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international / arts and media Wednesday November 05, 2014 - 13:34 by Paddy Hackett
It does follow that truth is unattainable. However it is not easily acquired. Its acquisition is a struggle. To strip off illusion and much of ambiguity contemporary society needs replacement by a communal form that precludes social oppression ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday October 31, 2014 - 20:10 by Paddy Hackett
 1 comment (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 21:17)
The anti-water charges campaign is a populist campaign driven by the opportunist politics of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party and other organisations including the UNITE trade union. The Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party merely view the campaign as a means to enhance their popularity within the working class while opportunistically impeding the development of communist consciousness among the working class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 30, 2014 - 11:26 by john throne
5 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2014 - 16:01)
By John Throne. The so-called workers party which has recently had its conference played a major role in derailing the movement of the 1968/1970 period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 22:43 by john throne
1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2014 - 22:54)
The degrees of violence against women and children and the slave labor inflicted on Irish women in the laundries are not caused by some flaw in the Irish character but by the nature of Irish capitalism and its relationship to the anti women dictatorial Catholic church. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Sunday October 19, 2014 - 01:47 by john throne
4 comments (last - monday october 20, 2014 - 17:14)
Sinn Fein I believe are rightly under attack for the issues around the Cahill case and the way they are said to have handled this. Abuse of women (and Men) exists in the revolutionary left also. When this comes up the leadership of these organizations usually try to cover this up by citing the supposed interests of the organization concerned and the revolution. This puts enormous pressure of the victims of assault and has to be condemned. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 11:40 by Paddy Hackett
8 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2014 - 23:58)
Single issue demands such as the movement against water rates hold back the class struggle by suggesting that capitalism can continue in the absence of these charges or taxes. This is because such demands are not embedded in a programme of an interlinked series of demands that challenges the capitalist system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday October 11, 2014 - 21:28 by john throne
1 comment (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 18:59)
How can this mass movement against the water charges be developed into a lasting mass movement against austerity and capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday October 10, 2014 - 23:46 by john throne
Benny was a Comrade and example. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 10, 2014 - 16:05 by Anthony Ravlich
Describes the UN's gross deceit e.g. human rights omissions creating the IMF which discriminates on ground of intellectual property. Also, activists' lack of understanding of political globalization which has led to the dominance of the bureaucracy. In addition, the decimation of animal populations. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 17:50 by Paddy Hackett
7 comments (last - sunday october 12, 2014 - 10:29)
The rhetoric by the Sinn Fein, the Anti Austerity Alliance and the People Before Profit Alliance featuring on RTE's Prime Time programme amounts to nothing but illusion. Their election candidates showed no understanding of the need for revolution. Their rhetoric suggested that capitalism can be managed or reformed to the benefit of the working class by effectively taxing the rich and not the working class. Indeed the entire show confined itself to suggestions as to how to reform capitalism in one way or another. In that way the participants sought to effectively defend the capitalist system. Essentially all contributors were essentially advocating bourgeois politics. If the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were genuinely revolutionary they would have challenged RTE and its other contributors by advocating the need for revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 02, 2014 - 23:32 by Paddy Hackett
Parties such as the SP, SWP and Sinn Fein are essentially no different from each other nor from Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fail. They are all bourgeois nationalist parties competing for power within the capitalist system. Reformism is still alive and well and embedded within the Irish working class movement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday October 01, 2014 - 19:56 by john throne
We are all familiar with the monstrous crimes that have been carried out by the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, the slave labor in the Magadlene prison laundries, the physical and sexual abuse in the children's prisons.The victims have to be given compensation. Not by the taxpayers but from the vast wealth of the Catholic church. More generally responsibility has to be allotted for this. Responsibility lies with different forces, the Catholic hierarchy, the Irish capitalist class, but also the members of the Catholic church. John Throne. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday September 14, 2014 - 12:06 by political hostage
As the case of Michael McKevitt continues to alert media attention it must be borne out that there has been a significant degree of prejudice surrounding everything about the case over many years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday September 03, 2014 - 14:54 by Mick MacThomais
The Irish emblem of stste and the 13 string the infamous "hang mans string" and why after the total abolishment of the death penalty that it has not been removed from the emblem that represents our unarmed peaceful state built from the humanitarian resistance of "unarmed resistance",which our Nation is famous. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 03, 2014 - 13:14 by Anthony Ravlich
Describes a Cultural Cleansing of individual self-determination. Driven by the bureaucrats in the interest of secular, liberal collectivists it required a hijacking of human rights hidden by a 'divide and rule'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday September 01, 2014 - 17:41 by sean throne
14 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2014 - 11:44)
Sectarianism has many aspects to it. One is to seek to use any opportunity to try and gain advantage for your own group or organization irregardless of the interests of the movement, or irregardless of paying respect for other workers and activists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 27, 2014 - 21:36 by ordinary citizen
when we finally get a left leaning government and we start really taxing the rich why not use the money wisely and invest it into a renewable energy model that involves Irish people buying shares in the projects and the money raised by the taxes can be used to subsidise the projects. then when we have reached 100% energy production and are exporting our energy we can use the money raised to reverse the austerity measures implemented and improve Irish society as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 26, 2014 - 00:29 by Billy Fitzpatrick
Israel's colonial project in Palestine is, in fact, old-style European. Sad that Ireland, with its anti-colonial history, should today hide behind the old bully-boys of Europe. Respect: the success of Gaza's meagrely - armed resistance as it sees Israel again reverting to attacks from distance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 19, 2014 - 14:07 by Anthony Ravlich
1 comment (last - wednesday august 27, 2014 - 14:02)
The following is a clarification re prev article. It says thinkers are being replaced by social controllers because truth is the major threat to the dominant elite, secular liberal collectivists. Also, explains how Corporations are highly favored. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday August 18, 2014 - 14:20 by Nuala
25 comments (last - thursday february 22, 2018 - 09:12)
In Catholic Ireland in 1922, suicide was the ultimate shame and disgrace, as well as being seen as almost an unpardonable sin, leaving surviving relatives and admirers in anguish at the possible fate of the suicide's soul. ... read full story / add a comment |
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