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If you thought the inheritance tax raid on farmers was bad, wait till you see what its proponents have in store for us next, says Mat Brown. The Blob that gave us the 'tractor tax' has its sights set on a wealth tax.
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Not long ago, anyone criticising St Greta was labelled a bully. Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. Now, it looks like the heretics were right and the worshippers were fools.
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IGB are responsible for so much suffering.
international / animal rights Thursday October 30, 2014 - 09:37 by bernie wright   text 5 comments (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 20:15)   image 1 image
Smothered Greyhounds found dead.- U bet-They die.

The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) wholeheartedly condemns the suffering inflicted on the eleven greyhounds found smothered on Monday on exiting the Irish ferries vessel in France.
As this news comes in the midst of a greyhound Racing crisis in Ireland we hope firstly that no more Greyhounds will suffer at the hands of the Greyhound Industry.
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international / gender and sexuality Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 22:43 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2014 - 22:54)
The degrees of violence against women and children and the slave labor inflicted on Irish women in the laundries are not caused by some flaw in the Irish character but by the nature of Irish capitalism and its relationship to the anti women dictatorial Catholic church. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Sunday October 19, 2014 - 01:47 by john throne   text 4 comments (last - monday october 20, 2014 - 17:14)
Sinn Fein I believe are rightly under attack for the issues around the Cahill case and the way they are said to have handled this. Abuse of women (and Men) exists in the revolutionary left also. When this comes up the leadership of these organizations usually try to cover this up by citing the supposed interests of the organization concerned and the revolution. This puts enormous pressure of the victims of assault and has to be condemned. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 22:34 by fred   text 3 comments (last - friday october 17, 2014 - 00:18)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A pre election sleight of hand giving out a few pennies to the poor with one hand while taking them back with the other via water charges? Here is some information on some of the changes ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 11:40 by Paddy Hackett   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2014 - 23:58)
Single issue demands such as the movement against water rates hold back the class struggle by suggesting that capitalism can continue in the absence of these charges or taxes. This is because such demands are not embedded in a programme of an interlinked series of demands that challenges the capitalist system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday October 11, 2014 - 21:28 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 18:59)
How can this mass movement against the water charges be developed into a lasting mass movement against austerity and capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday October 10, 2014 - 23:46 by john throne
Benny was a Comrade and example. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 10, 2014 - 16:05 by Anthony Ravlich
Describes the UN's gross deceit e.g. human rights omissions creating the IMF which discriminates on ground of intellectual property. Also, activists' lack of understanding of political globalization which has led to the dominance of the bureaucracy. In addition, the decimation of animal populations. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 17:50 by Paddy Hackett   text 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
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international / animal rights Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 16:54 by Against animal cruelty   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 16, 2014 - 08:05)   image 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
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 14:30 by Luke Eastwood   text 3 comments (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 22:14)   image 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
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international / animal rights Friday October 03, 2014 - 20:55 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 04, 2014 - 13:38)   image 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.

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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
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 17, 2014 - 01:56 by john throne   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 30, 2014 - 00:02)   image 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
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday September 07, 2014 - 13:53 by fred   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 13, 2014 - 00:13)   image 6 images   video 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'.
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international / miscellaneous Monday September 01, 2014 - 17:41 by sean throne   text 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
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