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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 Worried that the BIM service might be withdrawn, they investigated and found that someone had illegally hacked into the electricity supply and run up a huge bill.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
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
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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
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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
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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 / arts and media Thursday February 12, 2009 - 18:50 by redjade
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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 
national / environment Saturday February 07, 2009 - 10:51 by kermit
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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. ... 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
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 06, 2009 - 02:45 by Aragon
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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
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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
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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 |
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