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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 14, 2014 22:34 by fred
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A pre election sleight of hand giving out a few pennies to the poor with one hand while taking them back with the other via water charges?
Here is some information on some of the changes read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 01, 2013 15:25 by Paddy Hackett
Below is a piece from me analysing the interview with Maurice Coakely concerning his recently published book Ireland in the World Order: A History of Uneven Development? The interview was published on the website PoliticalEconomy.ie on March 28th 2013 read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday February 09, 2013 18:36 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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The recent bonds-for-notes overnight legislation read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Friday February 17, 2012 10:47 by Gregor Kerr
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The fiscal treaty, as agreed by EU governments, is clearly an austerity treaty and will impose serious levels of economic and financial pain on Irish workers for years to come. In his blog ‘Notes On The Front’ Unite economist michael taft says “The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned”.[1] The prospect of such an approach is horrific and should shock all of us into action. Unless this is resisted we can expect even further tax increases, wage cuts and a slashing of all public services over the next couple of years. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / feature Saturday January 28, 2012 14:05 by Indyjourno
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Today's occupation is happening at 66-67 Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Come down and support the occupation - get involved in the debate during the day.
Today one of NAMA’s properties in Dublin has been opened to the public. The building will host a series of talks and workshops engaging the public in the questions that surround debt, property speculation and asking how we can use NAMA buildings for social and community purposes. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday March 16, 2011 14:08 by Paul D
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Resteraunt and Catering Workers call on the Quick Service Food Alliance to stop attacking minimum wages and conditions. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 17, 2010 10:22 by Paddy Hackett
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Concerning the “deal between the Irish Government and the ECB/EU/IMF troika” Constantin Gurdgiev argues in the Sunday Independent, December 5th 2010, that far “from providing a resolution to Ireland’s financial and fiscal crises, it made the restructuring of our banks’ debt inevitable, read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 18, 2010 13:39 by Paddy Hackett
My piece endeavours to show that there is no essential difference between the politics of John Molyneux from the SWP(UK) and michael taft from the UNITE union. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday August 22, 2010 10:55 by Paddy Hackett
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In general the radical left largely consists of bourgeois activists in disguise. They are there to help capitalism maintain itself. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday June 02, 2010 10:53 by Ógra Shinn Féin
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Ógra Shinn Féin has announced the final clár of their forthcoming National Youth Unemployment Conference, to be held in the Teachers Club in Dublin on Saturday the 5th of June 11am. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 21, 2010 23:53 by Kev
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Yesterday, Thursday 20th May 2010, saw the publication of a landmark document, a 16-page full colour feature entitled Goldstone Report Feature: War Crimes in Apartheid Israel. The document features contributions from many leading anti-apartheid campaigners, trade unionists, politicians, journalists and other public figures, including Kader Asmal, Col. Desmond Travers, Minister Ciaran Cuffe and Jamal Juma'. read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday March 10, 2010 23:32 by Alan Mac Simoin
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The ruling class strategy of making working people pay for the crisis has seen public and private sector pay cuts, job losses, welfare reductions and slashing of important services like special needs assistants for children with physical and mental problems. Coming soon, if Cowan and Gormley have their way, is the return of a domestic water tax. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 09, 2009 08:43 by michael taft
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I want to argue that Fianna Fail has essentially cooked (and I mean boil rapidly) the books - insofar as their strategy to bring the deficit under control by 2013 rests on numbers that cannot work in the material world. This might seem a bit academic but this will show in a way that no one else has done that deflation cannot work at any level - not at the level of arresting economic decline, job losses, living standards; and not even the deficit. This is the real debate - can deflation work? Fianna Fail's own bookeeping shows it can't. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday March 23, 2009 22:04 by 1 of imc
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Potentially, thousands of workers will take to the streets of the country next Monday. Indymedia and DCTV are pooling resources to cover the day and are calling for you, the readership to contribute your reports, photographs and videos to compile an accurate grassroots account of what could be a significant date in this latest round of the struggle for workers’ rights and social justice. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday March 12, 2009 00:09 by Mark C
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The Right are having a field day in the economic debate. It's time progressives take to the pitch. In 'Towards A New Economic Narrative', michael taft of Notes on the Front outlines a ten point programme to kickstart an alternative debate. It includes: Borrow 'Till We Drop * Tax Lay-About Capital, Not Work * Public Safety Committees * Spread It Around * Competition This! * Go On a (Social) Binge * A New Green Deal * Money's Too Tight To Mention * The Enterprise Guarantee * Reinventing Public Economic Activity This is not the last word. It's the first of many words. But one thing is certain: the Left must become audacious and present a bold economic package to people. It we don't, the Right will continue to drive the debate, the Left will become marginalised and the economy will continue its ever downward sprial. read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / feature Saturday February 28, 2009 09:25 by Workers Solidarity
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There is no money left in Ireland. At least that’s what you might think after listening to Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny, IBEC and the parade of capitalist economists and pundits who parrot this nonsense. Yes, we are heading into a deep recession and guess who is expected to pay the cost? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday April 14, 2008 14:16 by michael taft
A damning analysis of European wage levels has found that Ireland lies rock bottom of the list of the average wages paid in the private sector across the ten wealthiest countries in the European Union. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / feature Tuesday March 25, 2008 14:22 by Chekov
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Over the last few years, blogs and blogging have started to permeate the mainstream in Ireland. Features on bloggers and blogging have started to appear with increasing frequency in weekend newspapers. However, in comparison to the US, where blogs have become an integral part of political organising, blogs are very much still seen as marginal by the Irish political establishment.
Left wing political blogs have until recently been particularly thin on the ground. However, this has started to change, with the emergence of a number of increasingly popular blogs written from an explicitly left-wing point of view. Last month, some of these bloggers came together to establish the Irish Left Review, as an online magazine to help further disseminate left wing views in Ireland. This article presents an interview with Donagh Brennan of dublinopinion.com,one of the founders and current editor of Irish Left Review, about blogging and the origins of this project. read full story / add a comment |
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