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national / politics / elections Friday June 04, 2004 - 14:15 by Organise!
 2 comments (last - monday june 07, 2004 - 00:40)
As usual coming up to election time we are constantly bombarded with election posters and mass media coverage highlighting the importance of exercising your 'spectator' role in society by voting for a ruler. How insulting! as the fact is if voting changed anything it would be made illegal! Politicians are merely puppets which give the illusion that ordinary people have a real say in our so-called parliamentary democracy, but the real power lies with the State bureaucracy and in the boardrooms of the very rich and privileged within our society. Let's face it ticking a box every couple of years for a power hungry politician is a waste of time and is only empowering a minority of rulers who are rarely visible in between elections, irremovable and do not have to legally abide by the mandate they were elected on. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 04, 2004 - 13:39 by finbar
4 comments (last - thursday june 10, 2004 - 15:07)
Bush starts re-election by coming to Europe to celebrate the destruction of Fascism by .......and wait for it ..............meeting Silvio berlesconi (the man who wants to be a dictator) and a real one in the vatican. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 01, 2004 - 21:22 by vincent
2 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2004 - 20:12)
The Irish College of Psychiatrists refuses to declare the extent of its involvement in drug company sponsorship ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday May 31, 2004 - 18:06 by ordinary man
35 comments (last - monday june 07, 2004 - 02:45)
These so called 'socialists' have nothing to say on important issues to ordinary workers such as a shorter working week, more public holidays, time spend in traffic gridlock, affordable childcare etc etc ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 31, 2004 - 01:29 by On behalf of Michael O'Reilly
5 comments (last - monday may 31, 2004 - 19:19)  1 image
Aer Rianta is in the news - but what is the motivation for the break up of the company? Maybe its not ideology - this report passed to Indymedia by a senior trade unionist proposes it is the old story - a rip off of the states assets. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 30, 2004 - 21:43 by Mark Drolette
Just what, exactly, is PNAC? Some kind of soft drink? A new type of snack? Unfortunately, PNAC affects our well-being much more adversely than could any junk food. To see why, and also for details on other oddball groups with strange agendas of which we should be aware, read on. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 28, 2004 - 23:09 by Sean Mc Aughey
US Schools Must Disclose Information About Crime on and Around Campus - (Clery Act USA) Is Similar Legislation Required in Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 28, 2004 - 13:26 by 1 of DGN
18 comments (last - monday may 31, 2004 - 15:22) 1 image
We want to see an Iraq where the Iraqi people themselves control their own lives and work together as equals. Neither the war nor occupation offer them this. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 28, 2004 - 03:06 by Chris Bond
12 comments (last - sunday june 20, 2004 - 10:56)
Anti drink legislation such as the intoxicating liquor act will not make the streets safer and will only curb our liberites. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday May 27, 2004 - 23:01 by iosaf the ipsiphi
7 comments (last - tuesday july 27, 2004 - 05:26)
D Day normandy you know about. Day before General Strike thingy and a big cheery very sincere fuck off Bush message. Everyone else "on the stand" will be "used to this". & Everyone else will somehow come across as being more "sensitive", "aware", "dignified" and "sussed" as to the "importance" of "Delta Day". Even the Irish whose forebears didn't see what all the fuss was about will try and cluck cluck just like Minister Mc Dowell does now. Nothing much has changed. Everything has changed. The last time Bush spent the night out of the USA he spent it in the impregnable castle of Hillsborough in the Queen of England's own private Northern Ireland. "our wee north". I'm not telling you where he's gonna stay in France. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 27, 2004 - 21:59 by Captain Timo
8 comments (last - tuesday june 01, 2004 - 16:26)
Independent investigations of the events of Sept 11, 2001 present a very different picture to the official story. 911 has the appearance of a black operation designed to bring about radical and sinister political changes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Thursday May 27, 2004 - 17:12 by Solas
5 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 - 21:53)
Rececent revelations regarding AIB overcharging merely underline the contempt banking and financial issues have for ordinary people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 27, 2004 - 14:55 by USI Member
14 comments (last - monday june 07, 2004 - 13:22)
The manifestos for candidates for USI Postgrad officer, Environmental officer, Deputy President, Equality officer and Irish language officer have been emailed to Student Union around the country, here's your chance to read them ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 26, 2004 - 15:09 by john throne
12 comments (last - monday may 31, 2004 - 14:20)
The growth associated with the so-called Celtic Tiger has vaulted Southern Ireland into the economic lead in the list of small states in the EU. But the distribution of the fruits of this growth has been mainly decided by the bosses and their parties. However the electrical workers in Southern Ireland have now voted and in fact already taken action in the last weeks to say no to this bosses share up. Victory for the electrical workers could open the door for a much wider struggle. The electrical workers must get full support. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 26, 2004 - 11:27 by Shinner
1 comment (last - wednesday may 26, 2004 - 11:58)
Last Nights spotlight programme on BBC highlighted the extent to which the British Crown Forces were involved in the murder of innocent Catholics. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Tuesday May 25, 2004 - 18:55 by bernadette mary
19 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2005 - 20:14) 1 image
The Colombian 3, Niall Connolly, James Monaghan, and Michael McAuley, irish citizens who were found not guilty of training FARC guerillas in Colombia, are still being held captive in a Colombian prison, despite being proven innocent of serious terrorist charges. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 25, 2004 - 17:35 by iosaf the ipsiphi
2 comments (last - tuesday may 25, 2004 - 21:27)
The US Propaganda machine, realising that the illegal war on Iraq has proved to be the nemesis they have so long avoided, are now desperate to shift blame. and in the process prepare a "do Iran" situation. I would like to remind you that Iranians were invited to "do Iraq" by the US machine in December of 2002, which is the point at which I believe "the war" began if only in "covert mode". ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 25, 2004 - 02:08 by TS
5 comments (last - wednesday may 26, 2004 - 12:12)
The social and political turmoil that has rocked Venezuela since the election of the radical left-populist former army officer, Hugo Chávez, as President, in 1999, has now entered a new and critical phase. Chávez has now called for the arming of the population and the setting up of a "people’s militia". He has also directly attacked capitalism for the first time and declared that the "Bolivarian revolution has entered a new anti-imperialist phase". ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 25, 2004 - 00:57 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
14 comments (last - friday january 29, 2016 - 00:15)
The privacy issue is being used as a smoke screen to deflect the debate from the most important issue; that being a party’s obligation to represent the views of those who elect it. Private schooling is in conflict with core socialist beliefs, and this makes Pat Rabbitte’s position untenable. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 24, 2004 - 23:48 by John Meehan
3 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 - 21:36)
An Irish Times opinion poll (published on Monday May 24) on the citizenship referendum is good news for the Government – it shows a majority of more than two to one (54% versus 24%, 22% undecided) – in favour of the amendment drafted by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell. The poll was conducted as the “Chen Case” hit the headlines. Were the people who participated in last week’s opinion poll influenced by the mainstream media coverage? That seems likely. ... read full story / add a comment |
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