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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 30, 2018 - 17:21 by Blooming Barricade
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The Times did a valuable service by investigating the murder of a Palestinian medic by Israeli snipers, but undermined their own work with pro-apartheid framing and both-sides tropes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 26, 2018 - 19:34 by Lilesosanna
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This blog, my first, will in general aim to document the program and specifically my experiences on JobPath. Protecting their identities you will meet the other job seekers and staff, will there be villains and hero’s or stale biscuits and tea? The blog will be anonymous because I’m not sure how DSP or Seetec will feel about the real time, real person, review. Why do a blog, I feel that it gives a window for the 115,000 people who will be invited to the mandatory scheme over the full 4+2 years. JobPath is discussed by politicians, by journalist and even on public forums, the vast majority of whom only get the opportunity to view from the outside in and so only see things from a superficial vantage point. My time embedded or if you like immersed in the scheme, gives a personal and unique opportunity to document my experience and is allowing me the privilege of blogging from the inside out. It requires some intrusion into my life and maybe some repetitive reading, it will require some commitment from myself and the thought of possible consequences leave me a little unhinged. However difficult it is personally, hopefully it will serve the purpose of shedding light on the truth in a way that turning up with a press pass or in a Ministerial car, never could do. In November 2018, I received a second ‘invitation’ that I couldn’t refuse to do another 52 weeks of JobPath. Considering the amount of people who viewed the blog from all corners of the planet and the participants that the blog helped, along with the number of people who contact me for and offering me help, I’m going to do another 52 weeks of blogging under JobPath two. The aims will be the same. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Monday December 10, 2018 - 07:49 by alexdudek
UN will oblige Germany to pay reparations for occupation of Poland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 07, 2018 - 04:06 by sp
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From fast food workers getting organised to fight for a living wage, to Uber drivers fighting a company infamous for its use of bogus self-employment models, to McDonalds’ workers in the US saying ‘No More’ to sexual harassment, a section of workers traditionally seen as “hard to organise” are proving their willingness to fight. Katia Hancke looks at what this trend represents. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Monday December 03, 2018 - 22:57 by sp
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring when the rule of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia and in the entire “Eastern Bloc” was threatened. Solidarity TD and Socialist Party member Mick Barry looks at the lessons of these explosive events. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday December 03, 2018 - 20:44 by Joseph James
This article argues for the inclusion of a "None of the above" option on all ballot papers in an election. It starts by explaining the benefits of its inclusion. Then it demonstrates how its inclusion can be achieved through activism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 25, 2018 - 16:43 by Blooming Barricade
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The Integrity Initiative is now trying to smear and attack Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn's communications director and a key voice on the anti-war, anti-capitalist left, tweeting a Times article that appears to have been contributed to by them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday November 25, 2018 - 16:35 by Winter Oak (repost)
In this issue: Rebelling against the industrial capitalist system “At the heart of this problem lies our sense of separation from nature” Abolishing dissent Does work set us free? Save Whitehawk Hill! Acorninfo ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday November 16, 2018 - 11:20 by séamas carraher
Orsola Casagrande, long-time journalist with the left-wing Italian Il manifesto, now freelance and currently living in Havana, Cuba, recently visited Rojava in Northern Syria ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 10, 2018 - 12:13 by séamas carraher
So far, due to a variety of ignoble reasons, not least public healthcare being farmed out to private laboratories, at least 221 Irish women have now been identified whose smear tests had been read incorrectly with tragic consequences ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday October 20, 2018 - 17:42 by João Mac Unaima
The two shameful actions have been decisive for securing him the first place in the polls and are also enough to pay him the cassation of his candidacy and his replacement by Ciro Gomes, third place in the first Brazilian round. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2018 - 21:01 by Farmers Against Foxhunting and Trespass
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The present Irish farmer has proven over the last number of years that he is one of the finest producers of quality food in the world. By his dedication to his work in adapting to modern revolutionary methods and long hours in caring for his animals’ health and dietary needs he is first class. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Friday October 12, 2018 - 20:34 by Joe Terry
What, in God’s name, can any President of Ireland achieve in a second term that could have been achieved in a single seven years term? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 21, 2018 - 23:05 by 1 of indy
The new scheme to improve the Dublin Bus network called Bus Connects on close inspection is nothing of the sort. It is more akin to Bus Disconnects. The reports and PR from Bus Connects maintains it will be better and while the theoretical basis for it may be correct, it doesn't deliver because they plan to do it with the same number of buses. For some routes there will be a reduction in capacity by 25%. For example they claim a bus every 4 minutes on the main backbone A-Route but this figure is misleading because it is for the 4 A-routes. Since you are only likely to be on one of these, then that means the real peak frequency is every 15 or so minutes which is no different to the present. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 12, 2018 - 23:35 by Dublin Catholic Worker
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Only the second Papal visit in 2,000 years by the first non European Pope. Pope Francisco is from Argentina where the United States client state ruled with terror, kidnappings and politically motivated assassination. His papacy appears to have many proactive enemies from wiithin reactionary Catholicism globally and (neo) liberal elites in Irish media & NGO sector. The recent visit was in visual and audio contrast to the only other visit of the papacy to Ireland. Pope John Paul 2nd in 1979 (the year of the Mountbatten assassination, Warrenpoint, punk). What does this tell us about Papa Francisco and contemporary Irish society? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 03, 2018 - 15:03 by Joe Terry
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Imposing a President ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday July 30, 2018 - 23:04 by pbp
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The wildfires that struck Rafina, north east of Athens, have now claimed at least 80 lives with the number set to rise as many are still missing. This terrible catastrophe shows the interaction of climate change and austerity, both the result of a society that puts people before profit. The fires in Greece take place in the context of an intense heat wave that is global in scale and has produced fires not only in Greece but in Northern Sweden above the Arctic Circle. Brid Smith TD visiting her sister in Sweden reports temperatures of 32C in the shade and 40C in the sun. In hotter parts of the world such as Algeria and Iran they are soaring well over 40C and approaching the limits of human habitability. Fires, floods , droughts and intense storms – extreme weather in all its different forms – is what climate change means, not just rising sea levels in the future, and they are happening now. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 19, 2018 - 19:04 by Anthony Ravlich
The UN's globalization and neoliberalism seek to eliminate global freedom and western culture. It creates multi-culturalism and diversity which in the extreme undermines western culture but if a country is to survive it must defend its culture. The fake liberals, really a social class, drive both neoliberalism and globalization which gains the support of the swamp. Other political parties need to be chosen to overcome the swamp. For example, Donald Trump in America is having some success against the swamp. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday June 03, 2018 - 09:23 by Joe Terry
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In an advanced technological communications era, what a waste and nonsense to even contemplate opening yet another embassy to add to the seventy-four existing Irish missions across the world? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 03, 2018 - 09:02 by Joe Terry
Inaugural Irish Defence Forces Values Champion Awards? ... read full story / add a comment |
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