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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
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 19, 2011 - 18:02 by Declan Cullen
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dublin / consumer issues Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 22:40 by Dave
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After 28 years of operation, Dublin Food Co-op is chronically sick: divorced from its founding principles and acutely dysfunctional. Following a deeply troubling incident in March, this author – until recently one of its most committed volunteers – has found it necessary to part ways. So, what’s gone wrong with the city’s pioneering consumer wholefood co-operative? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 19:22 by Battling Bloodsports in Ireland
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Great news from the Commercial Court today (May 18th) re the case of Greenband Investments v Irish Coursing Club! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 16, 2011 - 06:41 by ws
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We all rely on large companies to safeguard our health and we allow them to control and direct much of our science. Is this trust really justified? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 13, 2011 - 13:12 by Tom Stokes
Much-publicised initiatives to bring about political reform and constitutional change are a smokescreen to mask the maintenance of hegemonic control by the same privileged political class responsible for institutionalised inequality, injustice, and the destruction of our hard-won sovereignty and independence as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday May 13, 2011 - 12:05 by Anthony Coughlan
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AN IMPORTANT BOOK This is an important book on Irish republican and leftwing politics in the 1960s, on the background to the destruction of Ulster Unionist political hegemony by the Northern civil rights movement of that decade, and the formation of the Provisional IRA. Dr Treacy gives us much new information on a relatively neglected period. His book will be a significant source for those seeking to understand the explosion caused by the Partition of Ireland half a century after David Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act sundered Ireland into two parts in 1920. Unfortunately it will not be the definitive work on its subject. This is because Dr Treacy seems somewhat divided over what one might call “the conspiracy thesis” which has been subscribed to by sundry previous writers on this topic. This is that there was an attempt at some form of communist takeover-bid of the 1960s Republican Movement which contributed significantly to the 1970 split which gave rise to the Provisional IRA. ... read full story / add a comment |
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