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international / gender and sexuality Sunday December 13, 2009 - 15:08 by tomeile
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ek241009.html Peter Tatchell's claim that Islam condones the oppression of women and legitimises violence towards homosexuals are discussed by MR magazine . Tatchell recently threatened legal action against publishers Raw Nerve books when one of their publications carried an article accusing him of Islamophobia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday December 11, 2009 - 17:34 by Royal Dutch Shell
As has been reported widely in the mainstream media today, Royal Dutch Shell landed one of only two deals in the latest auction of Iraqi oil assets. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 10, 2009 - 10:03 by Red Banner
Issue 38 of Red Banner is available now. €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the above address. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 07, 2009 - 14:09 by Chicherin
Chris Strafford reports on the 2009 HOPI Britain AGM. There is also a link to MIke McNairs keynote address to the conference. Vids will hopefully be available at a later stage. Hopi has always called for the building of strong links between the democratic and revolutionary movements in Iran, whilst others in the movement - the British Socialist Workers Party, George Galloway - previously attacked us for ‘trying to dictate to the movement in Iran’. Some had even accused us of playing into the hands of imperialism for daring to criticise the theocratic regime. The SWP leadership realised the way the wind was blowing and made a U-turn, coming out in favour of the millions of protestors who marched through the streets of Tehran and other cities (although SWP comrades on the leadership of the Stop the War Coalition continue to oppose Hopi’s affiliation). Galloway, however, has simply made himself look idiotic by defending not only the rigged elections and the subsequent repression, but also the Islamic republic itself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday December 05, 2009 - 17:59 by pat c
Houzan Mahmoud of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, speaks of how the Imperialist invasion and occupation of Iraq has affected women, forcing many into sexual-slavery. Along with Nadya Khalife of HRW Houzan was interviewed by Rachelle Kliger of The Media Line. Full text at link. Houzan said that since 2003 more than 70% of Iraqis have lost their jobs, a situation compounded by a lack of welfare provisions. “We have more than four million widows in Iraq… who will provide for these women? The situation created absolute poverty, particularly for women, and these women have virtually no other option but to turn to prostitution. There’s nothing called choice in this,” she stressed. “They are either being forced into it because of the economic and political situation or because of a lack of security, whereby women and young girls are being kidnapped.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 04, 2009 - 19:58 by Paddy Cole
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Evidence is emerging that Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been involved in savagely assaulting members of the Iranian Fedayeen at the Iranian consulate in April 1984.Yassamine Mather was a member of the Fedayeen (Minority) at the time is interviewed below. Full text at link. The Mail on Sunday (November 29) published a photograph purportedly showing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the regime’s London consulate in April 1984. Comrades from the Fedayeen (Minority), who had forced their way into the building, were imprisoned and severely beaten by Iranian staff. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 03, 2009 - 22:33 by Anne Mc Shane
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This article forcuses on the significance of the recent revelations in the Murphy Report for the left. Anne Mc Shane argues that the left needs to take up the struggle for democracy against the Irish state. With the church exposed once again for their sanctimonious hypocritical and abusive behaviour the time is right for such a challenge. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice Thursday December 03, 2009 - 14:57 by Tom
So now the truth is out there. This so called meeting of priests & lay people that issued the statement supporting Bishop Murray consisted of 65 priests and 15 invited lay people . So much for public consultation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 11:42 by Vlad
General strike in Ireland involved 250 thousand people. As the Russian website www.novopol.ru., reports, in Ireland on November 24, a general strike took place. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice Sunday November 29, 2009 - 19:51 by Tom
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Admit your failings, and resign as Bishop of Limerick. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 28, 2009 - 14:15 by tomeile
Dubai Default Global markets have plummetted since Wednesday’s announcement by the Dubai government that it would delay the maturity date of $59 billion in bonds issued to its largest state owned company Dubai World. “Such a default would not only mean an immediate worsening of the already brutal post-crash conditions suffered by millions of workers in defaulting countries, but would usher in a second, and probably worse, phase in the global financial crisis”. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / racism & migration related issues Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 17:47 by Pat
Enda Kenny is being criticised for taking a soft approach to the deportation controversy caused by Mayor of Limerick, Fine Gael Councillor Kevin Kiely. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on action by workers at the Abadan oil refinery in Iran who have not been paid for months. Yassamine also writes about the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organisations and the Charter of the Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran. Full text at link The refinery authorities associated with what remains of the state-owned Iran National Oil company say the workers are employed by a contractor and they cannot do anything about their demands. The protest followed a strike by the whole workforce of 450 involved in the development of Bandar Abbas Oil refinery. This was their third walkout in less than three months and the strike is continuing. The Iranian government’s privatisation plans are notoriously corrupt and generally help empower and enrich the Islamic Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards). But in the oil industry it is different from elsewhere. Privatisation has been undertaken with the aim of dividing workers and hampering national negotiations over wages and conditions, in the knowledge that for oil workers deployed in various sectors of the industry, working for so many different contractors, it would be impossible to negotiate common terms and conditions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 16:35 by Kenny G
Thanks to the SpunOut.ie team, myself and a friend found ourselves with a once in a lifetime opportunity. We had won a competition to see Noam Chomsky speak. The night to see Chomsky came and we were not sure what to expect, having only Chomsky’s Youtube broadcasts as a rough guide. As soon as he begun speaking though, our imaginations started firing. We listened to a man who spoke about what our hearts had told us, but what the world around us had convinced us not to believe. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 10:42 by Dave Lordan
3 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 - 17:55)
Seeking to diversify in an era of ever tightening margins in the book trade the esteemed publisher Faber and Faber is moving into the lucrative, and unregulated, area of creative writing classes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday November 22, 2009 - 19:58 by Bazooka Joe
4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 13:29)
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents of prominent American and British climate researchers hacked from a computer server at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 20, 2009 - 23:37 by Diet Simon
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"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world.." ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 20, 2009 - 12:13 by Anne Mc Shane
7 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 - 15:03)
Dave Isaacson criicises leading SWP members who have undermind and sabotaged attempts to forge rank and file organisation in the CWU. Now SWP member Jane Loftus has actually endorsed a sellout deal. Full text at link. There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually she has been an utter disgrace (‘Militants condemn sell-out’, November 12). Loftus, a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party and therefore supposedly a revolutionary, is also a member of the CWU’s postal executive committee (PEC), which voted unanimously on November 5 to accept the interim agreement and call off the strikes, just as the strength of the postal workers was starting to be realised. This goes completely against the position of Loftus’s organisation. Socialist Worker has rightly stated that “Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail last week … There was no reason for the union to sign up to the agreement. The proposed escalation of strike action - that would have seen two 24-hour strikes in close succession last week - had widespread support within the union” (November 14). ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education Thursday November 19, 2009 - 22:01 by Aidan Rowe
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The Student's Union of NUI Maynooth has confirmed, via email correspondence, that they will not be encouraging NUIM students to support the strike on Tuesday. The full text of the email correspondence is presented below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 17, 2009 - 10:04 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Brazilian Workers Charge Shell with "Environmental Crimes" Brazilian WorkersLeft to right: Rasteiro, Cascone, de Lima (November 12, New York City) -- Brazilian chemical workers addressing a New York audience of students, academics, and union members said that the Shell Oil Company, one of the world's largest, had willfully ignored life-threatening exposures to its workers who handled hazardous chemicals in South America. ... read full story / add a comment |
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