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international / gender and sexuality Thursday August 27, 2009 - 18:16 by Mina Ahadi
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Demonstrators arrested in the recent uprisings, particularly those in Kahrizak Prison have been gang-raped and the prison guards have put them under medieval tortures. Many of the detainees, female or male, have died in rape rooms as a result of being repeatedly raped, due to rupture of uterus or rectum and intestinal bleeding. Still others, in or out of prison, are suffering from the resulting physical and psychological traumas of these acts of violence. We know that the torture and raping of prisoners are not confined to Kahrizak and to the recent events. Executions and murder of prisoners, rape and torture in the Islamic regime’s prisons are as old the regime itself. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 13:40 by anton
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SIPTU members at Coca Cola HBC Ireland Ltd are taking strike action in protest at the company’s plans to outsource the jobs of 130 distribution and warehousing staff in Dublin, Tuam, Waterford, Tipperary and Cork. Pickets were set up at the plants this week . Last week Coca Cola HBC drivers and warehouse staff received letters from three private transport companies offering them new employment at greatly disimproved pay and working conditions and containing threats of redundancy. Coca-Cola employs just over 1,200 staff in Ireland at its five main distribution centres. Earlier this year the company announced 130 jobs in the transport division would be outsourced to private transport companies saying that outsourcing is necessary to cut costs and safeguard other jobs ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 22:30 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin have criticised the so-called "Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association" (ISME) for their partitionism, suggesting that it is patriotic to forget about one and a half million Irish people on the north-eastern side of the British-created border. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 22:27 by Darren J. Prior
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See: www.slideshare.net/darrenjprior/presentations. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 21:37 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin tonight protested a meeting of the so-called “District Policing Partnership” in Dungiven, County Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 11:59 by pantalona
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A night of words, film and music for Afri’s work in support of the Rossport communities. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 00:33 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights returns on Monday September 7th at 9 pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway with The North Beach Poetry Nights' Slam and Guest Poet, Martina Evans from Cork via London. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 00:05 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday 28th September at 9pm. ... read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous Monday August 24, 2009 - 18:48 by Richard Walsh
The DUP are correct to state that commemoration of the hunger strikers and their brave sacrifice is incompatible with Ruairí Gildernew's membership of the support network for the British colonial police, Republican Sinn Féin have said. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday August 23, 2009 - 15:01 by Richard Walsh
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The screening of pro-EU ads in Free State cinemas has been criticised by Republican Sinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 17:33 by PRO
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éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has reiterated the socialist republican party’s commitment to opposing any displays of British militarism in Ireland in response to today’s visit (Wednesday) to Dublin by a British naval warship. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 15:11 by PRO
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éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has reiterated the socialist republican party’s commitment to oppose any visit to Ireland by Elizabeth Windsor in response to comments by the outgoing British ambassador David Reddaway. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 03:04 by @
The solidarity initiative for Thodoris Iliopoulos has released the following call-out. Please translate it and repost it in as many languages as you can. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Friday August 14, 2009 - 10:32 by Darren C
Sixteen workers at a Co-op Superstore in New Square, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork are holding a sit-in protest as a result of the company announcing redundancies without discussions with their union. The company, which is partly owned by Dairygold and their shareholders, have also announced the closure of their Patrick Street store in Fermoy, Co. Cork with the loss of eight jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 13, 2009 - 14:40 by Éamann Mac Mánais
Responding to news that Matt Baggott will become the new Chief Constable of the discredited PSNI, éirigí chairperson Brian Leeson has re-iterated his party's call for nationalist members of the policing board to resign. Leeson said, ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 13, 2009 - 14:37 by Éamann Mac Mánais
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éirígí general secretary Breandan Mac Cionnaith has condemned the inclusion of the British Navy's Royal Marines in the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge festivities. Mac Cionnnaith also confirmed that éirígí activists will be on the ground to challenge the presence of the Royal Marines in Belfast on Friday 14 August. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 10, 2009 - 08:32 by IFPAL
The IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) campaign made waves in Dublin city centre on Saturday morning with the launch of a campaign raft on the river Liffey. Anchored just down stream from the famous ha’penny bridge it blares out the campaign message “EU policy facilitates Israeli genocide. No to Lisbon” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday August 07, 2009 - 16:59 by Eugene Mc Cartan
The growing ranks of the unemployed are clear testimony to the failure of this Government and its economic strategy. Their only hope is that they can once again get the emigration boats and planes going to disperse the growing surplus population to the four corners of the globe. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 04, 2009 - 06:11 by Laura
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Thomas Cook workers' occupation forcibly broken up by over 80 Gardai - Protest at 1pm outside Four Courts today in support ... read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 30, 2009 - 15:30 by PRO
4 comments (last - sunday august 02, 2009 - 21:54)
éirígí general secretary Breandán MacCionnaith has expressed deep concern at the activities of the British army in Fermanagh after it emerged they had been involved in the recent harassment of people in the county. ... read full story / add a comment |
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