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international / anti-capitalism Monday April 24, 2006 - 11:48 by Irish Times Reader
 8 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 19:51)
I cut and paste this piece from the Irish Times because I found it extremely alarming. Tax cuts fuel the capitalist system - producing a larger bourgeoise capitalists class - I don't need to mention the effect the SSIA's will have on economic growth once they reach fruition. Economic growth in this country has to be stopped - it has destroyed the power of public sector unions created material wealth at the expense of spiritual decay and attracted legions of brain washed "consumer-voters" who worship at the PD/ Fianna Fail facist capitalist altar. We need social justice not economic growth. So heres the story: A new tax-cutting policy aimed at average middle-class families was unveiled by the Progressive Democrats at the conclusion of the party's national conference in Limerick yesterday. Attacks on the Labour Party over tax, immigration and health dominated much of the conference debate. Stephen Collins and Liam Reid report ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday April 24, 2006 - 02:48 by Colin Hatchett
Graffiti artist Marc Ecko broke into a government facility where one of the Boeing 747 planes which serve as Air Force One was parked, and tagged it with graffiti. Ecko then posted video of the tagging online, along with a video statement of “why I tagged the President’s plane.” - Or so he says. As it turns out, the video is fake. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday April 23, 2006 - 15:54 by Private Joker
I was absentmindedly surfing the internet looking for religious jokes to take the piss out of some Jesus freaks I know in UCD when I came upon the following piece of video footage. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 23, 2006 - 11:12 by beeep
Great article from an old london pro-situ on drugs and the changing world of work and how your kids are being fed cocaine culture: ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 23, 2006 - 10:30 by dingo
The title would suggest that the writer is not attempting to ingratiate self with the readership; to remove any lingering doubts in that regard you can go fuck yourself or any other female/male member of your immediate family, OK! I’m happy to leave persuasive discourse to the theological, political and capital oriented propagandists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 22, 2006 - 23:36 by Masters Voice
4 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 01:17)
"No one believes that a Fine Gael-Labour-Green Rainbow could win a majority and have more seats than Fianna Fail, the Progressive Democrats, the non-left independents and Sinn Fein "" ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 21, 2006 - 23:01 by Allen
1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 - 10:42)
The use of Shannon Airport as a gateway for U.S. troops en route to the war in Iraq is an affront to the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people who have consistently opposed the war, said the former Mayor of Sligo, Alderman Declan Bree, when he spoke at the Connolly Forums annual Easter 1916 Commemoration Ceremony in Sligo on Easter Sunday ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 21, 2006 - 22:01 by Donnchadh
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"...it's hard to see ex-prisoners destitute when the leadership are so wealthy and have holiday homes." Hughes mentions Kieran Nugent, the first IRA man on the Blanket protest in Long Kesh. "Kieran died in 2000. They called him a 'river rat' because he spent his last days drinking by the river in Poleglass. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday April 21, 2006 - 14:47 by T
11 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 - 17:29)
Concern that the Garda Reserve Force is now almost certain to be established were expressed today. Senior gardaí yesterday backed plans for a reserve force. Publicly announcing support for the Minister for Justice’s proposals for the first time, the Association of Garda Superintendents said the move would put more visible presence on the streets. President of the AGS, Superintendent Noel McLoughlin, said the scheme, which is widely opposed by rank-and-file members of the force, would enhance their capacity to respond to emergency calls. However veteran homeless campaigner Fr Peter McVerry has said the plans are "madness" see today's Daily Ireland. http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 21, 2006 - 12:30 by Kingfisher
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The latest offering from the Bush administration is a nuclear attack on Iran; after only a few years in power this insane administration is ready to wage nuclear warfare! If this is not cause for alarm then resign yourselves to your fate (lemmings). ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday April 21, 2006 - 10:21 by Socialist Democracy reader
11 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 - 19:22)
The meeting around the question: “Can Coalition With Parties of the Right Bring Real Change?” defines the CIL as an opportunist, electoralist front, attempting to reinvent labourism at a time when the Labour party may finally be committing suicide. In their attempts at pragmatism and realism they are adopting a fantasy scenario, a thousand times more unrealistic than any principled attempt to win Irish workers to revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday April 21, 2006 - 02:20 by irony
1 comment (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 - 02:57)
Hugo Chavez is really quite something, the man clocked up the largest abstention outside of Berlusconi's Italy at 75%, has a weekly TV show, & really knows how to the put the wind up them. Them being everyone from the Pentagon, to Energy Future analysts, to those amongst his own people who are anarchists, to well ---- everyone. News for Chavez watchers and no doubt "fans" in Ireland as to what mr Presidente! has got upto last. ___________________________________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 20, 2006 - 19:01 by IRIS
WRITING in the Sunday edition of the Derry Journal journalist and author Éamonn McCann said that in his view, as far as Republicanism was concerned, the most authentic claimants to the political legacy of the 1916 Rising were Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Republican Sinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday April 20, 2006 - 16:12 by shellwatcher
1 comment (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 15:12)
The Nigerian Delta's troubled waters By Dan Isaacs BBC, Delta region, southern Nigeria ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 22:27 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 62) Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected] Date: 19 Aibreán / April 2006 Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom http://www.saoirse.info ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 16:12 by #
The British Transplantation society has today in a press release condemned China for the practise of organ harvesting from executed prisoners. China has been reacting slowly to accusations in the West over the last weeks and has introduced new legislation to prohibit the black market in organ transplantion which will take effect in June 2006. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 15:32 by iosaf
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a little human interest thing I've found today on Italian commercial media, its a video put together by US satirists ( & I suppose pacifists ) of cut & pastes of G.W. Bush speeches so as to simulate the great wookie singing the John Lennon song "Imagine". Its worth going to the link and watching, It would even be worth copying and playing in your little nightclubs, crossroad dances, social centres, homes, and wherever ye congregate. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 13:30 by Tribunite
9 comments (last - wednesday april 19, 2006 - 15:34)
SOCIALIST Party leader Joe Higgins yesterday called for the construction of a "major party of the left" and pledged that his own party would "strive to assist such a development". ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 12:39 by Joe Zacune
Coca-Cola is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. The company claims to adhere to the “highest ethical standards” and to be “an outstanding corporate citizen in every community we serve”. Yet Coca-Cola’s activities around the world tell a different story. Coca-Cola has been accused of dehydrating communities in its pursuit of water resources to feed its own plants, drying up farmers’ wells and destroying local agriculture. The company has also violated workers’ rights in countries such as Colombia, Turkey, Guatemala and Russia. Only through its multi-million dollar marketing campaigns can Coca-Cola sustain the clean image it craves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 08:02 by James Cooke
11 comments (last - sunday april 23, 2006 - 11:56)
It’ no accident that many people are finding a rekindled interest in the writings of Karl Marx; the international assault of workers wages and benefits, continued warfare, and economic instability in general are causing a revival of the buried and slandered ideas of Marxism. Many of these concepts offer tremendous insight about the origins and workings of capitalism, and thus the causes of many of society’s current problems. Needless to say, involved are immense implications for anybody interested in becoming an activist. A “Marxist” is someone who accepts some of the key points about history and society first explained by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, and elaborated further by the writings of Lenin, Trotsky, and many others (Stalin, Mao, etc are Marxists in name only). Unfortunately, one cannot learn about these ideas by going to college, aside from the many biased and bastardized versions of the subject. The following is a brief explanation of some of the more important concepts of Marxism. ... read full story / add a comment |
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