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sligo / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 21, 2006 - 23:01 by Allen   text 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   text 61 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2010 - 21:05)   image 1 image
"...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   text 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   text 1 comment (last - friday april 21, 2006 - 19:12)
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   text 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   text 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   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 15:12)
The Nigerian Delta's troubled waters
By Dan Isaacs
BBC, Delta region, southern Nigeria

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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
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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
hippy stuff.
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 19, 2006 - 15:32 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 20, 2006 - 12:50)   image 1 image
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   text 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   text 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
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 18, 2006 - 22:13 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 - 23:33)
Two large US firms, Veritas and Symantec, have been accused by the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS) of attempting to evade US taxes by transferring "intellectual property" to Irish subsidiaries. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 18, 2006 - 18:04 by Republican   text 9 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 - 04:27)
Interesting call for left unity here in Daily Ireland. This time it is from a republican source. Follows on from a series previous calls from other sources on the left.

Time for lovely rainbow coalition of the left

GEARÓID Ó CAIREALLÁIN

"But what about a rainbow coalition of the left? Just say Sinn Féin, Labour, the Green Party and the various socialists and independents like Jim Higgins (sic) and Tony Gregory got together to form a real alternative." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 18, 2006 - 13:19 by Paul   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 - 19:00)
This link explains how the objectives of the Israeli lobby in the US coincide with the general thrust of American foreign policy since the second world war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 18, 2006 - 12:31 by Dave
New Socialist Worker online. Including articles by Eamonn McCann on the fallout from the death of Denis Donaldson, Kieran Allen on James Connolly and 1916, and an eyewitness report on the victory of the French anti CPE movement by Nick Barrett.

Follow this link http://www.swp.ie/socialistworker/2006/sw257/sw-257-ind...x.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 18, 2006 - 09:19 by nano
It is the overwhelming masses of China that will assert their primacy against minority government and then spill across borders into surrounding regions. Existing maps of Asia and Europe will become redundant overnight. People across the globe will be spurred into action as they drag their corrupt leaders from their lairs to face the quick judgement of the people. The bunkers deep in mountains, designed to harbour criminal elites in times of devastation, have only a finite supply of resources before the inhabitants must emerge to face the final judgement of the people; justice is patient. ... read full story / add a comment
9mm Willie, minster for arms glorification, exagerates again.
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 17, 2006 - 23:00 by %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 - 21:22)   image 2 images
As we all know, there was a big display of guns put on by 9 milimetre Wille O dea and pals on Sunday the 16th of April to mark the anniversary of an event which took place of the 24th of April 1916 .

Official estimates put the attendance at 100,000.
the Minister for exageration, 9mm Willie claimed 120,000
Time for the mathematicians to come forward and tell us -
How many people could physically fit in the space available? ... read full story / add a comment
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