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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 20, 2011 - 12:30 by Sean Crudden
Maybe the time has come again to look inwards instead of outwards. Like we did in the early and mid 1950’s. Let us not wait for the prompt from hypocrites from abroad. Create liberty, equality, fraternity; for all mental patients in Ireland. And for everyone in Ireland including children about to be born now around the Feast of The Nativity. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday December 20, 2011 - 12:00 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
It’s January. It’s freezing. Christmas emptied the coffers and now the bills are starting to bite. As the government cuts the eligibility period for the Fuel Allowance, it’s time to tell the government that we’ve had enough! ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday December 17, 2011 - 01:14 by Jolly Red Giant
 1 comment (last - sunday december 18, 2011 - 00:40)
Today, at Kazakhstan’s independence day, more than 3000 people assembled peacefully in Zhanaozen, to promote the demands of the oil workers who have been on strike since May. Police and special forces attacked the meeting and opened fire on the strikers and their families. By around 10 a.m., London time, 50 had already been killed, with at least 500 more wounded. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday December 15, 2011 - 10:09 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
6 comments (last - sunday december 25, 2011 - 23:42)
I fully support Independent TD Thomas Pringle's call on people to support a campaign not to pay this hideous Household Charge (Poll Tax!!!). Mr Pringle says he will not register for the tax, nor will he pay it. Well done Thomas Pringle :-) At last we have we have some principled TDs in An Dáil Éireann who are prepared to suffer personally for their beliefs they know are in Our Country's And People's best interests. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 13, 2011 - 21:37 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
As an Activist Campaigning And Protesting Against Injustice Everywhere I'm thrilled to find myself joined by people all over the country and the world in a new movement--the Occupy Movement -- with a common message that we must focus our resources on jobs, health care, education and other vital human needs rather than war and corporate greed. ... read full story / add a comment
Offered a place on a postgrad course unable to continue due to budget 2012. no job no hope and no independant money to do the masters. Also I have family dependants, so it really feels like a sentence in regards to my future or rather the undermining of career to be financially independent, alas its not going to happen. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday December 11, 2011 - 23:02 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
It's outrageous. The average tax break from the Bush tax cuts enjoyed by the top 1 percent of Americans is larger than the average income of the rest of the 99 percent. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday December 10, 2011 - 16:40 by john throne
2 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 - 00:11)
Is is justifiable to be a member of the catholic church with its history of child abuse cover up, anti women ideology, pro capitalist policies? All those who supported McQuaid and opposed the mother and child scheme have to condemned. They slunk away before the catholic church with their tails between their legs. They "proved" that Paisley and his ilk were correct that the South was a catholic state. they have blood on their hands. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 09, 2011 - 00:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalaígh
A Chara,
Our 'leaders' are trying to wave through a terrifying Merkel/Sarkozy plan that would abolish our right to choose sane economic policies and that would permanently ban vital public spending - all to appease big banks. But we live in a democracy and we should have the right to vote on any permanent changes to how Europe operates, and together, we can stop our leaders trashing our democracy and our jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 06, 2011 - 03:42 by Nestor Makhno
Remember, remember, the second of November -- and all the many things we can improve on next time around... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 30, 2011 - 13:53 by pat c
10 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2011 - 16:03)
1. Wars have been the most terrifying phenomena people have confronted since the istant past. In our society, millions of Iranians have been living under the ominous shadow of the eight-year war with Iraq. The reminiscences of air raid sirens, damp shelters, overnight power cuts, nameless bodies, severed limbs, mothers who lost their children, children who lost their fathers, famine and hunger, homeless refugees and dozens of other frightening pictures at the back or forefront of our minds, vividly or vaguely, whether like a nightmare or a constant fear, is weighing down on everyone of us.
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national / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday November 24, 2011 - 20:09 by Declan Cullen
Kenny, Noonan, & Gilmore, keep saying ad - nauseam that everything on the table. This is a blantant lie........
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dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday November 20, 2011 - 17:49 by socialist
The Dublin Occupy movement decided not to join the anti-austerity march on Sat 26th November. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 16, 2011 - 15:57 by Samuel Albert
The euphoria has evaporated. While today's raucous political climate is very different than the years before Hosni Mubarak's ouster, when an enforced silence and stillness prevailed, it has also changed markedly since the period immediately preceding and following his 11 February forced resignation. Now, among the millions who participated in or supported that revolt and more broadly, there is a feeling that the situation is becoming increasingly complex, unsettled and dangerous. Marches, strikes, sit-ins and other protests happen every day, but many ordinary people are becoming more passive. There is a chill in the air that comes from more than the approaching winter. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 15, 2011 - 21:11 by Sean Matthews
The sixty million payoff to prison officers in Northern Ireland could be much better spent on addressing the causes of crime such as poverty, social deprivation and prison rehabilitation. Prison officers who served during the Troubles could walk away from their jobs with packages of more than £120,000 plus pension as part of a £60m redundancy programme aimed at ‘modernising’ the service.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 13, 2011 - 16:04 by passer by
89 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 - 09:42)
After the March there were some fantastic speeches on topics such as Ireland pulling out of the Euro and grassroots Democracy at Occupy Dame St yesterday shows up United Left Alliance and SWP lack of action on very important issues ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday November 11, 2011 - 13:36 by Paddy Hackett
12 comments (last - monday november 21, 2011 - 12:09)
Gurdgiev makes the false assumption that capitalism isa rational system that serves the interests of all citizenry if rationally organised. Like the reformists on the Left he believes that a reformed capitalist social system can advance the interests of the capitalist class, middle and working class. In this way he is an idealist reformist who mistakenly believes that reason (ideas) can determine social reality.
To achieve economic recovery he argues that that there must be a massive reduction in state spending on a scale that makes past and present governments' reductions look lilliputian. He shows here his failure to understand the nature and function of state spending under capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 05, 2011 - 21:59 by John Throne and Richard Mellor.
10 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2011 - 10:21)
How the movement can be expanded and taken forward
Oakland City Council's phony concerns exposed. How can we broaden the OWS movement? The most important achievement of the OWS movement so far is that it has shifted the national debate about the economic crisis. OWS has put the hedge fund managers, banks, speculators and other wasters who are responsible for the mess we are in on the defensive. The OWS movement has also reintroduced the tactics that built the Unions and the civil rights movement in the Apartheid South-----mass direct action and defiance of the law----and has brought the nature of the system to the front burner. Capitalism, the so-called free market and possible alternatives to its madness are being discussed by millions of Americans. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday November 01, 2011 - 14:59 by Costas
3 comments (last - wednesday november 02, 2011 - 11:10)
Referendums,parliaments, Democracy.Greece-Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 01, 2011 - 13:59 by socialist
96 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2012 - 11:01)
Weak leadership, cowardice, duplicity, the faults of the SWP are symptomatic of a deeper problem. ... read full story / add a comment |
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