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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 13, 2008 - 12:07 by Health Working Group
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Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this pamphlet, anarchists explain the reasons why such change is needed, give examples of important first steps in creating change, and describe the type of struggle that is necessary if we are going to win. PDFs of this pamphlet can be downloaded: A4 version - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_1...1.pdf A5 booklet version (for double sided printing) - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_a...1.pdf ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 22:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") died yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the Al Qaeda M11 bombing of Madrid, in Vitoria in the Basque Country at 60 years of age. As "Wilson" he led the group who in 1973 rented a flat on at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid overlooking the road which Franco's prime minister & expected successor Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco used every morning to travel to work after mass in an armoured car. For several weeks the four members of the team, codenamed "Ogre" tunnelled under the street and then placed 80kg of explosives which they detonated on the 20th of December 1973. The car in which Carrero Blanco travelled was sent 20 metres into the air & over a five storey building in the blast. The assassination is cited in almost every account of how the Spanish state passed from an authoritiarian military dictatorship to the process of "transition" upon Franco's death without named successor to the European social democracy it is today. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 10:54 by C Murray
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The issue of the RTE 'Documentary'- 'Fairytale of Kathmandu', (which I must confess to have not seen) is rolling on with questions in the Seanad , with fattening well-budgetted disc-jockeys allowing hysterical women in rollers Tut! over homosexuality and the sexual activity of a splendid poet. Interesting letter in the Times today by a regular contributor to indymedia as well. I shall publish an extract in a minute. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 03:07 by Rob Henderson
Feel free to circulate this text at will. It might not mean much but if you think it could make a difference somewhere then post it there, or write your own version. Those in the most ideal positions of our national press are not investigating this issue. The people on the ground only have so much time to spread around each day. It is up to you to provide whatever you think we need, we'll accept all the help we can get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 10, 2008 - 00:21 by ronan
15 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 - 14:41)
Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. This article looks at some of the realities behind the rhetoric and suggests some more plausible motivations for the intervention. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Sunday March 09, 2008 - 00:16 by Cliona Flanagan
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Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. This goes back to 1910, when an international conference of socialist women decided that 'women the world over set aside a particular day each year to remember women and their struggles.' ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 08, 2008 - 11:57 by Cael
16 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 - 15:30)
Personally, the biggest problem I see with private property is that western society has not been able to put any limit on it. It has become, or always was, psychotic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday March 07, 2008 - 17:51 by Tracy Donegan
3 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 - 13:23)
Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 07, 2008 - 11:02 by Des
13 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 - 22:58)
Foreign kictchens bought instead oof our own. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 10:09 by Soundmigration
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Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 02, 2008 - 13:42 by Gecoga
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This articule makes an analisis of the current junture of multitudinary marchs in Colombia. It reviews the situation of human rights violations and the causes of the Colombian conflict to finally explore alternatives to achieve peace in the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Sunday March 02, 2008 - 08:40 by M Walshe
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An analysis of EU Commissioner's Margot Wallstrom's involvement in two parallel but contradictory processes - as head of the Commission's 'Plan D for Dialogue, Deabte & Democracy' allegedly aimed at involving citizens in the defining of Europe's future, which was set up in the aftermath of the 2005 rejection of the EU Constitution in France and Holland - while at the same time she played a little reported but significant role in the Amato Group - a self-selected group of 16 of the EU's top political elite who met to to redraft - behind closed doors, and with funding from a leading European multinational - the rejected Constitution text and effectively re-packaged it as what was to become known as the Lisbon Treaty, a document which every member state in the EU, bar Ireland, is being denied a popular say on. Commissioner Wallstrom was in Dublin last Thursday to speak at the National Forum on Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday March 01, 2008 - 19:04 by Darragh Aiken, Civil Engineer
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In the run up to the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, there is much that is unsaid as regards our electoral history and the behaviour of the EU towards its honest politicians. This article sets out to give voice to those Europen politicains that have been ignored by Irish media and provides perspective on the proposed referendum. Suggestions for future referendums and laws are proposed that would serve the common good. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday March 01, 2008 - 12:43 by Movie Fan
12 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 - 22:33)
It does what it says on the tin. A simplistic plot. A damsel in distress must be rescued by a hero against impossible odds. A black and white vision of good and evil. BUT WHAT EVIL! Like no other movie I have ever seen, perhaps Schindler's List, this movie demonstrates the evil of ethnic cleansing, tyranny and injustice that the West would like to pretend does not exist. Nobody can see this movie and not be changed, outraged and forced to do something for the people of Burma and other peoples oppressed through out the world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 24, 2008 - 17:27 by seosamh an chnoic
1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 - 21:14)
I spent about 10 years involved in voluntary community initiatives like local publishing, charity concerts, youth concerts. My motivation at that time was intensely political and leftist. I believed that the economy was a machine run by the merciless logic of profit and that any involvement in it meant unacceptable compromise. Therefore, my own political principles meant that I marginalised myself from any formal involvement with it. On the sidelines, from my Comfortable And Quite Elevated Chair of Ideological Analysis, it was crystal clear to me that Community Development was just a con-job. It was a ploy by The Elite to sap the revolutionary vigour of the people and co-opt potential revolutionaries. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 21, 2008 - 13:48 by observer
107 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2008 - 18:37)
What No fanfare. I'm suprised at the lack of comment. I would have assumed as Time for Change are simply a left wing election vehicle they would have been crowing proudly at their excellent election result in the NIPSA GC election. NIPSA Unity on the other hand I would expect to be more pragmatic and modest. Let's face it they do have a lot to be modest about!! ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday February 21, 2008 - 07:23 by W. O'Day
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Michael Collins: A Musical Drama is currently playing at the Cork Opera House, Cork City, County Cork. Written and directed by Brian Flynn. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 05:16 by Astrid Essed
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With the total or partly blockade on Gaza, the Israeli authorities are guilty of crimes against humanity ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 18, 2008 - 18:04 by Fiachra Ó Luain
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‘Winter Soldier’ (1972) is a film that has suffered from de facto censorship for most of its thirty six years. Its recent screening as part of the ‘War at Home’ category in the Berlinale Film Festival affected people in Berlin’s Filmpalast theatre as it did when first screened in the early seventies. It is harrowing viewing. Perhaps never before have words, simple spoken words, had such an affect on a society as this film did in the United States of America in 1972. This was because of the undeniable integrity of the U.S. servicemen articulating the extent of the genocidal operating procedure of the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam. It has since effectively been erased from the public memory. In the eighties and nineties the era of the Vietnam War underwent a full-scale reconstruction with the likes of Hollywood facelifts of the Vietnam veteran with such films as ‘Rambo’, ‘Hamburger Hill’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’. Many people in Berlin were moved by the film as it is once again so relevant to all of us. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Saturday February 16, 2008 - 17:52 by ribbid
7 comments (last - friday february 29, 2008 - 12:58) 20 images
180,000 signatures on a petition have failed to lobby the Wikipedia foundation to remove images of the founder of Islam from entries in multiple languages available on the online encyclopedia. However, the illustrations are not nor are likely to be included in the arabic version or other lingustic portals associated with muslim sensibility. It might thus appear languages are sensitive. I have always suspected so, to be frank - perhaps more sensitive than the eye.., ... read full story / add a comment |
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