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national / miscellaneous Sunday February 22, 2009 - 22:10 by Arm-a-Gedden
 3 comments (last - friday march 27, 2009 - 18:16)
Five officers earned €325,111 in payments as the cost of policing protest against gas pipeline proved expensive for force ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 22, 2009 - 15:21 by seedot
Frank Fahey, FF TD, ex-minister and the man who oversaw the sale of the Bellanaboy land to Shell is being discussed on the blogosphere. In other news the identity of the 10 golden circle investors has yet to be confirmed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday February 21, 2009 - 22:35 by Saoirsí
We live in a time of Crisis, and a time of Opportunity. In a time of crisis, the opportunity for radical change exists; what is critical is the ideas that shape the change. Kevin Carson (Studies in Mutualist Political Economy; Organization Theory - A Libertarian Perspective) - Research Associate for the Center for a Stateless Society - has just published "Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles", a short fully-referenced paper outlining some practical mutualist and libertarian alternatives, as well as existing challenges to the present system. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 21, 2009 - 20:14 by amanda (nipsa)
The Department of Finance and Personnel has announced the termination of the PFI/PPP procurement process for the Workplace 2010 Project. http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/news/news-dfp-200209-...e2010 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 20, 2009 - 16:46 by Yehudi
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of a right-wing Israeli Coalition has emerged as the new prime-minister of Israel. "Bibi" as he is known has made it clear that the priority of the Israeli government will be the influence of Iran over Hezbollah and Hamas and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability. Last autumn prior to the December-January war assault on Gaza, hundreds of Israeli warplanes engaged in an exercise over the Mediterranean which is said to have been a rehearsal long range air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Since the 1973 conflict which led to the defeat of massive Egyptian and Syrian forces, Israel is alleged to have acquired a large nuclear arsenal allowing it to control the balance of power in the Middle East. President Obama has begun a diplomatic offensive to persuade Iran to abandon its percieved nuclear ambitions but has not ruled out military force. Israel's new prime minister is sure to complicate matters. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2009 - 15:44 by Amused
8 comments (last - thursday april 02, 2009 - 12:32)
Love or loath him, Christopher Hitchens is always interesting. A loud-mouthed atheist, enemy of American Christian whackjobs and Islamist wingnuts alike, an acerbic wit, left-wing gadfly, supporter of the Iraq War and opponent of water-boarding, supporter of Bush and Obama, British born American citizen, Hitchens does not fit comfortably into any boxes. During a visit to Beiruit he defaced a Syrian nationalist poster and was on the recieving end of an attack by pro-Syrian militia who may or may not have been trying to abduct (and maybe torture) him. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Thursday February 19, 2009 - 14:54 by pat c
Its not just in Ireland that teachers have to strike for their basic rights. But in Iran its a lot more dangerous: unions are banned and strikes are illegal. Strikers are often flogged. Support the Iranian Teachers! Full text at link. According to reports from teachers in various towns and cities in Iran most teachers are solidly behind the broad-based strike on 21-23 February. The lack of access to the press and the media in general for publicising the strike has meant that news about the country-wide strike has been passed on using SMS, email, personal weblogs and telephone conversations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2009 - 10:40 by Anne McShane
The best way for those who call themselves socialists and communists to really defend the working class is to break out of their ghettoised thinking on the question of party. There is a glaring need for a united working class party based on the politics of Marxism. The forces of the existing left cannot in themselves produce such a party, but their unification, combined with the struggle for theory, could provide a much needed impetus. It would be a central rallying point for those advanced workers who are looking for a real alternative to the nauseating politics of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party coalition government. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 15, 2009 - 14:14 by D. Kelleher
5 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 16:27)
Gene Kerrigan has an excellent piece in today's Sindo, the gist of it being that the economic crisis will become a catastrophe if radical action is not taken. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 16:44 by Worker
3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 23:44)
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has issued its 10 point plan for a fairer, better way to deal with the national economic crisis. For all non-revolutionaries that want to develop a practical-realistic way out of our current economic crisis I imagine this plan for a national recovery will be of particular interest. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday February 12, 2009 - 22:10 by no platform
7 comments (last - saturday march 20, 2010 - 13:29)
As anyone in the hinterland of UK politics will have noticed, one of the House of Lords UK Independence party wanted to invite Geert Wilders the far-right Dutch parliamentarian with the ugly hair and uglier politics to show his "Fitna" vid this afternoon in Westminster. But then the UK Home Office decided he was persona non-grata. Ooooo shock & horror a society, which like many in Europe faces an increase in far right politics and anti-migrant opinion against the backdrop of economic collapse, has now turned to debating whether or not he should have been allowed past the passport desk in the name of "Freedom of Speech". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 02:02 by Doug Delaney
An anti-war activist in Ireland suspects that the Gulfstream IV aircraft that calls St. Louis home may have flown over Irish airspace displaying U.S. military markings as recently as November. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 01:41 by Tony Gosling
Documentary filmmaker Muad'Dib, aka. Anthony John Hill, has just been arrested with a view to extraditing him to the UK. He apparently faces charges of Perverting The Course Of Justice for sending new evidence which may prove the innocence of three Muslim men currently on trial for 'collaborating' with the 7/7 bombers. They are on trial in Kingston, Surrey. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 05:22 by repost
"I would rather be in prison or dead than blindly submit to a government I know is corrupt and wrong. I would rather dare to live free and fight against injustice than cower in silence and despair. I think many people feel the same way. We just have to be smarter in how we speak out and in how we act." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 06, 2009 - 20:50 by C.D. Stelzer
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times reported that executive orders signed by Obama approve the continued use of "extraordinary renditions" as a tool in the so-called "war on terror." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 05, 2009 - 22:23 by C.D. Stelzer
1 comment (last - wednesday february 11, 2009 - 18:59)
Marathon Oil Co., which holds an 18.5 percent stake in the controversial Shell Corrib natural gas pipeline off the west coast of Ireland, also has an interest in off-shore oil wells within the territorial waters of the tiny African nation of Equatorial Guinea. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 03:52 by Blacbloc
4 comments (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 14:39)
A lot of people have probably wondered whether the government were planning to strong arm strikers and resort to dirty measures to intimidate workers. Looks like that option may not be available to them. Soldiers are saying they support the opposition to the pension levy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 14:36 by C.D. Stelzer
It wasn't Goldman Sachs or Microsoft that topped the Obama campaign contribution list. They were numbers two and three, respectively. It was higher education, specifically the University of California system that ranked numero uno. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 11:13 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
Allen Nelson, Vietnam war veteran and peace activist from the U.S., shares his extraordinary experience in war, his personal transformation, his work for peace in and outside Japan, and his hopes for the future at a time when U.S. militarism shows no sign of slowing down. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 12:06 by Blacbloc
2 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 13:06)
Today's Irish Examiner effectively sets out the FG stall. The IE is a firmly pro Fine Gael paper and though its editorial makes no mention of Fine Gael, it's a safe bet that it reflects current thinking at FG HQ. http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story....1.asp ... read full story / add a comment |
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