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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 07, 2011 - 10:08 by Red Banner
Issue 46 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday December 02, 2011 - 12:38 by Anne McShane
Anne McShane writes about the cutbacks, the DCTU march and the inadequacies of the fughtback campaign to date. On November 26 2,000 demonstrators marched in Dublin against the December 5-6 budget. This budget marks year two of a four-year plan to slash public spending and raise taxes - all part of stringency measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund/European Central Bank 2010 bailout.

The numbers on this year’s demonstration were tiny compared to last November. Then a mass demonstration was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. An estimated 150,000 braved snow and ice to show their opposition to the strategy of draconian austerity. Militant speeches were given by the president of ICTU, Jack O’Connor, and its secretary, David Begg. Both pledged their active and wholehearted resistance to the IMF/ECB deal and vowed to defeat it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 01, 2011 - 14:34 by pat c
Ramzy Baroud is the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story (Pluto Press, London). Here he gives an analysis of the Arab Spring and what constitutes a revolition. Full text at link.

The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing several Arab countries.

While it is widely understood that revolutions endeavor to overthrow political structures and aim to change the social order and power paradigm within any given society, there is still no single, inclusive understanding of what actually constitutes a revolution. Nor is there any consensus as to exactly what a revolution is supposed to achieve. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Monday November 28, 2011 - 22:30 by wsm   text 12 comments (last - sunday december 04, 2011 - 16:04)   image 1 image
This is a short report back by the WSM on Saturday's (Nov 26th) Dublin Council of Trade Unions protest march against the austerity cuts imposed by the IMF and ECB. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 26, 2011 - 16:55 by Emily Chung   text 10 comments (last - saturday december 10, 2011 - 11:20)   image 1 image
The shrinkage continues, the sea level rises. We are all ion peril.

The recent loss of sea ice in the Arctic is greater than any natural variation in the past 1½ millennia, a Canadian study shows. "The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented," said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. "We kind of have to conclude that there's a strong chance that there's a human influence embedded in that signal." ... read full story / add a comment
Bernadette Devlin and fight to free Derry - not wanted by Druids' Glen golf management
wicklow / arts and media Thursday November 24, 2011 - 08:00 by Ken Sweeney   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 27, 2011 - 10:05)   image 1 image
THE heroes of the 1916 Rising have been turfed out of one of the country's most prestigious golf clubs. While these bastions of the sporting elite can be notoriously picky about who they do and do not allow to enter, eyebrows have been raised after the management of Druids Glen Golf Resort in Co Wicklow decided to evict the seven signatories of the 1916 proclamation. Their portraits have graced the stairs of the clubhouse, Woodstock House, since it opened in 1995. However, they no longer suit the "ambience" and will be put up for auction later this month. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday November 23, 2011 - 00:16 by Deep Green Resistance
Our planet is dying, and there is no mistaking the cause... Industrial civilization must me confronted as the machine of death that it truly is. The Occupy Movement has the makings of a revolutionary struggle, but it will only succeed if we can properly align our actions with an honest assessment of the predicament we face. ... read full story / add a comment
Screen shot from video of crowds in Cairo.
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2011 - 13:25 by pat c   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 30, 2011 - 14:03)   image 4 images   video 2 video files
Johannes Stern writes on how the US client Military Junta in Egypt has carried out a murderous attack on protesters. Interestingly: State TV cited US police actions against Occupy Wall Street protests to justify the repression of protests on Tahrir Square. Tellingly, many of the tear gas canisters used against Egyptian protesters were made in the US. Full text at link.

The US views the military as the backbone of the Egyptian bourgeois state, defending capitalist rule and the interests of Western imperialism in the Middle East. Ever since the mass uprising that led to the ouster of Mubarak on February 11, the Obama administration has worked closely with SCAF to try to end strikes and protests by Egyptian workers demanding social equality and democratic rights. It has sought at all costs to prevent a second revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday November 21, 2011 - 22:50 by T
This article by Jan Lundberg of CultureChange.org suggests we should be occupying the land as Jan has pointed out elsewhere that the Occupy movement hasn't really taken on the environmental crisis and sustainability into its core thinking and what will matter in the end is access to land for food when the whole system does eventually crash. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 18, 2011 - 04:54 by john throne and Richard Mellor Jimmy Kelly.   text 6 comments (last - saturday july 14, 2012 - 22:00)
Bridget O'Toole. Friend and Comrade. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 17, 2011 - 14:28 by pat c
Iran claims the explosion was accidental but is there more to this? Full text at link.

A massive explosion at an Iranian military base on Saturday killed Major General Hassan Moghaddam and 16 soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. While Tehran dismissed the blast as an accident, indications have already emerged that it was an act of sabotage carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

Moghaddam, who was trained in China and North Korea, has been described in Iran as the architect of the country’s ballistic missile program. The Alghadir base, at which the explosion occurred, housed Iran’s Shehab-3 missiles, which are capable of reaching Israel. Such was the scale of the blast that it was heard 40 kilometres away in Tehran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 17, 2011 - 13:34 by Joe Mc
French media and politicians have blamed Islamists for an arson attack on the offices of the satirical cartoon weekly Charlie Hebdo on November 2. The magazine has over the years published many anti Muslim cartoons and was a supporter of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 when the latter published its infamous Islamophobic cartoon provocation . After the attack ,SOS-Racism, a group with ties to the Socialist Party (PS) and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), organized a demonstration in support of Charlie Hebdo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2011 - 19:27 by pat c
Jean Shaoul outlines the role that Saudi Arabia is playing in the Imperialist war plans against Iran. The lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia has never bothered the US. Full text at link.

Saudi Arabia’s key role in seeking to destabilise the Ba’athist regime of Bashir Assad has become the centrepiece of an attempt by Washington to cobble together an anti-Iranian alliance, aimed more generally at suppressing the Middle Eastern masses.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer and exporter, has the largest known oil reserves in the world. This has brought untold wealth to the Saudi ruling family and its more than 20,000 princes. The House of Saud keeps power by a system of brutal repression that outlaws all public protests, strikes and expressions of dissent, combined with its championing of an extreme version of Sunni Islam, Wahhabism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2011 - 19:19 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2011 - 21:44)
Chris Marsden reports on Arab League to suspend Syria and exposes the hypocrisy of some of the despots who voted in favour. Full text at link.

The vote by the Arab League to suspend Syria brings a step closer the possibility of external military intervention into what is already a de facto civil war. A meeting in Cairo Saturday told Syria it will be suspended from the Arab League and face sanctions if it does not end its crackdown on anti-government protesters. A total of 18 countries agreed to the suspension, beginning Wednesday. Only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against, with Iraq abstaining. ... read full story / add a comment
Remember, remember ... the imperialist slaughter
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 11, 2011 - 19:33 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 12, 2011 - 10:30)   image 1 image
James Turley writes about the criminalisation of those who have burned poppies and elaborates on the imperialist agenda behind the whole remembrance charade. Those who fell should be remembered but not to glorify imperialism.

It is that time of year, again, when the world is colonised by plastic poppies. No establishment luminary will be seen in a public forum without one of these slightly naff trinkets pinned to his or her lapel; and thousands more people around the country will likewise sport the designated symbol of remembrance for the war dead.... .

More troubling is the fate of three Northern Ireland teenagers, about whom little is known except their ages - two are 17 and one 16 - and that they were pulled up before Coleraine magistrates court, charged with ‘incitement to hatred’. The 16-year-old also faces charges relating to ‘improper use’ of a social networking site, thanks to his publication of damning visual evidence of the ‘crime’ on Facebook....
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 06, 2011 - 21:39 by Robert Fisk   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 08, 2020 - 19:36)
I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again. Bright red they were, with that particularly silly green leaf out of the top – it was never part of the original Lady Haig appeal – and not one dared to appear on screen without it. Do these pathetic men and women know how they mock the dead? I trust that Jon Snow has maintained his dignity by not wearing it. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/....html ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 02, 2011 - 00:30 by An Puc ar Buile   text 1 comment (last - monday november 07, 2011 - 13:13)
This article questions why the current crisis has so far failed to bring us together as a people and why, in the face of the prospect of economic meltdown, we're still merrily clinging to the status quo of individualism and conservatism. It also asks what role a progressive nationalism has to play in getting us out of the crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
Bodies of persons lie in the garden of the Mahari Hotel in Sirte, immediately after they were put into body bags by local residents. At the time of their killing the hotel was apparently controlled by anti-Gaddafi fighters from Misrata. 53 persons were ap
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 24, 2011 - 17:39 by pat c   image 1 image
HRW reveal that Gaddafi supporters were subject to mas execution after surrendering. Ful story at link.

We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte, and some had their hands bound behind their backs when they were shot. This requires the immediate attention of the Libyan authorities to investigate what happened and hold accountable those responsible.
Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday October 23, 2011 - 20:31 by William Gomes   1 attached file
You compete with others but not with the animals that you slaughter but they do slaughter the fellow human beings. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday October 23, 2011 - 00:53 by An Puc ar Buile   text 10 comments (last - wednesday october 26, 2011 - 02:47)   image 1 image
How can the Irish people vote for a former Fianna Fáil luminary after all that has happened under the watch of the Soldiers of Density? ... read full story / add a comment
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