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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday October 30, 2006 20:37 by The Starry Plough
 8 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 22:08)  2 images
It is 93 years since two of Ireland's greatest republican socialists, James Connolly and James Larkin, led what became known as the Dublin lockout. The bosses 'locked out' thousands of workers for the heinous crime of defending their rights as workers and seeking union protection. While this may seem like a very long time ago, the struggle for workers rights on this island has not disappeared nor should it. What the lockout represented was an organised attempt to undermine the systematic exploitation of Irish workers. In 2006 that reality is still amongst us. Workers are effectively seen as a necessary evil to help the capitalist classes to achieve maximum profits. One key difference exists between now and 1913. While in 1913 the bosses were shielded by the existence of a British imperialist administration, they are now aided by an industrial relations tool which has actually been endorsed by many unions. That tool is social partnership. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 30, 2006 14:48 by The New World Order Resistance
1 comment (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 14:13)
www.ipsc.ie 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' (Martin Luther King) The IPSC was set up in late 2001 by a group of established Irish human rights and community activists, academics and journalists who were deeply concerned with the current situation in the Occupied Territories. In partnership with Palestinians now living in Ireland the IPSC was formed to provide a voice for Palestine in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 30, 2006 13:34 by Joseba Agudo, lawyer from the Basque Country
Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana’s hunger strike has been in the media in recent weeks. After 63 days on hunger strike demanding justice and attending the numerous requests he received and the mobilisation of Basque society, De Juana ended his protest. He began his hunger strike due to the attempt by the Spanish State Prosecution to get him sentenced to 96 years in jail for writing two press articles. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 28, 2006 21:41 by Con Carroll
3 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 18:47)
Non expert on politics or the reality of working class black South Africans read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday October 28, 2006 14:20 by Chris Murray
14 comments (last - thursday august 20, 2009 10:07) 1 image
Todays Papers state the Pope Benedict will visit the North of Ireland Next year. He is to be Invited to beatify Saint Columbana. The proposed visit is being requested by Dr Martin and envisages also a joint visit by HRH The Queen. The most recent report of Pope Benedict was a couple of days ago , when he deplored the activities of the Fern's Priests who got away with child abuse and tortured a generation of Irish Children. There was no acceptance of responsibility by the Roman Catholic Church in the statement on Ferns. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79298 read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 20:04 by Yusuf
1 comment (last - friday october 27, 2006 17:47) 2 images
NATO/ISAF mass murders in Afghanistan are increasing in number an ferocity as they tak battlefield defeats from Taliban fighters read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 03:08 by Bernie.Wright.
Barry became world famous in the late 1990's as the animal rights prisoner on hunger strike against animal experiments, but this was just one side to his long career in animal activism. Barry was a committed vegan and took part in campaigns against all animal abuse; he was a hunt saboteur for many years; he was an ALF activist who personally rescued many animals from a terrible fate, he was convicted for an attempt to rescue one of the last dolphins to be kept in captivity in the UK.; He was also one of the movements most prolific economic saboteurs causing millions of pounds of damage to animal abusing companies and individuals; He worked and lived at various animal sanctuaries around the country; he did street stalls and produced newsletters and leaflets. In the end he made the ultimate sacrifice for the struggle to end animal cruelty. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 02:57 by Ear-bashed
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." --Joseph Story read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 00:14 by Robert Petersen
I will present a summary of the computerization of voting in Brazil, but before that, it's necessary to explain some characteristics of the organization of the electoral power so that it can be understood, because some things happened that could lead to misunderstanding. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 17:20 by sophia
Bertie Ahern wants to throw out the 'stupid ol' pencils,' and bring in electronic voting. But we would be stupider than the pencils if we fall for this. Decisions by many US states to convert to electronic voting machines have yielded new concerns about whether they are secure and accurate, about paper records as backup proof and -- this year -- about whether the electronic or paper record should be considered the official tally if a candidate demands a recount. And on a Utube video, a computer software expert and whistleblower reveals to a congressional committee how he was asked to design a simple system to rig electronic votiing in Florida. And it wasn't hard to flip a 51/49 vote either way, with no one the wiser. when electronic voting is brought in the door, democracy goes out the window. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 17:09 by Dan
8 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 17:04)
As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea? It offers a way out of the current debate whether to "stay the course" (as President George W. Bush has long advocated) or to withdraw troops on a short timetable (as his critics demand). My solution splits the difference, "Stay the course – but change the course." I suggest pulling coalition forces out of the inhabited areas of Iraq and redeploying them to the desert. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 12:02 by C Murray
4 comments (last - friday april 13, 2007 19:50)
The Cabinet decided to disallow Romanian and Bulgarian workers to work in this economy for seven years after the accession of these two states to the EU on January first 2007. At the same time John Reid in Britain has severely restricted the influx of workers from those states to: A small grpoup of skilled people, 20,000 agricultural workers and the self-employed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,,337484,00.html read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 24, 2006 16:32 by Elaine O'Sullivan / Seán Ryan
65 comments (last - tuesday december 26, 2006 19:24) 1 image
The country took one step closer to water privatisation recently with the announcement that Celtic Anglian Water have landed the contract for the Waste Water Treatment Plant, part of the Waterford Main Drainage Project. The Irish Examiner described them as ‘the international division of Anglian Water’. However, a quick scan of the company’s website tells a different story, Anglian water have only a 50% stake. ‘Celtic Anglian water’ (CAW), is listed on the NTR (national toll roads) website as a subsidiary company. Along with such shining lights of Irish capitalism as Greenstar, Airtricity, Bioverda, Irish Broadband and National Toll Roads themselves. http://www.ntr.ie/companies/ read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday October 23, 2006 19:29 by Waster?
13 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 19:39)
'Get a job' is always the first criticism labelled at activists- should we go out and join the workforce or not? Are most activists on the dole? If so, why? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday October 23, 2006 01:21 by Paul Kinsella
14 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 17:35)
Ireland's 40,000 nurses are to step up their campaign for a pay rise by holding a mass rally in Dublin on 22nd November. Let’s go all out to support this mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd, this is going to be huge! read full story / add a comment
laois / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 21, 2006 12:53 by Mark C
17 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 19:17)
Last Friday week I spent four hours trying to contact BT Ireland with a very simple query (can they reset my wireless connection so that I don't need a password to connect to the internet?). I spent four hours on the phone to no avail. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday October 21, 2006 10:54 by D. Istressed
9 comments (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 00:33) 5 images
Every year at Halloween it is the same. Slaughter of beautiful pets by psycho children. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday October 20, 2006 14:12 by Miriam Cotton
8 comments (last - monday october 23, 2006 02:03)
On this day of action in county Mayo, this article is submitted to make the case for all objectors to contentious building schemes throughout Ireland to set aside their own campaigns for the time being and join with Shell to Sea in their efforts to have the Corrib gas refinery sited at sea. This issue could hardly be more serious in the precedent that is being set for the government response to public protest over public and commercial planning activities everywhere. It is not exaggerated to say that if current policing and media activities go unchallenged in respect of the Corrib gas project we will be walking with eyes wide open into a police state. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 17:57 by Movie Fan
Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." The movie performs this task amid the fog of war on Iwo Jima in 1945, when the Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal took the iconic photograph of six American servicemen raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The movie deconstructs that moment, shattering it into a jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and flash-forwards, to explore how that photograph turned into a major prop of the U.S. government's war bonds campaign and how the government designated the three surviving flag raisers as "heroes." read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 15:35 by down with Monsanto
3 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 22:57) 1 image
David McConnell, a molecular geneticist, is Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He is head of the Irish Times Trust , the owner of the Irish Times. He also happens to be Co-Chair of the biotech lobby group EAGLES – European Action on Global Life Sciences (www.efb-eagles.org), which is funded by the European Federation of Biotechnology. read full story / add a comment |
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