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international / anti-capitalism Thursday September 25, 2008 - 21:04 by John
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In a period of mass unemployment in 1920's Germany fascism came to power despite not only the presence of mass Communist and Social Democratic parties but also of significant anti-fascist street fighting. Why did the left fail and what was the attraction of fascism. What about fascist movements today, do they represent a similar threat? Can we even agree a single definition of what fascism is? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 23, 2008 - 17:22 by Johnjo
Lots of negative comment on McAleese' visit to Romania ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday September 23, 2008 - 17:14 by dunk
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While many view these days with dread; the outset of climate crisis, political corruption and corporate manipulation blocking healthy change, lack of hope that things can change. Others are starting to see something profound emerging; a re-awakening, an eruption of activity, new and intelligent ways of human interaction. Ecologist Paul Hawken sees this phenoman as "the immune system of humanity finally kicking in" and calls it Blessed Unrest. As another bubble in all this, yesterday saw the first of 25 days of the first "Global Eco Forum"... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 21, 2008 - 22:54 by Sean Matthews
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Despite its retention of a heavy arsenal of lethal weapons including Tasers, repressive legislation including ‘dip-lock courts’, and the building of new M15 headquarters at Hollywood, Hugh Orde, current Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland often refers to the force as the ‘most democratic, accountable police service in the world’. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 23:56 by Gavin
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An mp3 talk on the Kibbutz movement in Palestine / Israel focusing on the radical and anarchist elements of it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 13:47 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Like many people around the world and around the country, I am humbled and inspired by the nonviolent resistance undertaken by in Rossport against Shell and the collaborating Irish state. Those who have gathered at Rossport to confront the power and wealth arraigned against the environment, community and a way of life nourish many of us focused on a varitey of fronts nonviolently struggling for peace and justice. The steadfastness, heroism, solidarity and creativity of the past weeks has been both humbling and inspiring. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday September 16, 2008 - 10:06 by FalseFlag
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Reported on the radio this morning that a 'device' was found near Shell's Dublin HQ last night and was made safe by the bomb disposal team. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday September 15, 2008 - 10:24 by John Baker
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Let’s plant trees in Erris. Let’s plant a f**k load of trees in Erris. Let’s plant enough trees to balance out any past and future damage done by Shell or other invaders and indeed by ourselves, for we are all part of the same fossil fuel based economy with our cars, our boats, our flights abroad, our central heating and our food from far away, and given this maybe it’s not enough to fight against the system that left us with no choice but to be part of it, perhaps it falls to us to create something different, to demonstrate our commitment to another reality and to get our own bodies involved in the building of it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday September 14, 2008 - 19:16 by Gregor Kerr
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In June of this year the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) wrote to its members in all primary schools in the Republic announcing that a National Rally on the issue of class size would take place on Saturday 4th October. Posters were included for display in schools and staff reps were urged to begin the process of building a delegation of teachers and parents to represent their school at the rally. Last week another communication arrived in schools from INTO head office. This informed members that the 4th October rally “will not proceed… as previously indicated.” Here Gregor Kerr, a member of the Dublin City North Branch of the INTO (writing in a personal capacity) analyses why the union leadership have backed off from the rally, asks whether they really have the bottle for a fight on this issue, and urges a grassroots campaign to deliver victory on the issue. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Saturday September 13, 2008 - 01:00 by Tel
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Drawing the thread through some recent news stories of oil corruption, climate chaos, fuel poverty, and doing what the so-called ‘mainstream’ media will not do, linking them together, most pertinently linking them with the continuing Corrib gas controversy. Then weaving into a consideration of zoning for pollution, or future resource exploitation in the West. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday September 12, 2008 - 14:22 by godzilla
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Obama has lost in ten of the last 12 opinion polls for the United States presidential election, 2008. His margin has between a 6point loss in the first week of September and a 4point loss in the last three days. Those who know how the USA voting public works blame this losing streak on Palin. It certainly seems to make sense as of the 57 US nationwide polls carried out thus far Mc Cain has only won 12. Jonathan Freedland in today's "Guardian" represents well the disbelief of European journalists & to a great extent intellectuals that the voters of the USA, those enfranchised alone to make a decision which affects us all seem about to deride our faith & hope of the change Obama promised. I on the other hand believe that the opinion poll data only confirms how little Europeans as well as US Democrats understood one of the most important socio-historical shifts in US citizens' perception of their own institutions & government. I argue that they've finally realised the importance of their vice-president. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 12, 2008 - 10:17 by solidarity seeker
Is there anyone else out there feeling the same trepidation that I am feeling over the direction that the current NJC pay dispute has taken? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Thursday September 11, 2008 - 14:30 by Eve Campell
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When the Irish constitution was unveiled in 1937 it set out a special place for women within the home. In Ireland as elsewhere ‘women’s life within the home’ has to a large extent been characterized by long hours of thankless drudgery. While the struggles of Irish women for greater liberties during the last century have improved our lives in many ways, the drudgery of housework remains thankless and the workplace has not brought the liberation that certain feminists promised. As anarchists see it, this is because as long as we live in a capitalist society women (or men) can never be meaningfully liberated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 11, 2008 - 11:08 by Park Life
At the elaborately staged 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the North Korean Stalinist State, the "Dear Leader", Kim Jong IL was conspicious by his absence. It is believed that he may have suffered a stroke (Kim is alleged to enjoy cigars, booze and teenage girls while his devoted subjects make do eating grass). At the edge of 66, Kim, like 72 year old John McCain, is no spring chicken and the demise of his personal brand of socialism is sure to end relatively soon if the rumours of his ill-health are unfounded. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 17:07 by John McCoy
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In 2005 a delegation from AECI addressed a JOINT OIREACTAS COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS. The purpose of this Presentation was convince the government to give Statutory Powers to the Private Limited Company EPACE. Epace is an organisation which AECI has now left. Outlined below are some of the statements made by AECI in that presentation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 09, 2008 - 16:53 by J.Carax
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Last month, Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe indicated that third-level fees were ''back on the agenda''. His comments have been met with strong opposition from university students. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Sunday September 07, 2008 - 20:11 by James Redmond
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Raked over in newspapers since the fifth and final series made its way on to TnaG, it's hard to write anything new about the Wire. It's a portrait of America through Baltimore and the cop show vehicle; of failing school systems and crumbling communities, where drugs gangs and cops act in similar flurries of selfish brutality. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Sunday September 07, 2008 - 13:29 by Alan MacSimóin
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A review of the pro-choice struggle from a libertarian perspective ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Saturday September 06, 2008 - 23:03 by Stuart
Inside the Boole building at UCC last month Government representatives of Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Trade minister Billy Keleher, executives from global corporations Dow, Monsanto and B.P. , Patent Lawyers and trade mark agents, members of the scientific research community, delegates from the pharmacuticle industry and the world bank. Outside between 30 and 40 people representing stake holders of Planet Earth P.L.C. including organic farmers, Irish seed savers, Brown Envelope Seeds, G.M. Free Ireland and the Socialist Party. Cost to you or me to be inside €810. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 06, 2008 - 10:57 by Ciaron O'Reily
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Gary and I shared many a police cell in the '70's & '80's and many a backyard barbie in the '90's and norties. In '77 Gary brought his experiences from the north of Ireland to our movement in sunny redneck facist Queensland that resisted the state suspension of civil liberties (3,000+ arrests '77-81 for merely marching, leafleting picketing, gathering publicly in groups of more than 3 people..Nuts?....you had to be there!) ... read full story / add a comment |
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