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If Rachel Reeves thought companies could easily absorb the extra ?24bn in NI charges she is about to see she was very much mistaken. As Next replaces till staff with self-scanners, the jobs bloodbath is just beginning.
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Keir Starmer is set to block a national inquiry into child grooming gangs in Parliament today, ordering his MPs to oppose an amendment tabled by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that would trigger a new official inquiry.
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The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 13:59 by socialist   text 96 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2012 11:01)
Weak leadership, cowardice, duplicity, the faults of the SWP are symptomatic of a deeper problem. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 07:17 by London Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 07:23)
On Saturday Oct 29th. London Catholic Worker was invited to take part in the "Sermon on the Steps" of St. Paul's Cathedral organised by Occupy London. Here's some youtube of "Sermon on the Steps".... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9fIssJFQ4 Here's the Catholic Worker, christian @narchist sermon from Saturday............... read full story / add a comment
Hares in their natural habitat...Michael D tried to have them protected by law
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday October 31, 2011 17:32 by Protect our Hares   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 14:36)   image 3 images
Michael D Higgins, our new President, was the first member of Ireland's parliament to push for a ban on live hare coursing read full story / add a comment
The "sport" of fox hunting
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday October 28, 2011 18:01 by Ban fox hunting   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2018 16:07)   image 2 images
Foxhunting is set to shame Ireland yet again as animal baiters prepare to indulge in snob cruelty... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 27, 2011 20:16 by Tom   text 2 comments (last - friday october 28, 2011 10:16)   image 1 image
Reformists clash with the revolutionaries for years on the methods of struggle against capitalism. The first group is criticized for its strategy of building a new society step by step. Revolutionaries say that it will never happen because real liberation requires radical action and confrontation with the enemy. But reformists say that revolutionary methods are based on short-term changes that lead to violence and it is never possible to predict the outcome of the revolution. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 24, 2011 02:01 by Anarchist International
An article written presumably for a non-Irish audience but still relevant to the discussions regarding the Real IRA, nationalism, and capitalism. Food for thought, at least... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday October 23, 2011 14:05 by newsmedia   text 2 comments (last - monday october 24, 2011 18:41)
According to Enda Kenny, the Irish people are dumb, maleable and stupid. When asking people to support a referendum vote on something as important as changing the Irish Consitution, it is simply not enough to say “This is about fairness” and hope as he obviously does that people will simply sit back in satisfaction and accept his words. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday October 22, 2011 18:26 by CB   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2011 19:07)   audio 1 audio file
On the 15th October 2011 the Ireland Institute on Pearse Street played host to the second annual Raymond Crotty lecture, which was sponsored by the People’s Movement. The topic of this year’s lecture was Rancher and Banking interests in the modern Irish Economy and was delivered by Conor McCabe. McCabe’s recent book, Sins of the Father, is an examination of the Irish economy from the Anglo – Irish Treaty up to the present day. http://www.theirishstory.com/2011/10/21/review-conor-mc...ITBIH read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 22, 2011 12:57 by Serf   text 49 comments (last - friday november 04, 2011 10:10)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Gadaffi was no saint but the circumstances of his death and the death of his son leave a lot of questions to be answered about this campaign, about NATO, and about the collusion of the media in all of this. read full story / add a comment
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cork / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 19, 2011 11:27 by Occupy Cork   text 10 comments (last - sunday november 20, 2011 19:34)   image 17 images   video 8 video files
South Mall in Cork occupied for a fourth night... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday October 17, 2011 17:41 by Declan Cullen   text 4 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2011 22:32)   image 1 image
Pat Rabbite expects us to believe that drilling for our own resources is not viable, yet letting a foreign company come in and do it (at a low tax rate) is the way....... read full story / add a comment
Don't vote ANYONE in to a position where they can take €5187 a week from the State taxpayer.....
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday October 14, 2011 20:19 by Sharon.   text 14 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2011 14:33)   image 3 images
A concerned group of people in the Clondalkin area of Dublin have initiated a campaign calling for voters to claim their ballot papers in the 27th October 2011 State Presidential election and purposely spoil them. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 14, 2011 16:22 by still anti war   text 25 comments (last - friday october 21, 2011 15:40)
What is the story with the invisable 6 month war in Libya? Have the Irish suddenly become pro war unlike during the attacks on Afganistan and Libya when marches were organised and tens of thousands marched against wars to topple Saddam Husein and the Taliban. It seems like "regime change" is ok on this occasion read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 14, 2011 01:03 by NC   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 16, 2011 15:14)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Despite the persistent government denials regarding the dangers associated with depleted uranium munitions, an undeniable body of evidence has been constructed to show their long-term adverse ramifications. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 13, 2011 23:30 by Jim Travers
Things just don't look good for the National Team as ten-man Armenia tried their best to make the biggest upset for Irish football. Ireland just about scraped a win that gave the team a place in the play-off for Euro 2012. Whoever we get in the play-off one thing is absolutely certain, based on the last four or five performances it would be advisable for the hard line football fans to carry boxes of paper tissues, for the tears shed on the night of utter destruction will be a night not forgotten for a very long time. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday October 13, 2011 16:03 by An Puc ar Buile   text 8 comments (last - saturday october 15, 2011 11:15)
Observing the recent series of interchanges between Martin McGuinness and his varied and many opponents in the Republic’s media and political circles, An Puc has been minded of experiments carried out by the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 11, 2011 11:11 by Tamer Mowafy & José Antonio Gutiérrez   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 16, 2011 20:40)
The military council in Egypt, the SCAF, is more and more isolated from the Egyptian masses each passing day. Once the people chanted in Tahrir square, just before Mubarak's fall, that the Egyptian people and "their" army were one. Now it is becoming clearer the gulf separating the two of them: while the people still suffer from inequality, poverty, violence, military courts targeting protestors, emergency laws inherited from the hated dictatorship, the SCAF is making sure that "transition to democracy" is nothing but empty words. They are doing everything in their power to make sure that nothing at all changes. It may be that the people toppled in February the commander in chief, but all of his repressive building was left intact, and the military's role, headed by general Tantawi, is to make sure that the status quo is not challenged. This is transition to democracy as promoted by the USA and the civilian-military elites of Egypt. So the dictator is gone, but everything remains untouched.

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Irish people calling for a ban on hare coursing
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 11, 2011 02:33 by Ending Hare Coursing Cruelty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 11, 2011 03:05)   image 4 images
The cruelty of live hare coursing is well documented, but the infighting among coursing clubs also provides an insight into evil nature of this bloodsport. The Greyhound Nuts site, which is leading online website representing the so-called "sporting doggie business" in Ireland, offers an another gripping instalment on the ongoing saga of the horror story that is our "Greyhound Industry"... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 08, 2011 21:58 by The Irish Observer   text 7 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2011 21:19)
In the days prior to the Loughgall executions Jim Lynagh had a meeting at his flat in Dublin Street, Monaghan Town with one of his Intelligence Officers. Lynagh often worked one-on-one with people in order to minimise the risk of infiltration by the security forces. In his final meeting with this individual Jim Lynagh handed over a small black box for safe keeping, it was Lynagh’s view that following the Loughgall attack his flat in Dublin Street would be raided and he did not want the Gardai to find his black box in which we now know he kept his personal diaries. The black box has remained sealed for 24 years and is only now opened with a view to trying to cast some light on one of Ireland’s most fearsome IRA Commanders. read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Saturday October 08, 2011 04:58 by Reinarto Hadipriono   image 2 images
How then are we to explain about the very existence of living creatures that have, since they first emerged 3.8 billion years ago, never come to the end of their life process? Therefore, the claim that all living creatures must experience death is one that still needs to be thoroughly proven read full story / add a comment
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