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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 12, 2010 - 12:47 by éirígí Sligeach
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The decision to increase the price of electricity will lead to increased poverty, illness and deaths ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 10, 2010 - 19:25 by George Hill
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The People Before Profit Alliance have made an official complaint against Independent Senator Rónán Mullen in relation to reports he made in Seanad. This raises questions about PBPA's judgement and their approach towards elected office. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 10, 2010 - 12:13 by Latif Serhildan
The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday August 09, 2010 - 00:29 by mat
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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL clip ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday August 07, 2010 - 11:46 by Paddy Hackett
The Good Friday Agreement makes the false assumption that the six county sectarian state can be re-established as a democratic sectarian-free state. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:48 by Tony Healy
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A ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised working class in particular. The Green Party leader John Gormley has announced that the ban is to be introduced, alongside a ban on corporate donations, so much for the Green Party’s veneer of radicalism. This “radicalism” has become very stale and particularly mouldy also. Of course the proposed legislation is designed to appear even handed. But the truth of the matter is that the link between Labour and the working class is potentially very important and the bourgeois understand that very well. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 17:19 by Catholic Worker
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VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Monday July 26, 2010 - 17:17 by Paul McAndrew
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Urgent! Attack on vital health provision for trans people in Ireland The Labour councillor making the call for cuts. is Colm Keaveney . I've already spoken to him on this mobile number. It works. Got it from Labour website. [email protected] 087-6776812 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues Sunday July 25, 2010 - 15:22 by Declan Cullen
Gormley's mad proposals need to be halted. Its amazing how mad Minister John Gormley really is. He says that local councils can save 500 million euros in new reforms proposed that will affect vehicle owners.Its going to get so complicated and costly to own a vehicle in this state that most people will probably give up the dream of owning a car and content themselves with the fact that they will have to walk, or cycle depending on the distance. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday July 20, 2010 - 11:42 by Sean Keir Moriarty
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Dear Prime Minister Cowen, Over the course of the past three (3) years, I've written you, Mr. Gormley, the members of Dáil Éireann, the Meath County Council, archaeologists at NUI Galway, UC Dublin, UC Cork, The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme and the OPW on numerous occasions regarding my research paper, 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages'. http://www.knowth.com/tara-pdf.htm The purpose for doing so was to convince The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme & OPW to complete the geo-physical mapping of Tara, which I have no doubt will confirm the hypothesis set forth in my paper, that the symbols carved on Orthostat L2 within the Mound of the Hostages, constitute a map of the Hill of Tara, as it existed during the Neolithic Age. ( ca. 3200 BC) The response I received from The Discovery Programme was that "no one here is compet ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday July 19, 2010 - 15:55 by Paddy Hackett
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The left and the right are the same. They merely perform different political and ideological functions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2010 - 10:59 by Peter Mulholland
NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance), the largest public service trade union in the North has responded to the Draft Bill on Public Assemblies saying that, rather than give the impression that the Bill is redeemable through detailing all their objections to it, they would rather see it scrapped: The draft proposal is "fundamentally flawed and not capable of amendment." ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 18:11 by orangecitadel
The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has deemed the Northern Ireland Assembly's draft Bill on Public Assemblies, Parades and Protests inadequate, inconsistent, unclear, and likely to 'create an unjustified restriction on the freedom of assembly and expression'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 14:10 by Peter Mulholland
Garvaghy and Ormeau Rd. communities’ joint response to the First and Deputy First Ministers’ Consultation Paper on Public Assemblies, Parades and Protests in N. Ireland; July 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 10, 2010 - 23:01 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Last Wednesday, July 7th, Elijah Smith was released from Lewes Prison. He had been held since the Israeli bombing of Gaza in January '09. Along with his co-defendants he had been acquitted unanimously of all charges by the jury. This concluded 18 months the EDO 9 spent before the courts for their nonviolent resistance to the bombing of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Friday July 02, 2010 - 22:01 by donkylemore
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The notion is as absurd as it is reflective on how cravenly this Junior coalition partners will act do to stay in power. The Greens are not the tail that wags the dog; they are the illegitimate pup which it might have been wiser - in political terms - to have put down the moment he was seen to have been overly frisky ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday June 24, 2010 - 15:21 by Drew
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A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from a statement by the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan dated 17 May 2010. Translation by A World to Win News Service. In recent weeks, 45 Afghanistanis in Iran accused of drug trafficking have been executed. The Iranian authorities handed over the bodies to their families at a price of 1.5 million Iranian Touman (around $1,500). It is said that some of their internal organs were removed. It is also said that many more – as many as 3,000 – have been sentenced to die. There have protests against the mass murder of Afghanistani citizens in Iran, motivated by various considerations. However the puppet regime [in Afghanistan] and its occupier masters have chosen to remain silent. They are in fact cooperating with this crime and have an interest in it. The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the backers of the traitor conference in Bonn (December 2001) that took place under imperialist supervision. It has also been one of the regional backers of the puppet regime and so far has spent around a billion dollars on the so-called reconstruction programme in Afghanistan. Because of its own contradictions with the U.S., the Islamic Republic of Iran sometimes voices opposition to the foreign forces in Afghanistan and backs some circles of the fundamentalist opposition to varying degrees, but it is mainly one of the regional backers of the puppet regime, and the two have good relations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 16:16 by Drew
Translations provided by A World to Win News Service. Central Tehran was crowded on the anniversary of the presidential elections. People walked around on the sidewalks and in the parks around the universities looking for opportunities to step onto the main stage. But government security was also out in full force. Since early morning club-wielding uniformed and plainclothes security forces were stationed on foot, on motorcycles and in cars throughout Tehran, especially the city centre and the areas surrounding the universities. As crowds appeared, they began harassing passers-by and arresting those deemed "suspicious". Protestors were able to rally in groups of dozens or hundreds in several locations in Tehran and chant slogans such as "Down with the dictator". They clashed with the security forces at Azadi Square and on Azadi Street at the junction with Behboodi and Vali Asr. There were also reports of arrests in Enghelab Street in front of Tehran University. Witnesses said that the street was full of Basiji (religious militiamen) and special task forces. Huge numbers of forces were stationed around Vali Asr, Motahari and Vanak squares and Keshavarz Boulevard. There were several arrests at each of these locations. A video on the Web shows a crowd successfully freeing a woman the security forces were trying to arrest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 17, 2010 - 21:47 by Gregor Kerr
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In mid-June the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee voted to accept the ‘Croke Park deal’. ‘Social partnership’, presumed dead and buried when the government unilaterally imposed pay cuts on public sector workers in the December ’09 budget, was revived and given a new lease of life. But this is ‘social partnership’ with a difference. Instead of the union leadership believing that ‘partnership’ gives them some input into government policy (as they have wrongly thought for the past 20 years), all they can now offer in its defence is that this is the “least worst deal” and that “it’s better to be inside the tent than outside.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 15, 2010 - 14:07 by Gavin Gleeson
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Progressive taxation is a taxation system which seeks a higher tax rate for higher incomes. It is a relatively common feature in the western democracies. In Ireland however, its implementation is almost entirely nominal. ... read full story / add a comment |
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