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international / politics / elections Sunday February 25, 2007 - 19:07 by John Meehan
A small number of Dáil candidates positioning themselves on the left rule out coalition with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, or doing side-deals. This number includes Séamus Healy (Tipperary South), a supporter of the Campaign for and Independent Left (CIL) and Joe Higgins (Dublin West) of the Socialist Party. I hope both these candidates are returned to the next Dáil, and that they are joined by like-minded deputies who will not sacrifice the left on the altar of social-liberal policies and its druids : Ahern, Kenny, Rabbitte and their colleagues. The issue may arise concretely after the May 2007 general election. Most opinion polls indicate that support for the two main conservative parties continues to fall significantly, a trend well-established since 1987. Similar problems confront the Left, worldwide. See article on France at this link : http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_a...=1221 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 25, 2007 - 15:49 by J. P. Anderson
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A Secret Special Garda Unit has been established to target Bellinaboy community and 'Shell to Sea' protesters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday February 24, 2007 - 20:17 by Eliz.
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"Dylan Rodriguez Published a piece in the 'Left Curve' entitled:- The signifance of March 15th 2005- on the Bagong Prison Massacre, It makes difficult reading but in the Context of the London Independent reports on Human rights abuses under the Arroyo regime, it becomes crucial to understanding neo-colonialism and the torture of indigenous community through the mass imobilisation of community through the US prison system. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 24, 2007 - 08:20 by BBC Listener
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One of the tactics that Shell have deployed in their scheme to install a huge refinery at Bellanaboy is to try and make people believe that the controversy is somehow only of interest to Mayo, that is is somehow an issue only for "locals". So it's good to see BBC Ulster covering the story. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/639...9.stm It's also interesting to see a guide for those (unlike indymedia readers) who may not have heard anything much about the campaign to get Shell to Sea. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 24, 2007 - 01:10 by John Meehan
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The story below explains why a member of the italian Senate. Franco Turigliatto, refused to vote for the Romano Prodi Government. The leadership of Rifondazione, the Refounded Communist Party, is threatening to expel Franco from the PRC. You can email solidarity greetings to Franco Turigliatto - details are at the link http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_a...=1220 The rightwing behaviour of the Rifondazione leadership is a warning to Irish elected representatives positioned on the left who leave the door open to coalition with rightwing parties and implementation of a neoliberal agenda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday February 23, 2007 - 19:26 by Terence
Well I guess we all knew this already, but at long last we have the evidence as reported in today's Guardian of the latest research on this dangerous activity. The research is published in the academic journal Biologist by author Dr Aric Sigman. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday February 22, 2007 - 20:37 by R. Isible
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Current Biology reports on a population of monkeys which have been observed to use spears in their hunting of bush babies. It seems the tool use is primarily by female chimpanzees. AP have a report that captures most of the info at the link at the bottom of the page. There's also a National Geographic summary and linked video available here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-chimps-spears.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 22, 2007 - 20:17 by shane o'neill
The recent controvery about risk equalisation and community rating took a dramatic twist when Sean Quinn of the Quinn Insurance Group offered to take over the policies from BUPA that have expired and offering to continue their cover under the new insurer. He has also requested all those who have accounts with VHI to move to BUPA due to the overcharging as he sees it of equal policies and coverage provided by the quinn group under BUPA. Here is the statement in full from Sean Quinn on the rushing through of the legislation to close the loophole that has made the whole area of new companys entering the market uncertain. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 22, 2007 - 17:29 by M. M. Carroll
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The war of words in the Labour Party between Clr. Jimmy McGarry and activist Brian Scanlon continues this week, says the Sligo Champion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday February 22, 2007 - 17:11 by R. Isible
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Microsoft is often described as "evil" and accused of dirty tactics. Many people assume that these descriptions are inaccurate and that it's "just business" and competition. Perhaps it is, but when you actually read the internal documents that occasionally come to light you realise that they're hell bent on doing whatever they can to squash rivals. One such collection of material came out of the Comes vs. Microsoft case recently. Now, however, that material is disappearing and public internet archives e.g. WaybackMachine/Archive.org have also "cleansed" their records. The moral? If there's something really important then don't rely on private businesses to keep it around for you. Make your own copies, or work with others do do so. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 22, 2007 - 14:32 by SlaineMacRoth
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In the public interest (and for the amusement of many, for which there should be no copyright ) I publish the article below, from this weeks Pheonix, on the demise of the far-right think tank, the Freedom Institute. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday February 22, 2007 - 14:30 by love croker
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the Catholic diocese of Washington D.C. has started an advertising campaign to promote the sacrament of "confession" and "penance". With billboard and other notices using the slogan "the light is on for you" the Church hopes to bring back many of the 580,000 catholics in DC to the little box. Senior church members trying to explain the lack of popularity of the little box point to a general confessional culture - people may go online these days and spill their secrets, transgressions and thus feel better. But that's not enough in their eyes. The Holy Spirit isn't on the net. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 22, 2007 - 11:38 by Mario Buda
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This is truly appalling. Imagine if you could be imprisoned for criticising the Roman Catholic Church or Bertie? Protest to the Egyptian Embassy at the address below. An Egyptian court has sentenced an internet blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday February 22, 2007 - 09:20 by David Manning
With the dominant media becoming increasingly dependent on 'official' statements, often acting simply as a conduit for the 'official version', which tends to go unquestioned, it is those journalists that refuse to pacify reporting in order to appease 'elite interests' that we can turn to for critical analysis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 22:01 by d'other
The last surviving artist behind the gallant mobilizing posters lighting up the walls of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War passed away earlier this year. Fontsere one of many "pen and ink" soldiers, produced the famous FAI of a peasant raising a scythe in defiance while strong modernist letters issued the battle cry of "libertad!" Fontsere escaped into exile as the revolution subsided and spent some time in NYC, but his concerns lay with the plight of those third class emigrates ignored by what he termed the "relevant figures" of the republic and trapped in a cycle of concentration camps and production in the French war industry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 21:01 by Miriam Cotton
After much breast-beating and declarations of firm intentions never to be duped again about reasons for going to war, the UK media is acting as if Iraq/WMD lies had never been told. Media Lens offer a succinct analysis of convenient MSM amnesia as a necessary precondition of yet another illegal and concocted war of aggression on an innocent country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 17:27 by ISN
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The Tommy Sheridan affair probably hasn’t run its course yet: there’s bound to be a few twists and turns left before we can close the book on the whole saga. But it’s possible to draw up a provisional balance sheet after the events of the last few months and see what lessons can be learned. First of all, it’s important to establish the facts of what happened. It’s beyond question that somebody was lying. The rival versions of the story put across by Tommy Sheridan on the one hand, and his opponents in the SSP on the other, can’t both be accurate. So before we can draw any conclusions, we have to decide who’s telling the truth. [continues] ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 10:53 by Joe
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This years anarchist bookfair (3rd March, Teachers Club) will see a meeting for Polish speaking anarchists in Ireland. There will also be a 'Polish anarchists in Ireland' stall. Poland has quite a large anarchist movement as a result there are a significant number of Polish anarchists who like other Poles have migrated to Ireland to find work. They have translated a large number of articles written by anarchist in Ireland by WSM members into Polish. These translations are now available on the WSM web site. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday February 19, 2007 - 21:34 by SP Online
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The February 2007 issue of The Socialist (#23) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment |
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