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national / politics / elections Wednesday February 23, 2011 - 00:07 by Paul Larkin
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During the election campaign, the media has singularly failed to put the hard questions to former members of the Workers Party ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 21, 2011 - 15:06 by Ruben Markarian
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Ruben Markarian of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran addressed the Hopi AGM in London on 12 February 2011. Here is an extract from his speech. The full text is at the url. Before discussing recent political events in Iran, please allow me to commemorate a very significant event in modern Iranian history - the Siahkhal uprising, which took place 40 years ago. This event produced the Fedayeen movement after two decades of stagnation and reformism on the left. The Fedayeen initiated armed struggle against the shah’s regime. In so doing they revived the Iranian left and turned it into the main force in the struggle against the shah and against imperialism in Iran. We should commemorate our fallen comrades and their memory - they died for socialism and freedom and passed on militant traditions to the next generation of Iranians. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Saturday February 19, 2011 - 22:31 by Anonymous
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The past World Week for the Abolition of Meat from 22 to 29 January 2011 - the very first WWAM of the year - was a success. Varied events (such as street actions, silent demonstrations, "human" meat tray actions, protest marches...) were organized in over 70 towns and cities, mainly in Europe, but also in South Africa, in both Americas, in India as well as in Japan (here's the list). These events were largely covered in the media. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday February 19, 2011 - 16:47 by McDorcha
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"A man who once stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness was last night behind bars in Maghaberry Prison after being convicted for an attempted murder 30 years ago. Gerry McGeough is the first republican to be jailed for historical crimes since the Good Friday Agreement. He was yesterday convicted of attempting to murder UDR member Sammy Brush in 1981 and of IRA membership in 1975." Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/n...EjbhH ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 19, 2011 - 11:45 by Joe
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Mike Head on the wave of uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa and the barbaric response from western- backed dictatorships. . Troops loyal to the Bahrain royal family have been using live ammunition against protestors resulting in many deaths . The article suggests that America , whose Fifth Fleet is based in the oil-rich state of Bahrain ,is acting in close collaboration with the royal regime . ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 18, 2011 - 13:52 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on the spread of demonstrations to Iran, inspired by the Egyptian Revolution. Full text at link. Amongst the many protests in Egypt and Tunisia not only were there no signs of support for the Islamic Republic, but protestors in Tahrir Square called on Iranians to follow their example and continue their protests for democracy. Indeed every time Iran’s rulers tried to imply that Arab protestors were following in the traditions of the revolution led by ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, secular and religious protestors united to denounce such comparisons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 17, 2011 - 18:54 by worker
The struggle spreads to Iran. The workers will topple the Dictatorship. This is by Hamid Azar, from ‘Offensiv’, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). The 25 Bahman (14 February) was a day of revolt in Iran. Hundreds of thousands protested in Tehran and in other cities. They shouted, "Down with dictatorship!" and "After Ben Ali, now Sayed Ali [Khamenei]!" Almost 50,000 people responded to a call on Facebook to support the protests. The official opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi, in a letter to the Minister of Interior sent earlier sought approval for a demonstration in support of the revolution in Egypt. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 12, 2011 - 18:33 by pat c
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Seven writers give their analyses of the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions and warn of the dangers ahead. Full texts at links. The Emerging Counter-Revolutions In Tunisia And Egypt By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya An arrogant pharaoh has fallen. Egyptians may be chanting that their country is free, but their struggle is far from over. The United Arab Republic of Egypt is not free yet. The old regime and its apparatus are still very much in place and waiting for the dust to settle. The Egyptian military is officially in control of Egypt and the counter-revolution is emerging. A new phase of the struggle for liberty has started. http://www.countercurrents.org/nazemroaya120211.htm ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 09, 2011 - 15:21 by Kev
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign Statement – first published 3rd February 2011 The geo-political status quo of the Middle East is undergoing a dramatic shake-up as the Arab peoples take to the streets to demand their democratic rights in popular uprisings. Mass mobilisations have seen the downfall of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia, while the fate of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency in Egypt remains uncertain as protestors refuse to leave the streets, and smaller scale protests have been taking place in Yemen[1], Algeria[2] and Jordan[3]. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 06, 2011 - 18:51 by pat c
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Awal Gul has finally left Guantánamo - in a coffin. Full text at link. On Thursday the Pentagon announced that Awal Gul, a 48-year old Afghan prisoner, who had been held for nine years without charge or trial and was scheduled to be held forever, died in a shower after suffering a heart attack. Gul had never been held as a prisoner of war, and despite the US government’s assertions that he could be held forever, no one in a position of authority — neither President Bush nor President Obama — had ever adequately demonstrated that he constituted a threat to the United States. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Sunday February 06, 2011 - 18:50 by Darren Mac an Phríora
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www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice www.facebook.com/pages/Ar-Muin-na-Muice-Near90fm/151607258200495 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 05, 2011 - 23:05 by Saoirse
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The National offices of the Irish Freedom Committee, and the Charlie Kerins Cumann in Chicago, regrets to inform our friends and supporters of the death of veteran Irish republican Frank O'Neill last night in Chicago. Frank was 88 years old. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 04, 2011 - 18:44 by Chris Knight
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group continues his examination of Chomsky's life and work. In particular he analyses an early work by Chomsky: Cartesian linguistics. He also looks at some sources Chomsky tapped for funding in his early days. Full text at link. In 1966, Noam Chomsky (pictured) published his Cartesian linguistics. The book was a survey of rationalist conceptions of language and mind, focusing heavily on the French mathematician and philosopher, Réné Descartes (1596-1650). In his early years, Chomsky had been working within the structuralist tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Leonard Bloomfield and his own teacher, Zellig Harris. Chomsky wrote Cartesian linguistics in order to signal to the world his change of mind. His distinctively 'Cartesian' approach, he now clarified, was a rebellion against the entire 20th century tradition of structural linguistics. ... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday February 04, 2011 - 09:47 by Fin Dwyer
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Episode 6 is the start of a fascinating story, full of twists and turns. Over the next three shows we will see the O Neill kingdom who have dominated the first five shows see their power challenged by the Dal Cais (the family of Brian Boru). This will see many challengers rise and fall as these two families battle it out for supremacy in medieval Irelan ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2011 - 16:24 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather analyses recent events in Iran and looks at the growing tensions in the Islamic regime . Full text at link. Last week's stalemate in nuclear talks between Iran and the so-called 'five plus one' countries (US, China, France, Russia, Britain and Germany) came at a time when a number of events had already promised a turbulent start to the new year for Iranians: a plane crash for which sanctions must have been partly responsible; the execution of 53 prisoners, including four political prisoners, in less than three weeks; accusations by the 'principlist' faction of the regime that president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's closest ally, chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, is an "agent of foreign powers" (Israel); that vice-president Rahimi is corrupt; stories that Ahmadinejad was slapped in the face by a revolutionary guard commander; confirmation that Israel and US jointly sponsored the Stuxnet computer worm; the escalation of US sanctions against Iranian shipping companies; Afghan protests over Iran's month-long near blockade of cross-border fuel shipments; the passing of harsh sentences against film maker Jafar Panahi, 'human rights' lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari; and a wave of workers' strikes demanding the release of all political prisoners. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 26, 2011 - 16:57 by pat c
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Tariq Ali believes that the documents are genuine and that they expose the abject treachery of sections of the PLO leadership. Full text at link. The ‘Palestine Papers’ being published this week by al-Jazeera confirm in every detail what many Palestinians have suspected for a long time: their leaders have been collaborating in the most shameful fashion with Israel and the United States. Their grovelling is described in grim detail. The process, though few accepted it at the time, began with the much-trumpeted Oslo Accords, described by Edward Said in the LRB at the time as a ‘Palestinian Versailles’. Even he would have been taken aback by the sheer scale of what the PLO leadership agreed to surrender: virtually everything except their own salaries. Their weaknesses, inadequacies and cravenness are now in the public domain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 22, 2011 - 03:34 by Phier
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State department cable reveals possible use of Irish IT infrastructure to pilot unmanned drones in Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 13, 2011 - 18:04 by pat c
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks staff codemn the Tucson shooting and hope for the recovery of Gabrielle Giffords and the other wounded. They point out that Sarah Palin and other US reactionaries have also incited violence against Wikileaks staff and contributers. Full text at link. Sarah Palin urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 13, 2011 - 17:27 by Red Banner
Issue 42 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas out now in bookshops and the address above, €2 / £1.50 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 13, 2011 - 05:09 by R.I.P.
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This thread marks the passing in 2011 of folks who have spent their lives struggling for peace and justice (and others). ... read full story / add a comment |
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