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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 20:10 by former republican
 13 comments (last - monday june 28, 2010 - 11:08)
It is no wonder the more left wing members have left to join Irigi as least they will get some left of centre politics instead of 1950s type policies about drugs.In Irelands biggest ever recession. What is the reason for the blind and backward opinions of many of their members? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 17:29 by John Cornford
Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was released after three months in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, protests that at the moment he has little hope of making another film - all he can do is film one in his head. But, he says defiantly: “I will have to make a film - that is my life.” “I started a hunger strike”, he says, “when one night they took me for questioning and the interrogators asked: ‘What is the name of your film?’ I thought they were referring to the film I was making when they arrested me in my house on March 1. So I replied: ‘That film isn’t finished yet, so it hasn’t got a name.’ They said: ‘No, no, we are asking about the film you are making in prison in your cell.’ ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday June 11, 2010 - 01:29 by Gerard
3 comments (last - sunday june 27, 2010 - 11:19)
The way the killings on board the MV Mavi Marmara have been reported in the mass media offers an interesting case study of one way in which the truth is often distorted by the mainstream, and it is a method that often involves not so much deception as obfuscation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 20:34 by Paddy Hackett
Capital implies the political state. As capital develops the state is correspondingly developed. There obtains an internal unity between capital and state. Buried within capital is the state –state capital. As capital develops the state issues out of it. It is a mistaken abstraction to focus on capitalist development to the exclusion of the state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 15:15 by Gavin Gleeson
1 comment (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 - 14:36)
The state is a central concept in the political philosophy of Anarchism. Anarchism is often defined as being an anti-state ideology. While this is sometimes a useful way to distinguish anarchists from other state socialists it also leads to a fair bit of confusion. We will look at the source of this confusion with the aim of showing that anarchism is in its essence opposed to rulers and is not a naive or idealistic form of anti-statism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday June 05, 2010 - 06:29 by children_of_lir
12 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2010 - 04:02)
With the recent news about child deaths while in care or in contact with services now at 188 and this figure is rising, it is time to bring down Mary Harney's Frankenstein, namely HSE. It was Harney who dissolved the ten regional Health Boards and created the disastrous and lethal HSE that came into operation on 1 January 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 04, 2010 - 09:30 by donkylemore
1 comment (last - saturday june 05, 2010 - 17:09)
Obama , crippled with an unfortunate triple legacy must make reality of his Cairo Rhetoric to sustain any Arab credibility. - Israel bites the Hand that Fed ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 03, 2010 - 23:16 by Raymond Deane
21 comments (last - wednesday june 09, 2010 - 16:09)
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on 3d June, über-Zionist Alan Shatter TD (Fine Gael) caused some jaws to drop when he expressed some unexpected opinions on Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 03, 2010 - 00:56 by Michael
1 comment (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:55)
Launching of International Aid Convoy for the humanitarian relief of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 31, 2010 - 18:06 by donkylemore
14 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:46)
Is this attack on an Aid ship Israel's taking advantage of an erstwhile preoccupied and unfortunate American President ? Or is it just more of Israel doing what Israel does best ..taking murderous and disproportionate action against civilians to further subjugate the Palestinian people - and doing all of this under the pre configured ideation imprinted on the Israeli mind that Europe 'owes' her because of the Holocaust - and therefore whatever would be deemed unacceptable by another country is Ok for Israel ? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 24, 2010 - 13:23 by john throne
30 comments (last - friday august 13, 2010 - 20:37)
The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 20, 2010 - 13:38 by Paddy Hackett
The proletariat provides the socio-ontological conditions for emancipation from ideology and exploitation. This is based on the proletariat’s unique relationship to the production process as source of wealth, value and capital–the very material basis for the existence of capitalist society. This peculiar oppression of the proletariat is what gives it its truth conditioning property. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 20, 2010 - 13:14 by Ed
3 comments (last - tuesday may 25, 2010 - 11:40)
The current 'Gulf Spill' is only one of scores of such disasters in recent decades. The same pattern of reckless failures; drip release of information; cover-up and collusion between operators and statutory agencies is evident throughout. Protesters are invariably vilified or criminalized so that attention may be directed away from the really criminal irresponsibility. Read the following quotes from highly credible sources and remember Pat's 100 days in jail today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 18, 2010 - 20:29 by LATIF SERHILDAN
The old saying goes “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”; however if it involves the Kurds that does not apply. When George W. Bush was in power in the US his administration declared Iran as part of an “axis of evil”, because of their rogue nuclear programme and belligerent rhetoric. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 15, 2010 - 15:11 by GARC
The following text was distributed to every household in the Greater Ardoyne area on Thursday past... ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday May 15, 2010 - 01:49 by Craig McInerney
Foreboding forecasts of a wave of financial instability consuming the Euro zone have prompted E.U Commission to take a drastic stance encompassing a potential inflammatory budget review process. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 14:31 by Mulholland
2 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2010 - 12:18)
On April 20th 2010 the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister of the Northern Assembly released the consultation paper drawn up by the Assembly Working Party on Parading Issues. Do you think 'traditional rights' or 'cultural expressions' of sectarian domination that have been established through violence and corruption should be equated with basic human rights? Now is the time to share your views. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 26, 2010 - 14:45 by nipsa 517
3 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2010 - 18:58)
As the current Minister for Education Caitriona Ruane attempts to slash budgets, education staff and their families will be steeling themselves for yet another round of propaganda attacks from politicians (both nationalist and unionist camps), pseudo economists and representatives of special interest groups who the Minister can rely on to make the usual calls for cuts in bureaucracy and administration. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Sunday April 25, 2010 - 02:17 by donlylemore
Our European Commissioner was ''doorstepped '' and asked about her current pension/s in the light of the waiver of pension entitlements in the case of a retiring banker ... With an overly hasty riposte she said to the reporter "That is a question that I have refused to comment on up to now and I continue to refuse to comment on it.'' The pique was palpable , and the affront visible .. she then canceled an arranged interview with RTE . ..but she is not alone .. and FG and Labour also have their formidable pension earners while still working.. and some ( teachers ) .. are they still blocking the appointment of a full time pensionable locum tenens ? - ''subs '' while they are in politics..and accruing more years for their teacher's pension also.. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 18, 2010 - 21:05 by donkylemore
6 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2010 - 14:38)
The Curia has protected the Pope with a venal beguile The defence of their errant priests and bishops is to launch an attack of a tripartite nature ; the church as victim; the blame lies with the victims; the problem was one of incipient homosexuality . The three factors were advanced separately over the past 10 days by the pope and 2 different theologians . Not just ordinary Curia sycophants , but doctrinaire heavy hitters. ... read full story / add a comment |
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