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derry / education / news report Wednesday December 08, 2010 21:57 by FEE
Young Derry students make a stand for education. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 08, 2010 19:09 by TD
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It's cold comfort that yesterday's inhuman budget was the last sting of a vicious, dying government, chilling to realise it was allowed to flourish and pass by the broad mass of the Irish people standing idly by and not engaging in mass protest.? Yesterdays proceedings outside the Dáil were mild, ultra-mild and weak when compared to the mass protests in Greece and France and the fact that the EU/ECB/IMF attacks on our poor, vulnerable, working classes and middle classes, through their willing government catspaws, are far more severe here than the aforementioned countries.? read full story / add a comment 
national / education / news report Wednesday December 08, 2010 00:37 by LM
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Changes to the qualifying criteria for the adjacent rate of the student maintenance grant, announced in the Budget for 2011, will lead to students facing up to the prospect of an almost 60% decrease in financial aid. read full story / add a comment ![Night's Candles are Burnt Out (1927-28) by Seán Keating [3]](cache/imagecache/local/attachments/dec2010/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_keating2.jpg "Night's Candles are Burnt Out (1927-28) by Seán Keating [3]")
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday December 07, 2010 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin As the global economic crisis deepens, one may ask how the artist can play any role in social, economic and political change? Visual artists have been commenting on society since William Hogarth, a pictorial satirist and social critic during the early 1700s, used art to comment on the politics and customs of his time. The same challenge still exists today - how can the visual artist make images that have a profound effect on people and their view of society and so hope to contribute to making a better society for all? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Monday December 06, 2010 14:57 by Gregor Kerr - PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
Press release: Anarchist Organisation to join anti-Budget protests and calls on workers to organise for a general strike Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has confirmed its intention to join the protests against Tuesday’s budget at Dáil Éireann. Speaking today, Gregor Kerr, WSM P.R.O. said that members of the organisation would be joining the 1% Network protest meeting at Wolfe Tone statue St Stephen’s Green at 5:30p.m. and marching with them to participate in the protest at the Dáil at 6p.m. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / event notice Sunday December 05, 2010 17:46 by IMI
Public Meeting Monday 6th of December 7pm Central Hotel Exchequer Street read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday December 05, 2010 16:00 by DunloT
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In bitter, thick fog resembling the miasma hanging over the economic abyss that is now Ireland, some 300-400 protesters, yesterday, marched from the Cathedral through Eglington St and Shop Street to the Spanish Arch plaza voicing their anger, contempt and sense of betrayal for a government that has spectacularly lost the trust of its people but like a stinging, dying wasp is still hell-bent on forcing through a budget of unprecedented savagery that saddles and cripples the Irish people with the private gambling debts of rogue banks and a millstone "bailout" of usurious, ruinous interest rates from the IMF and EU. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 05, 2010 13:55 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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The United Left Alliance was launched during the week on a socialist programme and planning to stand in the forthcoming elections. The meeting was well attended and addressed by speakers from People Before Profit, the Socialist Party and Unemployed & Workers' Action Group. The mood was upbeat and even euphoric. However, their charter does not mention imperialism and there were some prominent absences among their sponsors, including éirigí and Workers' Solidarity Movement. There was hardly a mention of work-place organisation and this essential work is not being focussed on by either the ULA or the 1% Network. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 05, 2010 05:44 by Anthony Ravlich
New Zealand has been given another chance to free itself from discriminatory collectivism while the US seems to be still battling with it. NZ was saved by the emerging truth of human rights omissions and one of life's miracles, the major Christchurch earthquake (no one killed). The past 20 years in NZ was based on the simple idea that 'the collective is everything and the individual is nothing' driven by the bureaucracy, the status seekers, and supported by governments not, as often believed, by the corporations, the wealth seekers, who however have benefited considerably. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / education / event notice Saturday December 04, 2010 21:23 by Anonymous
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It's not long now until the Con-Dems try to pass their education cuts through parliament. That's why Northern Ireland, already vulnerable to top down instruction from London, have to put pressure on politicians to publicly reject Tory education cuts. e.g. Higher tuition fees and the destruction of EMA. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 03, 2010 20:22 by TD
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In a series of rolling protests organised by the Union of Student in Ireland, over 2,000 students demonstrated in Cork City on 1-12-2010 against proposed hikes to the student registration fee. In a strong address to the protesters in Grand Parade , University College Cork students union president, Keith O'Brien said it was monstrous that education funds were being cut and students were being forced to pay increased registration fee hikes by a government guilty of gross mismanagement. read full story / add a comment 
offaly / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday December 01, 2010 13:38 by Shelver
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On Saturday 27th November Shell to Sea delegates travelled to Tullamore Co. Offaly to participate in a “People’s Alliance” march against cuts and the government in general. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education / news report Wednesday December 01, 2010 13:34 by ultraka
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There are currently around 100 student activists occupying the grounds of the Department of education, on Marlborough St., Dublin. At the time of writing there is an open space discussion happening on the subject of "alternative education". Gardai have locked the gate and are not allowing additional participants to enter. However the atmosphere inside is peaceful and constructive. Come down to Marlborough St. (off Talbot St.) to show your solidarity with the activists inside! The Surprise Conference 2010, is an event organized by a group of autonomous individuals with the view to starting a more open minded conversation about the future of Irish education that the one that is currently taking place. We feel that the current education system is expensive and inefficient and rather than simply making financial cuts we should make long term structural changes. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday December 01, 2010 11:10 by 10f99
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The left bloc * has called a protest rally at the Dail (7th Dec) for 6pm under the slogan You can’t afford not to Fight Back - The time for action is overdue! read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday November 30, 2010 15:52 by Maura
The next FOF discussion will revolve around the current economic crisis, the budget and the affect it will have on women in work, healthcare, childcare and education. Everyone welcome. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / feature Friday November 26, 2010 16:38 by IMC Collective
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Around the world countries have been betrayed by their politicians who have worked hand in glove with their capitalist partners to systematically destory each economy and then to hand them over to a private financial elite composed of bankers, investors and speculators and other parasites.
From Iceland to Lativa to Greece to Ireland the Financial Coup has taken place. It has already long ago taken place in such countries as the USA where big capital and big finance captured their governments long ago where corporations like Goldman Sachs have their own people in government dictating the bailouts. But many other countries are on the list. The austerity which the capitalists smile down on, have already hit most of Europe especially in countries like Spain, Portugal, Hungary and the UK. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 24, 2010 23:55 by Bryan Wall
6 comments (last - friday december 10, 2010 16:14)
With the economic future of the country very much in doubt, a change, politically and economically, is greatly needed. With the pressure from Europe building and the national debt set to soar, the future for Ireland looks bleak. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 24, 2010 17:12 by john throne
1 comment (last - sunday december 12, 2010 12:29)
The Celtic Tiger has imploded. The capitalists and their politicians in Ireland and internationally say there is no alternative but to make the working class pay. TINA, that is There Is No Alternative, TINA, is back again. This was a powerful propaganda weapon that Thatcher and her international allies used in the past. Convincing the working class that there was no alternative. TINA. The opinion and analysis explained here exposes this for the lie that it is. It explains a concrete alternative. TIAA. There Is An Alternative. TIAA. IThis alternative is to make the rich and the corporations which caused this catastrophe pay. TIAA. This piece also explains the need for any alternative to address the consciousness of the working class and how this consciousness is not yet convinced that it itself, that is the working class, can actually run things themselves. It explains the need for a practical achievable alternative for which the working class can fight. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday November 23, 2010 18:32 by pat c
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People Before Profit Alliance Candidate for Dublin South Central Cllr Joan Collins released the following statement calling for support in tomorrow’s (Wednesday's) protest outside the Dept of Finance @12.30 on Merrion Square. read full story / add a comment
national / education / other press Tuesday November 23, 2010 15:53 by Sean Crudden
1 comment (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 13:28)
One is lucky to know a person who can fix one's car, or a person who can fix one's computer (even if that woman is in India); and watching a professional trouble-shooter in action is as good in value as watching a skilled musician or a class sportsman doing their thing. But one extends the paradigm into human affairs and human relations at one's peril? read full story / add a comment |
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