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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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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2011 - 06:33 by BrianClarkeNUJ
 1 comment (last - tuesday may 08, 2012 - 13:05)  1 image
Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
Epitaph on the grave of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, written by himself with careful directions !
Most people live lives, blissfully unaware of just how much secret Government agencies control their everyday lives. The Latin phrase 'scientia potentia est,' is a maxim claimed to mean "knowledge is power". This power in western societies like the U.S. and U.K. is centered in hugely resourced secret agencies that controls almost every facet of life of the modern citizen. ... read full story / add a comment
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 / eu Thursday November 03, 2011 - 13:24 by Costas A
2 comments (last - tuesday november 08, 2011 - 20:43) 1 image
EU cheap substitute- ΕΕ φτηνό υποκατάστατο ... 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
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 01, 2011 - 07:17 by London Catholic Worker
1 comment (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 - 07:23)
On Saturday Oct 29th. London Catholic Worker was invited to take part in the "Sermon on the Steps" of St. Paul's Cathedral organised by Occupy London.
Here's some youtube of "Sermon on the Steps"....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9fIssJFQ4
Here's the Catholic Worker, christian @narchist sermon from Saturday............... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Monday October 31, 2011 - 17:32 by Protect our Hares
2 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 - 14:36) 3 images
Michael D Higgins, our new President, was the first member of Ireland's parliament to push for a ban on live hare coursing ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday October 28, 2011 - 18:01 by Ban fox hunting
8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2018 - 16:07) 2 images
Foxhunting is set to shame Ireland yet again as animal baiters prepare to indulge in snob cruelty... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 27, 2011 - 20:16 by Tom
2 comments (last - friday october 28, 2011 - 10:16) 1 image
Reformists clash with the revolutionaries for years on the methods of struggle against capitalism. The first group is criticized for its strategy of building a new society step by step. Revolutionaries say that it will never happen because real liberation requires radical action and confrontation with the enemy. But reformists say that revolutionary methods are based on short-term changes that lead to violence and it is never possible to predict the outcome of the revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday October 24, 2011 - 02:01 by Anarchist International
An article written presumably for a non-Irish audience but still relevant to the discussions regarding the Real IRA, nationalism, and capitalism. Food for thought, at least... ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 23, 2011 - 14:05 by newsmedia
2 comments (last - monday october 24, 2011 - 18:41)
According to Enda Kenny, the Irish people are dumb, maleable and stupid. When asking people to support a referendum vote on something as important as changing the Irish Consitution, it is simply not enough to say “This is about fairness” and hope as he obviously does that people will simply sit back in satisfaction and accept his words. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Saturday October 22, 2011 - 18:26 by CB
4 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2011 - 19:07)  1 audio file
On the 15th October 2011 the Ireland Institute on Pearse Street played host to the second annual Raymond Crotty lecture, which was sponsored by the People’s Movement. The topic of this year’s lecture was Rancher and Banking interests in the modern Irish Economy and was delivered by Conor McCabe. McCabe’s recent book, Sins of the Father, is an examination of the Irish economy from the Anglo – Irish Treaty up to the present day.
http://www.theirishstory.com/2011/10/21/review-conor-mc...ITBIH ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 22, 2011 - 12:57 by Serf
49 comments (last - friday november 04, 2011 - 10:10) 3 images  1 video file
Gadaffi was no saint but the circumstances of his death and the death of his son leave a lot of questions to be answered about this campaign, about NATO, and about the collusion of the media in all of this. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous Wednesday October 19, 2011 - 11:27 by Occupy Cork
10 comments (last - sunday november 20, 2011 - 19:34) 17 images 8 video files
South Mall in Cork occupied for a fourth night... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday October 17, 2011 - 17:41 by Declan Cullen
4 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2011 - 22:32) 1 image
Pat Rabbite expects us to believe that drilling for our own resources is not viable, yet letting a foreign company come in and do it (at a low tax rate) is the way.......
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 14, 2011 - 20:19 by Sharon.
14 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2011 - 14:33) 3 images
A concerned group of people in the Clondalkin area of Dublin have initiated a campaign calling for voters to claim their ballot papers in the 27th October 2011 State Presidential election and purposely spoil them. ... read full story / add a comment |
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