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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 01, 2009 23:26 by Valentine Julien   text 1 comment (last - friday october 16, 2009 16:12)   image 1 image
A message from Brussels to the Irish people! PLease VOTE NO for us! read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 28, 2009 18:20 by Terawrizt   text 5 comments (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 13:00)   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
New anti-Lisbon treaty music video i have released in aid of the No campaign. read full story / add a comment
A Wiki Bodleian Image co of Wikipedia
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday September 26, 2009 12:02 by ud   text 11 comments (last - monday october 12, 2009 11:14)   image 1 image
A few of us may be waking up with a headache this morning but nothing like the one
encountered yesterday by Google lawyers who thought that piracy by any other name
would be tolerated Vis the GBS (The Google Book Settlement).

It's a fine idea to digitise every single book ever published if that is what you claim
you were instigated for; but to get up the noses of the writers and libraries whose
commitment to truth, to their art and to their poverties in the process of digitising
7,000,000 books- of which 5,000,000 were in copyright its another tale altogether.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tec....html read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 22, 2009 13:42 by mhawk   text 3 comments (last - monday september 28, 2009 09:27)

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland are very keen to ensure that none of their clients are involved in conflict of interest situations. Indeed they have stated that even the appearance of a theoretical conflict of interest must be avoided at all costs, and transparency ensured through thorough external auditing. read full story / add a comment
national / education / opinion/analysis Saturday September 19, 2009 16:51 by Fred Johnston   text 13 comments (last - sunday october 11, 2009 15:14)
University presidents in the Republic grieving over challenge to rather large purses . . . So where are the student protests? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 18, 2009 01:33 by Marc Spring   text 20 comments (last - saturday march 27, 2010 13:18)
Jack O'Connor and SIPTU leaders are making some noises about the outrageous treatment of Irish Coca Cola workers these days, but does anyone remember that they vitriolically attacked a campaign of solidarity with Colombian Coca Cola workers whose lives were threatened, a short few years ago? read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 14, 2009 13:25 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Women and the European Union
Paper presented by Deirdre Uí Bhrógáin,
National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland,
to Desmond Greaves Summer School, 2009 read full story / add a comment
They are a nation & their language is spoken by ten million. But this referenda was only supposed to include a few thousands.
international / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday September 12, 2009 19:55 by susan Boyle   text 6 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 01:14)   image 3 images
In what could have seemed like a typical storm in a tea-cup about a fortnight ago & in my opinion didn't merit comment or reporting then, a village consultation in Catalonia has evinced EU parliament cross party condemnation of the Spanish state. The leaders of the EU conservatives, socialists, greens and liberals have expressed their concern at the continued operation of the Spanish Falange party. Manfred Weber leads the conservative block in the EU parliament he has said "this demonstration celebrates a brutal and inhuman totalitarian system in which thousands of European died and it must be stopped" or Bernhard Rapkay leader of the German socialists in the EU "we must punish any European who uses fascist symbols".

What could have caused that?

The story really is extraordinarily interesting, ironic, though provoking & of interest to Welsh, Scot or any referendum voter. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday September 10, 2009 16:24 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity   image 1 image
A few years ago a comrade from Leeds introduced me to the life and times of this colourful figure, Dr John Creaghe who helped spread the flames of anarchism across three continents. In the words of the famous Italian anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti this pamphlet is dedicated to the ‘nameless in the vast crowd of nameless ones.’ read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday September 10, 2009 03:01 by Johnfitz   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 22:44)
President Jacques Chirac, who campaigned hard for a "Yes" vote, accepted the voters' "sovereign decision", but said it created "a difficult context for the defence of our interests in Europe". read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 21:16 by Johnfitz
Referendums modify Irish foundational law and are, in effect, a court and citizens are the jury

This requires, in the interest of fair conduct, criteria such as the following are complied with as in the courts.
There must be
careful, truthful, balanced and clear exposition of the various aspects of the amendment
no preconditioning or intimidation of citizen jurors
adequate opportunity and time for all concerned citizens to evaluate the issues
adequate opportunities for citizen jurors to evaluate the credibility proponents of Yes & No cases etc
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it will have them green with Envy this new big jobbie.
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 17:22 by ludopath   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 16:06)   image 2 images
On the 21st of March, 1953 a cartoon appeared inthe "New Yorker" by the Scottish cartoonist Ale Graham which showed one UFO, one horse in a field, two extra-terrestials with the caption take me to your leader . The rest is history. In the list of possibly apocryphal quotations of Henry Kissenger (history has been rewritten since he started out) is included the question who do I call for Europe

It is quite mind numbingly appalling for me as an Irish migrant to Europe to read not bit of coverage of the Isbon Treaty which doesn't not include comment on who are the candidates to take the Big Job of Permanent President of the European Council read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 13:18 by Johnfitz
A little thought would enable most to see that ending competition (war or commercial warfare in which the strongest, wealthiest, most devious etc generally win) is the imperative if we want a just & peaceful world. Those of us who blame “the system"- capitalism, communism, socialism or religions of any persuasion have been misled. The system is what those in power make it regardless of what it's called. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, or their ilk control, dominate, terrorise, kill,even their own as well as the enemy to achieve their ends. Gandhi, MLKing or Christ would never use such methods because they loved humanity even their "enemies"
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 08, 2009 21:15 by I. Greene   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 09, 2009 15:05)
By all accounts it appears that members of the Gardai were not truthful in their dealings throughout Michael McKevitt’s case. The latest conflicting evidence between two senior Garda officers certainly warrant an immediate investigation to identify if flawed evidence also contaminated the civil case in Belfast, resulting in a double miscarriage of justice.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday September 07, 2009 20:53 by Paddy Hackett
The nationalization of the banks of the economy of a country is basically a nationalist policy. Nationalism and the nationalization of the banks are one and the same. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday September 07, 2009 12:40 by Noel Kelly
DUBLIN, MONDAY, 07 SEPTEMBER 2009: In the Taxation Commission report published today we see another attack on the Artists Tax Exemption Scheme. In the recommendation: 8.98 the Commission has called for a complete abolition of the tax exemption. The fact that individual artists are one of the most economically deprived groups that punch above their own weight in their contribution to Irish society has been ignored. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday September 07, 2009 11:01 by Paul Bowman   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 08, 2009 14:07)   image 1 image
Today the word "communism" is most often associated with the totalitarian one-party states of Soviet Russia or China. Nothing could be further from the anarchist goal of a stateless, free society. So the association of anarchism with communism seems, at first sight, perverse. read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday September 06, 2009 14:28 by Vincent O'Malley   image 1 image
The McCarthy or “Bord Snip Nua” report on public spending outlined a range of proposed cuts in government expenditure. Of the €5.3b in possible savings, it can be safely said that at least €4b of this (and probably more) targets the working class. Indeed, a full third of the cuts are aimed at pensioners and unemployed. In the private sector, attacks on our class continue in the form of pay cuts, short time and lay-offs. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday September 06, 2009 13:45 by Paul O'Toole
The lies are there in their own literature promoting a yes vote. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday September 05, 2009 22:06 by revol
REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About
a film of a talk by Bob Avakian
Online at: http://www.revolutiontalk.net/
In 2003 Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA delivered an historic talk in the United States. read full story / add a comment
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