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national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 27, 2005 - 00:10 by R. Isible
 4 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 - 09:32)
Irish Independent reports that a previous occupation of the MV Normandy led to the consideration of using teargas. Plainclothes security personnel are rumoured to have boarded the vessel prepared and equipped to use teargas. This report by Gerald Flynn paints the taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in a positive light and refrains from pointing out that the oul bollocks hasn't done anything except talk bollocks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 25, 2005 - 20:36 by Sean Crudden
2 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 22:16)
Best - the boy wonder of 1960's football - is dead. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 24, 2005 - 18:01 by SP Member
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In the aftermath of the Labour Court recommendation on the Irish Ferries, and the confrontation between Joe Higgins and Mary Harney in the Dail this morning, Irish Ferries have escalated the dispute at Pembroke and workers have blockaded themselves into the engine room of the ship. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:46 by Allen
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A LABOUR Party decision to reject a complaint against its party leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has been described as "appalling" by Clr. Declan Bree, who made the complaint. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 24, 2005 - 02:22 by Update
8 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 05:12)
As the war on Iraq escalates daily and loses any semblence of popular support in the imperial heartland - nonviolent resistance grows. In England Milan Rai is imprisoned, in the U.S. folks are arrested attempting to re-establish the peace camp outisde Bush's Crawford Texas Ranch on Thanksgiving. In Australia dissidents arrested this past June blockading Operation Talisman Sabre front court in Rckhampton this Monday. Check link below for an update on the Operation Talisman Sabre Crew....... ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 13:07 by Tom Joad
It appears that the brutal exploitation of migrant workers is not, as we always maintained, onfined to a few bad apples, but is prevelant across the economy and across the world. But workers are fighting back. Read this heartwarming article of fightback and workers unity ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 12:24 by Joe Black
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ssue 9 (Spring 2005) of the Irish anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution is now available online. Red and Black Revolution appears every six months, in the Spring and Autumn of each year. RBR 10 will be made available online in December. Apologies for the delays in the online appearance of RBR 9 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 20:33 by Séan Ó Murchú PRO
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Fine Gael proposals to downgrade Irish from a required Leaving Certificate subject have been greeted with a barrage of criticism. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:43 by dunk
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G8: Can You Hear Us? follows three very different activists as they make their way to Gleneagles to protest about this year's G8 summit. a filim made by bbc doc makers, who traveled around with CIRCA, the clandestine rebel clown army, during the g8 last summer. the doc was shown on bbc4 last week ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:24 by Updater
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Molloy speaks out against the repartition of the North. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 16:52 by Upstart Radio America
This episode includes a PSA from former child actor Dickie Richards. Donate your Uzi today! Followed by the first new Raymond Lafferty piece in several months. A Murtha / Schmidt / SNL mix with music by Sacred Spirit and Fat Boy Slim. Also some thoughts on Dinosaurs from William S. Burroughs music by Shalor. And finally Arundhati Roy with music by Gil Amran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 12:53 by iosaf
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this morning the italian police started raiding Nestle warehouses throughout italy seizing a number of product ranges amounting to 30 million litres of treated dairy products marketed to nursing mothers. The reason being they have been found to contain chemicals assocaited with embalming processes, which is unsurprisingly illegal in both Italy and the EU. Nestle, known to some as the "famine corporation" though Swiss owned, takes over 85% of its profits from sales of "food" in other countries. The corporation has been long been directly linked to famine, ironically considering it sells sweeties. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 07:15 by Joe Carolan
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A world first is happening in the heart of Auckland city tomorrow, as multi-national giant Starbucks faces a workers strike. Unite Union / SuperSizeMyPay.Com Tuesday, 22 November ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 21, 2005 - 18:12 by Aunty War
Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 21, 2005 - 13:36 by cnwp
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THE FOLLOWING declaration for a new workers' party was launched by the Socialist Party at Socialism 2005, a weekend of discussion and debate attended by hundreds of young people, trade union and community activists. Initial signatories include 21 trade union national executive committee (NEC) members and four councillors. The campaign for a new workers' party will be collecting thousands more signatures over the coming months in support of the declaration. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday November 21, 2005 - 12:35 by canal ti zef
Next march an activist irish video festival in Brest ! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 20, 2005 - 20:51 by awombofherown
18 comments (last - monday june 11, 2007 - 11:12)
I had to write a critical reflection paper this week for my Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health class, and the topic this week is female genital surgeries. I'm only allowed to write 2 pages double spaced, which is incredibly frustrating because I have way more to say on the subject and I had to cut out a lot. So I'm posting a longer version of my paper here: ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 19, 2005 - 14:23 by SP Member
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editor's note: the following disscusion was seperated from the original article to which it was a response when indymedia stole the jam jar and re-plagiarized the story into a front page feature
The following is an article from the October edition of the Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party) on Irish Ferries. If you read this article and then read the above article by the WSM you will clearly see that the WSM article has been plagiarised from the Socialist!
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 19, 2005 - 03:53 by cleaves
Activists asserted their democratic right to protest Rumsfeld’s visit outside the heavily guarded Adelaide Town Hall regardless of Dr. Bob Such granting ‘permission’ to protest outside South Australia’s Parliament House. Let’s not miss a ‘subtle’ point; the right to protest is fundamental to a democratic society, let that right act as a barometer in any society that purports to uphold democratic values. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 18, 2005 - 17:42 by Socialist
The latest issue of The Socialist is now online at www.socialistparty.net ... read full story / add a comment |
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