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international / crime and justice Monday December 08, 2008 - 14:35 by John Cornford
 30 comments (last - thursday january 22, 2009 - 19:09)
Lindsey German and John Rees have declared all out war on the SWP central committee majority. There can be only one winner in this fight. If Lindsey and John lose the battle then a split is likely. Peter Manson reports on this fight to the finish. Full story at link. The SWP leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central committee at the SWP annual conference, due to take place in London over the weekend of January 9-11 2009. Meeting on Wednesday November 26, the CC decided to exclude Rees from its take-it-or-leave-it slate, with only his long-time allies, Chris Bambery and Chris Nineham, voting against ditching him. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday December 07, 2008 - 19:39 by pat c
This is an extract from an interview with Ali Pichgah, one of the founding members of the oil workers’ shora (council) who later played an important role in the first major oil strike against the Theocracy. Ali details the oil workers actions which helped to bring down the Shah and the later struggles against the Theocracy. Comrade Pichgah is a supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran. Full text at link. How do you assess current workers’ struggles in Iran? First of all, I must say that as long as capitalism rules class struggle exists. The capitalist order in Iran has managed to survive through repression and force, and the spreading of religious superstition and falsehoods. However, as far as the workers’ struggle is concerned, our ranks are divided; and as long as we can’t unite on a large scale, this repression will continue. Unity requires the building of strong, mass workers’ organisations. ... read full story / add a comment
Gardaí estimate that up to 60,000 people have joined the protest against education cutbacks in Dublin city centre. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Friday December 05, 2008 - 11:54 by redjade
1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 - 17:02)
from RTE.ie Ognir is offering via bittorrent... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 04, 2008 - 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 16:38 by pat c
3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 - 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link. IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty? Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 22:58 by Coilín
3 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 - 20:35)
The Danish evening paper, Ekstra Bladet, reports that foreign minister Per Stig Moeller has provided the parliament with written documentation to show that the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was aware of a UN report indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, eleven days before the government submitted a parliamentary bill to invade Iraq. Fogh has previously denied all knowledge of the report. This development may signal a rift in the Liberal-Conservative coalition and ultimately lead to a parliamentary majority to launch an investigation of Denmark's participation in the invasion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 17:22 by redjade
A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report. Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 28, 2008 - 13:01 by redjade
Solidarity needed - even during the era of President Obama. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 13:46 by redjade
''A US appeals court has ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sex abuse committed by US priests. The Vatican had tried to block a class action lawsuit alleging that it orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy with the argument that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from most US civil proceedings..... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 11:41 by Michael Taft
A new 10-point programme for economic recovery and renewal ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday November 21, 2008 - 14:49 by Darren C
A massive tide of anger has swept over Ireland following the Fianna Fail government’s draconian Budget announced in October. Bernie McAdam from the League for the Fifth International reports on a wave of struggle and calls for militant action to defeat the bosses' attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday November 19, 2008 - 22:13 by beth
6 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 - 22:53)
the next few days I will be going around with hopefully a few sleeping bags and blankets for the homeless. If you have any to donate and you are in Dublin in the next few days please donate sleeping bags or blankets. This year I can use the seomraspraoi building as a collection point. thanx guys. so please donate your unwanted sleeping bags. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday November 19, 2008 - 10:31 by Aragon
5 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 - 01:54)
Sarah Carey is apparently a responsible 'yes' voter when it comes to Lisbon. We will all therefore appreciate the terrible position she was put in when she discovered that The Times of London (Irish version) was banning all pro Lisbon pieces in its pages. Carey went along with this - for a good long while, in fact. She has just fetched up however in the pages of the Irish Times, that bastion of balanced and fair journalism (not), armed with a revivified conscience, describing the horrors of the editorial interference of Frank Fitzgibbon at the London Times and wishing she had had the courage to bring the truth of his editorial perfidy to the world before. Read her heart-rending tale here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1119/1....html Sarah tells us that when reading anything in a newspaper, we had better be asking ourselves who is writing it and what is their agenda. Quite so. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 16:38 by Paul McAndrew
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The report found many gays are isolated A new study of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in the West of Ireland has found that nearly 70% of them have suffered some form of discrimination. 90% felt isolated at times because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The report was commissioned by LGBT West - a consortium of statutory and voluntary service providers in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon, including county councils, rural and city partnership companies and lesbian and gay groups. 50% of those who had experienced discrimination were verbally abused and 20% had been physically attacked ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 09:13 by A.J Fozdyke
www.basicfraud.com Features the signatures of Queen Elizabeth II: all in top right-hand corner, all without Seals and all forged by Strawman Jack. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Monday November 17, 2008 - 10:03 by Terence
In a clear example of the hollowness of politicians in the current economic crisis, where they claim the bailouts to the wealthy are designed to help the ordinary people, a British court ruling has now up the ante on the attack against the people by allowing a ruling which permits people to be evicted from their homes after missing just 2 monthly payments ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday November 10, 2008 - 09:08 by Steerpike
3 comments (last - wednesday november 12, 2008 - 11:30)
Have the Irish switched - in one generation - from being the victims of racism and prejudice, to being the perpetrators? The following, taken from the Gombeen Nation blog, would seem to agree. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 07, 2008 - 15:30 by Stephen Boyd
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Socialist Party publishes new critique of the SWP ... read full story / add a comment |
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