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national / eu / opinion/analysis Friday May 02, 2008 00:45 by Oisin
A strategic interest enables your ultimate goal or agenda, and strategies are generalised plans to achieve these goals. A tactic is a specific tool to advance that agenda, using what you actually have right now - not what you think you ought to have. It's unwise for a democrat to confuse long-term strategies with short-term tactics. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday May 01, 2008 21:58 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
The war may be long over and our political rulers have finally decided to get it together but there has been no ceasefire in the class war against working-class people both locally and globally despite the promises of ‘prosperity’.
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The political climate inside Iran is now horrifically tense. Women, gay men and lesbians, students, workers; all are caught in the middle of the stand-off between the regime and imperialism. Arrests have increased and intimidation is rife. Any slight ‘disobedience’ of the theocratic regime is portrayed as a threat to state security.

That is why principled solidarity is so necessary. We in HOPI are determined to show the reality behind the threat of war and to give practical and political suppor t. We are campaigning for trade union support and have a resolution which we would urge all activists to use.
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national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday May 01, 2008 02:30 by John Fitz   text 7 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 14:13)
We're told Lisbon is to make the EU efficient. Why then haven't the parliamentarians that want this efficiency reduced their numbers (to about 60 TDs in Ireland) to reflect the fact that two thirds (80% reported for Britain & Germany) of their law-making functions are already transferred to Europe. TDs are rapidly making themselves powerless, redundant, and sidelining democracy and the Constitution. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday May 01, 2008 00:32 by hasan i sharba   text 7 comments (last - friday may 02, 2008 11:41)
1985 marked not only Thatchers attack on the working class via the miners strike, terror in NI, inner city riots,but also Thatchers sending in paramilitary Police to stop the emergence of a counter culture made up of mainly unemployed young people who sought to challenge Thatchers material society. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 18:46 by Chekov Feeney   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 23:44)
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:33 by pat c
This is the May Day statement from the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). More information is available from the links below and Rahe Kargar may be contacted at public@rahekargar.net

International solidarity is our global capital to confront global capitalism
*Neo-liberal globalisation is nothing more than the globalisation of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, hunger, a bleak future and constant fear for the majority in this world.
*Under the flag of democracy capitalists spread the dictatorship of free markets on our planet.
*The rich are getting fewer and richer while the poor are getting more numerous and poorer.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 00:24 by No One's Business by Mine   text 9 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 20:27)
A personal account of how my right to privacy was signed away by the act of simply signing my employment contract: read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday April 28, 2008 17:17 by Larry Connolly   text 18 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 23:27)
A brief look at the state of the Republican movement. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 28, 2008 15:41 by Howard Holby   text 1 comment (last - friday june 13, 2008 20:25)
The purpose of the Lisbon Treaty research is to offer the voters of Ireland objective arguments on the Lisbon Treaty, with facts and evidence with substance, and an objective discussion of the legal, political, economical and social considerations of the Treaty.

So far it has been only the No groups who presented quotes of the Lisbon Treaty, and only their arguments stand valid on the basis of the text itself and on the grounds of scientific facts.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday April 24, 2008 17:12 by Seabhcan   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 24, 2008 17:17)
New Libertas supporter, Ulick McEvaddy is an arms dealer. His company, Omega Air, supplies planes, pilots and fuel to the US miltary in support of the Iraq war. In the past, he has called for Ireland to join NATO.

What is his, and Libertas' motivation in opposing the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday April 24, 2008 16:18 by K. Harris   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 19:50)
Is the world really fighting a war against terror? Or has it become a war against our own freedoms? read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 23, 2008 20:15 by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh   text 5 comments (last - friday april 25, 2008 21:46)
“How do we move from here to the position of Ireland’s national independence with the essential unity of the country and its people achieved? How do we combat the threat to our separate identity so that we survive as a distinct people to cooperate with the former colonised nations and advance the cause of humankind in general? How do we progress towards building the Democratic Socialist Republic?

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 16, 2008 14:16 by Anto Loserdom
Interview conducted with Caoimhe Butterly when on her speaking tour of Ireland last December (2007). Published in the Irish D.I.Y. punk zine Loserdom. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 15, 2008 22:33 by Fathi tobail and Sana Ahmad   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 14:07)   image 1 image
Simply we can describe the situation of the Gaza Strip as the worst of its kind since the Israeli occupation of Palestine in 1948, if you walk the streets of Gaza city you will be shocked seeing how miserable and harsh life the people of Gaza are facing, as a result of the Israeli daily aggressions and sever measures. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 15, 2008 10:34 by Howard Holby   text 12 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 13:44)
The purpose of this article (see below the video) is to provide further support to the statement upheld by politicians, academic and legal experts that the Lisbon Treaty is a constitution.

The emphasis on this fact is vital because from this fact it follows that the Lisbon Treaty needs referendum not only in Ireland but in all of the 27 EU member states.
Because the Lisbon Treaty a constitution, it is crucial to understand that no constitution ever permits the act of overthrowing it, i.e never allows the act of replacing it with another one without the permission of a country's citizens. Therefore the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty without referendums in the other 26 states, is a dictatorial power-grab over Europe. (Please see the document referred at the end of the article.)

With this article we wish to call Ireland to Vote NO to Lisbon Treaty!
Vote NO to a constitution that establishes a dictatorial federal regime with powers over all Europe.

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dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday April 14, 2008 16:55 by Laura Broxson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 16, 2008 12:54)
Add Your Voice
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday April 13, 2008 11:39 by Add Your Voice   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2008 09:51)   image 1 image

This is a brief link to the Irish Safe and Legal campaign, who have linked to the
Pro-choice Majority Campaign in Britain in relation to the attempt through
legislation to reduce the Upper Abortion Limit, as part of the HFEB Bill .

On May the Seventh 2008, the Houses in the UK will vote on a divisive Bill
which has actively left women's rights and NGO groups out of the equation
in relation to Choice and Healthcare issues.

http://www.safeandlegal.blogspot.com

The HFEB is called the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Bill. (HEFB 2008) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday April 11, 2008 20:37 by Eire Nua   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 24, 2008 18:45)
By creating a provincial parliament for the nine counties of Ulster, within the framework of a new Ireland the partition system would be disestablished and the problem of the border removed. The Protestant people of Ulster would have a working majority and would have immediate access to power. Furthermore, the devolution of power to the local level would ensure for each community the opportunity to foster its own traditions and culture. Each region and community would have within itself the immediate power to deal with its own social and economic problems. Such devolution of power from one central authority to the people is the essence of democracy. The Nationalist population would be of sufficient strength to ensure a strong and credible opposition within reach of power. For the first time in fifty years we would see a normalization of politics with an end to the domination of one community by another and the resultant frustration and conflict. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday April 11, 2008 09:51 by Dave Walsh   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 03, 2008 16:07)
There is fundamental little that can be done to counter bullying in the workplace. read full story / add a comment
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