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A snowballing exodus of high-earners from Britain ? the top 5% of whom pay half of all income tax ? is a disaster for Rachel Reeves brought on by her own war on wealth, financial advisers have warned.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday April 24, 2006 19:42 by Mike Dobson   image 1 image
Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 24, 2006 17:10 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 20:58)
Now this something worth protesting about. Maybe even an embassy deserves to be burned! This student had to pay extra for a visa because his name was Mohammed! Maybe someone should tell the US that a lot of nasty people shared the name George including kings who oppressed the American colonists.

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national / arts and media / other press Monday April 24, 2006 17:01 by Sindo Watch   text 8 comments (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 22:52)
Is Ciaran Byrne another nom de plume for Brendan O'Connor? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday April 24, 2006 11:48 by Irish Times Reader   text 8 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 19:51)
I cut and paste this piece from the Irish Times because I found it extremely alarming.
Tax cuts fuel the capitalist system - producing a larger bourgeoise capitalists class - I don't need to mention the effect the SSIA's will have on economic growth once they reach fruition.
Economic growth in this country has to be stopped - it has destroyed the power of public sector unions created material wealth at the expense of spiritual decay and attracted legions of brain washed "consumer-voters" who worship at the PD/ Fianna Fail facist capitalist altar.
We need social justice not economic growth.
So heres the story:

A new tax-cutting policy aimed at average middle-class families was unveiled by the Progressive Democrats at the conclusion of the party's national conference in Limerick yesterday. Attacks on the Labour Party over tax, immigration and health dominated much of the conference debate. Stephen Collins and Liam Reid report read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday April 24, 2006 02:48 by Colin Hatchett
Graffiti artist Marc Ecko broke into a government facility where one of the Boeing 747 planes which serve as Air Force One was parked, and tagged it with graffiti. Ecko then posted video of the tagging online, along with a video statement of “why I tagged the President’s plane.”

- Or so he says. As it turns out, the video is fake. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday April 23, 2006 15:54 by Private Joker
I was absentmindedly surfing the internet looking for religious jokes to take the piss out of some Jesus freaks I know in UCD when I came upon the following piece of video footage. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday April 23, 2006 11:12 by beeep
Great article from an old london pro-situ on drugs and the changing world of work and how your kids are being fed cocaine culture:

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 23, 2006 10:30 by dingo
The title would suggest that the writer is not attempting to ingratiate self with the readership; to remove any lingering doubts in that regard you can go fuck yourself or any other female/male member of your immediate family, OK! I’m happy to leave persuasive discourse to the theological, political and capital oriented propagandists. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 22, 2006 23:36 by Masters Voice   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 01:17)
"No one believes that a Fine Gael-Labour-Green Rainbow could win a majority and have more seats than Fianna Fail, the Progressive Democrats, the non-left independents and Sinn Fein "" read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 21, 2006 23:01 by Allen   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 10:42)
The use of Shannon Airport as a gateway for U.S. troops en route to the war in Iraq is an affront to the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people who have consistently opposed the war, said the former Mayor of Sligo, Alderman Declan Bree, when he spoke at the Connolly Forums annual Easter 1916 Commemoration Ceremony in Sligo on Easter Sunday read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 21, 2006 22:01 by Donnchadh   text 61 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2010 21:05)   image 1 image
"...it's hard to see ex-prisoners destitute when the
leadership are so wealthy and have holiday homes."

Hughes mentions Kieran Nugent, the first IRA man on the Blanket protest
in Long Kesh. "Kieran died in 2000. They called him a 'river rat'
because he spent his last days drinking by the river in Poleglass. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday April 21, 2006 14:47 by T   text 11 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 17:29)
Concern that the Garda Reserve Force is now almost certain to be established were expressed today.
Senior gardaí yesterday backed plans for a reserve force.
Publicly announcing support for the Minister for Justice’s proposals for the first time, the Association of Garda Superintendents said the move would put more visible presence on the streets.
President of the AGS, Superintendent Noel McLoughlin, said the scheme, which is widely opposed by rank-and-file members of the force, would enhance their capacity to respond to emergency calls.

However veteran homeless campaigner Fr Peter McVerry has said the plans are "madness" see today's Daily Ireland. http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 21, 2006 12:30 by Kingfisher   text 1 comment (last - friday april 21, 2006 19:12)
The latest offering from the Bush administration is a nuclear attack on Iran; after only a few years in power this insane administration is ready to wage nuclear warfare! If this is not cause for alarm then resign yourselves to your fate (lemmings). read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Friday April 21, 2006 10:21 by Socialist Democracy reader   text 11 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 19:22)
The meeting around the question: “Can Coalition With Parties of the Right Bring Real Change?” defines the CIL as an opportunist, electoralist front, attempting to reinvent labourism at a time when the Labour party may finally be committing suicide. In their attempts at pragmatism and realism they are adopting a fantasy scenario, a thousand times more unrealistic than any principled attempt to win Irish workers to revolution.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 21, 2006 02:20 by irony   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 02:57)
Hugo Chavez is really quite something, the man clocked up the largest abstention outside of Berlusconi's Italy at 75%, has a weekly TV show, & really knows how to the put the wind up them.

Them being everyone from the Pentagon, to Energy Future analysts, to those amongst his own people who are anarchists, to well ---- everyone.

News for Chavez watchers and no doubt "fans" in Ireland as to what mr Presidente! has got upto last.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 20, 2006 19:01 by IRIS
WRITING in the Sunday edition of the Derry Journal journalist and author Éamonn McCann said that in his view, as far as Republicanism was concerned, the most authentic claimants to the political legacy of the 1916 Rising were Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Republican Sinn Féin. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday April 20, 2006 16:12 by shellwatcher   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 15:12)
The Nigerian Delta's troubled waters
By Dan Isaacs
BBC, Delta region, southern Nigeria

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 19, 2006 22:27 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 62)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie
Date: 19 Aibreán / April 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

http://www.saoirse.info
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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday April 19, 2006 16:12 by #
The British Transplantation society has today in a press release condemned China for the practise of organ harvesting from executed prisoners.

China has been reacting slowly to accusations in the West over the last weeks and has introduced new legislation to prohibit the black market in organ transplantion which will take effect in June 2006. read full story / add a comment
hippy stuff.
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 19, 2006 15:32 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 20, 2006 12:50)   image 1 image
a little human interest thing I've found today on Italian commercial media, its a video put together by US satirists ( & I suppose pacifists ) of cut & pastes of G.W. Bush speeches so as to simulate the great wookie singing the John Lennon song "Imagine".

Its worth going to the link and watching, It would even be worth copying and playing in your little nightclubs, crossroad dances, social centres, homes, and wherever ye congregate. read full story / add a comment
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