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national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 22:43 by Padraic   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 04, 2009 23:03)   image 1 image
Natalia Szymanska, a young Polish woman was sacked from Subway in her fifth month of pregnancy on a dubious charge of being in breach of the company's health and safety policy. In response to this people across Ireland and Britain will be picketing local banches of Subway. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday April 01, 2009 22:12 by Financial Fools Day   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 02, 2009 13:57)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan where out on the streets of Dublin today (Wednesday 1 April) reassuring citizens that the ‘economy was fixed’, before bringing them back down to earth with a big ‘financial fools day!’ message.The Taoiseach and Finance Minister dawned dunce hats, and handed out leaflets, showing that they haven’t a clue how to run a country, never mind sort out the current economic downturn. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 01, 2009 17:52 by Jolly Red Giant   text 15 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 19:27)   image 4 images
RTE Radio 1 had both Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) and Eamonn McCann (journalist and broadcaster) as contributors on the Spirit Moves programme with Myles Dungan on March 29th. Neither Boyd Barrett nor McCann declared their membership of the SWP (no surprise there). However the most disgraceful aspect of their contribution was the opening comments by Boyd Barrett who attacked the recent Lyndsey strike in Britain as 'racist' . read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 16:22 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 24, 2009 10:53)   image 1 image
Irish and Basque runners will stage a mini-Korrika in Dublin on Saturday 4th April and hold a fund-raising event after at the Cobblestone in order to raise funds for the promotion of the Basque language in the Basque Country. The Korrika runs every two years in the Basque Country, attracting around 600,000 participants. The current Korrika is being held currently, to cover 2,500 kilometres and last 11 days, non-stop, with runners running even through the night. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday April 01, 2009 14:14 by siobhan   text 10 comments (last - thursday april 02, 2009 14:14)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
Poet and Editor, Burt Kimmelmann
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 13:42 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Fresh from the success of their recent 2nd Forge at Gort Literature Festival, The Western Writers' Centre is rarin' to go! Leading New York poet and editor Burt Kimmelmann will read for the Western Writers' Centre, Galway, at The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway on Tuesday, April 14th, at 8pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment
Poster for Public Meeting
kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 11:21 by Alan M.   image 1 image
They got us into this mess but now they want us to pay the price for it too!

With the economic crisis now in full swing, anarchists are arguing for fundamental change and an end to capitalism. How can we achieve this and how should the new society be organised? read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday April 01, 2009 00:49 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* Call to the First Libertarian Print and Audiovisual Documentary Fair of Caracas. D O C U M E N T (a) November 200 read full story / add a comment
REVOLUTION DAYSCHOOL
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 31, 2009 22:05 by james   image 1 image
the socialist workers party presents a dayschool workshop on the plolitics of revolution.. each session begins with poltical intro and then breaks down into small working groups to discuss issues and report back to main meeting... read full story / add a comment
Net over cliff at Glengad
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday March 31, 2009 17:07 by d   text 34 comments (last - monday april 06, 2009 14:37)   image 16 images   video 2 video files
Shell has returned to Glengad beach to install nets over the cliff face. read full story / add a comment
The Arts Council
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday March 31, 2009 16:09 by Over The Edge   image 3 images
The five featured authors this year are
Orla Higgins, Noelle Lynskey, Noel Harrington,
Jenny McCudden and Val Nolan read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Monday March 30, 2009 18:02 by Charlie_Hawk   text 4 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 20:04)   image 5 images
In March Ashanti Alston, a former member of the Black Panther Party and a Black Liberation Army solider, came to Ireland to speak at the Dublin anarchist bookfair. This is the video of his presentation. In it he talks about his experiences in the Black Panthers and BLA, the lessons he draws from them and what he thinks of revolutionary politics in Ireland. 

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday March 30, 2009 17:00 by Crash Ensemble   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 31, 2009 16:16)   image 1 image
Renowned composer Kevin Volans celebrates his 60th birthday with Crash Ensemble as part of their annual FREE STATE concert series in the Project Arts Centre at 8pm, 9th April 2009.

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Poster for the NE USA leg of the tour
national / anti-capitalism / news report Monday March 30, 2009 14:51 by Andrew   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The period from 1997 to 2007 saw anarchism in Ireland move from an ultra marginal role to just a marginal one, a similar level of significance to the rest of the far left. This video is a brief history of anarchism during that decade and why there was a massive growth in terms of percentages if rather modest in terms of actual numbers. It includes anarchist involvement in pro-choice, community, anti-war, work place struggles, reclaim the streets and of course the EU summit protests of Mayday 2004. read full story / add a comment
The Forge At Gort, which W.B.Yeats commemorated in a poem, still stands in the main street
national / arts and media / press release Monday March 30, 2009 13:29 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneorí Chaitlín Maude - have just successfully celebrated their second 'Forge at Gort' Literature festival in Gort, Co Galway. This would not have been possible without the open generosity of writers and musicians who took part. read full story / add a comment
No ears, no tatoos,no accountability
kildare / animal rights / news report Monday March 30, 2009 12:12 by Bernie Wright   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 16, 2009 19:13)   image 2 images
Yesterday the Minister for Sport Martin Cullen (whose Department grants millions of Euro to the Greyhound and Horse racing fund annually ) was stopped and confrunted by lifesize photos of dead and mutilated greyhounds at Kilashee House Hotel Naas.
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 30, 2009 11:38 by MAOR Derry   text 3 comments (last - monday march 30, 2009 15:55)   image 5 images
Activists from the north west group, MAOR, held a solidarity vigil in Derry city center, Saturday March 28th, with the SHELL TO SEA campaigner Maura Harrington highlighting her continued imprisonment.

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James Connolly
national / arts and media / other press Monday March 30, 2009 00:26 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 2 comments (last - friday april 03, 2009 16:06)   image 5 images
Beginning tomorrow the Skerries Mills will show a political portraits art exhibition by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin entitled 'Uprising' for two weeks. The exhibition contains the seven signatories of the Proclamation as well as some other Irish radical / revolutionary leaders covering the last 300 years. read full story / add a comment
John Walsh
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday March 30, 2009 00:14 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Poet John Walsh to open Poetry Month 1.30pm, Wednesday April 1st Galway City Library read full story / add a comment
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