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cork / miscellaneous / press release Saturday June 19, 2010 10:27 by D O D
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The Independent Workers Union promotes left unity. In order to manifest this view, it is our intention to host Cork’s first “Left Unity Table Quiz”. The Official date for this momentous event shall be bonfire night, Wednesday 23rd June 2010, @9pm in 'An Spailpín Fánach Cork. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Friday June 18, 2010 12:09 by Maryam Namazie
Press Release: For Immediate Distribution A new report by One Law for All has found Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals to be in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights. Read the press release about the report here: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/new-report-sharia-law-in...ghts/ Download the full report here: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/New-R...n.pdf read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday June 18, 2010 11:10 by RNU PRO
“If Bloody Sunday had been limited to a few troopers and their commander, why was the truth so long stonewalled and the cover-up so doggedly continued? Why did the families of the victims have to wait so long for the truth? Meanwhile the families of many other victims of unjustified shoot-to-kill, plastic bullet, or collusion murders, continue to wait for justice.” read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday June 18, 2010 02:53 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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Why didn't the weekly protests build up to a "Mass Protest" as one organisation called for? The Right to Work Campaign, the Anti-Capitalist Bloc -- what were they about? This analysis from a political activist and witness not aligned to any of the political groups looks at the context and the way in which the protests were organised, how the organisations interracted with each other and what, in his opinion, is needed to resist the attacks of capital here in Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday June 17, 2010 22:49 by Joe Higgins MEP
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Attacks on working people are mounting right across Europe. The so-called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland & Italy, Greece, Spain) countries have been to the forefront of these attacks. In Ireland, we have seen €7 billion of cutbacks, seriously damaging public services, including health and education. In Greece, there has been a 10% cut in wages and spending in the public sector, together with an increased retirement age, VAT increases and the freezing of pensions. Portugal has a plan to cut its deficit by €11bn over four years through a crisis tax on wages and cutbacks in public services. The Spanish Parliament has passed cutbacks worth €15bn on top of €50bn already agreed. Italy is due to implement "emergency-cutbacks" of €24 bn. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 17, 2010 21:47 by Gregor Kerr
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In mid-June the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee voted to accept the ‘Croke Park deal’. ‘Social partnership’, presumed dead and buried when the government unilaterally imposed pay cuts on public sector workers in the December ’09 budget, was revived and given a new lease of life. But this is ‘social partnership’ with a difference. Instead of the union leadership believing that ‘partnership’ gives them some input into government policy (as they have wrongly thought for the past 20 years), all they can now offer in its defence is that this is the “least worst deal” and that “it’s better to be inside the tent than outside.” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 17, 2010 16:28 by Anne & Farah
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The audio is from the Dublin anarchist bookfair and has two speakers talking about the reform movement and feminism in Iran in general and the million signatures campaign in particular read full story / add a comment 
30th of January 1972, 14 civil rights activists were shot dead. 38 years later Justice came to Derry
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday June 16, 2010 17:52 by dunk
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'The conclusions of this report (The Saville Report) are absolutely clear. There is no doubt, there is nothing equivocal, there are no ambiguities. What happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong. On behalf of our country I am deeply sorry" British prime minister David Cameron, Tuesday 15th June 2010 (38 years after the events of Bloody Sunday) On the 30th of January 1972 in Derry, Ireland 26 civil rights demonstrators and bystanders were shot by the British Army Parachute Regiment without warning or provocation. 13 died on the spot and another was mortally wounded. All were unarmed and most were teenagers. No one has ever been brought to justice. Kevin McElhinney, Gerald Donaghy, John Duddy, Bernard McGuigan, Michael McDaid, William Nash, James Wray, Michael Kelly, John Johnston, John Young, William McKinney, Gerard McKinney, Hugh Gilmore, Patrick Doherty read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 16, 2010 17:15 by Chekov, Andrew, Aileen
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Recorded at the Dublin anarchist bookfair three speakers look at the economy, what the real situation of the resistance is and what needs to be built and examples of what has been achieved in the unions to date. This is followed by contributions from the floor from a wide range of perspectives. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday June 16, 2010 14:20 by Enid
There is very little time left to save St Luke's. Today a date was fixed for the committee stage at which amendments could be made. it is 12.15 pm Thursday June 24th. Names/emails of the members of the Health & Children committee below - please contact them. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday June 15, 2010 23:13 by Saoirse
Statement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday June 15, 2010 20:03 by Fintan Lane
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) welcomes today's expulsion of an Israeli diplomat by the Irish government and commends Minister Michael Martin for the move, but believes that the ambassador should also be expelled. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 15, 2010 14:57 by Fintan and Derek, edited by Andrew
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An IPSC meeting on Saturday saw some of the Irish participants on the Freedom Flotilla talk of their experiences, and discuss what practical steps Irish people can help take to bring about the end of the siege of Gaza and Israeli apartheid as a whole and secure self determination for the people of Palestine. This is the audio from the meeting. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 15, 2010 14:07 by Gavin Gleeson
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Progressive taxation is a taxation system which seeks a higher tax rate for higher incomes. It is a relatively common feature in the western democracies. In Ireland however, its implementation is almost entirely nominal. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 15, 2010 12:53 by TD
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Palestinian, Lubna Masarwa was the Free Gaza Movement representative aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara which was carrying a cargo of humanitarian and construction aid - as well as letters from Turkish children to Gazan children - to illegally besieged Gaza when it was murderously attacked in international waters on May 31st, 2010. Lubna witnessed the many crimes of the Israeli military aboard that night and in a Electronic Intifada article and a video interview yesterday, she spoke out: read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 15, 2010 10:12 by Paula Geraghty
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Locals from Coolock, Crumlin and Sean McDermott Street continue their campaign to defend local pool services. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday June 14, 2010 23:22 by Fintan Lane
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 14, 2010 20:10 by former republican
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It is no wonder the more left wing members have left to join Irigi as least they will get some left of centre politics instead of 1950s type policies about drugs.In Irelands biggest ever recession. What is the reason for the blind and backward opinions of many of their members? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 14, 2010 17:29 by John Cornford
Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was released after three months in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, protests that at the moment he has little hope of making another film - all he can do is film one in his head. But, he says defiantly: “I will have to make a film - that is my life.” “I started a hunger strike”, he says, “when one night they took me for questioning and the interrogators asked: ‘What is the name of your film?’ I thought they were referring to the film I was making when they arrested me in my house on March 1. So I replied: ‘That film isn’t finished yet, so it hasn’t got a name.’ They said: ‘No, no, we are asking about the film you are making in prison in your cell.’ read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / opinion/analysis Monday June 14, 2010 11:41 by Farrelly57
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The proposed Tara/Skryne Landscape Conservation plan is an attempt to protect and preserve an old and sacred area but it may be scuppered by a small cabal of politicians who are again spreading scare storied and lies to keep the area open for all and any developement. read full story / add a comment |
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