8th May at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St., Cork. The speaker is Paul O'Brien, author of "Shelly and Revolutionary Ireland." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:07 by Des Dalton
Statement from the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton on the British Government's insistence on holding an inquiry under the restrictive British Inquiries Act 2005 rather than a full public and independent inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 29, 2008 17:06 by Stuart
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 are available in a searchable online database. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. Trials from major Irish figures to the unknown masses prosecuted for petty offences are an important resource relevant to the formation of modern Irish society. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 16:49 by Sarah Lundberg
American Poets in Ireland from the Chapters and Verse Reading Series Cassidy’s Westmoreland St On Sunday 11th May 2008 at 3.30pm The readers at this event are three Californian poets – Alanna Alter, Kathleen Flowers and Amber Coverdale Sumrall who are traveling around Ireland in April and May and three American poets – Susan Millar DuMars from Philadelphia, Quincy R. Lehr from Oklahoma and Raven from Philadelphia who live in Ireland and are a vibrant part of the Irish poetry scene. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday April 29, 2008 12:27 by tom eile
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The Basra Development Commission (BDC) , a panel consisting of six Iraqi businessmen ,and officials ,plus one Briton , is to visit the North of Ireland this week to speak to officials there . They hope to learn during their two day visit from community and business leaders about how the Irish peace process has transformed the six county economy. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 11:15 by Nessa Ní Chasaide
When? Wednesday May 14th, 7pm to 9pm and Wednesday May 21st, 7pm to 9pm Where? Cois Tine, St Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, Cork [access via St Mary’s Church] Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of the debt problem in the Global South? This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 11:10 by Nessa Ní Chasaide
When? Wednesday May 14th, 7pm to 9pm and Wednesday May 21st, 7pm to 9pm Where? Cois Tine, St Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, Cork [access via St Mary’s Church] Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of the debt problem in the Global South? This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem. read full story / add a comment |
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