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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 29, 2014 - 23:37 by wsm   image 1 image
The WSM have produced an article that puts in context the way the Palestinian land has been stolen from them by the Israeli state.

For the size of its population Ireland has seen very large Gaza solidarity demonstrations. It is also one of the few places in the world outside the USA where there has been public displays of support for the Israeli military assault. Internationally there are many variations of this map where activists present to their population what the expulsion of the Palestinians from much of the land they once occupied would look like in a local context. One of our members prepared this but we soon realised its an impossible image to post without some reflection on our own settler colonialist past. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 25, 2014 - 08:36 by v for vendetta   image 1 image
The Intercept has published the guidelines whereby a person can be labelled a terrorist and
put on a no fly list by the US government. These are very vague and broad and it would be remarkably easy to end up on this list for a principled social activist, merely exercising their democratic right to protest ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Monday July 21, 2014 - 17:53 by Joe Keegan
The Summer Series of the Easter Rising walking Tours has started. ... read full story / add a comment
Child wounded in attack on Al-Rimal neighborhood, July 20th (image by Palestinian Ministry of Health)
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 20, 2014 - 23:11 by T   text 5 comments (last - saturday august 02, 2014 - 10:14)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Following a massive ground assault on Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City that cost over 60 people their lives before dawn Sunday, Israeli forces continued airstrikes throughout the afternoon and evening in every part of the Gaza Strip ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 15, 2014 - 00:48 by T   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 14, 2014 - 19:27)   1 attached file
The Intercept -the website setup by Glenn Greenwald and others this week publishes a new summary of intercept capabilities used by the NSA and Britain's GCHQ, this time covering how the intelligence agencies working on behalf of the surveillance state disrupt public discourse on the Internet and seek to control the Internet.

The revelations cover a range of surveillance tools that are used to spy and collect information and as well as to disrupt individuals computers and to attack websites using the very same tools that the same state has imprisoned hackers for. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Thursday July 03, 2014 - 19:28 by SavedByFerrets   text 1 comment (last - monday july 07, 2014 - 20:11)   image 1 image
The recent ebola outbreak is unprecedented yet little is being said about it in the media and little in the way of resources are being allocated to it's containment compared to what is being spent for example, in stoking up war in the middle east and Ukraine. The disease is highly contagious and kills 90% of those infected. ... read full story / add a comment
The Peoples News
national / eu Monday June 23, 2014 - 16:38 by Gary Boyne   image 1 image
The Peoples News contains comment on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective

Back issues over 10 years are available from the website

The Peoples Movement Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/peoplesmovementireland?ref=hl ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 14, 2014 - 16:18 by fred   text 17 comments (last - wednesday october 22, 2014 - 00:08)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Partially fuelled, no doubt, by US and Saudi money and weapons supplied for the fight in Syria, ISIS, a branch of Al Qaeda has routed the Iraqi military in a series of offences across the country, taking control of significant parts of the country. These are the exact same people fighting for freedom and democracy with US and Saudi backing just across the border in Syria. The staggering cynicism of US policy in the middle east and the blatant doublespeak of their media is laid bare by these recent events in Iraq in the last few days. In an article posted to WSWS, Bill van Auken picks through the wreckage ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 12, 2014 - 18:11 by Red Banner
Issue 56 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
is out now
€2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the address above ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 07, 2014 - 13:53 by fred   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 07, 2014 - 15:31)   image 1 image
Paul Craig Roberts was an insider in the US government for years so he knows how things really work and what the real motivations and driving forces are for geopolitical actions on the world stage. Don't believe the propaganda guff from your TV news. In this article Paul lays bare in simple terms what's actually going on in Ukraine, with Russia, the G7 and the US, and he lays bare the lies propagated about the role of the US in the second world war and the deliberately sidelined but crucial role of 27 million russians who sacrificed their very lives to defeat Nazi Germany, versus only 450,000 US soldiers ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Friday May 23, 2014 - 09:19 by CalaisMigrantSolidarity
Emergency situation in Calais!

All squats and camps will be evicted in the next few days!

In the course of the next few days, three camps will be destroyed by the police. More than 600 people live in these camps, which were won through constant migrant struggle after a long series of evictions. No solution has been proposed for the evicted migrants. Moreover, a social center and two further squats are up for eviction starting on May 30th. All told, more than 800 people will be put on to the street. ... read full story / add a comment
Peoples News
national / eu Tuesday April 29, 2014 - 18:57 by Gary Boyne   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 30, 2014 - 19:10)   image 1 image
PEOPLES NEWS – Issue 103 hot off the Press!
Table of Contents below

This fortnightly journal contains comment on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective

Back issues of the newsletter are available from the website http://www.people.ie/english5.html

The Peoples Movement Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/peoplesmovementireland?ref=hl
Go on give us a like! ... read full story / add a comment
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national / eu Saturday April 12, 2014 - 12:13 by Gary Boyne   image 1 image
PEOPLES NEWS – Issue 102. April 2014 out now
Table of Contents below

This fortnightly journal contains comment on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective

Back issues of the newsletter are available from the website http://www.people.ie/english5.html

The Peoples Movement Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/peoplesmovementireland?ref=hl ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday March 28, 2014 - 16:00 by T   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2014 - 15:44)
Recent research has found a link between the use of the Monsanto weed-killer Roundup which is used with all GM crops. It is used because the genetic material added to GM crops makes them resistant to Roundup. Normally any crop sprayed with too much weed killer not only kills the weeds but begins to kill the crop. The use of GM crops allows you to spray even more of the stuff.

Residues of Roundup has to be on and in the plants and this is where the research picks this up. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 25, 2014 - 13:03 by KM   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2014 - 23:35)
Looks as if the Ukrainian fascists are starting to outlive their shelf life. Just like the Brownshirts in The Night of the Long Knives they will be cut down by their masters. The hunter gets the bird, the dog that retrieves it gets a pat on the head, in the end a bullet in the head. Videos at he link below.

Notorious Ukrainian right-wing militant leader Aleksandr Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bilyi, has been shot dead during a police raid against his gang, confirmed Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior.

Muzychko was killed in Rovno, western Ukraine, where he coordinated actions of local groups belonging to the nationalist Right Sector movement. ... read full story / add a comment
Peoples News
international / eu Monday March 24, 2014 - 21:42 by Gary Boyne   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 25, 2014 - 23:26)   image 1 image
THE PEOPLES NEWS contains comment on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective

Back issues of the newsletter are available from the website http://www.people.ie/english5.html

The Peoples Movement Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/peoplesmovementireland?ref=hl
... read full story / add a comment
A picture is worth 1000 words but was this one worth 20,000 euro of taxpayers money?
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday March 24, 2014 - 14:56 by fred   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2014 - 14:44)   image 1 image
broadsheet.ie have put together a great timelline for the activities of Irish water thus far. It makes for very interesting reading. That is, If you are into reading about how our lords and masters and their capitalist friends are taking us for a ride at our own expense and the loss of what should be very basic state run services that should never be run as for profit services. After reading this expect it to be your blood and not the kettle that is boiling! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 23, 2014 - 13:56 by v for vendetta   image 1 image
Huge protests are taking place in Spain over bank bailouts of nearly 50 billion and subsequent crippling austerity measures imposed by the Spanish government on the Spanish people and jobless figures of 50% among the under 24 age group. The otherwise peaceful protest was marred at the end when a small group of masked youth engaged with police in violent scuffles. Very convenient and needless to say this is the subject matter of the first sentence in most MSM news reports ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday March 18, 2014 - 17:44 by 0   image 1 image
Patrick MacGill was born in 1889 in County Donegal Ireland. The same county as myself. He became known as the "Navvy Poet."This was after his work for a time as a "navvy", this term comes from working with a shovel building roads, the shovel was called a navvy shovel, something to do with navigating and the roads. Before he worked as a navvy he worked as a farm laborer, a ditch digger and a quarryman. He later fought as a young man in Flanders in the First World War. He became a poet and writer. Below are two of his poems. The first on his work as a navvy and how he saw society with its brutal class divide. The second on his experience in the trenches in Flanders in the imperialist war. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 16, 2014 - 14:26 by KM
They don't just look like like fascists, they don't just trample on Democracy and suppress National Minorities. No! The Ukrainian fascists are also intent on driving Jews from the Ukraine. RT reports on the growing number of incidents. There is also a video at the link. ... read full story / add a comment
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