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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday December 10, 2011 16:40 by john throne 2 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 00:11)
Is is justifiable to be a member of the catholic church with its history of child abuse cover up, anti women ideology, pro capitalist policies? All those who supported McQuaid and opposed the mother and child scheme have to condemned. They slunk away before the catholic church with their tails between their legs. They "proved" that Paisley and his ilk were correct that the South was a catholic state. they have blood on their hands. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2011 00:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalaígh
A Chara,
Our 'leaders' are trying to wave through a terrifying Merkel/Sarkozy plan that would abolish our right to choose sane economic policies and that would permanently ban vital public spending - all to appease big banks. But we live in a democracy and we should have the right to vote on any permanent changes to how Europe operates, and together, we can stop our leaders trashing our democracy and our jobs. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2011 03:42 by Nestor Makhno
Remember, remember, the second of November -- and all the many things we can improve on next time around... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 05, 2011 19:46 by Wannabe Postgrad 8 comments (last - wednesday december 14, 2011 15:43) 1 image
The piece below describes how Budget 2012 has hit me. I hope that you will share your own reactions to the budget and how it will impact upon you. Let's hear the human stories behind the headlines read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 03, 2011 16:54 by uji 1 image
Marxists have been predicting the disintegration of capitalism for so long that most people - including most Marxists - stopped believing it would ever happen. But today anyone who reads the financial press knows that the system is in an unprecedented crisis with no clear way out. The following articles offer a variety of ways of understanding the crisis so we can begin to create a world beyond capitalism: read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2011 16:39 by MPG 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2012 10:19) 1 image
Its hard to keep up with all the devious moves going on in the great game. Here's a roundup, some links and some analysis for anyone interested. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Thursday December 01, 2011 04:52 by Reinarto Hadipriono 4 images
In the evolutionary journey of a living creature, a condition or a movement that occurs continuously from generation to generation, e.g. as when it “moves forward”, will have an impact on the shape of its body read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 30, 2011 13:53 by pat c 10 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2011 16:03)
1. Wars have been the most terrifying phenomena people have confronted since the istant past. In our society, millions of Iranians have been living under the ominous shadow of the eight-year war with Iraq. The reminiscences of air raid sirens, damp shelters, overnight power cuts, nameless bodies, severed limbs, mothers who lost their children, children who lost their fathers, famine and hunger, homeless refugees and dozens of other frightening pictures at the back or forefront of our minds, vividly or vaguely, whether like a nightmare or a constant fear, is weighing down on everyone of us.
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Monday November 28, 2011 14:19 by Declan Cullen 16 comments (last - tuesday december 02, 2014 12:27) 1 image 1 audio file
Listen folks, do your homework. Goldman Sachs has taken over Ireland and the Irish Government. Research the people they have put in place around the EU to manage the takeover of other countries. Peter Sutherland ...........
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday November 25, 2011 22:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D. & David Landy 1 image
Cartoons have become explosive, underlining deep political fault lines in the new world order and more often than not, concealing bigotry and diverting debate from racism and imperialism to the much abused concept of “freedom of expression”. The latest episode was started by a cartoon published in Ha’aretz in which the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defence Ehud Barak, say farewell to troops on the way to bomb Iran, while asking them to bomb the UNESCO offices in Ramallah on the way back. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Thursday November 24, 2011 20:09 by Declan Cullen
Kenny, Noonan, & Gilmore, keep saying ad - nauseam that everything on the table. This is a blantant lie........
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dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday November 20, 2011 17:49 by socialist
The Dublin Occupy movement decided not to join the anti-austerity march on Sat 26th November. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday November 20, 2011 10:29 by Noiz 18 comments (last - monday november 21, 2011 10:02) 1 image
Often otherwise interesting threads on indymedia are derailed and destroyed by people bringing up the thorny topic of anti-semitism and fascism. Such conversations need a new home. This is that home read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday November 18, 2011 18:37 by BrianClarkeNUJ 1 image 1 video file
Marian Price is a Republican who had been free on licence, from a life sentence for her part in Provisional IRA actions in London almost 40 years ago in the early 1970’s. Like Gerry McGeough and Martin Corey she has been politically interned without trial by the Queen's un-elected Englishman in Occupied Ireland, overturning a court ruling the same day, that there was no evidence to suggest, that she should not be free. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 16, 2011 15:57 by Samuel Albert
The euphoria has evaporated. While today's raucous political climate is very different than the years before Hosni Mubarak's ouster, when an enforced silence and stillness prevailed, it has also changed markedly since the period immediately preceding and following his 11 February forced resignation. Now, among the millions who participated in or supported that revolt and more broadly, there is a feeling that the situation is becoming increasingly complex, unsettled and dangerous. Marches, strikes, sit-ins and other protests happen every day, but many ordinary people are becoming more passive. There is a chill in the air that comes from more than the approaching winter. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 15, 2011 21:11 by Sean Matthews
The sixty million payoff to prison officers in Northern Ireland could be much better spent on addressing the causes of crime such as poverty, social deprivation and prison rehabilitation. Prison officers who served during the Troubles could walk away from their jobs with packages of more than £120,000 plus pension as part of a £60m redundancy programme aimed at ‘modernising’ the service.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 14, 2011 06:33 by BrianClarkeNUJ 1 comment (last - tuesday may 08, 2012 13:05) 1 image
Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
Epitaph on the grave of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, written by himself with careful directions !
Most people live lives, blissfully unaware of just how much secret Government agencies control their everyday lives. The Latin phrase 'scientia potentia est,' is a maxim claimed to mean "knowledge is power". This power in western societies like the U.S. and U.K. is centered in hugely resourced secret agencies that controls almost every facet of life of the modern citizen. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 13, 2011 16:04 by passer by 89 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 09:42)
After the March there were some fantastic speeches on topics such as Ireland pulling out of the Euro and grassroots Democracy at Occupy Dame St yesterday shows up United Left Alliance and SWP lack of action on very important issues read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 11, 2011 13:36 by Paddy Hackett 12 comments (last - monday november 21, 2011 12:09)
Gurdgiev makes the false assumption that capitalism isa rational system that serves the interests of all citizenry if rationally organised. Like the reformists on the Left he believes that a reformed capitalist social system can advance the interests of the capitalist class, middle and working class. In this way he is an idealist reformist who mistakenly believes that reason (ideas) can determine social reality.
To achieve economic recovery he argues that that there must be a massive reduction in state spending on a scale that makes past and present governments' reductions look lilliputian. He shows here his failure to understand the nature and function of state spending under capitalism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 05, 2011 21:59 by John Throne and Richard Mellor. 10 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2011 10:21)
How the movement can be expanded and taken forward
Oakland City Council's phony concerns exposed. How can we broaden the OWS movement? The most important achievement of the OWS movement so far is that it has shifted the national debate about the economic crisis. OWS has put the hedge fund managers, banks, speculators and other wasters who are responsible for the mess we are in on the defensive. The OWS movement has also reintroduced the tactics that built the Unions and the civil rights movement in the Apartheid South-----mass direct action and defiance of the law----and has brought the nature of the system to the front burner. Capitalism, the so-called free market and possible alternatives to its madness are being discussed by millions of Americans. read full story / add a comment |
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