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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
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 06, 2010 - 10:07 by Kerry Worker
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to “stage” a protest against budget cuts in Dublin on November 27th. For anyone keeping an eye on the unions’ shenanigans the word “stage” is quite appropriate – perhaps “stage-manage” would be even better. For these same union leaders have worked hand-in-hand with the current government in the greatest assault on Irish workers since the great lock-out of 1913. While that conflict paved the way for the 1916 rising, we can be quite sure that our current leaders and their cronies will do everything in their power to ensure that as little as possible changes this time round. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday November 06, 2010 - 00:27 by Bryan Wall   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 06, 2010 - 17:15)
The events of the student march on Wednesday the 3rd of November were a turning point in the attitude of the state towards the general populace. As we look down the barrel of what is likely to be the harshest budget in the history of the country, the Government can no longer contain the anger of the Irish people. What happened on Wednesday was proof of this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 18:51 by ChasMacG   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 25, 2010 - 20:58)
A look at the perjury trial taking place in Glasgow ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 14:25 by Marcus McSpartacus   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 07, 2010 - 00:22)   video 1 video file
Peter Sutherland has thrown his considerable weight behind the bank bailouts, and has told us we need to tighten our belts to do it. This is the same Peter Sutherland who helped bail out Garret Fitzgerald while a director of Allied Irish Banks. This is the Garret Fitzgerald who has told us we need to be patriots by not disagreeing with the bank bailouts. That was Allied Irish Banks, the profit-privatising institution which is now socialising its losses on us. This is Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs, one of the biggest bondholders of Allied Irish Banks' debt, and thus one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of the bank bailouts.

Hello? Is anyone reading this? Anyone in the media? The Dáil? Anyone? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 02:16 by green leprechaun

Techniques and Explorations
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national / anti-capitalism Monday November 01, 2010 - 16:02 by rebelcity
The myth hinders the creation of a viable strategy to advanced the republican ideal. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday October 31, 2010 - 21:53 by ordinary citizen
A more balanced society is possible from the ashes of this mess we are in. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday October 31, 2010 - 18:57 by john throne
The right recognized the anger in American society against Wall Street, the Banks and their capitalist system and politicians. They acted to fill the vacuum. The union leaders, the left and anti capitalist movement did not recognize the mood nor the vacuum. They did not act. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday October 29, 2010 - 00:08 by Various authors   text 1 comment (last - friday october 29, 2010 - 22:43)
This open letter welcomes the "Claiming our future" initiative. It states both the values that we see at the core of our vision for the future and the steps we will take to make such transformations plausible and sustainable. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday October 24, 2010 - 00:33 by Mi cke y   text 2 comments (last - monday october 25, 2010 - 00:53)
At the end of August Time.com published an article containing a controversial opinion of co-founder of the most popular organization fighting (supposedly) for animal rights – Ingrid Newkirk. Mrs President, said, inter alia, that “Absolute purists should be living in a cave.” In the ranks of the activists PETA has been regarded as the organization which in no way improve the lot of animals. After another raid someone may even be tempted to declare that the organization becomes harmful, because denying ethical considerations justifies the same industry which is responsible for the holocaust of the animals. This in turn leads to the construction of the belief that everything is really okay, we should eat animals, we just need to kill them a bit more gently. This way, Burger King customers will soon become defenders of the animals. Anyway Gary L. Francione issued an excellent response to Mrs. Newkirk views. I urge you to read it to understand fully what I mean. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday October 23, 2010 - 23:10 by Kerry Worker   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2010 - 21:56)
Notably absent from the media analysis of the recent SIPTU scandal has been the conclusion that Irish trade unions were corrupted by government hand-outs under the guise of “partnership”. That during the “Celtic tiger years” Irish trade union leaders’ interests diverged strongly from that of the ordinary membership. That “partnership” and “benchmarking” significantly advanced the interests of the managerial class within the trade unions, while yielding miniscule cost-of-living pay increases for ordinary members in a time of rapid inflation. That these same union bosses need removal every bit as urgently as do the current crop of Irish political and financial leaders. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday October 23, 2010 - 16:18 by SQ
It may come as a surprise to union members but the government and the trade union general secretaries have now revealed that further pay cuts are in fact provided for under the provisions of the Croke Park agreement.

The Irish Independent of 23rd October reported that the department of finance "is strongly considering reducing wage levels for all new recruits to the public sector by a flat 10pc in the Budget". See this link:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/budget-plan-to-....html ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 19:45 by Kevin Quinn   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2010 - 16:19)   image 1 image
Every step this government takes drags us further towards the economic abyss. ... read full story / add a comment
where is all the money gone??
dublin / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 17:18 by Gregor Kerr   text 1 comment (last - friday october 22, 2010 - 15:17)   image 1 image
Zombie developers….. Vampire bankers….. Ghost estate creators….. Black holes that swallow tens of billions of Euros…..

They sound like characters from a particularly eerie Hallowe’en tale of horrors. However while they might be spooky, there’s nothing fictional about this array of characters
... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 16:05 by Paddy Hackett
"Why not freeze all mortgage payments for two years? Nobody makes any payment on their mortgage until November 2012. If we assume a conservative multiplier of only 1.4, Ireland would get € 20 bn worth of stimulus without upsetting our EU leaders rules at all." ... read full story / add a comment
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