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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 31, 2011 20:26 by RSF
The coming year will be a challenging one for working-class people in Ireland and across Europe. The threats facing us are manifold. Economically people are faced with the consequences of the austerity programme imposed on them by the EU political and financial elite. For Irish Republicans increasing repression highlights the reality of the old imperialism of British rule in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 31, 2011 14:36 by KSI
We strongly condemn Thursday’s massacre at Sirnak in which 36 civilian Kurds were killed by Turkish air strikes. This year more than 4,500 people have been arrested under nebulous “terrorism” charges in Turkey, including dozens of journalists last week. This AKP-directed pogram, known as the KCK Case, began in 2009 against any Kurdish dissent in Turkey. Mayors, local councillors, journalists, human rights activists and Kurdish party workers are targeted. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 30, 2011 19:11 by @
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 30, 2011 01:19 by InternationalistGroup
Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can't be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT's union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 28, 2011 15:59 by Luke Eastwood
Revisiting the effect of pesticides 50 years after Rachel Carson's expose of their terrible impact on all living organisms read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday December 28, 2011 02:51 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
We are starting the new year as we mean to go on. Come celebrate with us this Friday the 13th and show solidarity with the community in Erris who have been opposing Shell for the last 11 years. Saturday the 14th will be another Shell-stopping day, so come spend the weekend! read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 26, 2011 15:41 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR ****** DECEMBER BULLETIN 2011
FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! CONTENTS 1) EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON THE PEACEFUL ACT OF SABOTAGE AT SHANNON WARPORT 2) SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS: IN PALESTINE 3) LIBYA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE 4) NORTH KOREA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE 5) REPORT ON AN ALTERNATIVE CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN 6) EDWARD HORGAN REPORTS FROM THE CONGO 7) BUSH & BLAIR FOUND GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES 8) FOR YOUR DIARY read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday December 25, 2011 22:43 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
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Claiming Our Future is campaigning for the introduction of measures to tax wealth. As you all know it is very important that there is a counter argument to the austerity approach being pursued by government.
The type of tax options that are being proposed include
1. A levy on assets and property worth over €1 million
2. High net worth Irish citizens paying their dues here so that the number of tax exiles decreases
3. Eliminating tax breaks for those with high incomes so that they pay their fair share
4. A levy on financial transactions (Tobin Tax)
5. A higher tax rate on incomes over €100k
It would be great if you could support the campaign by
Go to www.claimingourfuture.ie where you will find information and facts about wealth and taxation.
Tell all your contacts and friends about it.
Putting it on your organisations website. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 25, 2011 16:24 by Frank Maher
The writer of a letter to the Irish Times was surprised when it was published on the 22nd. inst. it was in response to an earlier letter written by a Ms. O'Dwyer expounding the virtue of German efficiency. His letter is reproduced in the full content below. It was expected that there would have been a vigorous response to it, instead no response was published, however two days later, two letters were published in regard to Ms. O'Dwyer original letter. The peculiar aspect to these letters was that they were published under a different heading to the first two letters. I have never seen that happen before despite being a reader of the IT for over twenty years. The writer of the letter is concerned that powerful forces influenced the Irish Times to kill the topic, that is that Germany is involved in a conspiracy so as to bring about a federal Europe through economic manipulation of the economies of the peripheral states of Europe. He also wonders if he is in danger, I'm not sure. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday December 23, 2011 22:31 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
This year ending (2011) and the new year starting (2012) marks the tenth anniversary of the illegitimate, illegal and unjust wars of aggression and colonial occupation being waged against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq that destabilised the Middle East and indeed the whole world and things are worse than ever there :-( read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday December 23, 2011 22:14 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
The year 2011 has seen an amazing resurgence of grassroots resistance here and around the world. In January and February, we saw the popular uprisings that brought down the U.S.-backed regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday December 22, 2011 12:45 by James Connolly Soviet
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On the 20th of January, 2012, The Last Friday Comedy Club, at the Maple Hotel, 74 Lr. Gardiner St. Dublin, will be held as a benefit night for the campaign to have Leonard Peltier released. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Thursday December 22, 2011 12:43 by ALiberation
(Please send in a submission to ban fur farming to [email protected]
See bottom of article for Dept of Agriculture Notice. This still isn’t on their website.)
The animal rights group ALiberation have compiled a list of things that has happened in relation to the proposed ban of fur farming since the current government has come into office. (See Below) read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday December 22, 2011 10:28 by Paddy Hackett
The capitalist crisis can provide the working class with the opportunity to forcefully take power. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday December 21, 2011 10:34 by Karina
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Now Michael D has gone a step further from his ceremonial role in supporting war-mongering. He is openly feeding the feel-good factor for the FG-Labour government anti-social economic and political decisions. At a time of extraordinary hardship for the people of Ireland caused by the regressive and pro-business politics of Labour and FG, he comes out to send a Christmas message of "hope" in economic recovery. It is surely strange for a so called "socialist" and "progressive" to come out in such base way to support the fact that his government has passed the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the ordinary people of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 12:30 by Sean Crudden
Maybe the time has come again to look inwards instead of outwards. Like we did in the early and mid 1950’s. Let us not wait for the prompt from hypocrites from abroad. Create liberty, equality, fraternity; for all mental patients in Ireland. And for everyone in Ireland including children about to be born now around the Feast of The Nativity. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 12:00 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
It’s January. It’s freezing. Christmas emptied the coffers and now the bills are starting to bite. As the government cuts the eligibility period for the Fuel Allowance, it’s time to tell the government that we’ve had enough! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday December 19, 2011 23:53 by pat c
Christopher Hitchens has departed the mortal coil. He used to to be a true anti-imperialist but ended as a supporter of Imperialism. Unlike other ex leftists however Hitch held on to a lot of his radical views and didn't disown his past (like Martin Amis did). But does this balance out his support for the slaughter in Iraq? Sean Fenley pens a critical obituary. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday December 19, 2011 14:41 by LASC
Latin America Solidarity Centre is running courses in Latin American Spanish & Brazilian Portuguese from January 23rd to April 2nd. A Charla Latina course will run on Thusdays from 6:00-7:30pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday December 19, 2011 08:46 by Free Bradley Manning!
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Bradley Manning's Military Tribunal Article 32 (pre-military trial hearing) began a Ft. Meade Maryland on Friday Dec 18th.,continued through the weekend and continues into this week. A callout for solidarity action on Bradley' 24th. birthday - Saturday Dec 17th. was answered in 40+ locations throughout the United States and around the world. In London 60 folks gathered in solidarity with Bradley outside the U.S. embassy. read full story / add a comment |
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