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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   text 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   text 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   text 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
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international / arts and media Thursday February 12, 2009 - 18:50 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - friday february 13, 2009 - 00:02)   image 2 images   audio 2 audio files
Part five of a public lecture series at Budapest's Central European University ( http://www.CEU.hu )

I'll be recording more in the weeks ahead and posting them first on Indymedia.ie and then reposted to my own blog 24 hours later at http://LMV.hu/redjade

{Apologies for not being about to record last week's class on Slovenia} ... 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
I had no idea...
national / environment Saturday February 07, 2009 - 10:51 by kermit   text 5 comments (last - friday february 13, 2009 - 16:23)   image 4 images
It seems that the Galway by-pass may not now go ahead as planned after a dramatic eleventh-hour realisation by the Minister of the Environment that he is a member of the Green Party.

"I had no idea I had these sort of powers, to stop developments that threaten the country's environmental heritage and prevent loss of habitat, until one of my civil servants (who I was making tea for at the time) pointed out that the Galway by-Pass is not sponsored by Shell, and although the Corrib bridge has a confusing name, it actually has nothing to do with the Corrib natural gas (eight billion euro giveaway) scheme in Mayo!" the Minister is not reported to have said.

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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
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 06, 2009 - 02:45 by Aragon   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 11, 2009 - 17:52)   image 2 images
Gilomre to kick the workers and unions off the ladder behind him, put a rose between his teeth and flutter his eyelids flirtatiously at whoever will have Labour for a cheap bed partner in government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 05, 2009 - 22:23 by C.D. Stelzer   text 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   text 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   text 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

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 09:34 by gazasympathiser   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 12:30)
Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu is a little girl with a captivating smile to melt the heart of the most hardened correspondent.

Samar had been shot in the back at close range. The bullet damaged her spine, and she is unlikely to walk again.

At her bedside, her uncle Hassan told us the family had been ordered out of their home by Israeli soldiers who were shelling the neighbourhood.

A tank had parked in front of the house, where around 30 people were taking shelter.

The women and children - mother, grandmother and three little girls - came out waving a white flag and then, he said, an Israeli soldier came out of the tank and opened fire on the terrified procession.

Samar's two sisters, aged seven and two, were shot dead. The grandmother was hit in the arm and in the side, but has survived. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 01:26 by Green Gobshite   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 18:13)   video 1 video file
Oh Shell, how often must I venture into the wilds of Erris??? ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Monday February 02, 2009 - 19:11 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 02, 2009 - 13:09 by gazasympathiser
Israel has paid £1.5m in damages to the family of James Miller, the British cameraman murdered by an Israeli officer while waving a white flag in Rafah (Gaza) 2003.

At first the Israelis had claimed he was shot by Palestinian gunmen but this false allegation was disproved by ballistics tests ... read full story / add a comment
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