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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 14, 2011 - 23:46 by I. Greene
It is central tenet of any adversarial system that a defendant has the right to challenge any fact alleged against him. The right to mount such a challenge must be exercised in a way that is meaningful. At the heart of the common law system is the right to confront ones accusers and challenge them by way of cross examination as outlined by Judge Orie at the International Criminal Court in Le Hague in June 2011. This right had been set at nought in the Omagh civil case and resulted in the second miscarriage of justice against Michael McKevitt. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 14, 2011 - 03:15 by Roy Batty
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This is a before-and-after story endemic to politics everywhere. Self-aggrandizing, rich assholes hide their true motives to get elected. Once they're elected they fiddle while Rome burns. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues Sunday June 12, 2011 - 19:36 by Dave Moore
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Today marks three months since the Dublin Food Co-op received a complaint of ‘physical assault and violent aggression’ on the premises. Despite the seriousness of the charge, the directors’ collective response was feeble in every respect, leaving those who reported the incident out in the cold. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 12, 2011 - 14:38 by ordinary citizen
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The system is creating the backlash that could allow new ways of running the country, new ideas to be given a chance, a path of inclusion over competition ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday June 11, 2011 - 13:05 by Gerard Farrell
An article exploring the cultural effects of several decades of neoliberal ascendancy in the political arena. Previously published in the the 'Social and political review' of Trinity college Dublin; just putting it out there... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 11, 2011 - 04:59 by Kevin Keating
From "The Floodgates of Anarchy" to the fan of a state that boils people to death... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 10, 2011 - 14:37 by John Cornford
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Iranian Trade union leader Mansour Osanloo has been freed from prison after four years. Osanloo, chair of the Syndicat of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), has been leading workers in their fight for better conditions and for independent unions in Iran. Arrested in July 2007, he was charged with organising “propaganda against the regime” and later accused of being a threat to national security. Throughout his imprisonment he has been subject to horrific abuse. In February 2010 there was an attempt on Osanloo’s life in Rajai-Shahr prison. He was attacked by a former member of the Revolutionary Guards state militia with the support of prison wardens. Two other prisoners intervened and saved him. Later in June 2010 further tragedy hit his family when security forces attacked Zoya Samadi, Osanloo’s daughter-in-law, causing her to miscarry. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 10, 2011 - 10:10 by Kerry Worker
The Labour Relations Commission consists of Fianna Fáil hacks, failed union and government officials seeing out their golden years, employer hawks and old hands at the partnership game, capped by a Chair with links to child labour and sweatshops. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 09, 2011 - 17:04 by Astrid Essed
The Israeli killings of Nakba Day and six june war protesters is not an incident, but part of the systematic violence of Israeli occupation Palestinians only get their rights by the armed struggle against the occupation army ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 08, 2011 - 14:32 by James Blake
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Conflict over resources has been a particularly strong feature of the last 500 years or a period regarded by some commentators as the five centuries of global capitalist expansion, begun by Christopher Columbus and followed up by the brutal conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who searched for 'Eldorado', the city of gold. Millions of indigenous Indians from the islands of the Caribbean down the spine of Central America to the mountains of Bolivia, toiled the fields and mines to serve European monarchies who, on the back of exploited labour, built ostentatious cathedrals and palaces as, according to Eduardo Galeano in 'Open Veins of Latin America', tens of millions of souls perished from this earth. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 03, 2011 - 13:08 by éirígí Sligeach
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Fine Gael & Labour politicians abandon yet more pre-election promises. This time in relation to the restoration of breast cancer services to Sligo General Hospital within 100 days of taking office. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 01, 2011 - 13:24 by éirígí Sligeach
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This is an article remembering those massacred by Israel and asking what has changed in the 12 months since. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday May 30, 2011 - 13:50 by éirígí Sligeach
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Convicted garda walking free after leaving man he brutally assaulted for dead exposes corrupt two-tier nature of what passes for 'justice' in this state ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday May 30, 2011 - 07:55 by INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY
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From "COMMUNIST LEFT" review of International Communist Party ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Friday May 27, 2011 - 22:02 by éirígí Sligeach
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Enterprise minister Richard Bruton plans to dismantle the JLC;s strating with scrapping the Sunday premiums ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday May 26, 2011 - 19:09 by Against Bloodsports
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Disgraceful if RISE gets award! ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 26, 2011 - 15:14 by éirígí Sligeach
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This is an article published on the éirígí sligeach website in response to Labour party TD Colm Keaveney's attack on éirígí for protesting against the Windsor visit. It highlights the hypocrisy of Keaveney and the Labour party who insist they are following in Connolly's footsteps yet have abandoned all that Connolly stood for ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 25, 2011 - 12:32 by Paddy Hackett
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The recent official visit by the British Queen to the Republic of Ireland led to many temporary restrictions on the freedom of Irish workers and the loss of income to many of them due to the disruption it caused in Dublin and other places in Ireland. Among other things it intensified alienation by the exclusion of the vast majority of citizenry from the various public events staged in Ireland for the British Queen. Only a small elite can be be trusted, in such contexts, by the Irish state. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 24, 2011 - 23:59 by Declan Cullen
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I watched the BBC news today that showed Anti - Gadaffi Protesters shouting outside Buckingham Palace. One thing that struck me as very odd is the fact the they could get so close to the Palace, especially considering that Barack Obama had just drove into the Palace a short time earlier. That was until a light bulb went on in my brain. The reason, I said to myself, why they got so close was that they were against Gadaffi and not in favour of him or his regime either, stupid!. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 20, 2011 - 16:45 by Irish Republican
The following letter was printed in the Irish Times on Thursday 19th May 2011. For me it articulates the Republican position, it represents the voice of the unconquered few. Pádraig Pearse stated in a speech on Robert Emmet that "we are the voice of an idea which is older than any empire and will outlast every empire....". This veiw also resonates within the Bobby Sands poem, "Rhythm of Time". This idea that no matter what is thrown at people there remains "something inside" that cannot be defeated. Voices that are raised because they can do nothing else but cry out when faced with injustice. Voices that attempt to clarify and pro (fess) and test (ify) that not all of us have been purchased or intimidated. ... read full story / add a comment |
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