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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 07, 2008 - 15:26 by Weary
 48 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 - 10:46)
"Threads" a BBC docudrama from 1984 focuses on the impact of a full blown nuclear war on the residents of Shefield in the 1980's. The U.S. and Russia come to blows after a military coup in Iran prompts a Soviet military incursion which provokes an American military response. The conflict escalates into a full-blown nuclear war which decimates humanity and population of Britain. Shefield recieves a direct hit which transforms the city into a wasteland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 07, 2008 - 10:25 by Gary MacLennan
24 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 - 00:09)  1 image
**Accessing "Route Irish" on the net If you have a high speed connection, I'd suggest that you ight-click (pc) or ctrl-lick (mac) on this link and download to your desktop http://www.archive.org/download/RouteIrish/Route.Irish....X.avi Or you can go to http://www.archive.org/details/RouteIrish and watch online. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday January 02, 2008 - 11:36 by Geoffrey Cooling
13 comments (last - friday april 18, 2008 - 18:59)
Behind the current drugs problem is an underlying moral social issue. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Friday December 28, 2007 - 19:42 by Tara Support
11 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 - 00:47) 8 images
It is not so easy to build a time line on the issue of Tara and all that this entails. For starters the issue began many years ago and the campaigns have largely evolved with new people coming on to help as was necessitated, however, the General Election of 2007 provided a useful focus and of course saw a corrupt Minister for Environment replaced by one who is morally inept and constitutionally Hamstrung.. but I will give it a go. http://www.savetara.com/articles/2007/122707_contractor....html ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday December 26, 2007 - 16:56 by C Murray
6 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 - 12:36) 5 images
A member of my family was supposed to be on Phuket on the day of the Tsunami but had been dragged away on holiday by his partner.He lost his friends and co-workers and it took us a while to ensure he was indeed alive.. Today is the third anniversary of the Great Sumatra- Andaman Earthquake and a lot of help is still needed, unfortunately the links to the Isis site are not working so I cannot offer a Grassroot perspective of what has been achieved and what is still needed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday December 22, 2007 - 11:22 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Joe Strummer died on Dec. 22nd. 2002. This how a few people in London celebrated his memory last night. Feel free to post your own memoriam as a comment. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 21, 2007 - 10:18 by Oisin Mac Giollamoir
29 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 - 07:05) 4 images
An introduction and critique of an often forgoteen tendency in the revolutionary movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Monday December 17, 2007 - 12:30 by Socialist Youth
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Catastrophe faces our planet because of climate change. A whole number of studies, reports and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth have highlighted this fact. In February of this year, a report written by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that temperatures could rise as much as 6.4OC by the end of this century. Already climate change has resulted in the doubling of category four and five storms in the last 30 years, while arctic ice has thinned by 40% in the last 40 years. While climate change effects our planet as a whole, it is the world’s workers and poor who will bear the brunt. If major action is not taken to halt climate change then 600 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will go hungry from collapsing agriculture, 400 million more will be exposed to malaria and 200 million people will be forced to migrate due to rising sea levels, according to the United Nations Development Programme...... ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday December 17, 2007 - 00:20 by Gregor Kerr
In early December classroom assistants in the North returned to work after a series of strike actions which had gone on since September. This action by the classroom assistants showed in stark form the two faces of the trade union movement. On the one hand there was the tremendous bravery and solidarity shown by the workers themselves in standing up to attempts to bully and harass them back to work. On the other hand was the duplicitousness and skulduggery of some trade union bureaucrats who not alone did their best to undermine the dispute but actively worked with management and politicians to betray the workers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday December 14, 2007 - 08:20 by Seán Ryan
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Bertie blames water framework directive for water charges in schools. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 13, 2007 - 17:17 by Joseba Agudo and Edurne Iriondo, law
2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 13:53)
In the early 90s, the Spanish government decided to internationalize the political conflict between the Spanish State and the Basque Country, in terms of repression. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 12:17 by World Weary
34 comments (last - wednesday december 19, 2007 - 20:38) 1 image
If Katy French had grown up in Finglas or Ballyfermot or Clondakin or Lucan or someother place that the politicians in the Dail and establishment who live in leafy afluent parts of South Dublin do not know exist and was working in a supermarket when she died from using cocaine her death would have been mentioned in a tiny paragraph in the newspapers and would not resurface until months later the coroner would rule the fatalily was the result of death through misadventure. If Katy French had not died this past week the deaths and hospitalisation of a number of young men in Waterford and in the Midlands from drug use would hardly have earned a mention in the mainstream broadsheets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 13:15 by paul o toole
12 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 - 23:05)
Radio Telefis Eireann. 10.30 , 12/12/07 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Monday December 10, 2007 - 18:17 by Bob
3 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 11:43) 2 images
Chavez...Venezuela's answer to Ruairí Quinn ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday December 10, 2007 - 00:49 by Setanta
11 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 - 00:31)
There is a growing concern among the people of Ireland about the credibility of solicitors and the Law Society. Change is needed soon, because people are becoming increasingly frustrated and upset with the anomalies, injustices and delays that they have to encounter in their dealings with unscrupulous solicitors. Setanta,V.L.P.S. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday December 07, 2007 - 19:39 by C Murray
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This morning I bought the Irish Times and got a headache. Two things caused deep annoyance; and they are related: the State will pursue one of our best Heritage campaigners for 500,000 Euros costs and a letter in the Letter's Page talks of Cregganbaun and Killary in relation to Eamon Ryan's granting of licences to prospectors for gold.Killary Harbour is a Fjord, it provided a place for Wittgenstein to think and its got a quality of silence that should be left undisturbed-but thats what you get when self-publicists get into the Dail- Rattle and Hum. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 05, 2007 - 14:38 by Davy Carlin
3 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 - 12:25)
Belfast - On the streets ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday December 05, 2007 - 11:52 by L Spader
1 comment (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 - 13:48)
The health trust in Craigavon are going to close two respite wards in Lurgan Hospital and farm out the service to the private sector. This is the type of social issue that Trade Unions should be getting involved with, but as usual the leadership is somewhat lacking. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday December 05, 2007 - 09:54 by Tracy Donegan
More and more Irish women are being offered early inductions to avoid labour on Christmas day. Is this ethical ? Is this safe? ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday December 03, 2007 - 23:03 by Nick Folley
5 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 12:00)
For those following the Hidden History on Coolnacrease below is published a transcript of the Joe Duffy Liveline programme of Nov 6th 2007 on RTE. It features Jack Lane and Tom Carew. There is also a link to the transcript of the previous day's Liveline where the same topic was duscussed. I have tried to give the discussion verbatim where possible, but due to sound quality and the natural cadence of conversation, on occasion it wasn't possible to catch every word. Where I have some doubt about the actual words, I have used [ ?] ... read full story / add a comment |
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