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dublin / politics / elections Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 17:50 by Paddy Hackett
 7 comments (last - sunday october 12, 2014 - 10:29)
The rhetoric by the Sinn Fein, the Anti Austerity Alliance and the People Before Profit Alliance featuring on RTE's Prime Time programme amounts to nothing but illusion. Their election candidates showed no understanding of the need for revolution. Their rhetoric suggested that capitalism can be managed or reformed to the benefit of the working class by effectively taxing the rich and not the working class. Indeed the entire show confined itself to suggestions as to how to reform capitalism in one way or another. In that way the participants sought to effectively defend the capitalist system. Essentially all contributors were essentially advocating bourgeois politics. If the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were genuinely revolutionary they would have challenged RTE and its other contributors by advocating the need for revolution. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 16:54 by Against animal cruelty
3 comments (last - thursday october 16, 2014 - 08:05)  3 images
I have to ask: does the Catholic Church have a death wish? Hare coursing is a horribly cruel “sport” that is a crime in many jurisdictions. It’s bad enough that the Irish government allows it…but this week pictures circulating on social media (twitter and facebook) clearly show a Catholic Priest officially BLESSING a hare coursing venue. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 14:30 by Luke Eastwood
3 comments (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 22:14) 1 image
The Irish government is charging for public water as part of its TISA signup. This is just the start, we will all pay for all water if they have their way, even if we don't get any services from Irish Water. The eventual plan will be to privatize all resources so that absolutely nothing will be free in this country. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday October 03, 2014 - 20:55 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland
1 comment (last - saturday october 04, 2014 - 13:38) 8 images
We, in common with all animal welfare/rights/rescue organisations and conservationist groups in Ireland are appalled that another hare coursing season has just been allowed to commence, with public hare-baiting sessions already having being staged at Liscannor in County Clare and Kilflynn in County Kerry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 02, 2014 - 23:32 by Paddy Hackett
Parties such as the SP, SWP and Sinn Fein are essentially no different from each other nor from Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fail. They are all bourgeois nationalist parties competing for power within the capitalist system. Reformism is still alive and well and embedded within the Irish working class movement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday October 01, 2014 - 19:56 by john throne
We are all familiar with the monstrous crimes that have been carried out by the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, the slave labor in the Magadlene prison laundries, the physical and sexual abuse in the children's prisons.The victims have to be given compensation. Not by the taxpayers but from the vast wealth of the Catholic church. More generally responsibility has to be allotted for this. Responsibility lies with different forces, the Catholic hierarchy, the Irish capitalist class, but also the members of the Catholic church. John Throne. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 17, 2014 - 01:56 by john throne
2 comments (last - tuesday september 30, 2014 - 00:02) 2 images
Claiming to stand for the Protestant working class Paisley was in fact their enemy ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday September 14, 2014 - 12:06 by political hostage
As the case of Michael McKevitt continues to alert media attention it must be borne out that there has been a significant degree of prejudice surrounding everything about the case over many years. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday September 07, 2014 - 13:53 by fred
2 comments (last - saturday september 13, 2014 - 00:13) 6 images  1 video file
Why is the current situation in Ukraine happening? Why are the US funding and driving this insane provocative campaign on Russia's doorstep at this time? Why are European leaders shooting themselves in the foot by supporting this instead of building closer economic tioes with Russia? Why are the media in lockstep demonising Putin and Russia. Who benefitted from the downing of MH17 and how? This is an analysis of some of the events in Ukraine and their possible motivations from the lens of US hegemony over Europe,maintaining their position as world reserve currency, and controlling the world's major oil and gas reserves ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday September 03, 2014 - 14:54 by Mick MacThomais
The Irish emblem of stste and the 13 string the infamous "hang mans string" and why after the total abolishment of the death penalty that it has not been removed from the emblem that represents our unarmed peaceful state built from the humanitarian resistance of "unarmed resistance",which our Nation is famous. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 03, 2014 - 13:14 by Anthony Ravlich
Describes a Cultural Cleansing of individual self-determination. Driven by the bureaucrats in the interest of secular, liberal collectivists it required a hijacking of human rights hidden by a 'divide and rule'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday September 01, 2014 - 17:41 by sean throne
14 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2014 - 11:44)
Sectarianism has many aspects to it. One is to seek to use any opportunity to try and gain advantage for your own group or organization irregardless of the interests of the movement, or irregardless of paying respect for other workers and activists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 27, 2014 - 21:36 by ordinary citizen
when we finally get a left leaning government and we start really taxing the rich why not use the money wisely and invest it into a renewable energy model that involves Irish people buying shares in the projects and the money raised by the taxes can be used to subsidise the projects. then when we have reached 100% energy production and are exporting our energy we can use the money raised to reverse the austerity measures implemented and improve Irish society as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 26, 2014 - 00:29 by Billy Fitzpatrick
Israel's colonial project in Palestine is, in fact, old-style European. Sad that Ireland, with its anti-colonial history, should today hide behind the old bully-boys of Europe. Respect: the success of Gaza's meagrely - armed resistance as it sees Israel again reverting to attacks from distance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 19, 2014 - 14:07 by Anthony Ravlich
1 comment (last - wednesday august 27, 2014 - 14:02)
The following is a clarification re prev article. It says thinkers are being replaced by social controllers because truth is the major threat to the dominant elite, secular liberal collectivists. Also, explains how Corporations are highly favored. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday August 18, 2014 - 14:20 by Nuala
25 comments (last - thursday february 22, 2018 - 09:12)
In Catholic Ireland in 1922, suicide was the ultimate shame and disgrace, as well as being seen as almost an unpardonable sin, leaving surviving relatives and admirers in anguish at the possible fate of the suicide's soul. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday August 10, 2014 - 18:49 by john throne
1 comment (last - sunday august 10, 2014 - 23:24) 1 video file
While unconditionally opposing the policies of Zionism and their slaughter in Gaza it is important to look at the tactics of Hamas. Does their political, ideological and military tactics, such as firing rockets in Israel weaken or strengthen the Palestinian struggles. There is a difference between an offensive tactic like firing rockets into Israel and a defensive military strategy such as organizing a new intifada around mass collective workers organizations and from this base defend the Palestinian people with armed struggle. John Throne. ... read full story / add a comment 
fermanagh / environment Saturday August 09, 2014 - 18:14 by None
3 comments (last - sunday august 10, 2014 - 22:23) 10 images
Belcoo was awoken at 5 in the morning on the July 21st to the invasion of Tamboran. It wasn't until later that morning that the frackers had the 'courtesy' to send local residence notice of their occupation of a nearby quarry. Immediately a demonstration outside the quarry gates was organized for that evening. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 05, 2014 - 22:20 by William Wraithwrite
Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s own words: “Terrorism is the deliberate assault on civilians to inspire fear for political ends. Though one might quibble with this definition, for example by broadening ‘political ends’ to include ideological or religious motives, it nonetheless captures the essence of terrorism—the purposeful attack on the innocent, those who are hors de combat, outside the field of legitimate conflict. In fact, the more removed the target of the attack from any connection to the grievance enunciated by the terrorists, the greater the terror.” From “Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, 2001 Edition Chapter 1, page 8.” ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday August 04, 2014 - 13:39 by fred
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the NCT was brought in to inject life into the flagging motor sales industry in celtic tiger days, and to create lucrative business opportunites for some lucky people who happened to well connected and in the loop. It's all a bit of a money making scam, which targets the poor disproportionally, gives gardai draconian powers of seizure. Chronic delays in the test system, not to mention reports of corrupt practices make the thing a nightmare for the less well off trying to keep a vehicle on the road in order to increase their chances of finding work. Just another obstacle put in the way of the poorer classes which serves to limit their possibilities and their movements. ... read full story / add a comment |
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