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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 12, 2005 17:21 by Otto Rules
The planting of bombs on tubes and buses in London amounts to nothing more than an attack on working class people going about their daily lives. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 11, 2005 11:40 by Rebel
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The statement issued by the leadership of the PIRA on Thursday 28th of July, instructing an end to their armed campaign is significant beyond its declaration that the war is over. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday December 10, 2005 15:03 by maria golpe
Thirty thousand colombian asylum seekers wait to be accepted into Ecuador. Some of them come from the region of Putumayo, south of Colombia. This is the most affected area by the indiscriminate spraying of crops from the air that US companies, in association with the Uribe Administration, have been carrying out since december 1999 in order to eliminate coca plantations. Or so they say. Since the beginning of this “War on drugs” instigated by the Plan Colombia, food crops have been totally devastated, animals are killed by the millions in the area, people suffer from skin and gastric disorders, and some doctors talk of the high risk of getting cancer, suffering miscarriages, genetic mutations…these people from south Colombia are exposed to, due to the spraying of their lands that breaks all sorts of environmental and human rights laws. But, what’s happening in Putumayo? And why? read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday December 10, 2005 13:53 by Sean Crudden
2 comments (last - monday december 12, 2005 20:04)
Arthur Morgan TD as well as Shane McEntee TD passionately expressed during the week in Drogheda, at a meeting organised by Meath Community Forum, their oppostition to incineration. But what if the incinerator at Carranstown (or the one in Cork) goes ahead? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday December 10, 2005 02:21 by seedot
Thoughts on watching a large number of working people gather together and walk through my city during working hours. read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2005 11:56 by Meath on Track
11 comments (last - saturday may 10, 2008 23:46)
The 2005 'Transport 21' plan and the 2000 'A Platform for Change' plan - Compare & Contrast the promises made for reopening the Navan rail link under both plans. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2005 10:44 by John McAnulty
1 comment (last - saturday december 10, 2005 18:08)
Say No to starvation wages Organise rank and File Solidarity If one common message is being presented from Government, employers and union leaderships it is that the Irish Ferries dispute is an exceptional case, well outside the safe reliable boundaries of social partnership and with no effect on the lives of the average worker. Nothing could be further from the truth. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday December 08, 2005 16:54 by Davros
1 comment (last - thursday december 08, 2005 18:07)
From the Emergency to the emergency landing... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 07, 2005 21:24 by Paul Kinsella
1 comment (last - thursday december 08, 2005 13:01)
I’m appealing to everyone whether living in Ireland, or abroad to support the 'National Day Of Action', organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), the umbrella group for most Trade Unions in Ireland, this Friday, December 9th against the exploitation of workers, especially migrant workers, and the general race to the bottom associated with capitalism! read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 07, 2005 12:00 by DC
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Friday’s demonstration is an opportunity for all Irish workers to show our support for and solidarity with Irish Ferries workers in their battle against job displacement and exploitation. Their fight is our fight because if the company is successful in defeating the workers’ resistance it will open the floodgates for employers throughout the economy to slash wages and attack working conditions – a process which is already well under way. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2005 20:54 by Pinhead
2 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 23:07)
The social welfare office is a bleak place to find yourself on a summer’s afternoon. It's decrepit decor of ruddy orange plastic chairs and ratty gray carpets, scarred with cigarette burns from anxious claimants testify to a lack of state investment and care . With every text and fag leaving another dent in a miserly bank balance, attempting to navigate signing on for the first time is more obstacle course than a walk in the park. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2005 19:28 by Paddy Savage
18 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 19:27)
Weds 5thOct: Protesters called on the British governement to take action against Irans treatment of gay and lesbian people,the protest took place outside the Iranian embassy after the brutal execution of two young men accused of being lovers.Celebrities such as Matt lucas,Simon Callow,Boy george,Scott capuro and gay rapper Qboy sent their messages of support to the event,Cappuro said"i just think its horrible,im sick of this shit."The boys were tortured,given lashes and then hung!! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2005 13:00 by Fred
10 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 12:08)
A group calling itself the Swords of Truth Brigades has kidnapped four members of the pacifist group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), accusing them of being "spies working for the occupying forces.” They have threatened to kill the four hostages unless all detainees held by the Coalition and the Iraqi government are released by December 8. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2005 09:34 by Kevin Mannerings
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How much did Otto Schilly and Gerhardt Schroeder know about the CIA kidnapping of Khaled al-Masri, the man who was grabbed by mistake? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday December 05, 2005 13:33 by %
10 comments (last - friday january 06, 2006 02:11)
We have come a long way with Chavez. But no-one ever suggested we were going to go all the way with him. Years ago, he went from military officer, to charismatic left wing popularist, to television master, to dauphin of Castro, to the "most left wing and popular champion of the poor" in the Americas. A man who could taunt with impunity the Americans under Bush, the Mexicans under Fox. A man who could send fuel and food aid to the poor of Boston, a man who chose not to side with the striking miners of Ecuador. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 03, 2005 15:36 by Sean Crudden
4 comments (last - saturday december 10, 2005 12:27)
In an age of spin and the sound-bite no-one is listening. Have we lost the capacity to talk and to listen? Are we all just parrots programmed by mass media which considerably undervalue the individual? Is democracy just a clash of stereotypes? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2005 14:56 by Observer2
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In October of this year the Pitstop ploughshares trial opened in Dublin Ireland. One of the international witnesses who came to Ireland for the trial was former United States Marine Corps Staff Sargent Jimmmy Massey from North Carolina. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2005 02:05 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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In an analysis published last week, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern presents the high level of agreement expressed by Iraqi factions at the previous weekend's reconciliation conference in Cairo, in acknowledging the legitimacy of resistance, denouncing terrorism and demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces. But he remains pessimistic about prospects that the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal will take the hint, or that Condoleezza Rice will take any independent initiative within the State Department to press for withdrawal. Meanwhile, in news reports Wednesday, although Bush maintains the pretence that he will "settle for nothing less than complete victory" - a sure recipe for complete defeat - and insists that he will not be induced to announce a deadline for withdrawal, he has nevertheless declared an intention to "decrease our troop level in Iraq". read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 30, 2005 12:57 by Ciaron O'Reilly
23 comments (last - wednesday december 07, 2005 19:37) 3 images
I have known Norman Kember for the past ten years. We have met through mutual nonviolent activism against the arms trade, nuclear weapons and opposing the various wars that unfolded while I was living in England ('96-'02)....on Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq. We are both faith based activists. Norman is a Baptist minister and active with the Baptist Peace Fellowship and Fellowship for Reconciliation. He is 74 years of age. He is a pacifist and a humble man. He is a father and a grandfather and now a hostage in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 29, 2005 12:41 by Alban McGuinness
7 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 12:13)
The killers of 2,100 victims will get away scot-free in a mockey of of the proper truth and justice process. read full story / add a comment |
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