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international / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday November 24, 2014 - 22:31 by john throne
 1 comment (last - tuesday november 25, 2014 - 14:44)
Tens and tens of thousands of Irish workers and youth have taken to the streets and confronted the government and the state. What is the nature of this movement and what is its potential? Should it just be seen as a movement to bring down this government and replace it with another government. Or should it be seen as having the potential to bring down the system and replace it with another system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday November 23, 2014 - 16:55 by system failure
It is certain that various US think tanks will be monitoring right now the rise of the Left in Greece with the radical-Left party SYRIZA, as well as Podemos in Spain and other countries in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Sunday November 23, 2014 - 01:40 by Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports
3 comments (last - friday november 28, 2014 - 21:57)  6 images
The recent death of ex-senator and architect, Jack Fitzsimons of Kells, County Meath, has been keenly felt by his family and by the many people who knew him in his former professions. Readers of his best-selling book, Bungalow Bliss, will remember him too for his professional and easy to follow advice on affordable house designs. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday November 18, 2014 - 14:23 by somethinghastobedone
SERIOUS BREACH - LEINSTER HOUSE WASTING TAX PAYERS MONIES - LET THEM PAY THE WATER CHARGE ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 17, 2014 - 20:14 by Political Hostage
In the meantime, Michael McKevitt sits in his prison cell, unlawfully detained, thirteen years into a sentence that was handed down on the word of a paid MI5/FBI informer who operated illegally within the twenty-six counties with the full connivance of the Dublin government. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday November 17, 2014 - 11:37 by anon
8 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2014 - 23:12) 4 images  1 video file
It is clear that the governments is seeking to split the anti-water charges campaign by modifying the water charges and publicly attacking any violence surrounding the protests. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 14, 2014 - 22:20 by Paddy Hackett
3 comments (last - saturday november 15, 2014 - 12:17)
Romanticising the working class as much, as the radical left do, merely holds back any chances of authentic political development. It is almost a taboo among this Left to make any serious criticisms of this working class. Left communists are not obliged to pander to a working class that has been backward for so long. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 11, 2014 - 22:46 by Blanca Gasco
A high level technical analysis of why MH17 crashed down and how it was worked out. Clear evidences show that the airplane was shot down by an ukrainian fighter jet. Eyewitnesses have seen and heared a second airplane near the passenger plane. Look for these You Tube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_R2NA1txc ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czqmeMhWyFo ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g ... read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday November 07, 2014 - 16:54 by john throne
2 comments (last - monday november 10, 2014 - 10:01)
Workers move en masse against the water charges. Their leaders can no longer hold them back. The left no longer have an excuse not to themselves be able to build a mass force. The left sectarianism, ultra leftism and opportunism of these groups has to be confronted. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 05, 2014 - 22:26 by William Wraithwrite
It may very well be coincidence that just when Israel was starting to take some heat for its atrocious war crimes and policy in Gaza at the end of this summer of 2014 along comes a newly name-minted entity engaging in sensational beheadings for news-grabbing attention. Whether red herring cover just happens to be luck for Israel and the United States in regards to committing and tolerating war crimes or whether there was some conspiracy is not that relevant but what is relevant is that the people of the world cannot let other more recent events erase from memory what the world witnessed in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday November 05, 2014 - 13:34 by Paddy Hackett
It does follow that truth is unattainable. However it is not easily acquired. Its acquisition is a struggle. To strip off illusion and much of ambiguity contemporary society needs replacement by a communal form that precludes social oppression ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday October 31, 2014 - 20:10 by Paddy Hackett
1 comment (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 21:17)
The anti-water charges campaign is a populist campaign driven by the opportunist politics of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party and other organisations including the UNITE trade union. The Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party merely view the campaign as a means to enhance their popularity within the working class while opportunistically impeding the development of communist consciousness among the working class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 30, 2014 - 11:26 by john throne
5 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2014 - 16:01)
By John Throne. The so-called workers party which has recently had its conference played a major role in derailing the movement of the 1968/1970 period. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday October 30, 2014 - 09:37 by bernie wright
5 comments (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 20:15) 1 image
Smothered Greyhounds found dead.- U bet-They die. The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) wholeheartedly condemns the suffering inflicted on the eleven greyhounds found smothered on Monday on exiting the Irish ferries vessel in France. As this news comes in the midst of a greyhound Racing crisis in Ireland we hope firstly that no more Greyhounds will suffer at the hands of the Greyhound Industry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 22:43 by john throne
1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2014 - 22:54)
The degrees of violence against women and children and the slave labor inflicted on Irish women in the laundries are not caused by some flaw in the Irish character but by the nature of Irish capitalism and its relationship to the anti women dictatorial Catholic church. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Sunday October 19, 2014 - 01:47 by john throne
4 comments (last - monday october 20, 2014 - 17:14)
Sinn Fein I believe are rightly under attack for the issues around the Cahill case and the way they are said to have handled this. Abuse of women (and Men) exists in the revolutionary left also. When this comes up the leadership of these organizations usually try to cover this up by citing the supposed interests of the organization concerned and the revolution. This puts enormous pressure of the victims of assault and has to be condemned. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 22:34 by fred
3 comments (last - friday october 17, 2014 - 00:18) 1 image 1 video file
A pre election sleight of hand giving out a few pennies to the poor with one hand while taking them back with the other via water charges?
Here is some information on some of the changes ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 11:40 by Paddy Hackett
8 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2014 - 23:58)
Single issue demands such as the movement against water rates hold back the class struggle by suggesting that capitalism can continue in the absence of these charges or taxes. This is because such demands are not embedded in a programme of an interlinked series of demands that challenges the capitalist system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday October 11, 2014 - 21:28 by john throne
1 comment (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 18:59)
How can this mass movement against the water charges be developed into a lasting mass movement against austerity and capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday October 10, 2014 - 23:46 by john throne
Benny was a Comrade and example. ... read full story / add a comment |
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