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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 20:10 by former republican
 13 comments (last - monday june 28, 2010 - 11:08)
It is no wonder the more left wing members have left to join Irigi as least they will get some left of centre politics instead of 1950s type policies about drugs.In Irelands biggest ever recession. What is the reason for the blind and backward opinions of many of their members? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 17:29 by John Cornford
Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was released after three months in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, protests that at the moment he has little hope of making another film - all he can do is film one in his head. But, he says defiantly: “I will have to make a film - that is my life.” “I started a hunger strike”, he says, “when one night they took me for questioning and the interrogators asked: ‘What is the name of your film?’ I thought they were referring to the film I was making when they arrested me in my house on March 1. So I replied: ‘That film isn’t finished yet, so it hasn’t got a name.’ They said: ‘No, no, we are asking about the film you are making in prison in your cell.’ ... read full story / add a comment
meath / environment Monday June 14, 2010 - 11:41 by Farrelly57
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The proposed Tara/Skryne Landscape Conservation plan is an attempt to protect and preserve an old and sacred area but it may be scuppered by a small cabal of politicians who are again spreading scare storied and lies to keep the area open for all and any developement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Friday June 11, 2010 - 13:59 by Speaker: Conor Kostick
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Connor Kostick author of Revolution in Ireland: Popular militancy 1917 to 1923 spoke at the 2010 Dublin anarchist bookfair about the wave of workplace occupations and 'soviets' as well as the general strikes that are forgotten by conventional nationalist histories of this period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday June 11, 2010 - 01:29 by Gerard
3 comments (last - sunday june 27, 2010 - 11:19)
The way the killings on board the MV Mavi Marmara have been reported in the mass media offers an interesting case study of one way in which the truth is often distorted by the mainstream, and it is a method that often involves not so much deception as obfuscation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 20:34 by Paddy Hackett
Capital implies the political state. As capital develops the state is correspondingly developed. There obtains an internal unity between capital and state. Buried within capital is the state –state capital. As capital develops the state issues out of it. It is a mistaken abstraction to focus on capitalist development to the exclusion of the state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 15:15 by Gavin Gleeson
1 comment (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 - 14:36)
The state is a central concept in the political philosophy of Anarchism. Anarchism is often defined as being an anti-state ideology. While this is sometimes a useful way to distinguish anarchists from other state socialists it also leads to a fair bit of confusion. We will look at the source of this confusion with the aim of showing that anarchism is in its essence opposed to rulers and is not a naive or idealistic form of anti-statism. ... read full story / add a comment |
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