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national / arts and media / other press Saturday January 31, 2009 21:54 by Rose
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Jim Monaghan, one of the Colombia 3, launched a new book last evening (January 30th). The book is the remarkable story of an ELN guerrilla, called Diego, who Jim met in the Modelo Jail, in Bogota. read full story / add a comment
waterford / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday January 30, 2009 23:48 by Joe Carolan
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Following the successful factory occupation of Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, the workers of Waterford Glass now show the way to fight redundancies and lay offs. In a year where it is estimated that up to 50 million workers are due to lose their jobs, and banks continue to be propped up with billions of dollars and euro, we need to demand that companies are nationalised and jobs defended. The Direct Action by the Waterford Workers now puts it up to the Irish government- who is more important, workers and their families or the tiny financial elite of the banks. Nationalise the Glass, and let the workers run the factory. They'd do a better job of it. Solidarity Joe Carolan http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-fi....html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 30, 2009 15:17 by gazasympathiser
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"Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26 by Miriam
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Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich when the flow should be going in the other direction. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 15:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
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After 60 years of one-sided reporting on Palestine, a major U.S. TV network finally shows the reality of life for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Wednesday January 28, 2009 16:30 by dunk
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In Brazil, more than one hundred thousand people are gathering for the ninth World Social Forum. A crowd of some fifty thousand kicked off the event Tuesday with a march through the Amazon city of Belem. The World Social Forum gathers social movements from around the world under the theme of ‘another world is possible.’ It’s timed to coincide with the gathering of corporate leaders in the Swiss town of Davos. Listen to the live broadcast, when available from AMARC: http://66.90.104.82:8330/listen.pls WSF 2009 @ Belém - Pará - Brasil (27 feb - 1 feb, 2009) : http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/ read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday January 28, 2009 02:36 by A New Age in Voting
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On Tuesday 27th January, Ógra Shinn Féin joined the NYCI (National Youth Council of Ireland) outside Leinster house to demand that the voting age be lowered to 16. Sinn Féin TD Aengus O’Snodaigh was also in attendance to demonstrate his personal and party support for the initiative. The ‘New Age to Vote’ campaign launch hopes to spark a debate on this issue among 16 and 17 year olds, with the aim of opening up discussion forums and campaign groups across Ireland that demand the voting age to be lowered, ensuring young people have a voice. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday January 27, 2009 23:56 by P. Bowman
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Speaker: Francesco Merli - HoV international campaign read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday January 26, 2009 23:58 by SP-USA
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Casualties Mount as the Capitalist Crisis Deepens read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 26, 2009 20:55 by TD
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Outraged and revulsed at the wanton butchery in Gaza and wanting to do more than wring our hands in impotent empathy, a number of concerned people and activists two weeks ago formed a flying picket and for the last two Saturday's protested outside Galway stores selling Israeli products (and one pro-Zionist fast food eatery), urging shoppers with conscience to boycott Israeli goods and food stuffs until such time - to mention just a few our concerns - as Israel complies with international and humanitarian law, UN resolutions, Fourth Geneva Convention, withdraws from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and dismantles its illegal West Bank colonies read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday January 26, 2009 13:38 by Miriam
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The Disaster Emergency Committee in Britain, which is a group of about 20 of the country's leading charities is making an appeal for urgent aid for the people of Gaza. Britain's broadcasters have for about 40 years aired these appeals free of charge. By convention, the appeal will only be broadcast if all of the broadcasters will agree to do it. The BBC has refused to broadcast it and so too have Sky - on the grounds that it would bring their 'impartiality' into question. The BBC Director General and the corporation's executive committee made the decision late last week . It has caused outrage all over Britain and within the corporation itself where staff and unions are deciding what action they can take to make senior management reverse this decision. Staff have been threatened with the sack for speaking out in public. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday January 26, 2009 11:01 by James O'Brien
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The Irish government has called in as financial adviser Henrietta Baldock of the remarkable loss making machine that is Merrill Lynch read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Sunday January 25, 2009 11:12 by The Green Spirit
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Tara Imbolc Celebration for all. Assemble in the Tara Car Park 4.30pm Sunday 1st Feb read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday January 24, 2009 21:58 by Boycott Israel
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The BBC Refuses To Broadcast An Appeal For Aid read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / feature Friday January 23, 2009 23:37 by anarchaeologist
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The death has occurred of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army. The death has occurred in London of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade. Bob, whose health had been failing for some time had survived a recent double heart attack, before passing peacefully last night surrounded by his family. He was a few weeks short of his 93rd birthday. Bob's career as an political activist has been recorded in his book Brigadista, which recounted his early life in Dublin as a Republican volunteer and later as a member of the Republican Congress, prior to his abortive first attempt to fight against Franco in July 1937, which saw him stow away on a ship to Valencia. On his return to London (which he was to make his home for the remainder of his life) Bob contacted the CP and arrived in Spain by the more usual route, walking over the Pyrenees in a group o read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday January 23, 2009 22:18 by Harry Wells
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The recent attacks on Gaza by the Israeli state have brought strange bedfellows out of the Irish woodwork. Almost to a man, and woman, those who were vitriolic in opposition to the Irish Peace Process have been four-square behind the slaughter in Gaza. Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Tom Carew, Ruth Dudley Edwards, please take a bow. A short report on the role they played in support of the IDF – Israeli Defence Forces – is in order. Here is what they said and how it relates to their Irish politics. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / feature Friday January 23, 2009 18:55 by S2S
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Yesterday (January 22nd), Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin stated that it is "extraordinary" that gas from the Corrib field has not yet been brought onshore. Shell to Sea feels that what is really "extraordinary" is that the Government is still trying to force this experimental project through given the local community concerns regarding their health, safety and local environment. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday January 23, 2009 09:52 by redjade
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Change We Can Believe In. (or not) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 22, 2009 22:24 by Democratic Programme
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Sinn Féin Gerry Adams delivers a keynote address at the Mansion House Dublin, 90 years to the day when Sinn Féin TD's established the First Dáil Éireann in open defiance of British tyranny and laid out a progressive egalitarian document, the democratic programme, which stands as a cornerstone of republican beliefs. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday January 22, 2009 20:00 by Footage: Al J / Edit: C&C Group
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This video is made up of a list of the signatories of an open letter compiled to support the demand that the Israeli ambassador to Ireland be expelled until such time as 'until such time as there is a complete end to Israel's war on Gaza and its continued slaughter of the Palestinian people.' The list is combined with creative commons footage from Gaza , released onto the web by Al Jazeera. read full story / add a comment |
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