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offsite link Trains Cancelled After Union Tells Drivers Not to Walk on Snow Tue Jan 07, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Train services were cancelled over the weekend after the?trade union Aslef?told drivers ? who've recently been given a bumper 15% pay rise by Labour ? not to walk on snow, calling it "basic safety stuff".
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offsite link Forget China. With Policies Like Net Zero, Britain is its Own Worst Enemy Tue Jan 07, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Conservative MP Nick Timothy frets that Net Zero makes Britain vulnerable to sabotage by China and Russia. This misses the point, says Ben Pile. With self-harming policies like Net Zero we're our own worst enemy.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Jan 07, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link It?s Not Far-Right to Stand Up for Child Abuse Victims, Tories Tell Starmer Mon Jan 06, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
The Conservatives have told Keir Starmer that "it is not far-Right to stand up for the victims" of child sexual abuse and that "smearing people who raise those issues is exactly how this got covered up in the first place".
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offsite link Justin Trudeau, Last of the Democratically-Elected Lockdown Tyrants, Resigns in Tears Mon Jan 06, 2025 17:25 | Toby Young
Justin Trudeau has resigned, having lost the confidence of his party. This is bad news for Starmer and another sign electorates are fed up with radical progressive zealotry dressed up as technocratic managerialism.
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offsite link After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thier... Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:58 | en

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 20, 2013 11:58 by Audio   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 26, 2013 09:35)
10 years after the start of one of the most contested wars in modern history, dissident island radio (London) assembled a panel of seasoned anti-war activists who have been active in opposing the Iraq war.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 19, 2013 23:32 by No Pasaran
BEN MURRAY MEMORIAL

On Saturday, March 9th, at Moy Bridge, Aughnacloy, a memorial was unveiled to Ben Murray, who resided close by. The construction of the monument was organised by a group from North Monaghan and South Tyrone, supported by the Friends of Charlie Donnelly and a broad group of Left and Republican organisations.

Ben Murray was a trade unionist and left-wing activist, who was killed fighting fascism in Aragon, Spain, in March, 1938. The unveiling took place on a cold, wet and windy Saturday afternoon, following the wreath-laying ceremony at Edendork, Dungannon, at the Charlie Donnelly monument. read full story / add a comment
national / education / event notice Monday March 18, 2013 20:40 by robert
Democracy and School - 4th annual Symposium - Sligo School Project
18th of May
Discuss with: Brian Ruane (CHRCE), Niklas Gidion (EUDEC), Eva Haas (Kapriole Free Democractic School), Aideen O'Hara (SSP), Robert Hamm (SSP).
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Sunday March 17, 2013 23:21 by CAHWT
This meeting will provide an opportunity for residents to discuss the Property Tax, to get information on the details of this unjust tax, and the boycott.

Speaker Cllr. Bríd SMith. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / event notice Sunday March 17, 2013 22:22 by Elric   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 24, 2013 14:04)
EU Warmongers go home!

Protest on Monday March 25th at 1:00 at Dublin Castle

Organised by The People’s Movement

EU Inter-parliamentary Conference on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Defence and Security Policy (CSDP) to be held in Dublin Castle. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday March 17, 2013 21:34 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 20, 2013 12:54)
We are living in a society where the combination of fractional-reserve banking (lending out multiples of deposits) helped along by quantitative easing (printing almost unlimited quantities of money) based on fiat currencies (money without intrinsic value) has created exponential growth for the world’s financial elites. This led to unprecedented bubbles in the property market as banks made it easy for people to borrow more money than they would have been allowed in the past when a conservative banker guideline for a home buyer was to have a two to two and a half times mortgage-to-salary ratio.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 17, 2013 15:14 by anon   text 4 comments (last - monday march 25, 2013 23:13)
lets not get weak knees lets have open debate without censorship and respect there has been a lot of media analysis about the election of the recent Pope
Do we need to get excited should he come clean and tell us about the truth of the political reality of the Military Junta of Argentina. cozy ties with the institutional church. who remained silent about the junta complicity of the disappearance of people also murder of political activists opposed to the junta read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Friday March 15, 2013 15:00 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
Saturday, 6th April 2013

Venue: Red Room, Room 2, Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin

The Latin America Solidarity Centre announces its annual
Latin America Week: 5th – 13th April 2013
"Digging at the heart of Mother Earth: The social and environmental impact of mega-extractive industries"

Speakers: Aida Julieta Quiñones Torres, Milton Sánchez.

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national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday March 14, 2013 13:55 by Laurence Cox
MA Community Education, Equality and Social Activism podcast

A podcast of this remarkable political intervention (March 13, 2013) is now available at the website of the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism (CEESA). read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 14, 2013 11:46 by Red Banner
Issue 51 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
is out now
Available from bookshops or the address above for €1.50 / £2 read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday March 13, 2013 18:45 by Elric
The Chair of the Grass Roots Left Gerry Downing was summarily dismissed on Tuesday 12th by Metroline Travel at its Cricklewood garage a spurious charge of “inappropriate behaviour towards members of the public whilst driving a route 210”

The dismissal was clearly politically motivated during the election campaign of Jerry Hicks for General Secretary of Unite. It comes on the heel of the libel action taken by Unite against Gerry and the Weekly Worker by Unite’s Regional Industrial Officer Wayne King over an article defending sacked Sovereign buses Convenor Abdul Omer Mohsin on 12 January 2012. This action was initiated by Thompson’s solicitors on 5 December, the day after the snap General Secretary election was called by the Executive Council on 4 December.

His letter to Unite’s General Secretary and Executive Council on 30 December remains unanswered. Gerry has been a thorn in the side of Metroline for over two decades as he says in his submission to the hearing:
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 13, 2013 15:39 by Free Bradley Manning   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 17:47)
Manning Statement Audio Leaked in Opposition to 'Extreme Secrecy in Our Courts'
First time the public has heard Manning's voice since his initial arrest in early 2010
- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
LEAKED AUDIO - http://tinyurl.com/cobahuv read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday March 13, 2013 00:29 by Stphen
Things are starting to happen, and we are organising ourselves to be an effective anti-corruption movement.

NOTICE OF MEETING - TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. You are cordially invited to attend a meeting of INTEGRITY IRELAND

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international / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 12, 2013 23:55 by Elric
The Legacy of Chavez, a talk by José Antonio Gutiérrez of LASC on Thursday 14th March, 19:30, at AP203 in Aras an Phiarsaigh, Trinity College Dublin. Organised by TCD Sinn Féin

Map: http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=Aras+an+Phiarsaigh read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday March 12, 2013 20:05 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 14, 2013 12:39)
This month a group of socialist and republican activists from a variety of backgrounds throughout Ireland came together in Dublin to establish the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum. The concept of the forum arose from a series of seminars that in turn had their origin in a symposium on “Republicanism in the Twenty-First Century” hosted by the Communist Party in September last year.

The aim of the forum is to promote the ideas of socialist republicanism, as best expressed by James Connolly, Liam Mellows, and Peadar O’Donnell. The forum is named after Peadar O’Donnell in recognition of his outstanding role as a union organiser, republican soldier, author, enemy of fascism, friend of the worker and small farmer, committed socialist, and lifelong activist for peace and against imperialism.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday March 12, 2013 10:00 by AIMS Ireland
This past weekend, as the nation celebrated International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day, an Irish Maternity Hospital initiated an invasive procedure on a pregnant woman against her will. ‘Mother A’ was denied patient autonomy and the right to informed refusal when the drastic and unprecedented measure of an emergency High Court sitting was called in order to compel her to undergo a Caesarian section. The risk of uterine rupture was cited as one of the main reasons for the urgency in this case but this risk is widely reported as being 0.1% or 1/1000. This is what Dr. Michael Turner, Obstetrician at the Coombe Hospital has called: “exaggerated, professional scaremongering...and it must stop”. (VBAC Conference, 2012) read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday March 11, 2013 16:07 by Dublin Basque Solidarity
The week after the picket, the Court of Human rights in Strasbourg will hear the Spanish state's appeal against Strasbourg's judgement that Basque political prisoner Ines del Rio be released and that the Spanish state should pay her €30,000 in damages and foot the bill for her case. Ines Del Río was jailed in 1988 and should have been paroled in 2008 but is still in jail, the Spanish state wishing to extend her sentence until 2017.. The Spanish state changed their laws to extend the maximum prison time permitted and also made the law retroactive. It is being applied to many Basque political prisoners to turn their sentences into practically life sentences. Despite the unanimous Strasbourg ruling, she remains in jail awaiting the outcome of the Spanish state appeal.

The groups campaigning for the prisoners have called for solidarity demonstrations across Europe in the run-up to the case. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday March 11, 2013 08:39 by hj foley
What follows is a short history of Tibet and the role which the current Dali Lama has played.
Some of the facts may surprise you read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday March 09, 2013 00:55 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - monday march 11, 2013 23:15)
A new nationwide opinion poll in Ireland has shown that people are becoming more and more disillusioned with the political process leading one to wonder if democracy (people rule) has simply become demopsefia (people vote). This type of disillusionment is becoming widespread across Europe in general. While no one is naive enough to believe all the promises of politicians, in recent years the desires of the electorate seem to be ever more blatantly subsumed to the financial interests/problems of recent governments. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 08, 2013 18:29 by one of NFI   text 7 comments (last - friday april 26, 2013 21:47)
Statement from participants in the No Fracking Ireland Network on the EPA ‘public consultation’ process with regard to ‘Proposed terms of reference for EPA/DCENR/NIEA Research Programme on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction (UGEE)’
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