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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2016 - 10:07 by Vince McGreal
In 1932, Ireland ratified the United Nations’ Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (1930). The Convention defines forced labour as "all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.” Eighty-four years later, Ireland is in breach of that convention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday February 17, 2016 - 23:17 by right2water
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.’ An affirmation that should, by now, be familiar to most of us. ... read full story / add a comment
international / economics and finance Wednesday February 10, 2016 - 12:11 by Paddy Hackett
Steve Keen is the author of Debunking Economics. He is critical of Neo-Classical Economics ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 01, 2016 - 14:17 by PCRfan
Paul Craig Roberts clearly outlines the systematic way western financial institutions and the IMF have traditionally looted the third world and now, having exhausted that process, have turned to looting other western countries such as Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and more recently, Spain and Italy. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Monday February 01, 2016 - 10:08 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland
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As the three-day so-called “National Hare Coursing Festival” opens today at Powerstown Park, Clonmel, County Tipperary, CACS and other animal protection campaign groups protested outside the venue where captured hares were forced to run from hyped-up greyhounds. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday January 29, 2016 - 18:37 by Con Carroll
For many the knock on the door, hello sorry to disturb you, I'm canvassing for the bimbo party hoping you will consider to give us your no, 1 vote. the children have to be fed, the dog is barking. jumping over and open gates to put the leaflet through. jaysus we are great ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday January 22, 2016 - 12:58 by Paddy Hackett
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Utilitarianism is the hidden basis for the moral and philosophical basis of much of the Irish Left ... read full story / add a comment
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 |
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