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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 14:29 by Darren C
On Saturday 21 February 120,000 workers marched in Dublin against the imposition of a pension levy on public sector workers’ wages by the Fianna Fail government. League members and supporters report from the demonstration ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday February 23, 2009 - 18:19 by Ken Macdonald
 3 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2009 - 23:54)
I put this up because I think it is a very significant statement from such a high profile person in such dodgy times. Student 'Our system for regulating markets and for prosecuting market crime is completely broken. If you mug someone in the street and you are caught, the chances are that you will go to prison. In recent years mugging someone out of their savings or their pension would probably earn you a yacht. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 23, 2009 - 17:40 by Arm-a-Gedden
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Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is a director of the company which developed the Quays shopping centre in Newry, recently blamed for sucking millions of euro of business away from the economy in the Republic. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 23, 2009 - 14:37 by LASC
LASC seeks Community Employment Accountant/Administration Worker ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 22, 2009 - 22:10 by Arm-a-Gedden
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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 / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 22, 2009 - 21:06 by Socialist Party
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A 40 minute debate between Joe Higgins, Socialist Party rep & TD form 1997 to 2007 and businessman Ulrick McEvaddy on the Pat Kenny Show on Thursday 19th February about the economic crisis, who is to blame and how can it be solved, is available on RTE: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0219/rteieextraaudio_av.htm...l,209 The debate deals with issues such as Anglo Irish (where Ulrick commends the golden circle as great men), the banking crisis (where Joe outlines the need for socialist nationalisation of the banks), the pension levy, SR Technics, Aer Lingus and more. It will be of great interest to readers on Indymedia, as an introduction to the socialist alternative to the economic crisis. ... 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-war / imperialism Sunday February 22, 2009 - 14:24 by ISM Gaza Strip
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Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer - 18th February 2009 Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. International Human Rights Activists were accompanying the group of farmers ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday February 22, 2009 - 02:40 by Investigator
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The London Times has named 4 of the Anglo 'Golden Circle'. ... 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 
mayo / crime and justice Friday February 20, 2009 - 15:44 by ShellWatcher
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Those good folks at Shell have made great attempts at becoming good neighbours down Belmullet way. Splashing out on local grants to community groups, and scholarships for local students, the intention is to undue [sic] some of the damage that was done to their reputation during the lengthy Rossport 5 dispute, and prepare for the laying of a high-pressure gas pipeline later this year. Local fishermen in the area weren't too impressed to leam that someone had illegally tapped into an electricity supply at Ballyglass Pier, north of Belmullet. The electricity had been provided by Board lascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Irish Sea Fisheries Board so that a refrigerated container was on hand for fishing boats to keep their catch cool, until delivery could be organised. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 19, 2009 - 22:03 by pat c
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Hands Off the People of Iran have prepared a briefing paper on Imperialist sanctions imposed on Iran. The full text is at the link at the end of this article. You can download this paper as a leaflet in RTF format http://www.hopoi.org/resources/Sanctions%20Briefing%20p...r.rtf and PDF format http://www.hopoi.org/resources/Sanctions%20Briefing%20p...r.pdf ... 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 
mayo / environment Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 13:45 by Mayo Echo Reader
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The Mayo Echo reports today, that local fisherman using the refrigeration services provided by Bord Iascaigh Mhara at Ballyglass were amazed to find that the bill for electricity had rocketed from around 300 euro per quarter to nearly 6,000. Worried that the BIM service might be withdrawn, they investigated and found that someone had illegally hacked into the electricity supply and run up a huge bill. And guess who was to blame? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 12:29 by Time To Go!
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News comes that US Weapons manufactures RAYTHEON look set to shed more jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Monday February 16, 2009 - 16:06 by Anne McShane
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On the Thirtieth anniversary of the overthrow of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror. Full text of the article at the url below. Imperialism’s sabre-rattling against Iran has prompted the Tehran regime to intensify its suppression of grass-roots progressive movements. The regime uses the threat of war to claim that radical and progressive movements – like the women’s, workers’ and students’ - are in league with imperialism, are somehow ‘fifth columnists’. Harsh repression inevitably follows. The irony is that the experience of two imperialist invasions in the region has shattered any illusions among women and other social movements about the so-called ‘liberation’ on offer from US-led intervention. The barbaric consequences for the women of Afghanistan and Iraq are eloquent testimony to that. Women in Iran are fully aware that they are the only force that can change their destiny. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2009 - 15:33 by Anne McShane
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In this article on the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution Torab Saleth looks back on how it developed paying particular attention to its historical roots. The full article may be accessed at the url below. How did this revolution - which in terms of the degree of mass participation was one of the most important of the 20th century - end up becoming ‘Islamic’? Indeed what was the ‘Islamic revolution’? One common interpretation has been based on the well worn model of ‘anti-colonial struggles in the countries of the periphery’, popular within the left since the early 1920s. A model, it must be said, which was inadequate even then. By this reasoning, the Islamic revolution becomes an anti-imperialist revolution led by bourgeois nationalist forces. The politics which flow from this differ only in shade - from shameless collaboration to so-called ‘critical’ support. Although such views have long since been discredited, given the current conflict with the USA/Israel it has been rebranded by a number of left currents and has once again become a justification for all sorts of opportunist overtures towards the Iranian regime. Yes, they say, it is a corrupt, clerical-capitalist regime - but look at how the anti-imperialist aspect of the Iranian revolution survives to this day! ... read full story / add a comment |
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