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westmeath / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 03, 2010 20:46 by June K
In Mullingar on New Year’s Eve members of the Midlands Branch of the People’s Movement, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Irish Anti War Movement and independent campaigners held a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the 1300 peace activists detained in Egypt and prevented from delivering life sustaining food and medicine to the besieged people of the Gaza Strip. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday January 03, 2010 19:09 by john throne
These comments are from a number of Comrades mainly from a CWI and IMT background. But we think they will find an echo with Comrades from many other left backgrounds. We have concluded that the internal life of just about every left group is unhealthy, overly centralized, too top down, even we would go so far as saying to some extent undemocratic. We believe that the internal lives of these groups draw from the period when the Bolshevik party was degenerating and being taken over by Stalinism and along with that became negatively influenced by many decades when they were isolated from the mass workers movement. The recent crisis in the IMT is a reflection of these false methods of organizing which are common to just about all revolutionary left groups. We try to discuss this here. We look forward to hearing from Comrades. See our Learning From the Past link and our blog address. John Throne. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 03, 2010 17:29 by Kev
On a cold but sunny Saturday (January 2nd 2010), over 30 Palestine solidarity activists attened a vigil for Gaza on Patrick's Bridge in Cork City. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 03, 2010 16:25 by Niamh M
Last Christmas we all watched in horror the deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza in which 1,415 Palestinians were killed, including 318 children and over 5,000 injured. On average, 13 children were killed each day of the offensive. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 03, 2010 10:33 by Troops Out Movement
Frances-Mary Blake 1939 - 2009 Reseacher and Writer on the Irish Civil War. Campaigner for British Withdrawal from Ireland. Supporter of Irish Political Prisoners and their families. Activist on Human Rights & Justice generally read full story / add a comment |
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