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national / politics / elections Monday January 18, 2016 - 12:51 by Billy Fitzpatrick
The level of involvement by women in the 1916 Rising is historically unprecedented. This is recognised and welcomed in the Proclamation. The Rising, and the Proclamation which attempted to explain it, is of international significance. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday January 13, 2016 - 19:01 by S.C. Carroll
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Fine Gael canvas through the letterbox for an election they have not even announced. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday January 11, 2016 - 20:33 by Paddy Hackett
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Society determines the character of culture. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 10, 2016 - 10:22 by Paddy Hackett
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Marx's morality is not materialist ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 05, 2016 - 17:08 by John Throne
The weak Irish capitalist class were missing in action in the 1916 rising - The repercussions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 05, 2016 - 14:20 by Sean Crudden
There is no doubt that the images in the film The Danish Girl are lovely and a joy to watch as are the leading actors Eddie Redmayne as Einar Wegener and Alicia Vikander as Gerda Gottlieb. Screenplay is by Lucinda Coxon an excellent minimalist job as regards dialogue but eloquent as regards narrative. The director is Tom Hooper. This is a classy really well shot and well worked out film. I am not going into the plot. The best way to get that is to attend the film. One thing that struck me apart from the drama is that the film presents a marvellous portrait of what marriage should really mean. But despite the beauty of the images this is an unsettling film. Please excuse me if I share below some of the thoughts the film provoked for me. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday December 30, 2015 - 23:09 by Shelver
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White uses Christmas to sign off on Corrib gas despite pending judicial review of EPA licence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 19, 2015 - 00:20 by Paddy Hackett
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The Peace Deal does not serve the interests of the masses of the Middle East. ... read full story / add a comment
An article from a young student regarding the impending cuts to student grants in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 08, 2015 - 20:39 by Paddy Hackett
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The piece is a brief criticism of the policy document of the Right2Change movement. It highlights its anti-working class nature and its effort to save capitalism by reforming it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday November 22, 2015 - 19:34 by john throne
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This article deals with how much left sectarianism has damaged the workers struggle in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 22, 2015 - 02:25 by T
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It is over a week since the Paris Attack and the slaughter of innocent people. Europe is now suffering the spillover of the terrorism and wars launched by Western powers including France on the Middle East and Arab world for over a decade now and it seems the war is being brought home. Looking at the actual efforts on not just French society but Europe, it just so happens to serve the creeping totalitarian state and the 0.1% and corporate power. This article tries to put together some context and background to see if it is possible to figure out whether this appalling carnage was simply blowback of French foreign policy and or even some kind of black operation. Don't expect clear cut answers to any thing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 18, 2015 - 23:10 by 1 of Indymedia
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In light of the butchery that took place in Paris on Fri 13th by Terrorists largely financed, supported, trained and armed by Western powers and corporate entities directly and through Gulf state and Turkish state intermediaries and the totally inadequate analysis from the mainstream media, we reproduce here in full this article from Voltaire Net. The French Republic taken hostage by Thierry Meyssan The war which has now spread to Paris is incomprehensible for those French citizens who are ignorant of practically all the secret activities of their government in the Arab world, of its unnatural alliances with the Gulf dictators, and its active participation in international terrorism. These policies have never been discussed in Parliament, and the major media have rarely dared to take an interest in them. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday November 11, 2015 - 14:07 by Patrick Hackett
The hullabaloo over the commeroration of the 1916 Rising is merely another device intended to perpetuate the deception of the southern Irish working class. It forms a part of the overall ideological paradigm under which southern Irish workers are to be oppressed and divided from much of the working class in the North. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 02, 2015 - 23:19 by Citizen Sane
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Herein we will focus on what seems to be a somewhat elaborate, albeit loosely organized, conspiracy (one hesitates to use the word as arguments are quickly dismissed as conspiracy theories) in the making in which a relatively large number of pro-Israeli factions (both students attending American campuses as well as outside organizations as well as outside monies)are attempting to manipulate and intimidate people so Americans relinquish their right to free speech on American campuses—that is the right to say critical things about peoples and organizations including Jews, Zionists and Israelis. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday October 29, 2015 - 23:41 by Paddy Hackett
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The annual budget statement is a bourgeois matter. It is the obligation of communists to highlight the latter rather than getting exclusively immersed in its details. No matter how popularly appealing a budget appears it can never serve the class interests of workers. Sections of the Left relate to state budgets as if they are pliable and can consequently meet workers' needs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 29, 2015 - 22:49 by Deaglan O'Riain
Is it possible that Europe will sleepwalk into another Yugoslavia. The prognosis for Europe in general is not good at all! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Sunday October 18, 2015 - 15:31 by Ban hare coursing in Ireland
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This weekend's two day live hare coursing event at Edenderry, Co. Offaly was the target of a lively and very loud (though non-violent) protest by campaigners against the cruel so-called "sport". On October 17th, members and supporters of several animal protection groups gathered outside the hare coursing venue, which is located close to the Tesco and Lidl supermarkets in the town. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday October 15, 2015 - 22:07 by pbp
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Accommodation is one of the most critical issues for the Traveller community and is identified in the 2013-2020 Healthy Ireland Report as the most significant determinant on health. The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 enshrines in law the requirement of local authorities to provide culturally appropriate accommodation in all its forms, including halting sites, group housing schemes, standard houses and transient accommodation to Travellers. Local authorities, following a consultation process with locally based Traveller organisations and the Traveller community are required to prepare and adopt a 5 year Traveller Accommodation Programme (TAP) to meet the existing and projected accommodation needs of Travellers in their areas. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 14, 2015 - 20:07 by posted by Tibor Szamuely
Some reflections on what's happening now -- and what needs to happen instead... ... read full story / add a comment |
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