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national / miscellaneous Friday May 13, 2011 - 13:12 by Tom Stokes
Much-publicised initiatives to bring about political reform and constitutional change are a smokescreen to mask the maintenance of hegemonic control by the same privileged political class responsible for institutionalised inequality, injustice, and the destruction of our hard-won sovereignty and independence as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday May 13, 2011 - 12:05 by Anthony Coughlan
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AN IMPORTANT BOOK This is an important book on Irish republican and leftwing politics in the 1960s, on the background to the destruction of Ulster Unionist political hegemony by the Northern civil rights movement of that decade, and the formation of the Provisional IRA. Dr Treacy gives us much new information on a relatively neglected period. His book will be a significant source for those seeking to understand the explosion caused by the Partition of Ireland half a century after David Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act sundered Ireland into two parts in 1920. Unfortunately it will not be the definitive work on its subject. This is because Dr Treacy seems somewhat divided over what one might call “the conspiracy thesis” which has been subscribed to by sundry previous writers on this topic. This is that there was an attempt at some form of communist takeover-bid of the 1960s Republican Movement which contributed significantly to the 1970 split which gave rise to the Provisional IRA. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 19:48 by Paddy Hackett
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And yes, then, in a perverse way, I do think Vincent Browne has a point. In the short term there is no way out other than, more or less, what is being officially advocated by the establishment i.e. outside of revolution. At present neither Ireland nor Western Europe have the popular culture nor organised forms to develop social revolution into communism. In the absence of these conditions Europe can secure nothing more than the model of present day Iraq on a European scale --nihilism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday May 09, 2011 - 23:02 by AC
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DOZENS OF African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean Sea after European and Nato military units apparently ignored their cries for help. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday May 09, 2011 - 00:44 by Truth seeker
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Thoughts on the Queens visit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 07, 2011 - 20:01 by Revolutionary Anarchist 2 attached files
Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform The Anarchist Popular Union of Brazil, and the Revolutionary Anarchist Popular Organization from Mexico, presents the Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform, wich is an international call claiming for the union of the revolutionary anarchist of the world on the base of the Bakuninism. (document can be readed in this time only in spanish and portuguese.brasil, english and frensh translations will pe published in a few days) ... read full story / add a comment |
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