Belfast Socialist Forum hosts public meeting from Steve Bloom read full story / add a comment

O’Dea gives green light for Ireland’s Future Participation in EU Battlegroups.

http://www.defence.ie/website.nsf/Release+ID/622659392FF1240180257110004EE5F8?OpenDocument

At last Ireland is begining to pull its weight internationally.
Expect the usual suspects to be crying out tomorrow that this is the end of our supposed neutrality.
Michael D, the Green, shinners, the screaming headline form Daily Ireland and crying on Newstalk.

we need to face up to the truth we are not neutral. read full story / add a comment

As I write,the protest called by the UCD AntiDeportation Campaign and RAR is ongoing in UCD,the talk being held in O'Reilly Hall.
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The next meeting of Depression Dialogues will take place on Thursday 2 March 2006 at 2 Eden Park, Glasthule, Dun Laoghaire, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. read full story / add a comment

A private opinion on why we should not pay waste charges and to question why public money is squandered while we are forced to contribute to increasingly local authority mishandling of our hard earned cash. read full story / add a comment

Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster in the 1960s TV sitcom
Grandpa Munster actor was a firm socialist until the end

The Munsters, died in New York last Friday at the age of 95.
In the 1960s, Grandpa Munster — the cigar-smoking vampire father-in-law of the Frankenstein’s monster-like Herman on The Munsters — was a regular presence on television screens from Cairo to Chicago, and Belfast to Buenos Aires.
JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
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Yesterday an incident occured in St Canices Boys School between 10.45 and 11.00am when the boys were in the school playground during their break read full story / add a comment

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This time I look at how to resolve paradox, how paradoxical ideas can be used to create propaganda. Fairly long article covering lots of ground, including science, philosophy and politics. A speech by Liz O'Donnell, on neutrality is torn asunder to illustrate propaganda and deceit. And an ideological difference between Fianna Fail and the PD's is finally discovered and discussed. read full story / add a comment

Tar éis cuairteanna ar scoileanna agus coláistí i mBéal Feirste cláraíodh 59 ball úr ag Na Gaeil Óga Bhéal Feirste agus bunaíodh cumann le coiste an oíche sin (Dé Máirt, 7 Feabhra 2006) i gCumann Chluain Ard. read full story / add a comment

Adding this here as it references alot of stuff on this site and is to interest to this site. Its seems Rory is using his connections to get published its a question though is he as good as writer as his contact, this piece is alittle of everything and not as verbose. But a timely reminder that perhaps its time for an education category on this site? read full story / add a comment

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This time the author attempts to prove that any description applied to the possibility of the existence of God, is a man-made one. The overall point of the author is not to disprove the existence of God, but to prove that man is wasting his time, trying to define an aspect of something they equate with 'everything.' read full story / add a comment

Values such as political freedom, capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry, rationalism, and open debate form an especially lethal combination when applied to warfare. read full story / add a comment

WHAT'S UP WITH SHELL?
Get the inside information on a landmark campaign that will grow in
momentum and significance in 2006. (Belfast, Thursday 16 Feb) read full story / add a comment

On Monday last, two members of the GMIT Labour Youth Branch along with the President of the Students’ Union, met with Galway City Council with a view to restoring the bus shelter which used to be located on the Dublin Road directly across from the Main Campus.
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Postal workers rally crosses Belfast peaceline
Postal workers and supporters held a march and rally at lunch time today. Over 400 posties and supporters marched from the Shankill Road across the peace line at Lanark Way on to the Falls Road.

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A facilitated discussion on a new approach to food security and agriculture - a human rights approach. read full story / add a comment

The angry worldwide Muslim protests against the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in various European newspapers have shown again the enormous anger provoked amongst Muslims by Bush’s “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq. However the issue that has sparked off these protests and their character has renewed discussion about a war of civilisations or of cultures. These developments are a sharp warning of the divisive tensions can develop in the absence of a strong socialist workers’ movement offering a class alternative. read full story / add a comment

IT IS HAVING AN IMPACT!

Organise! have called for another picket outside the dunnes stores branch in the Park Centre(off the Donegal Rd) in Belfast for 1 0'Clock this Friday in support of Joanne Delaney, a shop steward sacked for wearing her union badge. We are calling on all activists and groups to join this picket and picket other local dunnes stores branches!

We hope to see you there as so we can continue this momentum and to keep the pressure up.

If people cannot make it to above it would be excellent if you could hold a picket at your local Dunnes store.

It only takes a handful of people to picket a shop. E-mail us and let us know if you can hold a local one. Whatever the case, those going to the Park centre, we will see you there.

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IT IS HAVING AN IMPACT!

Organise! have called for a picket outside the dunnes stores branch in the Park Centre(off the Donegal Rd) in Belfast for 1 0'Clock this Friday in support of Joanne Delaney, a shop steward sacked for wearing her union badge. We are calling on all activists and groups to join this picket and picket other local dunnes stores branches!

We hope to see you there as so we can continue this momentum and to keep the pressure up.

If people cannot make it to above it would be excellent if you could hold a picket at your local Dunnes store.

It only takes a handful of people to picket a shop. E-mail us and let us know if you can hold a local one. Whatever the case, those going to the Park centre, we will see you there.

REINSTATE JOANNE DELANEY – SACKED BY DUNNES FOR WEARING A UNION BADGE

Joanne Delaney was sacked by Dunnes stores in November 2005 for wearing her union badge on her uniform. With more than four years service in the Ashleaf store in Crumlin on the south side of Dublin, the 22 year-old MANDATE shop steward received a letter on the 29th of November 2005 informing her that she had been dismissed by the company.
Dunnes Stores has accused her of not complying with company policy in relation to the wearing of her union badge on her uniform, despite the fact that there is nothing in the policy about wearing a union badge. Joanne had been suspended by a manager at the store since 18th October for refusing to remove the Mandate Trade Union badge from her uniform. Joanne member was advised to attend a disciplinary meeting at 6.00p.m. on Friday, 21st October . However, the meeting was cancelled due to the fact that she was accompanied by her Union Representative. The Company has continually denied Joanne the right to Union representation at meetings with management.
Responding to the dismissal, Mandy Kane, Divisional Organiser of Mandate said “This sacking is petty, vindictive and does the image of Dunnes Stores no favours whatsoever”. Its also pretty much in keeping with the anti-union record of a company that sacked workers who refused to handle goods from South Africa during the Anti-Apartheid Boycott of the mid-eighties.
Things we can do to support the re-instatement of Joanne:

Support this picket and others or organise a picket outside your local dunnes store

Get your union branch to pass a motion in support of Joanne Delaney

Send a message to Dunnes Stores management

Or alternatively pay a visit to the current management in Dunnes in your local Dunnes store to express your disgust at the action taken by the company and in support of Joanne Delaney. You can also send a message to Dunnes management at: MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com" claim! ing to be MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com" claiming to be [email protected] or MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com" claiming to be [email protected]
To send a standard protest letter to Dunnes management join the online campaign at Labourstart (where more information can be obtained about the dispute) at: MailSca! nner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "javascript:ol('http:" claiming to be http://www.labourstart.org

AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!

ORGANISE! P.O. Box 505, Belfast, BT12 6BQ.
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It was recently discovered that the physics department basement in UCC houses nuclear material. That is not necessarily unusual. Hospitals and labs also keep small quantities of radioactive materials even in this country. What is unusual is that UCC has a dismantled nuclear reactor, a small amount of plutonium, and two and a half tonnes of uranium. And they have been there for twenty years
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