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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 30, 2006 - 20:37 by The Starry Plough
It is 93 years since two of Ireland's greatest republican socialists, James Connolly and James Larkin, led what became known as the Dublin lockout. The bosses 'locked out' thousands of workers for the heinous crime of defending their rights as workers and seeking union protection. While this may seem like a very long time ago, the struggle for workers rights on this island has not disappeared nor should it. What the lockout represented was an organised attempt to undermine the systematic exploitation of Irish workers. In 2006 that reality is still amongst us. Workers are effectively seen as a necessary evil to help the capitalist classes to achieve maximum profits. One key difference exists between now and 1913. While in 1913 the bosses were shielded by the existence of a British imperialist administration, they are now aided by an industrial relations tool which has actually been endorsed by many unions. That tool is social partnership. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 30, 2006 - 14:48 by The New World Order Resistance
www.ipsc.ie 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' (Martin Luther King) The IPSC was set up in late 2001 by a group of established Irish human rights and community activists, academics and journalists who were deeply concerned with the current situation in the Occupied Territories. In partnership with Palestinians now living in Ireland the IPSC was formed to provide a voice for Palestine in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 30, 2006 - 13:34 by Joseba Agudo, lawyer from the Basque Country
Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana’s hunger strike has been in the media in recent weeks. After 63 days on hunger strike demanding justice and attending the numerous requests he received and the mobilisation of Basque society, De Juana ended his protest. He began his hunger strike due to the attempt by the Spanish State Prosecution to get him sentenced to 96 years in jail for writing two press articles. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday October 28, 2006 - 21:41 by Con Carroll
Non expert on politics or the reality of working class black South Africans ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 28, 2006 - 14:20 by Chris Murray
Todays Papers state the Pope Benedict will visit the North of Ireland Next year. He is to be Invited to beatify Saint Columbana. The proposed visit is being requested by Dr Martin and envisages also a joint visit by HRH The Queen. The most recent report of Pope Benedict was a couple of days ago , when he deplored the activities of the Fern's Priests who got away with child abuse and tortured a generation of Irish Children. There was no acceptance of responsibility by the Roman Catholic Church in the statement on Ferns. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79298 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 26, 2006 - 20:04 by Yusuf
NATO/ISAF mass murders in Afghanistan are increasing in number an ferocity as they tak battlefield defeats from Taliban fighters ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Thursday October 26, 2006 - 03:08 by Bernie.Wright.
Barry became world famous in the late 1990's as the animal rights prisoner on hunger strike against animal experiments, but this was just one side to his long career in animal activism. Barry was a committed vegan and took part in campaigns against all animal abuse; he was a hunt saboteur for many years; he was an ALF activist who personally rescued many animals from a terrible fate, he was convicted for an attempt to rescue one of the last dolphins to be kept in captivity in the UK.; He was also one of the movements most prolific economic saboteurs causing millions of pounds of damage to animal abusing companies and individuals; He worked and lived at various animal sanctuaries around the country; he did street stalls and produced newsletters and leaflets. In the end he made the ultimate sacrifice for the struggle to end animal cruelty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday October 26, 2006 - 02:57 by Ear-bashed
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." --Joseph Story ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday October 26, 2006 - 00:14 by Robert Petersen
I will present a summary of the computerization of voting in Brazil, but before that, it's necessary to explain some characteristics of the organization of the electoral power so that it can be understood, because some things happened that could lead to misunderstanding. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 17:20 by sophia
Bertie Ahern wants to throw out the 'stupid ol' pencils,' and bring in electronic voting. But we would be stupider than the pencils if we fall for this. Decisions by many US states to convert to electronic voting machines have yielded new concerns about whether they are secure and accurate, about paper records as backup proof and -- this year -- about whether the electronic or paper record should be considered the official tally if a candidate demands a recount. And on a Utube video, a computer software expert and whistleblower reveals to a congressional committee how he was asked to design a simple system to rig electronic votiing in Florida. And it wasn't hard to flip a 51/49 vote either way, with no one the wiser. when electronic voting is brought in the door, democracy goes out the window. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 17:09 by Dan
As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea? It offers a way out of the current debate whether to "stay the course" (as President George W. Bush has long advocated) or to withdraw troops on a short timetable (as his critics demand). My solution splits the difference, "Stay the course – but change the course." I suggest pulling coalition forces out of the inhabited areas of Iraq and redeploying them to the desert. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 12:02 by C Murray
The Cabinet decided to disallow Romanian and Bulgarian workers to work in this economy for seven years after the accession of these two states to the EU on January first 2007. At the same time John Reid in Britain has severely restricted the influx of workers from those states to: A small grpoup of skilled people, 20,000 agricultural workers and the self-employed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,,337484,00.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday October 24, 2006 - 16:32 by Elaine O'Sullivan / Seán Ryan
The country took one step closer to water privatisation recently with the announcement that Celtic Anglian Water have landed the contract for the Waste Water Treatment Plant, part of the Waterford Main Drainage Project. The Irish Examiner described them as ‘the international division of Anglian Water’. However, a quick scan of the company’s website tells a different story, Anglian water have only a 50% stake. ‘Celtic Anglian water’ (CAW), is listed on the NTR (national toll roads) website as a subsidiary company. Along with such shining lights of Irish capitalism as Greenstar, Airtricity, Bioverda, Irish Broadband and National Toll Roads themselves. http://www.ntr.ie/companies/ ... read full story / add a comment |
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