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If you thought the inheritance tax raid on farmers was bad, wait till you see what its proponents have in store for us next, says Mat Brown. The Blob that gave us the 'tractor tax' has its sights set on a wealth tax.
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Not long ago, anyone criticising St Greta was labelled a bully. Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. Now, it looks like the heretics were right and the worshippers were fools.
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 02, 2012 - 19:38 by Occupy Galway   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 10, 2012 - 09:23)   image 2 images
Occupy Galway is launching a voter registration initiative ahead of the Fiscal Compact Treaty referendum on the 31st of May. Registration and Change of Address forms along with information on the treaty will be available at the camp in Eyre Square in the run up to the vote. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 02, 2012 - 13:10 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 6 comments (last - monday may 07, 2012 - 10:57)
Press release

On the occasion of May Day—International Workers’ Day—we publicity launch a united statement signed by fifteen communist parties from throughout the European Union as a common position against the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union and the revised Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). ... read full story / add a comment
One of the pro hare coursing accessories withdrawn from sale on Amazon
international / animal rights Tuesday May 01, 2012 - 13:05 by Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports   image 2 images
Symbolic victory for anti-blood sports campaign as “I Love Hare Coursing” accessories destined for Ireland and the UK withdrawn from sale. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Monday April 30, 2012 - 20:34 by M Gilliland   text 1 comment (last - monday april 30, 2012 - 19:58)   image 6 images
Read it online now at thefreeonline.wordpress.com. (or free download for all apps)
The original of The Free was set in a fictional Ireland, and even in this huge updated 4th edition you can recognize streets, and Dublin banter.
The thriller story is more topical than ever, set in an anarchist/feminist social revolution which triumphs due to the collapse of Capitalism caused by climate chaos.
Now it's a world book, with 2035 'Friends on Farsebook', but the first chapters could be the backstreets of Dublin.
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international / animal rights Friday April 27, 2012 - 10:29 by Caddy   text 4 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 - 09:59)   video 1 video file
Animal Rights Zone (ARZone), the global campaigning, activities, and social network for animal advocates, announces the third phase of their ongoing Vegan Buddies Programme. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 26, 2012 - 14:32 by Dublin Basque   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2012 - 18:01)   image 1 image
This week 75 years ago, the Basquetown of Gernika was virtually destroyed with huge loss of life in a bombing raid by the Condor Legion, a cover name for a detachment of the Luftwaffe loaned to the Spanish generals leading a mutiny against the elected Popular Front government of the Spanish state. The Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee will be commemorating this event on Friday 27th (the actual anniversary is the 28th). ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday April 25, 2012 - 18:07 by O.O'C.   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 02, 2012 - 09:59)
The grandly titled "Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union" is supposedly about "stability" in the Eurozone. Yet the treaty warns us that money from the new permanent European Stability Mechanism bailout fund will only be given to States that have ratified it. ... read full story / add a comment
wexford / eu Wednesday April 25, 2012 - 10:51 by Oisín Ó Conail   text 7 comments (last - friday april 27, 2012 - 19:07)
The new County Chairman of Wexford Sinn Féin has called for a no vote to the so-called "Fiscal Compact" Treaty in the upcoming referendum - (formally, the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union). Oisín Ó Conail, a farmer and recent economics graduate from Foulkesmill, was elected the new Chairperson of Sinn Féin in County Wexford, at a Comhairle Ceantar meeting in Enniscorthy last Tuesday night. Mr Ó Conail said his first duty would be to help lead the County Wexford campaign of opposition to what he terms ‘the Permanent Austerity Treaty’. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 25, 2012 - 10:49 by Staff of the Molyneux Home   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 26, 2012 - 22:58)
Molyneux Nursing Home closing after 200 years. 21 loyal staff forced to joined the dole queue. Management refusing to negotiate with staff. Pay cuts implemented in january 2012 without staff consent and in breach of the Payments and wages act 1991. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Saturday April 21, 2012 - 22:59 by Republican Sinn Féin
As part of its campaign against the 26-County Austerity Treaty Republican Sinn Féin have launched a campaign website: www.nofiscaltreaty.net ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Thursday April 19, 2012 - 15:38 by Malachy Steenson   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 01, 2012 - 11:30)   image 1 image
The Association of Combined Residents Associations (ACRA) predicts mass opposition to any attempts to impose a tax on water. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 19, 2012 - 14:03 by Yassamine Mather
On Saturday April 14, Iran attended talks on its nuclear programme with six world powers in Istanbul. In the end, this ‘summit’ was little more than talks about talks - to take place in May in Baghdad. The uneasy stand-off continues and the strong possibility remains of an attack on Iran within months. Indeed, the outcome of the meeting has provoked a degree of cynicism, with press outlets in the US, the UK and Israel pointing out that Syria now seems to have learned the ‘Iran method’ - that is, agree to talks simply to buy time and postpone intervention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday April 18, 2012 - 12:23 by O.O'C.
Constitutional challenge in Ireland by Independent TD to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty and the Art.136 TFEU amendment to the EU Treaties purporting to authorise this Stability Mechanism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 23:37 by Laurence Cox   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2012 - 14:59)
Final call for applications for 2012-13 ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan was due to be released from administrative detention today.© HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 23:25 by AI   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2012 - 23:46)   image 1 image
The Israeli authorities must cease the practice of holding individuals in administrative detention, and ensure Palestinians in their custody are not subjected to ill-treatment and have access to adequate medical care when needed. Ann Harrison, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Director at Amnesty International.

The expected release of Palestinian Khader Adnan after four months in Israeli custody without charge or trial coincides with a mass prisoner hunger strike which Amnesty International says demonstrates anger over administrative detention and prison conditions. Adnan, a 34-year old baker allegedly linked to Islamic Jihad, is due to be released in a deal between his lawyers and the Israeli authorities in February in which he agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike protesting at his administrative detention and ill-treatment. He had been held since December 2011.

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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 21:00 by Occupy Galway   image 4 images
The members of Occupy Galway were proud to take part in what must be the biggest peaceful demonstration of solidarity and people power in Galway for many years. Between six and eight thousand people gathered on Eyre Square on Saturday to march on the Labour conference ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 18:38 by Laura Farrell
DCU invites Irish technology decision makers, entrepreneurs, SMEs and start-ups to the Helix, DCU for Get Digital: The National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce. This free event will take place on 25th April between 1pm and 6pm. 15 business leaders and experts will speak on cloud computing and the commercial opportunities for Irish businesses and the Irish economy. Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing segments and a significant part of the overall market for information technology and services and can reduce both the upfront and maintenance costs for ICT in most businesses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 17, 2012 - 10:49 by WISEup (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) 4 Bradley Manning
RSVP - 5 pm Tuesday April 24th. *"Free Bradley Manning" Vigil at U.S. Embassy, London
*Please RSVP if you can - helps us organise the event!
** If you can't make it to London or Ft. Meade, consider standing publicly whereever you are in solidarity with Bradley Manning!
*** Bradley was shipped trhough Shannon Airport to the war in Iraq. His maternal grandfather came from Dublin.
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national / miscellaneous Monday April 16, 2012 - 23:28 by Sian   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 19, 2012 - 12:57)
April 17 is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, commemorating the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place around the world in defense of peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights.

European civil society organizations and movements are asked to come together to recognize International Day of Peasant Struggle and to amplify their demand for European and global Food Sovereignty in a week of action and vibrant demonstrations.

Below is the is the list of actions and press release from some members of the growing movement for Food Sovereignty in Ireland to mark this important day. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday April 16, 2012 - 21:49 by Food Sovereigngty Ireland
Irish working group on Food Sovereignty

***Groups across Ireland organize activities to mark 17th April, International Day of Peasant Struggle of Via Campesina
***Irish company involved in landgrabbing
***30,000 hectares of publicly owned land now privatized in Serbia by Irish investors
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