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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 21, 2011 - 17:18 by Roy Batty
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"Karl Marx had it right. At some point capitalism can destroy itself because you cannot keep on shifting income from labor to capital without not having excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand, and that's what's happening." --Nouriel Roubini ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 14, 2011 - 00:17 by WSM
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The police killing of Mark Duggan resulted in four nights of rioting across England. The immediate trigger was the killing itself, and the disrespect shown by the police to Mark’s family and friends. But the riots rapidly broadened to expressions of a more general anger and alienation; an anger that was all too often unfocused and striking out at the nearest target of opportunity. This resulted in widespread destruction of resources in already deprived neighborhoods and some anti-social attacks on bystanders. Despite this, the roots of the riots lie in the economic and political conditions of these districts, and not in ‘poor parenting’ or ‘mindless criminality’. These conditions were created by the very politicians and business elite who now call for a return to normality and repression. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday July 31, 2011 - 16:53 by Mick O'Broin
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This article summarizes how NAMA works, what’s wrong with it and suggests how we can fight back against it. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday July 27, 2011 - 15:55 by PFC
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Film Screening: DEBTOCRACY An investigation of the European debt crisis and its origins, how it affects the people of the peripheral countries, and some ways out of the crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday July 12, 2011 - 13:02 by Dorothy Gale
Wednesday 13th July Special Needs Protest 6pm Dáil, Kildare St. Time to say Enough! ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday July 07, 2011 - 13:55 by Irish indignado
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Next Tuesday, like every tuesday is the open assembly for DRY-Dublin. On the 12th from 7 till 7.30 there will be a short presentation about what has been going on in the streets of Barcelona over the last 2 monhs, from the occupation of Placa Catalunya, to extreme violence from the police, to amazing growth of bottom up grassroots movement, to the parliament being blocked peacfully and the government having to be flown in by helicopter, to a quarter million marching through the streets of the city all demanding "Real Democracy Now!!!" blog with related vids: http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/homag...unya/ DRY.IE - http://www.realdemocracynowireland.org/ Facebook event - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245193322158801&v..._wall IMC-IE features: Tahrir comes to Spain http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99816 ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday July 02, 2011 - 22:14 by ArtistKnownasG
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It has been said that we live in a business run society which is characterised by business parties masquerading as political parties and a 'political class' that implements policies which more often than not puts the interests of 'big business' ahead of the well being of the general populace. The unprecedented nature of bank bailouts in this country along with continued and debatable payments to bondholders with an apparent absence of serious public consultation let alone a referendum on matters with such wide-ranging and generational consequences seems to lend some credence to this characterisation of modern society. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday June 27, 2011 - 00:53 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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The 15 M movement in Madrid is a broad one which at one moment raises general slogans of an apparently reformist kind and the next is calling for the capitalists to pay the costs of the crisis it created and for a general strike. It is energetic and coming up with different methods of internal democracy in the neighbourhood assemblies and central coordination and adapting traditional methods of protest. On the 19th streams of people marched from many different areas and met at the Neptuno monument, near the Spanish parliament. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday June 20, 2011 - 21:48 by Robin Hood
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The Robin Hood Tax will stage a global day of action on June 22nd. As a fledgling group, Robin Hood Tax (Ireland) will initiate an email campaign aimed at our TDs asking them to support a Robin Hood Tax in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday June 17, 2011 - 20:07 by John Cornford
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Our annual school – the Communist University – takes place in a world in flux. The near hysterical euphoria that surrounded the election of Barack Obama in 2008 has evaporated as US foreign policy is characterised by aggressive continuity – for all the flatulent talk of “change”. Change has come to the Arab world – from below. Millions have risen in defiance of batons and bullets in a revolutionary fight for democracy and freedom. In the UK, we have see the first stirrings of revolt from the trade union movement against austerity and cuts with the gargantuan March 26 demo and talk of coordinated strike action. The movement across the rest of Europe is further advanced. We have seen huge mobilisations in Ireland, Greece and Spain. The battle lines are drawn. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday June 16, 2011 - 10:30 by LASC
In December 2001, Argentina experienced an unprecedented economic crash, with a 75% devaluation of their currency. Enormous hardship ensued for their people and large scale populal mobilisation. The economic collapse included the largest sovereign default in the history of modern finance. Meeting: 22 June at 7 pm LASC Offices -5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2. ... read full story / add a comment 
J15-Catalan police used agent provocateurs in attempt to destroy M15 peaceful revolutionary movement
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday June 16, 2011 - 09:02 by #SpanishRevolution
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The M15 peaceful revolutionary movement in Spain has had profound success and has grown and still is growing. It has inspired similar things to happen in further afield, as Bob Dylan sang "The times they are a changin". Yesterday we saw on the streets of Barcelona, the second sinsister move by the Catalan state / region, the first being the well publicised extreme violent action by the Mossos (Catalan police) on M27. What we saw was the open use of "agents provocateurs" in an attempt to split the movement, discredit the movement, give fuel to those (politicians, media...) who wish to see this #SpanishRevolution come to a quick end. Well they have failed, their agents were caught on camera, watch the video, all is VERY VERY clear - Who are they real violent ones in this situation. M15 movement remains peaceful. We are winning. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday June 12, 2011 - 12:52 by #Globalrevolution
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We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing upward at the powers that be, but looking from side to side for the right time to unite with each other. No political party, association or trade union represents us. Nor do we want them to, because each and every one of us speaks for her or himself. Together, we want to design and create a world where people and nature come first, before economic interests. We want to design and build the best possible world. Together we can and we will. Unafraid ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 11, 2011 - 13:05 by Gerard Farrell
An article exploring the cultural effects of several decades of neoliberal ascendancy in the political arena. Previously published in the the 'Social and political review' of Trinity college Dublin; just putting it out there... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 08, 2011 - 14:32 by James Blake
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Conflict over resources has been a particularly strong feature of the last 500 years or a period regarded by some commentators as the five centuries of global capitalist expansion, begun by Christopher Columbus and followed up by the brutal conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who searched for 'Eldorado', the city of gold. Millions of indigenous Indians from the islands of the Caribbean down the spine of Central America to the mountains of Bolivia, toiled the fields and mines to serve European monarchies who, on the back of exploited labour, built ostentatious cathedrals and palaces as, according to Eduardo Galeano in 'Open Veins of Latin America', tens of millions of souls perished from this earth. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday June 05, 2011 - 18:49 by John Cornford
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On May 28, Hands Off the People of Iran organised a roundtable discussion to debate the question of the uprisings in the Middle East, the connection to the capitalist crisis and the impacts on Turkey and, crucially, Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday May 27, 2011 - 06:34 by iosaf mac diarmada
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Massive joint police operation with helicopter presence is clearing the camp in Barcelona at this moment under the order of the Catalan Interior Ministry so that Catalonia Square may be free for the traditional celebration of Barca football club who play in Wembley this weekend. Once more the success of Catalan football and the power of its soccer team serve to divert such wonderful energy. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday May 26, 2011 - 15:14 by éirígí Sligeach
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This is an article published on the éirígí sligeach website in response to Labour party TD Colm Keaveney's attack on éirígí for protesting against the Windsor visit. It highlights the hypocrisy of Keaveney and the Labour party who insist they are following in Connolly's footsteps yet have abandoned all that Connolly stood for ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday May 22, 2011 - 09:06 by #spanishrevolution - Cork
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After yesterdays successfull #spanishrevolution action in Cork city, the second day of revolutionary action happens today in the PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CORK.... On Da Rebels, Ya! Time : 22 May · 14:00 - 17:00 LocatioN: Fountain, Grand Parade, Cork, Ireland Event CALL#1 on FB - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211967275501008 *** AREADY: 396 attending in FB Event CALL#2 on FB - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212928062060985 *** AREADY: 56 attending Full info on the unfolding revolution, sweeping the world (460 global events @ 19h last night) -yesterdays cork action: TRUE DEMOCRACY NOW! #SpanishRevolution in Ireland (Cork) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99837 + FB: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211967275501008 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday May 21, 2011 - 14:24 by s
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Pissed off with very high unemployment, a political system which is not working, a feeling that banks and the markets matter more than life itself, the youth, unemployed and precarious of Spain launched their revolt last Sunday. Three days on and many squares in the country are occupied and movements are building up under the banner of "Democracy Real, Ya! (Real Democracy, Now!) ... read full story / add a comment |
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