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national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday November 24, 2010 - 23:55 by Bryan Wall   text 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
national / politics / elections Wednesday November 24, 2010 - 17:20 by Jolly Red Giant   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 - 23:26)
Sunday 21 November, the day the Irish government formally applied for a bailout to the EU and IMF, should be marked as the day that the Irish capitalist class were exposed as a rotten, despicable failure, bankrupt in every sense and incapable of offering any way forward. The significance of these developments cannot be overstated; they are a turning point in Irish history and will impact on other countries in Europe and the EU itself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 24, 2010 - 17:12 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 12, 2010 - 12:29)
The Celtic Tiger has imploded. The capitalists and their politicians in Ireland and internationally say there is no alternative but to make the working class pay. TINA, that is There Is No Alternative, TINA, is back again. This was a powerful propaganda weapon that Thatcher and her international allies used in the past. Convincing the working class that there was no alternative. TINA.

The opinion and analysis explained here exposes this for the lie that it is. It explains a concrete alternative. TIAA. There Is An Alternative. TIAA. IThis alternative is to make the rich and the corporations which caused this catastrophe pay. TIAA.

This piece also explains the need for any alternative to address the consciousness of the working class and how this consciousness is not yet convinced that it itself, that is the working class, can actually run things themselves. It explains the need for a practical achievable alternative for which the working class can fight. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 23, 2010 - 19:39 by Soundmigration
LIttle ditty - video by Barra (many thanks) ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 23, 2010 - 10:37 by Colm o Connor   text 5 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 - 10:30)
Politics in this country has been made muddy by decades of civil war divisions, clientilism and corruption. As a result the political discourse required for significant social change is constricted. Now is an opportunity to change the Irish political landscape forever, for all progressive groups to demand that FF disband. Here are my Top 10 reasons. I'm sure there are more. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 20, 2010 - 15:57 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 21, 2010 - 18:48)
Union leaders are now calling for the Cowen/Gormley mob to go. Jimmy Kelly kicks the ball rolling with a call to join in ICTUs demo November 27th. But thats hardly enough.Jimmy at the time said that UNITE was forced into the Croke Park deal. The record of te ICTU leadership must be examined. Its their craven policies which gave the Cowen Junta the ability to cut wages even further and to now plan to demolish the Health, Welfare and Education sectors.

Support the ICTU Demo but no illusions in ICTU. We need a new Union leadership. One that fights to make the rich pay for the crisis.

Jimmy Kellys statement is below.

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national / crime and justice Saturday November 20, 2010 - 09:18 by Edward Horgan   text 4 comments (last - monday november 22, 2010 - 12:30)
We urgently need a national strike, this comming week, to force the corrupt incompetent Fianna Fail/Green regime out of government. If we fail to do so we deserve some of the shame and devestation that is being heaped upon us. We need to take back our country from the shysters and liars who claim to be governing on our behalf. We need to act now or forever live in shame as the children of Ireland suffer and are forced to emigrate.
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday November 18, 2010 - 13:39 by Paddy Hackett
My piece endeavours to show that there is no essential difference between the politics of John Molyneux from the SWP(UK) and Michael Taft from the UNITE union. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday November 17, 2010 - 18:43 by Diarmuid Breatnach
The West have bled the Haitian until she collapsed and now cannot even give her clean water.
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national / education Wednesday November 17, 2010 - 12:20 by SIPTU PRO   image 1 image
SIPTU is absolutely opposed to the lifting of the cap on University tuition fees proposed through the Browne review which could see fees soar to an extortionate rate of up to £12,000 per year. It beggars belief that these proposals be put forward at anytime, never mind in the depths of one of the harshest economic recessions.

The Browne review or any other proposed hike in student or tuition fees can not be allowed to happen, this will only result in preventing thousands of young people from low to middle income earning families from going to University and in thousands more emigrating with little to no prospects here. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 17, 2010 - 10:55 by Michael Gallagher   image 1 image
For your information, enter 'IMF and World Bank on way to Ireland' into google. See Brian Lenihan's statement, the second item down. It's been there in black and white since October. Another one of our best natural resources has just been sold off, this time it's our best natural resource, ourselves. We have been sold into bondage to the IMF.

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national / anti-capitalism Monday November 15, 2010 - 13:04 by Michael Gallagher   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2010 - 19:08)   image 5 images
TO: ALL MEMBERS

RE: March for “A Better, Fairer Way” – Saturday 27th November, 11.30 a.m. Wood Quay, Dublin

The country is in the throes of the most serious economic crisis in our history. This is because the Government allowed speculators, bankers and developers run riot. They then included useless institutions in a State Credit Guarantee Scheme, mortgaging all our futures. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Saturday November 13, 2010 - 12:31 by fire owl   image 1 image
"The whole scene appears like something from “Lord of the Rings”. Imagine it’s dark, real dark. On one side a happy, singing crowd, including some 70-year-olds and many teenies with colourful clothes, little fires to warm themselves....On the other side machines in fighting armour, truncheons, helmets and artificial light.....Machine-people who don’t move. Sauron has sent his Orcs...." ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education Friday November 12, 2010 - 15:33 by Revolution Now...
Firsthand account of what happened at the Student Protest. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 11, 2010 - 23:44 by Luke Eastwood   text 3 comments (last - friday november 12, 2010 - 16:38)
Two very different methods are being employed to deal with continuing recession and debt, with possible dire consequences for the world economy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 10, 2010 - 13:43 by Paul Dillon   text 2 comments (last - monday november 15, 2010 - 14:04)
Author keith Bolender speaks about his book "Voices From The Other Side: An Oral History Of Terrorism Against Cuba".

For more, see the latest edition of Look Left. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 09, 2010 - 21:52 by Pepe   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2010 - 23:01)
I just happen to work very near the Department of Finance and so I was a first hand witness to how events unfolded on November 3rd during the Students’ Protest. I came out to support the students -“hijack their protest” according to the lazy, subservient and incredibly pro-rich Irish mainstream media journalists, who are unable to understand a simple concept called “Solidarity”. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Monday November 08, 2010 - 17:38 by PRO   image 1 image
Anne Thompson
SIPTU, Belfast

SIPTU joined with thousands of other trade union members, workers and those currently struggling to get a job on the 23rd October at Belfast City Hall when the public made a clear stand against Tory government imposed cuts.

The reckless slash and burn cuts by the Tory government will not as they claim, pave the way to recovery but rather lead the way to mass immigration and increase the extreme hardship faced by working families and the most marginalised and disadvantaged in society, while their banker mates are propped up by criminally extortionate salaries, bonuses and enhanced pensions enabled by the saviour of good honest tax payers monies - our money.

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national / anti-capitalism Sunday November 07, 2010 - 02:30 by V for vendetta   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 06, 2014 - 03:04)   image 2 images
As Usual, Not much publicity at all on the MSM about this date..Obviously a date and a sentiment the establishment would like us to forget, but in light of the recent austerity measures both here and in Britain and the rise of the conservatives again as a force to be reckoned with in British politics, Here at indy, we think this event needs to be remembered. We kinda like the idea of somebody wiping out the whole rotten establishment in one fell swoop ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday November 06, 2010 - 14:26 by john throne
OBama and his regime bailed out the rich in the last two years. Working peoples lives were getting harder and harder. the Union leaders backed the Obama regime. So many working people felt they had no other way to protest the Obama regime's right wing policies but to vote Republican. See the real mood in this article. ... read full story / add a comment
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