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national / miscellaneous Sunday September 14, 2008 - 19:16 by Gregor Kerr
 3 comments (last - monday september 15, 2008 - 23:34)
In June of this year the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) wrote to its members in all primary schools in the Republic announcing that a National Rally on the issue of class size would take place on Saturday 4th October. Posters were included for display in schools and staff reps were urged to begin the process of building a delegation of teachers and parents to represent their school at the rally. Last week another communication arrived in schools from INTO head office. This informed members that the 4th October rally “will not proceed… as previously indicated.” Here Gregor Kerr, a member of the Dublin City North Branch of the INTO (writing in a personal capacity) analyses why the union leadership have backed off from the rally, asks whether they really have the bottle for a fight on this issue, and urges a grassroots campaign to deliver victory on the issue. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Saturday September 13, 2008 - 01:00 by Tel
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Drawing the thread through some recent news stories of oil corruption, climate chaos, fuel poverty, and doing what the so-called ‘mainstream’ media will not do, linking them together, most pertinently linking them with the continuing Corrib gas controversy. Then weaving into a consideration of zoning for pollution, or future resource exploitation in the West. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday September 12, 2008 - 14:22 by godzilla
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Obama has lost in ten of the last 12 opinion polls for the United States presidential election, 2008. His margin has between a 6point loss in the first week of September and a 4point loss in the last three days. Those who know how the USA voting public works blame this losing streak on Palin. It certainly seems to make sense as of the 57 US nationwide polls carried out thus far Mc Cain has only won 12. Jonathan Freedland in today's "Guardian" represents well the disbelief of European journalists & to a great extent intellectuals that the voters of the USA, those enfranchised alone to make a decision which affects us all seem about to deride our faith & hope of the change Obama promised. I on the other hand believe that the opinion poll data only confirms how little Europeans as well as US Democrats understood one of the most important socio-historical shifts in US citizens' perception of their own institutions & government. I argue that they've finally realised the importance of their vice-president. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 12, 2008 - 10:17 by solidarity seeker
Is there anyone else out there feeling the same trepidation that I am feeling over the direction that the current NJC pay dispute has taken? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Thursday September 11, 2008 - 14:30 by Eve Campell
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When the Irish constitution was unveiled in 1937 it set out a special place for women within the home. In Ireland as elsewhere ‘women’s life within the home’ has to a large extent been characterized by long hours of thankless drudgery. While the struggles of Irish women for greater liberties during the last century have improved our lives in many ways, the drudgery of housework remains thankless and the workplace has not brought the liberation that certain feminists promised. As anarchists see it, this is because as long as we live in a capitalist society women (or men) can never be meaningfully liberated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 11, 2008 - 11:08 by Park Life
At the elaborately staged 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the North Korean Stalinist State, the "Dear Leader", Kim Jong IL was conspicious by his absence. It is believed that he may have suffered a stroke (Kim is alleged to enjoy cigars, booze and teenage girls while his devoted subjects make do eating grass). At the edge of 66, Kim, like 72 year old John McCain, is no spring chicken and the demise of his personal brand of socialism is sure to end relatively soon if the rumours of his ill-health are unfounded. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 17:07 by John McCoy
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In 2005 a delegation from AECI addressed a JOINT OIREACTAS COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS. The purpose of this Presentation was convince the government to give Statutory Powers to the Private Limited Company EPACE. Epace is an organisation which AECI has now left. Outlined below are some of the statements made by AECI in that presentation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 09, 2008 - 16:53 by J.Carax
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Last month, Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe indicated that third-level fees were ''back on the agenda''. His comments have been met with strong opposition from university students. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Sunday September 07, 2008 - 20:11 by James Redmond
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Raked over in newspapers since the fifth and final series made its way on to TnaG, it's hard to write anything new about the Wire. It's a portrait of America through Baltimore and the cop show vehicle; of failing school systems and crumbling communities, where drugs gangs and cops act in similar flurries of selfish brutality. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Sunday September 07, 2008 - 13:29 by Alan MacSimóin
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A review of the pro-choice struggle from a libertarian perspective ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Saturday September 06, 2008 - 23:03 by Stuart
Inside the Boole building at UCC last month Government representatives of Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Trade minister Billy Keleher, executives from global corporations Dow, Monsanto and B.P. , Patent Lawyers and trade mark agents, members of the scientific research community, delegates from the pharmacuticle industry and the world bank. Outside between 30 and 40 people representing stake holders of Planet Earth P.L.C. including organic farmers, Irish seed savers, Brown Envelope Seeds, G.M. Free Ireland and the Socialist Party. Cost to you or me to be inside €810. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 06, 2008 - 10:57 by Ciaron O'Reily
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Gary and I shared many a police cell in the '70's & '80's and many a backyard barbie in the '90's and norties. In '77 Gary brought his experiences from the north of Ireland to our movement in sunny redneck facist Queensland that resisted the state suspension of civil liberties (3,000+ arrests '77-81 for merely marching, leafleting picketing, gathering publicly in groups of more than 3 people..Nuts?....you had to be there!) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 05, 2008 - 17:35 by Andrew
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A 60 mintue audio recording of a talk and discussion on the Chinese revolution and the Chinese anarchist movement. ... read full story / add a comment
wicklow / environment Thursday September 04, 2008 - 21:21 by Mr.Peter Brady Alias.
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This is our first statement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday September 04, 2008 - 02:08 by John Mcoy
The TEEU Has Reliased That They Have Pushed The Boat Out Too Far and The Cosy Cartel They Have Spent Years Building Up Is About To Fall Down With A Bang. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday August 31, 2008 - 21:23 by James
Some things in life are pretty obvious. One is that you don’t attack a heavily armed gang that outnumbers you 30 to 1. So what was Georgian leadership thinking when it ordered an attack on South Ossetia? There can be no question that they thought they would be able to defeat Russia. There are, after all, limits to human idiocy. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Friday August 29, 2008 - 20:21 by Mairtin Og
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CEARTAIS held a successful seminar on August 26th in the Felon's Club on the Andersontown Road in Belfast. The conference was well attended by dozens of former Long Kesh Prisoners and relatives. Who were shown new photos of the battle and brutality that took place on October 16th, 1974. They were also given a comprehensive update of our Campaign and how we intend proceeding in the future. Our Committee would like to thank the Felon's, Coiste Na Iarchimi, Tar Isteach, The Andersontown News and everyone who attended our first Seminar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 21:43 by some assembly required
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Have a look at these two short videos from youtube. They show very similar instances - in the first one a police officer in New York City (Officer Patrick Pogan) assaults a protester at a critical mass bike ride, and in the second a member of the Garda Siochána (Garda Kevin O'Connor) assaults a protester at an anti-Shell protest in Mayo. There is one big difference though. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 16:34 by BrainwashedSportsFan
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Western media coverage of China's hosting of the Olympics was at best disingenuous and seemed more like propaganda than news most of the time ... read full story / add a comment 
While the rest of us are coming to terms with a deepening recession, growing house repossessions, stagnation in rises and steep rise in the cost of living. In the face of a so-called downturn in the housing market and credit crunch, the wealthy in the form of parasitic property developers and speculators expect to be bailed out by the Government for their calculated era in borrowing too much from Banks and leading to first time buyers ... read full story / add a comment |
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