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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 17, 2010 - 16:28 by Anne & Farah   audio 1 audio file
The audio is from the Dublin anarchist bookfair and has two speakers talking about the reform movement and feminism in Iran in general and the million signatures campaign in particular ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 16, 2010 - 17:15 by Chekov, Andrew, Aileen   audio 1 audio file
Recorded at the Dublin anarchist bookfair three speakers look at the economy, what the real situation of the resistance is and what needs to be built and examples of what has been achieved in the unions to date. This is followed by contributions from the floor from a wide range of perspectives. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 15, 2010 - 14:07 by Gavin Gleeson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 23, 2010 - 13:07)
Progressive taxation is a taxation system which seeks a higher tax rate for higher incomes. It is a relatively common feature in the western democracies. In Ireland however, its implementation is almost entirely nominal. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 20:10 by former republican   text 13 comments (last - monday june 28, 2010 - 11:08)
It is no wonder the more left wing members have left to join Irigi as least they will get some left of centre politics instead of 1950s type policies about drugs.In Irelands biggest ever recession. What is the reason for the blind and backward opinions of many of their members? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 17:29 by John Cornford
Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was released after three months in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, protests that at the moment he has little hope of making another film - all he can do is film one in his head. But, he says defiantly: “I will have to make a film - that is my life.”

“I started a hunger strike”, he says, “when one night they took me for questioning and the interrogators asked: ‘What is the name of your film?’ I thought they were referring to the film I was making when they arrested me in my house on March 1. So I replied: ‘That film isn’t finished yet, so it hasn’t got a name.’ They said: ‘No, no, we are asking about the film you are making in prison in your cell.’ ... read full story / add a comment
meath / environment Monday June 14, 2010 - 11:41 by Farrelly57   text 18 comments (last - friday september 03, 2010 - 11:19)   image 13 images
The proposed Tara/Skryne Landscape Conservation plan is an attempt to protect and preserve an old and sacred area but it may be scuppered by a small cabal of politicians who are again spreading scare storied and lies to keep the area open for all and any developement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Friday June 11, 2010 - 13:59 by Speaker: Conor Kostick   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 12, 2010 - 15:11)   audio 1 audio file
Connor Kostick author of Revolution in Ireland: Popular militancy 1917 to 1923 spoke at the 2010 Dublin anarchist bookfair about the wave of workplace occupations and 'soviets' as well as the general strikes that are forgotten by conventional nationalist histories of this period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday June 11, 2010 - 01:29 by Gerard   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 27, 2010 - 11:19)
The way the killings on board the MV Mavi Marmara have been reported in the mass media offers an interesting case study of one way in which the truth is often distorted by the mainstream, and it is a method that often involves not so much deception as obfuscation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 20:34 by Paddy Hackett
Capital implies the political state. As capital develops the state is correspondingly developed. There obtains an internal unity between capital and state. Buried within capital is the state –state capital. As capital develops the state issues out of it. It is a mistaken abstraction to focus on capitalist development to the exclusion of the state.
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 15:15 by Gavin Gleeson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 - 14:36)
The state is a central concept in the political philosophy of Anarchism. Anarchism is often defined as being an anti-state ideology. While this is sometimes a useful way to distinguish anarchists from other state socialists it also leads to a fair bit of confusion. We will look at the source of this confusion with the aim of showing that anarchism is in its essence opposed to rulers and is not a naive or idealistic form of anti-statism. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 06, 2010 - 20:15 by Sean Clinton   text 13 comments (last - sunday june 13, 2010 - 19:50)   image 2 images
At this critical juncture it is important that all who seek an end to Zionist hegemony focus on the critical structures underpinning the regime. Even a cursory examination of Israeli trade statistics reveals the importance of the diamond industry to the Israeli economy. Israel dominates the global diamond market and is, by a significant margin, its largest beneficiary with net diamond exports amounting to $10 billion in 2008. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday June 05, 2010 - 06:29 by children_of_lir   text 12 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2010 - 04:02)
With the recent news about child deaths while in care or in contact with services now at 188 and this figure is rising, it is time to bring down Mary Harney's Frankenstein, namely HSE. It was Harney who dissolved the ten regional Health Boards and created the disastrous and lethal HSE that came into operation on 1 January 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 04, 2010 - 09:30 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 05, 2010 - 17:09)
Obama , crippled with an unfortunate triple legacy must make reality of his Cairo Rhetoric to sustain any Arab credibility.
- Israel bites the Hand that Fed ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 03, 2010 - 23:16 by Raymond Deane   text 21 comments (last - wednesday june 09, 2010 - 16:09)
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on 3d June, über-Zionist Alan Shatter TD (Fine Gael) caused some jaws to drop when he expressed some unexpected opinions on Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 03, 2010 - 22:42 by Latif Serhildan   text 4 comments (last - friday june 04, 2010 - 21:19)   image 1 image
Both Turkey and Iran have accused Israel of state terror against the activists on the high seas. From a Kurdish point of view I salute the brave peace activists and I sympathize with the situation of the Palestinian people in the face of oppression by the Israeli state. Yet we cannot forget that both Turkey and Iran continue to commit atrocities against the Kurdish population. ... read full story / add a comment
Front cover of the irish Anarchist Review
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday June 03, 2010 - 17:09 by Andrew, Dara, Ronan   text 1 comment (last - friday june 04, 2010 - 19:38)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The first copies were distributed as Gardai attacked the Anglo Irish bank occupation and then attempted to stop the anti-capitalist bloc march but this was the formal launch of the new WSM magazine Irish Anarchist Review much of the content of which looks at the fight against the capitalist crisis in the workplace. Authors & editors introduce the articles followed by some questions about the new format. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 03, 2010 - 00:56 by Michael   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:55)
Launching of International Aid Convoy for the humanitarian relief of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
The speaker with a megaphone on Monday following the flotilla massacre
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 02, 2010 - 16:24 by Freda   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
This is the audio of the 'Israeli Apartheid, BDS and Grassroots Resistance in Palestine' from Saturday's anarchist bookfair. The speaker is Freda Hughes from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 31, 2010 - 18:06 by donkylemore   text 14 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:46)

Is this attack on an Aid ship Israel's taking advantage of an erstwhile preoccupied and unfortunate American President ? Or is it just more of Israel doing what Israel does best ..taking murderous and disproportionate action against civilians to further subjugate the Palestinian people - and doing all of this under the pre configured ideation imprinted on the Israeli mind that Europe 'owes' her because of the Holocaust - and therefore whatever would be deemed unacceptable by another country is Ok for Israel ? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 24, 2010 - 13:23 by john throne   text 30 comments (last - friday august 13, 2010 - 20:37)
The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response. ... read full story / add a comment
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