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international / education Friday December 31, 2010 - 11:56 by Sean Crudden
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We all learn a lot of rules and regualtions and make an effort to abide by the rules. We know that rules are necessary to understand in order to play the game. But often we suspect that the rules are somone else's rules and not really to our advantage. Some people do the honourable thing and just break the rules; others circumvent, subvert, bend, bend, twist, exploit the rules ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 29, 2010 - 03:53 by Astrid Essed
The arrest case of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks is politically motivated and therefore an attack on the freedom of press ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 28, 2010 - 03:19 by BFClarkeNUJ
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To put it bluntly the banks own the scum state's gombeen parliament, including all of its leading opposition parties. Corporate money dominates and prevents the changes urgently needed for the ensnared Irish people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 27, 2010 - 20:38 by reposter
2 comments (last - thursday december 30, 2010 - 18:35)
A bomb posted to the Greek embassy in Rome this morning ,apparantly by the terrorist Informal Anarchist Federation , failed to explode . Police say the device was similar in construction to those claimed by the IAF that seriously injured an embassy worker at the Chilean embassy and a Swiss diplomat in Rome last week . ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 22, 2010 - 01:33 by Bryan Wall
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A new Human Rights Watch report lays out the details of the discriminatory laws aimed at the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Tuesday December 21, 2010 - 02:59 by Anonymous Zero
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Worthington Properties (Vancouver, Downtown Eastside ) Linked to World Organized Crime Syndicates ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 20, 2010 - 10:55 by Press Freedom
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It is ok for this writer to ask if our Fianna Fáil/Green Government are men or mice? because it is quite clear that Ireland's government is male-dominated and amongst the trash of its legacy appears the failure which we have come to know as the Blasphemy Amendment , which was an innovation by a Minister for Justice unconcerned in the state of prisons, best practices with regard to fefamation of religions or personal freedom. On July 23rd of 2009 the Irish president gave her seal to the Criminal Justice Act and the Defamation Bill, wherein groups are incentivised to take legal action against what they perceive or understand to be published or uttered Blasphemy. ... read full story / add a comment
donegal / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 19, 2010 - 19:22 by Bill O'Brien
4 comments (last - sunday november 02, 2014 - 20:18)
What follows is a letter written to the editor of the Donegal Democrat newspaper in November. Letter to the Editor. Wear a White Poppy ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech Friday December 17, 2010 - 17:12 by Sean Crudden
1 comment (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 14:24)
The much trumpeted discovery of RNA and DNA copperfastened in the public mind the discrete, "quantum" characteristics; in a sort of "digital" understanding of human genetics. It may have blinded us to qualitative effects and the incalculable genetic fallout from widespread prescription of neuroleptics and other pharmaceuticals. One of the tragically serious ironies of this is that people of otherwise very high genetic perfection are often the most prone to "mental illness." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday December 17, 2010 - 10:22 by Paddy Hackett
4 comments (last - monday december 20, 2010 - 22:56)
Concerning the “deal between the Irish Government and the ECB/EU/IMF troika” Constantin Gurdgiev argues in the Sunday Independent, December 5th 2010, that far “from providing a resolution to Ireland’s financial and fiscal crises, it made the restructuring of our banks’ debt inevitable, ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday December 15, 2010 - 04:48 by Anthony Coughlan, Emmett O'Connell
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We need to know this if we are ever to recover. We need to know who was ultimately responsible for the situation we now find ourselves in, trapped inside the Eurozone when we did not need to join it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 14, 2010 - 14:42 by Paddy Healy
Only IFUT and TUI proposed doing anything about Public Sector Pension Cuts. INTO and INMO mentioned the cuts in statements. There was no mention of the cuts on Websites of the following bodies: ICTU, SIPTU, ASTI, CPSU, PSEU, IMPACT. Union responses are pasted below. While INTO, ASTI, TUI are running a campaign against the pension rip-off of new public servants announced in the Budget, there is no mention of this issue by the silent unions above. It is believed that ICTU has refused to oppose the new “pension Scheme” which is in effect a tax because the individual gets less out than was contributed (Trident Report to Teaching Unions). There is no proposal by any union to do anything about the pay cut for new entrants. This decision breaches a whole range of existing industrial relations agreements and agreed circular letters. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 06, 2010 - 14:00 by Tony Phillips 1 attached file
First things first! Have your voices heard in those snowy streets and prevent a bad budget! If the current government or future governments show any signs of corruption, change them. Their mismanagement to date should make such political changes not just necessary but popular. Elect a government who can be trusted to represent national interests against global financial power and capable of cooperating with European allies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday December 05, 2010 - 20:14 by john throne
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Capitalism is in never ending conflict with the working class and with its capitalist rivals. This is the objective reality and why it has to have secret diplomacy. It cannot be honest or its system would spin out of control. The wikileaks have dealt an important blow to capitalism's needs in this area. As a result capitalism is going after wikileaks in a very serious way. This assault has to be opposed. Let us build a Hands Off Wikileaks campaign. See more proposals below. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday December 05, 2010 - 13:55 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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The United Left Alliance was launched during the week on a socialist programme and planning to stand in the forthcoming elections. The meeting was well attended and addressed by speakers from People Before Profit, the Socialist Party and Unemployed & Workers' Action Group. The mood was upbeat and even euphoric. However, their charter does not mention imperialism and there were some prominent absences among their sponsors, including éirigí and Workers' Solidarity Movement. There was hardly a mention of work-place organisation and this essential work is not being focussed on by either the ULA or the 1% Network. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 05, 2010 - 05:44 by Anthony Ravlich
New Zealand has been given another chance to free itself from discriminatory collectivism while the US seems to be still battling with it. NZ was saved by the emerging truth of human rights omissions and one of life's miracles, the major Christchurch earthquake (no one killed). The past 20 years in NZ was based on the simple idea that 'the collective is everything and the individual is nothing' driven by the bureaucracy, the status seekers, and supported by governments not, as often believed, by the corporations, the wealth seekers, who however have benefited considerably. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 29, 2010 - 13:16 by Patrick Connolly
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In releases giving to the media on the 28th of November, in which Road Tax was discussed, Minister Brian Dempsey's tone suggested that the Road Tax exemption, that allows people to take their car off the road, was being used willy - nilly by people who had left the country for a period of time and then returned to start re-using the vehicle. This is a pure distortion of the facts, if not a complete lie, and has to be challenged, even if is only for the sake of correction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 28, 2010 - 02:11 by children_of_lir
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Iceland looks to set to name and shame their top 3 maladministrators for economic negligence. "A special investigation committee, known popularly as the Truth Commission, recommended that Geir Haarde, the former prime minister, stand trial, along with Björgvin Sigurdsson, the former minister of commerce, and Árni Mathiesen, the former minister of finance." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Thursday November 25, 2010 - 16:21 by Andrew
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Ireland has an indigenous revolutionary tradition that successfully mobilized tens if not hundreds of thousands in the struggle for more freedom over the 200 years since 1798. Irish republicanism has always included a radical democratic and leveling element and which continues to provide part of the culture of resistance of the most down trodden sections of the working class. Many believe this makes it the best base to build from, at the fifth Rethinking Revolution meeting Andrew Flood asked if they are right? ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday November 24, 2010 - 23:55 by Bryan Wall
6 comments (last - friday december 10, 2010 - 16:14)
With the economic future of the country very much in doubt, a change, politically and economically, is greatly needed. With the pressure from Europe building and the national debt set to soar, the future for Ireland looks bleak. ... read full story / add a comment |
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