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national / crime and justice Saturday December 13, 2008 - 13:34 by Lapwing
 16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 - 04:57)
Concern growing with regard to UCD security firm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 11, 2008 - 14:52 by Sean Matthews (pc)
The insurrection in Greece is a violent manifestation of the flame of class war that is sweeping across the world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 08, 2008 - 21:14 by Tom Cooper
5 comments (last - tuesday january 19, 2010 - 12:47)
The recent 'Nationwide' programme on the national broadcastor RTE, on the life and times of 'Irishmen in British uniform' on their day to day life in Aldershot army barracks in England as they prepare for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps even to the country that gave them birth, peddled a pro-British pro-unionist line that implied both the Irish and British armies are synonymous with each other. Despite the fact that the British army has been engaged in the blatent murder of Irish citizens since colonisation right up to present times, RTE, in the making of this programme, acted like a recruiting agency for the foreign army that continues to colonise six counties of this island. The behaviour of RTE in this matter is both unsavoury and sordid and acts against the national interest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday December 06, 2008 - 22:53 by Darragh Aiken
1 comment (last - monday december 08, 2008 - 12:53)
Much has been said over the Lisbon Treaty and the future direction of Europe under the heel of the emerging “European Soviet” (Reference to the EU by M. Gorbachev, London 2001). Yet there is little in the way of real debate on the more informative topics of nationhood, sovereignty and “que bono” (who benefits). This article sets out to stimulate such questions. The text of an informative Lecture called “The State of Individuals” by one of Americas most worthy Political Historians is provided for discussion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday December 06, 2008 - 22:30 by FAS Scheme
22 comments (last - saturday july 25, 2009 - 16:02)
For years fas neglected the welfare of scheme workers throught-out Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday December 04, 2008 - 21:39 by Michael Murphy
46 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 - 14:37)
Proposals by the Socialist Party for a Local Election Socialist Alliance have been rejected by the Socialist Workers Party, People Before Profit Alliance and the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Thursday December 04, 2008 - 18:52 by SeamusO'Rourke
11 comments (last - thursday february 11, 2010 - 12:26)
WE cannot Afford Incineration In Dublin or Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 04, 2008 - 15:52 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 - 18:55)
Despite rightwing media attempts to portray Barack Obama as a covert Muslim during the U.S. Presidential election campaign, his appointment of pro-Israel hard-liner Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff indicates that there will be no change in American policy toward Israel/Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 02:05 by John McCoy
7 comments (last - monday december 22, 2008 - 16:32)
TEEU General Secretary wastes taxpayers money while bashing self-employed Electrical Contractors ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 01:41 by Gary Sudborough
The terrorism perpetrated by nation-states is much vaster in scope and cause many more casualties than that caused by individuals or groups of individuals even though the corporate media give the majority of attention and condemnation to the latter. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday December 01, 2008 - 15:09 by Michael Murphy
23 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 - 21:42)
The Socialist Party has been in discussion with others on the left with a view to forming an Electoral Alliance for the Local Elections which will take place in June 2009. These discussions have been publicly carried in the pages of our paper "the Socialist" and on sites such as this. The Socialist Party has put forward a very positive proposal for a local election slate of candidates. It is important the slate would field credible candiates with a record in the their area that there is political agreement with the programme of the slate which will flow from discussions. We feel these issues among others mentioned in the material below are extremley important if we are to get aggreement. This is why in these proposals we have provided fuller elaboration of our position in an open, honest and constructive manner we hope that other groups will respond in kind. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 28, 2008 - 18:01 by Peter
7 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 - 19:33)
I find it really fascinating that an individual that not so long ago embraced the cause for spanish patriotism has become a simbol of basque resistance and receives support from Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment
kilkenny / animal rights Friday November 28, 2008 - 11:28 by Bernie Wright
7 comments (last - tuesday december 23, 2008 - 11:26)
The AOHS have contacted (Laura Keys) at the Kilkenny People newspaper who have confirmed that online opinion polls are open to mass voting by lobby groups. We alerted our supporters to the vote online but realise that as this poll is running for a week till Tuesday it means nothing in terms of real analysis. The votes in favour of ‘foxhunting being discontinued’ have fluctuated from over 80% in favour to just below 50% at other times. Its like a game show, excuse the pun, and the site itself easily allows repeat voting, it is readily open to abuse which makes it all irrelevant. The newspaper have now confirmed they are well aware of the mass-voting aspect. “For this reason I think it's pointless to participate in these "polls". They are totally unscientific, are easily rigged, and only really exist to drive traffic to the sites to boost their advertising revenue. ... read full story / add a comment
Why are "opposition" parties silent on corporation tax increases, instead of cutting public services
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 27, 2008 - 11:06 by party animal
2 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 - 13:11)
It was well known in political and media circles that drastic cuts in corporation would not be sustainable when the economy went into decline, however the 'spin' put out at the time was that these cuts in taxes paid by business would create greater profits and that this would mean almost full employment. Now that we know both the spin and the theory are nonsense what are the opposition parties saying? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 27, 2008 - 10:05 by Workers Solidarity
7 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 - 15:04)
The financial markets have taken a hammering. Speculators (that’s a rich person’s word for ‘gambler’) lost incredible sums of borrowed cash in bets on everything from mortgage values to the possible price of wheat in 2011. Banks who lent out far more money than they actually had needed governments to step in with billions to bail them out. In some countries the state took them over. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / history and heritage Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 22:22 by Jack
7 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 - 14:14)
Why is Hidden History hiding ? Last evening, Tuesday, 25th November, I flicked through the TV listings for something worthwhile to watch. I came across a docudrama on RTE one at 10.15 pm. It was entitled, ‘DEATH OR CANADA’. I switched on RTE one at 10.15 and discovered that the docudrama was actually another of those terrible Hidden History programmes. I was surprised to see that it was Hidden History and though it unusual that it was not advertised as so on the TV listings. I immediately checked last Saturday’s Irish Times TV guide. The programme was listed on RTE at 10.15pm under the title DEATH OR CANADA, no mention of Hidden History. On the top of the page under the heading, TV CHOICE by David O Dwyer I see a review of the docudrama, it reads as follows. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 15:43 by Jim
After the death of Kennedy it seemed that everything was going wrong. Vietnam, Watergate, the race riots, the cultural chasm between young and old, rich and poor, the collapse of traditional family values and the explosion of drug culture and sexual license among an angry disillusioned generation of baby boomers who should have inherited the American Dream that the “greatest generation” including Kennedy had sacrificed so much for and the rise of nihilistic violence by Manson, the Weathermen, the slaughter at My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy himself who seemed to be the last of idealistic liberals left after the end of the war. All the problems seemed to have burst to the surface following the death of Kennedy when the hopes and dreams of millions of the young who had been brought up to believe in a safe rational world were shattered. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 11:40 by Davy Carlin
2 comments (last - thursday november 27, 2008 - 17:30)
The Stormont administration is at a critical juncture, with the Executive not having met in several months. It seems an eternity since Paisley and McGuinness chuckled their way through meetings and joint events. Yet much of that public display of togetherness has little substance when it comes to real and beneficial change for working people or in dealing with the issues which have now re-surfaced and are the cause for the recent financial instability. ... read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 20, 2008 - 18:04 by Gerry Rice
The Northern Ireland Assembly was meant to be interdependent. After ten years there is no sign of its being interdependent. Why? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 11:47 by Karen Jeffares
I recently attended a conference here in Managua, the subject was, among other things, the recent office raids and the threatened expulsions of several international NGOs by the Ortega-led Sandinista government. The attendees were a collection of both Nicaraguans and internationals and the discussion around reasons, reactions, and responses was both interesting and at times, quite inspiring. However, what struck me the most during the conference was something repeated over and over again by the meetings chairperson in her analysis – that if you know something, or learn something new then you have a responsibility to share it with those around you. She was talking specifically about the need to continue questioning the increasingly arbitrary actions of Nicaragua’s current Head of State, but I am sure she would agree that it can be applied to a much broader spectrum of experience. ... read full story / add a comment |
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