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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.   text 36 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2008 - 00:01)
* 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
national / eu Thursday June 19, 2008 - 22:25 by Howard Holby
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.
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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   text 7 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 - 20:38)   image 1 image
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
Anti-occupation protests, April 2008
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 18:03 by José Antonio Gutiérrez   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 19, 2008 - 12:43)   image 1 image
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
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 17:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 - 20:20)   image 1 image
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
national / eu Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 13:44 by Howard Holby
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.
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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
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