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For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit

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Irish Left Review
Joined up thinking for the Irish Left

offsite link Yes, Say it Again: Ireland IS a Tax Haven and it?s Worked Hard to Be That Way Wed May 22, 2013 18:13 | Donagh Brennan

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offsite link Progressive Film Club Fundraiser with Ken Loach Tue May 21, 2013 13:56 | Irish Left Review

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NAMA Wine Lake

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MediaBite
A shot at bias in the media

offsite link Separating the News from the Noise Thu Apr 04, 2013 21:14

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offsite link The Household Charge - How They Failed to Shape Our Perspectives Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:48

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national / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 18:07 by Gale Vogel   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 16, 2013 16:14)
John and Louise are a Dublin couple who weep each evening in a cold house, their frustration ever growing. John is visibly angry but resigns to the fate that is meted by our leaders to comply with international dictate. We are being watched, pummelled and slowly destroyed. The busiest events are international job fairs. This is a synopsis of lives less than they should be. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 16:01 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR   text 3 comments (last - monday march 25, 2013 21:13)

CONTENTS

1. CAUSES FOR CONCERN: STOP EXTRADITION TO THE USA! GUANTANAMO HUNGER STRIKE
2. PEACE IN THE NORTH
3. 10 YEARS SINCE IRAQ AND ANOTHER MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE OFFING
4. I AM BRADLEY MANNING
5. MAKE WAR NOT LOVE
6. RTE – NOTHING BUT THE SAME OLD STORY
7. CHINA – THE BOGEYMAN
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Independent Guide
sligo / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 14:46 by Seamus Mc Goldrick   text 2 comments (last - friday march 22, 2013 15:43)   image 5 images
The Yes Vote in last year's Children's Rights Referendum began proceedings to change Children's Rights in Ireland. However, a legal challenge to the referendum has suspended the referendum process and, for now, prevents the Irish president signing this amendment into the constitution.

Ever wanted to know more about the Children's Rights Referendum and amendment 42a? Read on to find out.
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dublin / rights and freedoms / event notice Friday March 22, 2013 14:31 by AFA   image 1 image
AFA Ireland present....

Book Launch – Physical Resistance: A Hundred Year’s of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann

Saturday, April 6, 2013, 4pm. Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2.

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 21, 2013 23:47 by Ardoyne Republican   image 2 images
The Republican Network for Unity (RNU) launched it's new Constitution and radical Policy Paper; 'Revolutionary Republicanism' on Tuesday 19th, March 2013 in central Belfast. The publication sets out the Revolutionary Party's alternative proposals to the failure of constitutional Nationalism and suggests a clear and viable way forward for those who still propose National Liberation & Socialism as the real cure for Ireland’s ills read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights and freedoms / press release Thursday March 21, 2013 20:26 by Jim L
The lecture entitled 'Solidarity and the Responsibility to Protect' will be chaired by RT's Bryan Dobson, and will explore the issues faced by human rights defenders and activists trying to make their independent voices heard among the competing agendas of state, media and corporate or political interests. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / press release Thursday March 21, 2013 20:19 by CPIR
The camp régime must enter into talks with the prisoners and provide guarantees that religion will not be used against the internees as an instrument of torture.
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dublin / housing / event notice Thursday March 21, 2013 18:21 by Dublin Squatters   text 5 comments (last - saturday april 13, 2013 12:19)   image 2 images
A day of workshops, discussion, films, food, raffle and fun to raise funds for and awareness of squatting in Dublin.

12pm - 12am, Saturday 13th April, Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, Dublin 1.

Suggested Donation of €7 for workshops and food. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / other press Thursday March 21, 2013 17:24 by fred   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 16, 2013 21:55)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
The top US commander in Europe told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the US military and NATO are drawing up plans for direct military intervention in Syria.

Adm. James Stavridis, head of the Pentagon’s European Command, speaking at a hearing by the Senate Armed Service Committee, said that the US military is “looking at a variety of options” and is “prepared if called upon to be engaged.” read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 21, 2013 14:49 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Weekly Worker issue 954 - March 21 2013

Far from being a new broom or ‘reformer’, writes Eddie Ford, the new pope is a reactionary to his marrow

Unless you possess a very strong stomach, mainstream media coverage of the new pope (aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio) has been truly revolting. A tidal wave of idiotic, euphoric banality. Then again, what else do you expect from the likes of the BBC, which always genuflects before anything that appears strong, powerful and ancient?

Letters
Safe space; Rape sanity; Aunty Tom; Dinosaur; Ad feminem; Alpha-males; Full frontal; Unsanctioned; Playing politics; read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / event notice Wednesday March 20, 2013 23:42 by Kieran O'Sullivan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 30, 2013 00:11)
The Irish Anti-War Movement will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday 20th April 2013 in The Club Parnell Square Dublin starting at 2pm. For details of who can attend and submit resolutions at the AGM see below. A full agenda will be available soon.

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national / environment / news report Wednesday March 20, 2013 21:15 by T   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 02, 2013 17:33)   image 2 images   audio 1 audio file   1 attached file
The government is planning to sell off our national forests which are currently owned by Coillte. The plan would be to sell harvesting rights on 500,000 acres out of 1.2 million that they manage. They claim it is worth €700 million although in the Peter Bacon report on Forestry, he puts the true value at €360 million or the equivalent of 3 days of government expenditure. Bacon said: "economic rationale for the proposed sale of harvesting rights no longer stands up and cannot be justified." and that he further concluded it would actually cost the state €1,300 million to sell the harvesting rights of Coillte due to various liabilities. The report says that the forests should be developed further as a public resource. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Wednesday March 20, 2013 15:52 by Justin Morahan
A hunger strike in the infamous Camp Delta in Guantanamo has been ongoing for over four weeks by a large number of prisoners who are protesting their mistreatment and abuse by US military authorities and the Obama administration’s refusal to repatriate prisoners who have been cleared for release. read full story / add a comment
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national / irish social forum / news report Wednesday March 20, 2013 14:07 by Charlie   image 1 image   1 attached file
Republican Network for Unity met at the ‘Croisbhealaí’ collective rooms in central Belfast on Tuesday March 19th , for the official public release of their latest publication ‘Revolutionary Republicanism’.
The publication sets out in concrete terms, our alternative proposals to the failed ways of constitutional Nationalism and suggests a clear and viable way forward for those who still propose National Liberation & Socialism as the real cure for Ireland’s ills.
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international / anti-war / other press Wednesday March 20, 2013 11:58 by Audio   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 26, 2013 09:35)
10 years after the start of one of the most contested wars in modern history, dissident island radio (London) assembled a panel of seasoned anti-war activists who have been active in opposing the Iraq war.
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international / anti-war / other press Wednesday March 20, 2013 00:14 by T   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 21, 2013 07:28)   image 2 images
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Ten years ago, the world watched the “shock and awe” bombing campaign light up the nighttime sky of Baghdad with billowing clouds of flame and smoke.

This campaign and the bloody ten years of occupation that followed had a devastating impact on what was once among the most advanced societies in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed and millions were made homeless.

The American military’s conduct of the war produced crimes of staggering dimensions. This included the turning of Fallujah, a city of 350,000 people, into a free-fire zone, the bombarding of its occupants with white phosphorus shells, banned by international law, and the summary execution of wounded prisoners. Ten years later, the rates of child cancer and birth defects in Fallujah are similar to those in Hiroshima following the US atomic bombing. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 19, 2013 23:32 by No Pasaran
BEN MURRAY MEMORIAL

On Saturday, March 9th, at Moy Bridge, Aughnacloy, a memorial was unveiled to Ben Murray, who resided close by. The construction of the monument was organised by a group from North Monaghan and South Tyrone, supported by the Friends of Charlie Donnelly and a broad group of Left and Republican organisations.

Ben Murray was a trade unionist and left-wing activist, who was killed fighting fascism in Aragon, Spain, in March, 1938. The unveiling took place on a cold, wet and windy Saturday afternoon, following the wreath-laying ceremony at Edendork, Dungannon, at the Charlie Donnelly monument. read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice / news report Tuesday March 19, 2013 21:06 by Palestine News   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 20, 2013 15:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
(LATIN AMERICA/PALESTINE) A Latin American has begun a hunger strike to express solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which are objects of torture, even in several cases have been killed by the severity of injuries. read full story / add a comment
Wanted for Murder
national / anti-war / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 19, 2013 17:04 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image
As a dozen car bombs exploded in Shia districts around Baghdad today, another 50 people are dead and many more injured, on the tenth anniversary of the US-UK invasion of Iraq. Britain's international legacy of hate continues, as yet another result of its poisonous, divide and conquer policies around the world it invaded, with the exception of just 10 countries. Sunni factions linked to al-Qaeda, continue attacks on Shias. A wing of al-Qaeda, has vowed to regain ground lost to the invading US/UK armies.A decade after US and British invaded, Iraq still struggles with fostered sectarian feuding among Shia, Sunni and Kurdish tribes..The cabinet has postponed elections in two provinces, Anbar and Nineve for six months because of violence there, further proof of absurdity of the invasion. read full story / add a comment
national / education / event notice Monday March 18, 2013 20:40 by robert
Democracy and School - 4th annual Symposium - Sligo School Project
18th of May
Discuss with: Brian Ruane (CHRCE), Niklas Gidion (EUDEC), Eva Haas (Kapriole Free Democractic School), Aideen O'Hara (SSP), Robert Hamm (SSP).
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