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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday November 06, 2010 10:07 by Kerry Worker
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to “stage” a protest against budget cuts in Dublin on November 27th. For anyone keeping an eye on the unions’ shenanigans the word “stage” is quite appropriate – perhaps “stage-manage” would be even better. For these same union leaders have worked hand-in-hand with the current government in the greatest assault on Irish workers since the great lock-out of 1913. While that conflict paved the way for the 1916 rising, we can be quite sure that our current leaders and their cronies will do everything in their power to ensure that as little as possible changes this time round. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Saturday November 06, 2010 00:27 by Bryan Wall
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The events of the student march on Wednesday the 3rd of November were a turning point in the attitude of the state towards the general populace. As we look down the barrel of what is likely to be the harshest budget in the history of the country, the Government can no longer contain the anger of the Irish people. What happened on Wednesday was proof of this. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2010 18:51 by ChasMacG
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A look at the perjury trial taking place in Glasgow read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2010 14:25 by Marcus McSpartacus
2 comments (last - sunday november 07, 2010 00:22)  1 video file
Peter Sutherland has thrown his considerable weight behind the bank bailouts, and has told us we need to tighten our belts to do it. This is the same Peter Sutherland who helped bail out Garret Fitzgerald while a director of Allied Irish Banks. This is the Garret Fitzgerald who has told us we need to be patriots by not disagreeing with the bank bailouts. That was Allied Irish Banks, the profit-privatising institution which is now socialising its losses on us. This is Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs, one of the biggest bondholders of Allied Irish Banks' debt, and thus one of the biggest potential beneficiaries of the bank bailouts. Hello? Is anyone reading this? Anyone in the media? The Dáil? Anyone? read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2010 02:16 by green leprechaun
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday November 01, 2010 16:02 by rebelcity
The myth hinders the creation of a viable strategy to advanced the republican ideal. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2010 21:53 by ordinary citizen
A more balanced society is possible from the ashes of this mess we are in. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2010 18:57 by john throne
The right recognized the anger in American society against Wall Street, the Banks and their capitalist system and politicians. They acted to fill the vacuum. The union leaders, the left and anti capitalist movement did not recognize the mood nor the vacuum. They did not act. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday October 29, 2010 00:08 by Various authors
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This open letter welcomes the "Claiming our future" initiative. It states both the values that we see at the core of our vision for the future and the steps we will take to make such transformations plausible and sustainable. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Sunday October 24, 2010 00:33 by Mi cke y
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At the end of August Time.com published an article containing a controversial opinion of co-founder of the most popular organization fighting (supposedly) for animal rights – Ingrid Newkirk. Mrs President, said, inter alia, that “Absolute purists should be living in a cave.” In the ranks of the activists PETA has been regarded as the organization which in no way improve the lot of animals. After another raid someone may even be tempted to declare that the organization becomes harmful, because denying ethical considerations justifies the same industry which is responsible for the holocaust of the animals. This in turn leads to the construction of the belief that everything is really okay, we should eat animals, we just need to kill them a bit more gently. This way, Burger King customers will soon become defenders of the animals. Anyway Gary L. Francione issued an excellent response to Mrs. Newkirk views. I urge you to read it to understand fully what I mean. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2010 23:10 by Kerry Worker
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Notably absent from the media analysis of the recent SIPTU scandal has been the conclusion that Irish trade unions were corrupted by government hand-outs under the guise of “partnership”. That during the “Celtic tiger years” Irish trade union leaders’ interests diverged strongly from that of the ordinary membership. That “partnership” and “benchmarking” significantly advanced the interests of the managerial class within the trade unions, while yielding miniscule cost-of-living pay increases for ordinary members in a time of rapid inflation. That these same union bosses need removal every bit as urgently as do the current crop of Irish political and financial leaders. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2010 16:18 by SQ
It may come as a surprise to union members but the government and the trade union general secretaries have now revealed that further pay cuts are in fact provided for under the provisions of the Croke Park agreement. The Irish Independent of 23rd October reported that the department of finance "is strongly considering reducing wage levels for all new recruits to the public sector by a flat 10pc in the Budget". See this link: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/budget-plan-to-....html read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 19:45 by Kevin Quinn
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Every step this government takes drags us further towards the economic abyss. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 17:18 by Gregor Kerr
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Zombie developers….. Vampire bankers….. Ghost estate creators….. Black holes that swallow tens of billions of Euros….. They sound like characters from a particularly eerie Hallowe’en tale of horrors. However while they might be spooky, there’s nothing fictional about this array of characters read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 16:05 by Paddy Hackett
"Why not freeze all mortgage payments for two years? Nobody makes any payment on their mortgage until November 2012. If we assume a conservative multiplier of only 1.4, Ireland would get € 20 bn worth of stimulus without upsetting our EU leaders rules at all."
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 00:09 by LATIF SERHILDAN
UK Delegation in Diyarbakir to observe the trial of 151 Kurdish political activists and human rights defenders. Press Statement as read out to the Turkish media - 19 October 2010 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 16:03 by Robert Long
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Artficialy Flouridating water a peoples supply was first propsed in the Soviet gulags as way to induce a docile state and eventually kill of the prisoners it was then usedin Nazi concentration camps. Its effects are extremly damaging and it is considered a medince under EU law. Therefore the Irish government is practicing medicine without a license and without the consent of the Irish people at their expenense ! This is also a breach of our constitutional as well as human rights ! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 12:08 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Like millions of others, I was absolutely delighted to see the trapped miners in the San José mine in Chile getting out alive from their stressful, claustrophobic confinement which they'd been in for almost 70 days as a result of negligence on the part of the mining companies. I could only be thrilled to see this terrible story of grief and suffering come to a happy ending and see tears exchanged for bursts of laughter. But at the same time, mixed with my joy at seeing these 33 condemned men return to life, I still had a feeling that was a mixture of revulsion and anger at the show put on by the very people who had dug what could have been these men's graves. I have no wish to be a killjoy, but when the natural euphoria that has engulfed the country calms down, a great many questions will need to be asked. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 18:36 by Anne Mc Shane
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Working class people throughout Ireland are suffering deep anxiety. With poverty, homelessness and unemployment escalating, the feeling is that we are on the edge of a phenomenal disaster. That sense of dread has been exploited by a government bent on even more savage attacks on public spending. We had been told previously that we were facing €3 billion in cuts this December. Now it is certain to be much more. A new four year economic plan is to be imposed aimed at reducing the economic deficit to 3% by 2014. So there could be up to €7 billion in cuts this December, with more to follow. This will mean increases in taxes, in particular the introduction of taxes on the low-paid. It will also mean unprecedented attacks on health-care, social welfare, child benefit, pensions, education and just about every area of social provision. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 01:26 by donkylemore
Having written 6 times to sen o brolochan and not having had one response i wrote this letter and had it published in a local paper read full story / add a comment |
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