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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 22, 2010 - 12:53 by pat c
Len McCluskey has been elected leader of the UK's biggest trade union, Unite. His win, with 101,000 votes, will see him take over from joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson who have been in post since the union formed in 2007. Grassroots candidate Jerry Hicks came second in the election with 52,000 votes. McCluskey had the Unite bureaucrats behind him but many on the Left also supported McCluskey against HIcks. Working on a shoestring budget Jerry has achieved a magnificent result. Gerry Downing reports on the campaign. Full text at link. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday November 22, 2010 - 10:33 by An Madra Rua
Taxing multi-millionaires would raise €48 billion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday November 16, 2010 - 06:50 by AchuslaClarke
The Irish Singer's Own Book in Boston, 1880 credited this song to Patrick Carpenter, a poet and native of Skibbereen. It was published in 1915 where Herbert Hughes said it had been found in County Tyrone. It is sung here by Ronnie Drew. It is today the anthem of Irish immigrants worldwide or the Rebels Yell of Irish Diaporadoes.The line " And loud and high we'll raise the cry, "Revenge for Skibbereen!" is the battle cry of Ireland's 80 million Diasporadoes scattered around the planet today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 15, 2010 - 16:14 by Ciaron
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On October 12th 2010, Jimmy Mubenga was killed by GS4 security guards in a packed plane waiting for take off on the runway at Heathrow, London. While being deported to Angola he was being heavilly restrained by security guards and had complained of breathing problems. Kevin Wallis, a passenger on the aircraft, said he heard Jimmy Mubenga complain "I can't breath, I can't breath" for at least 10 minutes before he lost consciousness, and later observed that handcuffs had been used in the restraint. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 14, 2010 - 15:00 by linksman
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A link to an indymedia uk article about the educational toy maker LEGO and its connection to the British Aerospace arms giant . BAe , which is the world’s largest arms manufacturing company , sponsors the international FIRST LEGO leagues where kids compete to make fully-functioning model drones and motorised robots . The Irish LEGO League finals are taking place at the Galway Science Festival at the moment . ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 14, 2010 - 02:47 by children_of_lir
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A Government with no money, has nothing to do. We already know that this malfeasant Government doesn't give bugger all about the people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday November 12, 2010 - 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes about how sanctions are worsening the situation of ordinary people in Iran. How the regime are cutting subsidies on food and somewhat foolishly targetting pensioners. Over the last two weeks the number of strikes in Iranian factories and workplaces has risen considerably. Workers have taken action in major plants such as South Pars Gasfields, Alborz Lastic Sazi, Ghaem Shahr textiles, Safa Louleh (pipe manufacturers), as have city council workers in Abadan. Demands have also been raised by nurses and other hospital workers, teachers and civil servants. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 09, 2010 - 13:59 by Marcus McSpartacus
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Harper's Magazine interviews Madhusree Mukerjee who "has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943." Like Ireland a century before, India was a food exporter at the time due to British suzereignty. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 09, 2010 - 13:30 by T
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In the latest piece in Monday's Irish Times from Prof. Morgan Kelly who at the height of the boom in 2007 said Anglo had lent over €100 billion and would eventually go bust, now says the country is facing a wave of mortgage defaults and that the country is effectively gone bust already. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 09, 2010 - 06:16 by 9-0
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PHOTO (last Saturday Nov 6th 2010) Celtic Fans Against the "Bloodstained Poppy" (Nov 11th) -Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/061110...7Iink (the bhoys hammered Aberdeen 9-0 on the day!) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 08, 2010 - 15:20 by SBU
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“Sink their Navy, destroy their Air Force, and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard”. ....US Senator Lindsey Graham speaking at Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Sunday November 07, 2010 - 19:48 by Saoirsí
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"They can't go to Kabul - because of overload!" "Irish legislators can't go to Kabul, because they don't have bullet-proof vests in their size." ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday November 06, 2010 - 20:42 by Protecting Ireland's Wildlife
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Departure from this death of Jerry Desmond, former CEO of the Irish Coursing Club ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Saturday November 06, 2010 - 13:36 by circumscript
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Even if listeners to the home service of wireless RTE yesterday were the first to know, by now there's no inside knowledge or shame attached to the FF/Green coalition's latest solution for Ireland's ills. Yep. We're talking smegma. Of course none of the commercial press titles or paid journalists or even esteemed opposition deputies or presidential candidates will utter the word................ But free smegma is there for the having. ... read full story / add a comment
Episode 5 of the Irish History Podcast is out now. This episode "changing times" looks are very important but relatively unknown period in Irish history - 902-930. After the Vikings were driven out in 902, war broke out between the two biggest factions in Gaelic Ireland - The O Neills and The Eoganacht. The result of this war heralded great change - ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Thursday November 04, 2010 - 21:47 by Pax
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Published here in the national interest and in light of recent events. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 04, 2010 - 08:04 by Ciaron
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Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many – they are few. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 05:52 by Solidarity
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Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth was blockaded on the morning of 1 November in an action called by the Plymouth-based Trident Ploughshares (TP) group, The Tamarians. Devonport Dockyard refits, maintains, and upgrades the submarines which carry Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system, which has been declared illegal under international law. The yard is also increasingly becoming the dumping ground for old and out of service nuclear submarines, posing a further radioactive contamination hazard to the quarter of a million people who live nearby. The aim of the blockade was to close all gates to the shipyard from 6am. Fourteen people were arrested during the action. Article continued.... http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/467165.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 17:51 by Ajax
Michael Mann writes about the ongoing campaign by the climate Change deniers to not just deny Global Warming. Some, funded by Oil companies like Shell, have a broader agenda of repealing environmental measures such as fuel efficiency for vehicles. Full article at url. I'd like to say I was surprised when news broke a year ago that emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK, had been hacked into and leaked, and that scientists' personal emails were being quoted out of context to disingenuously imply impropriety on their part. But I wasn't. Books such as Merchants of Doubt by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have detailed how front groups for the fossil-fuel industry have been waging an orchestrated, well-funded campaign against climate science and climate scientists for more than two decades. Hacking into the CRU's email was simply the latest skirmish in this war against science, timed to forestall any progress towards lowering carbon emissions at the Copenhagen climate conference being held about a month later. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 13:24 by IT Reader
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