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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 14:47 by Brian Flannery
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In the last 10 years, numbers have risen drastically with people being incarcerated in prisons throughout Ireland. We need a complete overhaul in the way our prisons are run. The latest report by Judge Reilly, Inspector of Prisons were shocking and indicated that many laws have been in fact been breached viz a viz basic human rights. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 20, 2011 - 10:58 by indignant person
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I want to seperate out what is becoming problematic in terms of Irish Coalition Partnerships for a minute and focus on how those people who attain power actually begin to use it. For instance , the Irish Dáil is a place where ideology (of whatever flavour) is not an issue when entering into what we fondly term a junior coalition partnership/ relationship with a majority party (JCP). it doesn't matter a bit, no political party , whatever their stripe goes into poor areas and asks for votes , because they (and especially the Labour party) do not care to know about poverty. It is invisible to them, and mostly at the moment in terms of access to education. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 19, 2011 - 18:58 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Sunday June 19, 2011 - 16:27 by Protecting Irish Hares from Coursing Cruelty
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Hateful pro-hare coursing internet site shut down! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 19, 2011 - 07:33 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy. ... read full story / add a comment |
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