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HOPI Protest At Iranian Embassy.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 09, 2009 12:04 by Erich Muehsam   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 12, 2009 17:05)   image 1 image
Hands off People Of Iran sends solidarity greetings to protestors in Iran on 9th July. This day is the 10th anniversary of 18 Tir – when the Iranian state, under President Khatami violently put down a protest by students. The protest was initially against the suppression of a popular newspaper. Students were attacked in their university dormitories , as they were ransacked and set on fire by state forces. The reaction to the attack was overwhelming, with mass demonstrations taking place. The students became very radicalised and openly opposed the regime. Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’I ordered the movement to be crushed and President Khatami approved this decision. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 08, 2009 17:34 by A   text 4 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 20:14)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Electricians go on strike in response to a two year employer strike on pay. Since 2007 (roaring property boom) employers have been witholding pay that is legally due to electricians. They are now looking for a 10 per cent pay cut. Employers and unions came to an agreement, the employers broke the agreement, they now refuse to negotiate and are looking for a collective 10 per cent pay cut.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 08, 2009 01:02 by Richard Whelan
A boat full of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip was seized in international waters by the Israeli army in recent days, with 21 crew (two Irish included) being detained by Israeli authorities. Yet another blatant breach of international law, our Government and others in the West have turned a blind eye. Israeli robbery of Palestinian land through settlement continues, along with their "security" wall, boxing in the West Bank while simultaneously taking large chunks out of it. They have recently stopped letting schoolbooks in to the Gaza Strip, adding to the long list of basic items unavailable to it's long suffering population. It is time for us in the West to wake up to the suffering of our friends in Palestine, and to stand up to the bully that is Israel. It is morally reprehensible to continue to watch such horror take place any longer. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 08, 2009 00:25 by Gerry
Israel's Wall is illegal, as is its land and property theft read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 07, 2009 22:59 by RSYM
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement is a working class revolutionary youth movement that stands in the proud tradition of Connolly, Costello, Marx and Lenin. We oppose all forms of exploitation and send our solidarity to the current workers of TEEU involved in industrial action. Victory to the workers! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 07, 2009 13:43 by Paddy Hackett   text 3 comments (last - wednesday july 08, 2009 20:05)   video 2 video files
Kieran Allen’s recently published book is called Ireland’s Economic Crash. It is a book cobbled together from a variety of sources. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 04, 2009 20:39 by paul o toole
4th July Independence Sham read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday July 03, 2009 16:25 by Sean Matthews-personal capacity   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 04, 2009 17:56)
The refusal by British Justice Secretary Jack Straw to grant the great train robber Ronnie Biggs parole exposes the extent of injustice and corruption which underpins the class system. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday July 03, 2009 04:10 by Xiomara Chamorro
Informative article on the march of Ingenio San Antonio and Compañía Licorera workers and main union leaders to reject discrediting campaign againsta Nicaragua Sugar Estates, Grupo Pellas and Flor de Cana boycott initiated by ANAIRC and UITA.

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 02, 2009 18:46 by sarbedaran
Despite the brutality of Iran’s Islamic regime, protests continued in Tehran and many other cities two weeks after the upsurge began. They are on a much smaller scale than the first days, but it is extremely significant and inspiring that many youth and other people are determined to persist even in the face of gunfire, beatings, arrest and possibly torture. They are expressions of a broader popular rage that will not be easily quenched. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday July 02, 2009 12:21 by Belfast Branch
The recent racist attacks in Northern Ireland against migrant workers are an indictment of the status-quo which thrives on blaming minorities for the problems inherent in capitalism. It is the political class and sections of the tabloid press who constantly provide the ammunition for racist attacks. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 02, 2009 12:05 by Rebels Yell
This analysis of the recent Red Cross Gaza report into the 22 day Israeli war (Jan '09) will be split into two parts. Only by understanding the extenuating circumstances that 1.4-1.5 million imprisoned people were subject too prior to the 22 day onslaught, can we fully comprehend it’s aftermath. You can subscribe via RSS from our site www.therebelsyell.com to receive the next installment! read full story / add a comment
well it's not exactly guarding Stargate but they do have a job.
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 01, 2009 11:00 by iosaf   image 1 image
Europeans were mostly responsible for the museum industry as much as the grand symphonic orchestras, opera and zoos. They used these things at first not out of any wish to educate nor illuminate in the laudable manner of contemporary interpretative centres but to solve three important 19th century bourgois problems.

1) how to gainfully employ people who really smellt bad but are now represented as Indiano Jones.
2) how to reclaim supposedly civilised history from the church of Rome.
3) how to offer vandals like Lord Elgin bequest options and subsequent relief from death taxes. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 30, 2009 23:53 by Victim of Abuse   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 01:12)
Recent allegations that Sr Stanislaus new about abuse in the religeous order years ago came across as sickening to me.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 30, 2009 23:10 by Just popped in!   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 08:33)   image 1 image
Title V, Solidarity Clause, Article 188R, Page 132 Lisbon Treaty.
1. The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The Union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the military resources made available by the Member States, to: assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a terrorist attack; read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 28, 2009 11:48 by Guillotine   text 2 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 10:09)
A series of 17 Bills which are in the queue for legislation for the Dáil period
2009 are now subject to guillotine debate and are expected to be passed into
law. One of the list is the 2006 Defamation Bill which was part of a twinset
introduced to the Dáil by now defunct Minister for Justice and Barrister
Michael Mc Dowell.

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About 1 in every 35 Gardai working in the state are on Shell duty, just like these
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 26, 2009 16:34 by FSB!   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 28, 2009 19:43)   image 2 images
A written reply to a Dáil question by Aengus Ó Snodaigh by justice minister Dermot Ahern shows that Garda personnel strength in a large majority of Irish counties is less than the number of Gardai deployed in Erris to protect Shell's interests. For example, Shell has more cops than Co. Clare, Co. Kerry, or Co Sligo. Shell also has more cops defending its corrupt Corrib Gas Project than there are Gardai 'defending' the citizens of Galway, Waterford or Dún Laoghaire. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 14:33 by League for the Fourth International
For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 12:14 by Socialism or Barbarism!
An in-depth socialist review of the IMF report on the economy of the Republic of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 02:57 by Nick Folley   text 43 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 02:33)   image 3 images
So Sarkozy – and others in the UK – cry ‘Ban the burkha!’

What do they have against it? I picked up a copy of the Daily Express (Wednesday 24th June 2009) which carried the loud headline “Ban the Burkha here in Britain” (all in capitals in the original, of course) with my morning coffee, hoping to shed some light on the answer. read full story / add a comment
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