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national / eu Tuesday June 17, 2008 - 16:53 by Zapata
Working Class voted overwhelmingly against the Lisbon treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 17, 2008 - 16:02 by S - Mac
Radical Movements have been destroyed over and over again by their own membership. What are the traits and what can we do about it? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 17, 2008 - 11:16 by Yuri
If an act of savagery such as the bombing of an airliner, the murder of captive on an internet video, the assassination of a politician etc with the publicity it generates in the modern media can shake the will of a society that is more economically powerful and militarily stronger, an individual already contemptuous of decadent democratic politics, might be inclined to believe it is a greater crime not to use political violence and information manipulation to achieve his ends. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 16, 2008 - 14:33 by Leo Magee   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 17, 2008 - 00:55)
Any attempt at developing a revolutionary project has lost all direction. All energy has been consumed within the so-called anti-war movement. The anti-war movement will be in disarray with the election of Obama. The Left are dead but serve a very useful purpose by mopping up people who amazingly want to do something to change the world. A plethora of groups now exist to neutralise dissent by consuming possible dissenters into dreary political parties (all of whom claim to be left or socialist or green or in the Irish context 'left republican' etc etc) ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 13, 2008 - 14:24 by jim travers   text 2 comments (last - friday june 13, 2008 - 16:29)
The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate has not only told politicians, in what now appears to be a unified one party state made up of Labour, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, that the Irish people will not tolerate any interference to our Constitution by unknown bureaucrats in the EU. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 12, 2008 - 13:31 by old fashioned Green   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 14, 2008 - 07:31)
these are the main reasons why I and many Green party members are voting no to Lisbon and why we refused to campaign for a yes vote.
Reason no 1: REACH
Reason no 2: Nuclear power
Reason no 3: EU Corruption
Reason no 4: EU Police state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 17:53 by jmstipe20   image 2 images
Background information for the Irish referendum on June 12: The EU today lacks proper democratic procedures. The Lisbon Treaty boosts this lack of democracy making the EU even more remote to its citizens. This is the conclusion of a study by Michael Efler, Percy Vogel, Gerald Häfner, Roman Huber and Felix Wünsche. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 14:52 by Cathal Brennan
Video from the Lisbon Debate hosted by the Socialist Party in Wynn's Hotel on the 5th June 2008. Here Joe Higgins outlines the No argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89u1OMnJFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACw6U4Nbgc&feature=user

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIERKAGbl2U&feature=user ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 14:31 by Raymond Bhreatnach   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 16:21)   image 1 image
AN INFORMED AND REASONED PIECE ON WHY TO VOTE A BIG NO TO LISBON
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national / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 11:58 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 13 comments (last - friday june 27, 2008 - 21:23)
In the last few days, Brian Cowen has stated that Ireland's future will be decided by the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. If, therefore, its ratification is so paramount with regard to the future of Ireland, and indeed Europe, then why are we the only nation voting on it? Surely, in any democracy, people are entitled to decide on issues which fundamentally shape their future, right? A half a billion people now live in the E.U., but only a few million are being asked for their opinion in a referendum being billed by Cowen as the most import in a generation. Either European democracy is well or truly a thing of the past, or Cowen, Kenny and Gilmore are exaggerating the importance of this referendum with a view to sparing their blushes on the corridors of power in Brussels. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 10:27 by Howard Holby
The areas in which national competences will be or potentially will be transferred to the Union, and the procedure of how the national parliaments may try to retain the remainder of their competences.

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international / eu Tuesday June 10, 2008 - 17:04 by paul o toole   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 22:04)
Nutrality in Ireland has been reduced in our constitution as nothing more than 'aspirational' by our courts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday June 10, 2008 - 01:18 by Galway woman   text 4 comments (last - friday june 20, 2008 - 14:34)
I just got a leaflet through the door from Labour today calling for a Yes vote. It is worse that I could have guessed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday June 09, 2008 - 10:07 by Howard Holby   text 12 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 03:25)   image 1 image
This article summarises our main arguments against Lisbon and presents a most recent example as a further proof of our former claims. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / eu Monday June 09, 2008 - 00:01 by Frustrated Galwegian   text 3 comments (last - monday june 09, 2008 - 21:59)
Written after reading comments by Michael D. in the Local Press urging people to vote Yes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 08, 2008 - 09:45 by Ramor Ryan   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 08, 2008 - 10:02)   image 1 image
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake." - Stephen Daedalus, in Ulysses, James Joyce 1922

Oaxaca City, Mexico, May 15 - Midnight in Oaxaca, and walking around the historic center, it's almost as if nothing had ever happened here. The bourgeoisie sit around under the colonial arches in the long stretch of French-style outdoor cafes lining the central plaza. Aside from being beset by a small army of ambulant trinket vendors and beggars, the well-heeled citizens sipping cappuccinos seem very at ease with the world. A few late night tourists wander about the pleasant old streets under the starry sky, and the industrious hum of the sultry cosmopolitan city invokes an eternal calm.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 06, 2008 - 19:39 by Sevinch Karaca   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 - 09:34)
Labor has friends in Turkey, maybe R.Quinn should run for elections in Turkey to replace AKP who is also facing ban and closure. For more on the case http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2008/0606/121269....html

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national / eu Friday June 06, 2008 - 19:34 by Howard Holby   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 10, 2008 - 08:02)
Myth: ‘Ireland and Europe need the EU and Lisbon Treaty’

Fact: the EU needs Ireland and Europe, and the EU needs the Lisbon Treaty to gain control over Europe ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 06, 2008 - 12:32 by Andy McNab   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 08, 2008 - 16:05)
Opponents of the Lisbon Treaty claim that Ireland will become part of a Pan-European Army.
However their hysteria betrays a profound ignorance of our military weaknesses and indeed the military weakness of the European armies even the big three, German, France and the United Kingdom.
None of the European armies shows any likelihood of being able to overcome nationalistic rivalries, duplication of resources, linguistic difficulties and a plethora of different weapons systems that would make a Pan-European army exist anywhere except in the fantasies of Brussels bureacrats even if a common defence treaty is made official. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday June 06, 2008 - 02:44 by Northern Nationalist
On April 29th, when the Strategic Review Body on Parading formally launched its consultative report, two residents’ groups - the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community in Belfast and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition in Portadown – whose communities were at the very heart of the turmoil and conflict over contentious marches in the 1990’s jointly set out their views and concerns in a full page article in “The Irish News”, the main nationalist daily paper in the North.

Since then, the two residents' groups have been spuriously accused by some within Sinn Fein of working to "an agenda" - although no-one who makes that accusation is prepared to state what that agenda is.

Given that parades are officially listed as one of the items to be “resolved” at the Downing Street talks between Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Gordon Brown, its worth recalling the position of the two residents’ groups and establishing if others, and not the residents, are working to "an agenda".. ... read full story / add a comment
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