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national / arts and media Monday June 09, 2008 - 11:06 by Miriam Cotton
 6 comments (last - tuesday june 10, 2008 - 12:24)
The Irish Times goes all out on behalf of the 'Yes' Campaign. Expect more of this nauseating lecturing over the next few days. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Sunday June 08, 2008 - 23:24 by Laure Akai/Damien Moran
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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 05, 2008 - 14:50 by pat c
Following on from the affiliation by the PCS, the ASLEF union has now voted to affiliate to Hands Off the People of Iran. Nobody spoke against the motion to affiliate. Full article at link. The national conference of Aslef, the rail drivers’ union, has voted unanimously to affiliate to the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. This is the second major union to do so, following the decision of last month’s PCS conference, where only Socialist Workers Party comrades opposed affiliation. However, the SWP had no presence at the Aslef conference and nobody spoke against the proposal. Delegates from across the country spoke in favour, including general secretary Keith Norman. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 04, 2008 - 19:24 by Darren C
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Like their counterparts in France, Ruairi Quinn and the Irish Labour Party have become disturbingly fixated on dark skinned schoolgirls wearing hijabs. Derangement, paranoia and liberal racism are now centrist political positions. Quinn's Islamophobic and racist tirade against those immigrants who don't "conform to Irish norms" (we could have fun trying to define that one) is covered in today's Irish Independent: ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 02, 2008 - 06:58 by Sean Crudden
Surely there is a place in heaven for this great man. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 31, 2008 - 22:35 by Yassamine Mather
In the article below Yassamine Mather casts a jaundiced eye on the political economy of the theocracys Iran. Full text of the article at the link. Before Ruhollah Khomeini came to power, he portrayed himself and the proposed islamic regime as defenders of the poor: “This system of clerical rule is necessary to prevent injustice, corruption, oppression by the powerful over the poor and weak, and deviation from islam and sharia law; and also to destroy anti-islamic influence and conspiracies by non-muslim foreign powers.” Once in power and in a position to deal with Iran’s economy, Khomeini’s infamous response to demands for a better life spoke volumes about his real position: “People did not make revolution for bread. They made revolution for islam ... economy is for the donkeys” .He later expressed impatience with those who complained that the standard of living had dropped after the revolution: “I cannot believe that the purpose of all these sacrifices was to have less expensive food.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday May 31, 2008 - 17:51 by Red Banner
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas Issue 32 is out now, €2 / £1.50 from Red Banner sellers, good bookshops or the address above. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 31, 2008 - 13:26 by tomeile
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Former German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer writes that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities is likely in the near future. With the approaching end of the Bush presidency and uncertainty about his successor's policy, the window of opportunity for Israeli action is seen as potentially closing. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Friday May 30, 2008 - 08:33 by Seracle 1 attached file
Galway writer and poet, Maureen Gallagher, has been awarded first prize in the Wicklow Writers’ Poetry Competition 2008 for her poem 'December Rain', about clerical child abuse . Her winning poem can be read on wicklowwriters.blogspot.com . She also came second in the short story category. Maureen is a widely published poet and a regular reader at Crannog events in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 27, 2008 - 22:03 by Damien Moran
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 27, 2008 - 15:12 by Ciaron
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"Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73" Nevada City, California: Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 26, 2008 - 15:12 by Miriam Cotton
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A surprise awaits John Bolton, one of the chief architechts of the illegal invasion of Iraq, at the Hay book festival this Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 25, 2008 - 01:27 by D. Flanagan
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A report in the Sunday Business Post links Libertas to Rettet Osterreich, an Austrian rightist political group. Rettet Osterreich held a rally in Vienna on March 12 which was attended by the neo-nazi National People's Party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 24, 2008 - 08:38 by mission possible
"ntergalactic tyrants beware: the boys in blue are after you" Anyone who thinks the police aren't interested in diversity will be amazed by the links they have built with Scientology Interesting article by Marina Hyde in today's "Guardian" follows up explosive recent allegations that the cult of Scientology has infiltrated police in the City of London and community groups in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 23, 2008 - 13:17 by Bazooka Joe
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The US military murdered eight people including two children in northern Iraq's Salaheddin province on Wednesday. This came the same day the US killed 14 civilians in Baghdad. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday May 23, 2008 - 09:41 by isn'er
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The text of an article on the Lisbon Treaty from Resistance no. 6, the May/June issue of the Irish Socialist Network paper, can be found at the following link: www.irishsocialist.net ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 22, 2008 - 18:43 by Johannes Wilm
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On a recent trip to Belfast/Northern Ireland I wanted to find out who is really to be accepted as being a progressive force up there. The Left has generally supported those pro-catholics, who are working for a united Ireland as a part of a national liberation struggle from London rule. I decided to interview representatives of progressive parties on either side on the issues that socialists should really care about -- social issues -- to see how different they really are in their day-to-day politics in these current times of peace. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 20:02 by Gar
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I'm not a member of Comhlamh, but just thought I'd point out a document the NGO has produced on the Lisbon Treaty. The PDF is available on their website. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 18:50 by Bazooka Joe
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The United States has admitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that it has detained about 2,500 children, mostly in Iraq, since 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 19:28 by GH
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