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Ben Ansell, in Why Politics Fails, outlines "five traps of the modern world and how to escape them". Professor James Alexander wonders how he can escape yet another book that tries to save the world with Left-wing dogma.
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The African Union's demand for colonial reparations is an act of cynical opportunism that ignores that slavery was already endemic in Africa, and African kingdoms resisted abolition even as the British forced it on them.
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Brighton Council has been accused of "two-tier" hypocrisy after ignoring a van with a Palestine flag for months only to tow it days after a St George's flag was added.
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Jim Ratcliffe's energy empire, Ineos ? one of the world's largest chemical manufacturers ? is ending all investment in Britain and diverting it to the US over Labour's tax raid on oil and gas producers.
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SIPTU Community activists meet in Belfast
antrim / anti-capitalism / press release Monday January 17, 2011 20:20 by PRO   image 1 image
Community activists from across the north are joining SIPTU to work together in protecting front line community services in their local areas.

That was the clear message on Tuesday 11th January as community leaders from across the north met at SIPTU's Belfast offices to assess the potential impact of cuts to frontline services in communities and to develop an effective campaign to protect these 'invaluable services' and the projects and centres which deliver them.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 17, 2011 16:32 by éirígí PRO   image 1 image
Vigil for hunger-striking prisoners Ahmad Sa'adat and Jamal Abu Al-Haija, organised by éirígí. Wednesday 19th January. Israeli embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin, 6.30pm read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 17, 2011 16:06 by éirígí PRO   text 1 comment (last - monday january 17, 2011 23:04)   image 1 image
On Tuesday January 18th the trial of seven éirígí activists is scheduled to begin in Dublin. The crime of which they are accused? Participating in a peaceful protest against the bailing out of Anglo Irish Bank

A protest has been organised in support of the 7 - 10am Tuesday 18th Jan, at the courthouse Parkgate Street.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 17, 2011 15:57 by Kev   image 1 image
Would you like to come along to the next Dublin branch meeting of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign?

The next meeting is at Thursday 20/01/2011 at 7.30pm.

Held upstairs in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St. Dublin 2.

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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Monday January 17, 2011 15:55 by éirígí PRO   text 2 comments (last - monday january 17, 2011 23:01)
Anglo Irish Bank Protesters to Contest all Charges as Trial Commences
As the trial of seven éirígí activists charged with a variety of offences
arising from a peaceful protest at Anglo Irish Bank Headquarters in Dublin on
May 15 last year is set to commence tomorrow [Tuesday], all seven are to plead
not guilty and vigorously contest all the charges laid against them.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 17, 2011 15:16 by Paul McAndrew   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 23, 2011 12:05)
UCC Philosoph debate on abortion..tonight Mon 17th Jan, 7.30pm in the Kane building in G19, UCC read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2011 13:27 by Paddy Healy
Accepting the second and third level implementation means agreeing to the Croke Park Deal as a whole. These proposed implementations are now available on TUI website.

I will circulate a detailed analysis shortly. But firstly, I deal with the consequences of agreeing to the Deal as a whole below. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 17, 2011 10:37 by Ciaron   text 15 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2011 09:07)   image 26 images   video 1 video file
VID (3 mins 14 secs)
100 folks vigil outside the White House at 7 pm Saturday Jan 15th. (Martin Luther King Day in the United States), the exact prime time for U.S television that the 20 year ongoing war on Iraq began Jan 15 1991. These 100 foks outside the White House were joined insimutaneous oppostion at U.S. embassies in Dublin, London, Wellington also at Menwithhi HI and in Brisbne and Christchurch.
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 19:41 by Laura Broxson
national / environment / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 17:14 by Archbishop Michael D Hynes
On Saturday the 29th January 2011 from 2pm to 5.30 pm we are holding our 11th Annual workshop in The Strand Hotel Omeath Co Louth. This years theme for the workshop is OBESITY!

We have speakers from various cultures and walks of life contributing to the event. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / press release Sunday January 16, 2011 12:58 by Liam Mac Lochlainn
On Thursday 20th January in Donegal Town a special film screening of the inspirational film "the Greening of Cuba" will take place in Simple Simon's, The Diamond, Donegal Town. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 12:46 by Paul McAndrew
Sundays from 7pm
Board Games at the bookshop
Back from this Sunday and hopefully every week thereafter.
Chess, scrabble, pictionary and dominoes. Settlers, Talisman and more.
New faces always very welcome. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 12:35 by Paul McAndrew
A fundraiser for Climate camp activities in 2011, all welcome. read full story / add a comment
cork / gender and sexuality / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 12:24 by Paul McAndrew
UCC Students' Union is holding a conference entitled "A Discussion of Female Participation in Student Politics" on Thursday the 20th of January from 5-8 in Devere Hall. read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media / event notice Sunday January 16, 2011 11:14 by Eric   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Film screening: Starsuckers, 8pm, Wednesday 19th January

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. read full story / add a comment
'Bloody Sunday' picket , Dublin , Saturday 29th January 2011.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday January 15, 2011 20:58 by Sharon.   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 29, 2011 23:28)   image 3 images
Bloody Sunday , January 30 , 1972 : a picket in memory of the 14 people massacred by the British Parachute Regiment on Sunday , January 30 , 1972 , will be held in Dublin on Saturday January 29th, 2011 , at the GPO , from 12 Noon to 2pm. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday January 15, 2011 19:11 by Ardoyne Resident   text 1 comment (last - monday january 17, 2011 08:45)   image 1 image
Since the creation of the Orange State in 1922, the Nationalist and Republican community in the Six Counties has suffered from political and secterian policing. The onset of the peace process promised an end to Unionist control over the RUC and an equal society for all? Elected representatives also promised that a new name and uniform would herald a more civil Police service.

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Postmodern Censorship
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2011 18:43 by Rebels YELL   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A few years ago a debate in New York brought together some of the world's leading journalists including John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass, for a debate called 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'.John Pilger's address was, 'War by Media' something a lot of people at the receiving end of British brutality, here in Occupied Ireland, have come to be very aware of over the course of the last forty year phase, of Britain's war on Ireland. read full story / add a comment
galway / education / event notice Saturday January 15, 2011 15:06 by Martha   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 07, 2011 04:56)
A space for homeschooler families to meet and share experiences. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday January 14, 2011 22:56 by Laurence Cox   text 1 comment (last - monday january 31, 2011 23:51)   1 attached file
U Dhammaloka was a Dublin-born migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk in colonial Burma. A fire-breathing atheist, his attacks on Christian missionaries challenged the imperial order in recently-conquered Burma. "Dhammaloka Day" in UCC brings together an international line-up of scholars of Buddhism to celebrate the centenary of his 1911 trial for sedition by a Cork-born judge. read full story / add a comment
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