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national / miscellaneous Friday February 08, 2008 - 18:38 by Cian Prendiville
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In January’s Finance Bill VAT on condoms was lowered slightly from 21% to 13.5%. Any reduction should be welcomed, the crucial question is why, given the problems with STIs, is there VAT on condoms, or indeed why are they not free? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 07, 2008 - 23:00 by mickeymouse
Former USI officer Steven Conlon recently published a piece in the irish times calling for USI to be made a statutory body with compulsory membership for all students unions ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 21:15 by Simon
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle. “The South African apartheid regime never engaged in the sort of repression Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. For all the evils and atrocities of apartheid, the government never sent tanks into black towns. It never used gunships, bombers, or missiles against black towns or Bastustans. "What we are witnessing in the occupied territories- Israel’s penal colonies- is the invisible and daily killing of the sick and wounded who are deprived of medical care, of the weak who cannot survive in the new poverty conditions, and those of us who are approaching starvation” (Ronnie Kasrils, S.Africa’s minister of water affairs, Al Ahram Weekly, p175). ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday February 05, 2008 - 12:07 by jim cairns
Vote No! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 03, 2008 - 21:45 by paul o toole
be afraid, be very afraid...ha!, ha! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Saturday February 02, 2008 - 11:38 by C Murray
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'Dictionary of War is a Collaborative Platform for creating 100 concepts on the Issue of War to be invented and arranged by scientists, artists, theorists and activists at four public two day events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin.' The Novi Sad edition/collaboration took place on the 25th and 26th of January. http://dictionaryofwar.org ... read full story / add a comment |
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