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international / eu Friday April 04, 2008 - 00:56 by tolerant to a point of tactical appreciation
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The PKK were included in 2002 on the list of terrorist organisations held by the EU. It's a long list. But the decision has now been anulled by the second highest judicial bench in Europe which sits in Luxembourg. There are complex (as always) reasons for this. Without going into it too much, & thus distracting you from reading the judgement in its entirety, I'd just mention the non-desirability of seeing a post-US occupied Iraq divided between Turkey and Iran after the former argued they were containing the PKK terrorists. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Thursday April 03, 2008 - 23:30 by John Duvaney
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IrishRepublican.net is nearly one year old. Founded by a small number of republicans, the forum has been a hit both nationally and internationally. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 20:52 by Rayo
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Normally, mayors and deputy mayors sing from the same hymnsheet but a note of disharmony has emerged in Sligo between Fianna Fail Mayor Jonathan McGoldrick and his deputy, Independant Socialist Cllr. Declan Bree, over a recent visit by the Israeli ambassador to City Hall where he was met by Mayor McGoldrick. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 19:42 by SP Online
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The March 2008 issue of The Socialist (#33) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 12:34 by D_D
Following the debates on left organisation? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 01, 2008 - 13:02 by Sean Crudden
People who have spent long periods on neuroleptic medication are familiar with the deadening effect it produces, its effect on physical well-being. It requires the utmost in personal resources to maintain any kind of fulfilling or enjoyable lifestyle while taking these drugs. Proof of this is the widespread issue of non-compliance where mental patients are concerned. Plainly the main reason why mental patients resist taking prescribed medication is that all of the medications including newer ones like Risperdal are unpleasant and debilitating. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Monday March 31, 2008 - 17:29 by PBPA
According to a report in the Irish Times today (31/03/08), DCC are acting like the incinerator is a fait d’accomplis with the incinerator providing heating supply to apartments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday March 31, 2008 - 16:51 by skinningthecat
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This is a very interesting 'theory' about the events concerning Politics.ie and Fianna Fail. http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/2008/03/politicsie-consp....html More Info on the situation here: http://www.stalltheball.com/index.php/2008/03/30/irelan...h_hah Have looked around and I would say this is having a significant chilling effect on public discussion of the tribunal on the web. Can't talk about it on politics.ie or boards.ie anymore Significantly the cache is still available on google of the original thread which staryed this off. Search: 'Grainne Carruth politics.ie' Gene Kerrigan article available here which puts the whole thing in a stark light: http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=33229 Democracy or soft dictatorship? You decide. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 31, 2008 - 14:43 by a
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Sinn Fein have been commemorating the events of March 1988 when the SAS killed three IRA members in Gibraltar. Peter Hadden examines what really happened in Gibraltar and the events that unfolded in its aftermath and how they exposed the bankruptcy of the Provisional IRA’s “armed struggle”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 30, 2008 - 18:15 by Hugh Evans
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A robust criticism of the dishonest journalism of the Washington Post concerning Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, Published on Friday, March 28, 2008 by CommonDreams.org ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 30, 2008 - 12:50 by C Murray
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This morning's London Independent headlines with the news that a Christian Evangelical Group had paid interns working in the offices of Ministers in the run-up to the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Bill*. This contentious Bill had sought to lump together the issues of Chimeric (human-animal) creation together with a new amendment to reduce the 24 week abortion limit . The Group: C.A.R.E. Christian Action, Research and Education had access all areas in the Commons and of course into research materials pertinent to the legislation. This prompts one question- Tony Blair had brought some of the biggest US Companies to the UK to work in the areas of genetic research (despite his personal Evangelicalism and recent conversion). So what are the Evangelicals so pissed off about? (Abortion rights)/HFE. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / anti-capitalism Saturday March 29, 2008 - 11:12 by durty tunnel bunny
Here's an interview with Professor George Eogan, on top of the Rath Lugh Monument, which is one of the seven ancient forts that was used to protect Tara throughout the centuries in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday March 28, 2008 - 20:32 by C Murray
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In this month's 'Irish Art Review', which is available online (it's a tenner a pop in the Newsagents) the editor discusses the current exhibition in Collin's Barracks and asks the question: 'Should not the Irish State give up to 50% of the pieces back, because they are colonial plunder' ? Its brief and I did not bring my copy, thus I cannot quote him verbatim.. The Natural History Museum remains closed since the staircase collapse last year, with rumblings in the media that the Senate will be expanded in there and kids are therefore limited in free access to their heritage, learning and study places. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76354 ... read full story / add a comment
meath / environment Friday March 28, 2008 - 15:28 by durty tunnel bunny
The illegal M3 Motorway is being ploughed through one of the richest and best known archaeological landscapes in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 27, 2008 - 22:59 by Damien Moran
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday March 27, 2008 - 20:42 by History Ireland
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The March/April issue of the magazine History Ireland contains a major article on Irish anarchists in the late nineteenth-century that should be of interest to today's anarchist activists. The title is '"Practical anarchists, we": social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885-7' In Ireland and Britain in the 1880s, the Fenians occupied the demonic role of 'terrorists' in the recesses of the bourgeois mind, and less attention was paid to terrorists of the radical left. Historian Fintan Lane relates how anarchists, though scarcely noticed, were nevertheless active in Ireland and argued openly for social revolution, though not for 'individual terror'. History Ireland is on sale in Eason's across the country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday March 27, 2008 - 17:20 by pat c
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In this article, Peter Tatchell deals with the latest lies and homophobic outbursts from George Galloway. In this case Galloway is supporting the Iranian Regiome even when it comes to the execution of gays using any lies to cover for them. George Galloway, the Respect MP, has made allegations that border on paedophile smears and play to homophobic prejudice. He claims the boyfriend of gay Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi was executed (1) for "committing sex crimes against young men". The insinuation of such a claim is that Mehdi's boyfriend was a rapist or a child sex abuser and also stigmatises Mehdi as he was his partner. He will suffer this stigma when he is returned to the UK and could face personal hostility from people who believe these allegations . Galloway made his astonishing allegation on Channel Five's The Wright Stuff. He has been asked to explain the source of his claim, but has so far failed to do so. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday March 27, 2008 - 12:23 by James
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The latest edition of Workers Solidarity is available online.
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday March 26, 2008 - 21:11 by ISN'er
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The latest issue of Resistance, the ISN's free national paper, has come out in the past few days. Copies should soon be available from the usual outlets in Dublin, Cork and Galway (details will follow). Meanwhile, anybody who wants a copy can get one, or as many as are wanted, post-free, by emailing [email protected] Articles in Resistance, March/April include: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues Tuesday March 25, 2008 - 19:45 by C Murray
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The I.T Newswire is full of Information on the attendance of Mary Hanafin TD at the INTO Conference. headlines emerging discuss the secularisation of the Primary School System (only the religious would put up with the degradation that seems obvious to most parents..) and the ongoing 'reform'of the sector. I though that our 'Multi-culturalism' was strictly of White-eastern Europeans and bi-lingual Polish community, given the fight that many Nigerian parents have had to put up to have their kids access health and education services. Ms Hanafin did not dissapoint, her speech is accessible to download at:- http://www.into.ie/ROI , it is currently unavailable on http://www.education.ie (Department of Education and Science) ... read full story / add a comment |
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