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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 03, 2007 - 16:06 by pat c
 5 comments (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 - 11:37)
Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins are getting," she says. Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript. pat c Britain's child army Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday February 02, 2007 - 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Friday February 02, 2007 - 14:02 by C Murray
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The whole light emission thing which was brought to our attention by 'bright spark' comes to mind. There is to be a photo-op , as part of the German Presidency of the EU- it comes under the heading 'Youth, Culture and education' The piece is called "More Light". All interesting EU German presidency stuff is oN:- http://www.eu2007.de. Today, a Press release on the Kosovo Situation, which was highlighted by the sad death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskya. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Friday February 02, 2007 - 12:11 by E
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Two SWP pamphlets on the crisis in the Health Service and on the Sea to Shell campaign are now available on swp.ie ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday February 01, 2007 - 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 01, 2007 - 13:48 by Unity
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Time for Change enter into alliance with "Uncivil Servant" in bid to win control of NIPSA General Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday February 01, 2007 - 12:43 by erqwnqr
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'...aim was to paint a subversive portrait of the British, was Jew Suss, an anti-semetic polemic that attempted to show that the British had been ‘Jewified’ and were no longer great Aryans.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 31, 2007 - 15:51 by pat c
What other uses will be found for "Anti-Terrorist" surveilance equipment? A thought-provoking article here. Full text at the url at the end of the page. pat c ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday January 31, 2007 - 15:07 by scorchio
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Liberia is a strange place. It is (correct me if I'm wrong oh do) the only state which was established in the African continent by purchase rather than historical national process [Ethiopia], or colonisation [almost all of the continent] or by subsequent independence from the "metropoles". The story of Liberia began with the emancipated afro-americans of the mid-19th century and the "black star" chartered by Marcus Garvey to establish a "homeland" which within the idealism of the subsequent DuBois would form the bulwark of a "pan-Africa". Today Liberia seems remote from the utopia planned by its founders, it is a country associated with horrible tribal warfare & for decades was the playground of mercenaries. But its slow recovery may be helped by the arrival of the first women only contingent of UN peace-keeping troops ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday January 31, 2007 - 12:03 by Rimbaud
A lawyer for a gay Muslim from Lebanon says a new German law should be used to grant the man asylum in Germany. The case prompts debate about how homosexuality is treated in Muslim nations and in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 22:14 by Socialist Youth
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations Anti-war activists dubbed this a "peace surge" against Bush's escalation of the war. The largest of the demonstrations was in Washington, D.C., where "a raucous and colorful multitude of protesters…danced, sang, chanted and shouted their opposition" in front of the Capitol (‘Washington Post’, 1/28/07). While most estimates put the crowd in D.C. at 100-150,000, organizers for United for Peace and Justice claimed up to 500,000 attended. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 18:48 by Terence
2 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 - 20:26)
According to Yahoo News, the first Irish Viking Ship has been found in the Boyne river. This is surely a very important and exciting find. However given the track record of this government at destroying our heritage, in places like Carrick Mines, Tara, and many others, it would be entirely inconsistent of them to preserve this. Surely it should be sold off to the highest bidder at a minimum or broken up and incorporated somehow into chic-furnishings on a set of apartments overlooking the site. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 17:36 by Terry
Transco, parent company of Advantica, which carried out the government’s last safety review into the Rossport pipeline, have been hit with protests in Wales over a gas pipeline project. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 16:43 by Earthling
At lunchtime today a man climbed out and over a balcony at the Irish Embassy in London. This was in protest at Irish government collusion with Shell in relation to the Rossport dispute. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 13:25 by Miram Cotton & David Manning
11 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 - 17:38)
MediaBite have just circulated the second of our MediaShots, which addresses the issue of press coverage of the objection to existing plans for Corrib Gas in County Mayo. Titled ‘Gas Gaeilge and the Media’, the timing is appropriate given developments this week and also in the light of how press coverage of this issue seems set to sing from the Shell Oil hymn sheet without demur. Read our analysis here: http://www.mediabite.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 12:48 by BBC NI
2 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 20:32)
The centenary of a Belfast strike when Catholic and Protestant workers united briefly is being marked in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 08:57 by forwarded by Payday, posted by Global Women's Strike
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Please see the message forwarded by Payday below. The Global Women's Strike in Dublin and Galway is organising events as part of this international day of action. Details coming soon - please watch the events page. All welcome to join or if you cannot make it why not organise an action or send letters from where you are. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 30, 2007 - 00:15 by TD
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The UK Guardian is reporting that Shell along with its Spanish amigo, Repsol, have signed a $10 "initial" deal with the Iranians to develop a liquefied natural gas project centred on the South Pars gas field : "The move is a bold one by Shell because its arch-rival BP has declared itself unwilling to invest in Iran at a time when the international political climate surrounding the country is so forbidding ... Washington has increased pressure on non-US companies in the past year not to invest in Iran and some analysts believe it could be hard for oil companies to maintain operations in both Iran and the United States, where Shell and its Spanish partner Repsol both have fields". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 17:20 by pat c
8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 - 15:59)
This is a very strange story. The relative casualties - seven coalition dead, 300 insurgents dead, suggests that a massacre took place. In the Irish Times it is stated that the Iraqi government originally claimed that the dead were Sunnis. I haven't managed to find an independent assessment of this story. If anyone can find one then please post a link here. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 29, 2007 - 16:35 by pat
1 comment (last - monday may 21, 2007 - 11:36)
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the senior UN relief official, Jan Egeland, and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes. ... read full story / add a comment |
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