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offsite link Britain ?Came Within Whisker of Blackouts? Yesterday Thu Jan 09, 2025 15:16 | Will Jones
Britain came "within a whisker of blackouts" on Wednesday after plunging temperatures and?low wind power generation?left electricity grid operators struggling to keep the lights on.
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Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?
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Thousands of civil servants are to strike "indefinitely" following an order to return to the office for three days a week, a move described by a trade union as "Victorian".
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U.K. electric vehicle sales are still way below target, says Paul Homewood. "If you wanted to destroy the U.K. car industry, while enriching Chinese and U.S. manufacturers, I cannot think of a better way to do it."
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Ever wondered why Keir Starmer is obsessed with 'missions'? It turns out there's an over-rated economist from the UN, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, flying round the world banging on about them, says Charlotte Gill.
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national / politics / elections Wednesday October 27, 2010 - 21:06 by Lefty leak   text 49 comments (last - sunday december 05, 2010 - 18:38)
At a meeting held in Dublin last Sunday, 24th October, involving the People Before Profit Alliance, the Socialist Party, the Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Grou, and Cllr Declan Bree and his local group in Sligo, a historic decision was taken to establish a left alliance to contest the next general election and to take the first steps towards a new, left, anti capitalist formation to represent working people.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 26, 2010 - 16:58 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
Thousand marched in unity against the ConDem vicious cuts in announce last week. Workers from all backgrounds and unions marched in solidarity under the auspices of ICTU, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions against the proposed slashing of 30,000 jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 25, 2010 - 11:15 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
22 members of Mandate trade union are on strike at the former Laura Ashley flagship store on Grafton Street, Dublin's leading shopping area. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday October 24, 2010 - 15:11 by John Cornford   image 1 image
A prominent Chinese labour activist was sentenced on 20 October to three years in jail for “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order” .
Zhao Dongmin was arrested on 19 August last year after organizing more than 380 workers from about 20 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to form a labour rights group tasked with overseeing and monitoring SOE restructuring, and reporting corruption and abuses of power.

The Shaanxi Union Rights Defence Representative Congress was formally banned by the city government of Xi’an on 27 July 2009. Zhao then wrote an open letter of protest to the State Council, the city, provincial and central committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He was arrested 18 days later. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 23, 2010 - 17:00 by francisco   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2010 - 13:27)
We are fast approaching the next NATO summit, which will gather in Lisbon, from the 19th to the 21st of November, Barack Obama and the leaders of the other member-countries. Their goal is to adopt the new “strategic concept” of the organization. And we can already notice the growing bustle. ... read full story / add a comment
tipperary / anti-capitalism Friday October 22, 2010 - 13:33 by Paddy Healy
About 100 people attended a meeting sponsored by Workers and Unemployed Action Group (South Tipperary) in Clonmel last night to discuss the alternative budget measures contained in “4Steps 2 Recovery”

The meeting was chaired by Cllr Seamus Healy. Five WUAG councillors were also in attendance. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Friday October 22, 2010 - 12:07 by A   image 1 image
On Saturday the 16th, RPS Group's offices in Glasgow had its locks and signage destroyed by people who are outraged in their involvement with the Corrib Gas Pipeline in Co. Mayo, Ireland and the Open Cast Coal mines of the Douglas Valley, south Lanarkshire, Scotland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday October 21, 2010 - 10:09 by Sean Mallory   audio 2 audio files
RTE's Joe Duffy for once and unknowingly had his finger on the pulse when he accidentally illustrated the differing effects of the recession in a 7 minute clip
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national / crime and justice Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 10:01 by Ardoyne Republican   text 2 comments (last - friday october 22, 2010 - 12:29)   image 1 image
CFAD Safely Dispose of £40,000 Worth of Dangerous Drugs
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 19, 2010 - 19:16 by Freda H   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 20, 2010 - 14:34)   image 6 images

To celebrate the launch of William Parry's book "Against the Wall", street artists gathered to create new works of solidarity, inspired by the book, in Dublin and Cork. Street Art events took place at The Bernard Shaw pub in Dublin and Fionn Barra's pub in Cork throughout the weekend with the slogan "To Exist is to Resist" forming the basis of their work.
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France in flames. Workers and students shut downt country on 4th day of strike against reforms
international / anti-capitalism Saturday October 16, 2010 - 11:13 by France in flames, again   text 25 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2010 - 13:16)   image 37 images   video 18 video files
French strikes continue. Strikes spread across the country on fourth day of nationwide protests over pension reforms. Three fuel storage depots have been reopened by riot police in France, as fears grow of a shortage at the pumps. Nine of the country’s 12 refineries have shut down due to strike action prompted by the government’s plans for pension reform. High school students have joined the pension protests for the first time this week. 360 high schools across the country were closed this morning due to protests by students. In Paris, one of them is in a critical condition after being hit in the face by a “flashball” – a device used by police for crowd control.

G8-G20 2011 in France: CALL FOR A INTERNATIONAL PREPARATION MEETING

Oh yes, and surely you remember the recent expulsion of the Roma community... ... read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media Friday October 15, 2010 - 23:25 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 3 images
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 15, 2010 - 14:59 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - monday october 18, 2010 - 14:50)   image 1 image
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 15, 2010 - 08:17 by Freda H   image 2 images
The wall that Israel has built in Palestinian territory is more than a barrier -- it’s also a focus for popular art.

Graffiti in the form of words and images have transformed the wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity, created not only by Palestinians but also by international artists.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 14, 2010 - 12:44 by kevin Flanagan   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 - 14:45)   image 1 image
Religious Abuse Truth isued a summons to the Navan Rd residence of the Papal Nuncio on Monday . The summons requires that Pope Bendeict and six accomplices attend the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) being held in London next year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday October 13, 2010 - 15:32 by Seanach   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2010 - 17:00)   video 1 video file
A cavalcade of bicycles cycled down Wellington Street to Oxford Street and converged on a shell Gas Station and held a rally while blocking all entrances to the station. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 13, 2010 - 14:41 by Kevin Flanagan   text 7 comments (last - sunday march 02, 2014 - 11:06)   video 1 video file
Count Me Out , which had simplified the process for Catholics who wished to formally leave the Church, has suspended its service. This follows the Church’s modification of the Code of Canon Law in April this year which removed all references to the act of formal defection, the process used by those who wish to formally renounce their membership of the Church. ... read full story / add a comment
Seamus and Teresa Ferris, who visited the convoy in Latakia
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 12, 2010 - 22:59 by Daniel O'Leary   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 14, 2010 - 13:36)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
On Thursday, September 16th, Joe Gilmartin and Seamus O’Nualláin left Tipperary with a van full of aid to drive 5000 km to Gaza.
Along with others from the north and the UK, they are part of the international VIva Palestina convoy of almost 200 vehicles, $3million of medical aid, and 400 people from 30 different countries, for the people of Gaza.
Having crossed through France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, the latest news is that that the convoy is waiting in Latakia, Syria, to get a ferry to Egypt and then travel into Gaza.
The Egyptian government is currently threatening not to allow them through.

Here is the diary that Joe and Seamus have sent back. To follow their progress go to facebook page “Tipp2Gaza”.
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GLOBAL MINGA in defense of Mother Earth – SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE (12 October)
international / environment Tuesday October 12, 2010 - 11:02 by Dunk   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 - 19:52)   image 11 images   video 6 video files   audio 1 audio file
Minga Global: In every corner of the planet, those of us who want to save the life are raising our voices against capitalist aggression expressed in the looting and the commodification of life. Because we know that other worlds are not only urgent: they are, above all, possible. And we are building them.

CJA (Climate Justice Action): System Change not Climate Change! Taking direct action for climate justice

(FULL REPORT, LINKS, VIDS ETC AT http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/global-m...inga/ ) ... read full story / add a comment
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