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international / eu Sunday June 22, 2008 - 18:05 by paul o toole
 2 comments (last - tuesday june 24, 2008 - 12:45)
The governments 'eventual response' will respect the outcome of the election ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Friday June 20, 2008 - 19:46 by Eanna Dowling
Bolivian President has published his concerns about the EU's Return Directive. This Directive sets out a policy on returning illegal immigrants to their home countries allowing a standardised detention period of 18 months. This article incorporates Morales's article in full, provides a critique; compares Ireland's immigration position with Bolivia and documents some developments in agreeing the Return Directive. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday June 20, 2008 - 14:36 by O. O'C.
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* Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Minister Michael Martin give in to Franco-German and EU Commission pressure to permit the remaining Lisbon ratifications to continue, when they could have stopped these by saying that Ireland cannot and will not ratify the Lisbon Treaty, as the Irish people have rejected it. * The Irish Government lines up with Brussels against the Irish people rather than stands by the people's democratic decision of last week to defend it vis-a-vis Brussels - so as to bring about a 26/1 situation by year's end with which to bludgeon Irish voters in a referendum re-run. * Talk of "respecting" Ireland's vote turns out in practice to be a cover for setting out to overturn it in a referendum re-run, with Brian Cowen's, Michael Martin's and Dick Roche's full support - and behind a thick barrier of hypocrisy, spoofing and lies. ... read full story / add a comment
As we all know by now, the imperial classes of Europe are busy looking for new creative ways to continue to impose the Lisbon Treaty on the member states, regardless of its rejection by Ireland. The very same philosophy that drives them doing so can be captured in the following highlights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 22:47 by Nesty
Without looking at the past and blame things that were left to do, confident that the future of Puerto Rico depends on their children, that true independence depends on them and not the will of an empire increasingly eager to hold new lands. Booting the shackles imposed by the visitor, who said that visits send in our home? ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 20:12 by Ronoc
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de·moc·ra·cy n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A political or social unit that has such a government. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. Majority rule. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community. "Junior Minister Martin Mansergh has suggested that the holding of a referendum on each EU Treaty needed to be looked at" - http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0618/eulisbon.html ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 18:03 by José Antonio Gutiérrez
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This is an old article written originally for www.anarkismo.net on the occupation of Haiti. we republished this article to give some background before the Haiti awareness evening organised by Viatores Christi and LASC http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87920 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 17:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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The following article is an old one written originally for www.anarkismo.net on the situation in Haiti. We re-publish it to provide some background for the June 19th Haiti Awareness evening http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87920 ... read full story / add a comment
Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty with a decisive majority and very high turnout, period. Yet, the Commission and the European Council declared the dead Lisbon Treaty still ‘alive’. The fallacious premise the EU has chosen as a basis for continuing to justify the unjustifiable course of Lisbon: “the Treaty has been ratified by 18 states”. The factual premise however is this: 1) The Lisbon Treaty has been rejected by Ireland; 2) The Lisbon Treaty, in its earlier form as the ‘EU Constitution’ [1], had already been rejected by France and Netherlands long before the said 18 countries started to ratify it under a new name. For many of the NO voters one of the main reasons to reject the Lisbon Treaty has been the fact that the Lisbon Treaty is already a dead treaty to begin with. If the EU insists that Europe’s ‘problems’ can be solved only without the agreement of its 500 million voters and only with a version of Lisbon Treaty - that is the real problem of Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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AN INFORMED AND REASONED PIECE ON WHY TO VOTE A BIG NO TO LISBON ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 11:58 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
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
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. ... read full story / add a comment |
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