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The Doyle family
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday February 16, 2009 18:11 by anarchaeologist   text 12 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 08:26)   image 24 images   video 8 video files
Up to 600 people yesterday marched behind the ashes of Bob Doyle from the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square to attend a celebration of his life held in Liberty Hall.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / feature Friday February 13, 2009 19:23 by Paul McAndrew   text 9 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2009 16:42)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This Valentine's Day, come and do your bit for love by showing your support for Ireland's LGBT people - and their children - at the Central Bank at 2pm. It'll be a great big Valentine's love-fest with a message - you bring the love, we'll bring the music, balloons and blindfolds! (more on those anon)14 February 2009

14:00 - 15:00
Central Bank
Street:
Dame Street
Dublin

Contact Info: Email: info@lgbtnoise.ie read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday February 11, 2009 11:38 by Alan M.   text 6 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2009 19:00)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
Noel Atkins and Pat Phelan, Waterford Crystal workers and Unite Shop Stewards, travelled to Cork last night to speak out against the attempted closure of the plant. They spoke from the heart as workers tossed on the scrap heap after decades of service. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday February 09, 2009 17:43 by Patrick Coyle   text 7 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 14:55)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
There is a tendency to dismiss the rantings of Kevin Myers as mere guff designed to sell newspapers. However, this would be to ignore the collateral damage his phosphorous cluster bomb prose inflicts. His salvo last Friday attacking the legacy of Bob Doyle and his comrades who fought in Spain against fascism should be a call to make next Saturday's commemoration in their honour a defiant rebuttal of all Myers' and his ilk stand for. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday February 09, 2009 16:14 by John Hurson   text 6 comments (last - friday march 13, 2009 03:12)   video 2 video files   1 attached file
2 Tyrone men leaving on Friday 13th February to drive a lorry full of aid to London,and join up with 90 other vehicles to form a convoy led by George Galloway to Gaza. read full story / add a comment
Governments tax plan for all PAYE workers
national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday February 09, 2009 07:29 by Andrew   text 12 comments (last - monday august 24, 2009 06:53)   image 1 image   video 4 video files
Our government has become more and more open about their plans for us. Cowan wants to drive down our living standards 12% and has already cut all our wages through the tax levy and slashed the wages of workers in the public sector further through the so called ‘pensions levy’. He openly talks of “four more years of even steeper cuts”. He is so confident of us taking this lying down that he had the cheek to announce his intention to drive down our living standards at what even RTE referred to as the “Dublin Chamber of Commerce's lavish AGM dinner which cost €160” a head. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday February 05, 2009 22:33 by 1st of May   text 14 comments (last - monday february 09, 2009 12:34)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
At all levels, the education system is under attack from the present government.

The savage cuts already announced at primary and second level appear to be just the first steps in what will be a sustained attack on the public sector in general and education in particular – both from the point of view of the provision of the service and the wages and working conditions of those employed in it. read full story / add a comment
This is NOT a Joke
galway / education / feature Wednesday February 04, 2009 21:17 by FEE - Galway   text 26 comments (last - friday february 06, 2009 13:36)   image 4 images   video 5 video files
Statement about protest held in NUIG on 2nd Feb at FF TD Bertie Ahern's visit. read full story / add a comment
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waterford / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday February 03, 2009 02:20 by Cork WSM Box & Fotos / Article -by Various   text 21 comments (last - tuesday march 16, 2010 14:50)   image 10 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
Members of the Cork branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement travelled to Waterford today (2nd Feburary) to offer solidarity and support to the workers who are occupying Waterford Crystal. While there we took the opportunity to do an interview with Joe Kelly of the UNITE union and of Waterford Crystal, asking him the kind of questions that fellow workers and readers of Indymedia might be interested in. We also took some photos of a unique Waterford twist on 'canteen culture'. You can hear the interview with which we recorded here.
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national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday February 02, 2009 08:50 by Fin   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 01, 2009 11:26)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   audio 7 audio files
The Anarchist Bookfair 2009 is being held in Liberty Hall on March 7th. This year, the Workers Solidarity Movement are proud to announce US Anarchist Ashanti Alston will be speaking. Ashanti was a member of the Black Panther Party in the sixties and early 1970's. As a political prisoner he spent over a decade in US prisons. Ashanti has since become an anarchist while still drawing on many of his experiences and ideas that spurred him on as a Black Panther activist. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday February 02, 2009 08:33 by Miriam   text 42 comments (last - saturday october 15, 2011 12:49)   image 4 images
There is no entity in the world more keenly aware of the criminal nature of the Israeli project in Palestine than the government of Israel itself. David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel is often quoted on this point. But while Palestinians remain in a state of exile and oppression in their own country, he cannot be quoted enough:

"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? "

http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday February 01, 2009 08:27 by for Gaza   text 49 comments (last - sunday february 08, 2009 17:26)   image 2 images   1 attached file
Statement: Saturday January 31 2009 read full story / add a comment
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waterford / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday January 30, 2009 23:48 by Joe Carolan   text 34 comments (last - tuesday may 19, 2009 12:37)   image 7 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Following the successful factory occupation of Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, the workers of Waterford Glass now show the way to fight redundancies and lay offs. In a year where it is estimated that up to 50 million workers are due to lose their jobs, and banks continue to be propped up with billions of dollars and euro, we need to demand that companies are nationalised and jobs defended. The Direct Action by the Waterford Workers now puts it up to the Irish government- who is more important, workers and their families or the tiny financial elite of the banks.

Nationalise the Glass, and let the workers run the factory. They'd do a better job of it.

Solidarity
Joe Carolan
http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-fi....html
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The wrong people are doing the fearing
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26 by Miriam   text 36 comments (last - saturday january 31, 2009 20:41)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich when the flow should be going in the other direction. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday January 26, 2009 19:53 by Edward Horgan   text 9 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 16:07)   image 3 images
On Sunday 25 January 2009, what is probably a US Navy C-9B Skytrain logistics aircraft was photographed at Shannon airport in neutral Ireland, at about 11 am. Even though it had no obvious military markings, it was being guarded by an Irish army security patrol. The registration number it is obliged to display was incomplete. The only number it displayed was 0050. As far as we can establish its full aircraft registration number is 160050. read full story / add a comment
<small>Merrill Lynch boss loses another €20 billion</small>
national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday January 26, 2009 11:01 by James O'Brien   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 01, 2009 14:32)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
The Irish government has called in as financial adviser Henrietta Baldock of the remarkable loss making machine that is Merrill Lynch read full story / add a comment
Supervalu's Kids in Action Homepage
national / education / feature Saturday January 24, 2009 21:47 by Mark C   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 16:56)   image 3 images
This is an opinion piece about the Supevalu 'Kids in Action" voucher scheme that gives "free" sports equipment to schools; this equipment is anything but free, and Supervalu, in their Terms and Conditions, admit that the vouchers are worthless. read full story / add a comment
Bob Doyle in Madrid last year
international / miscellaneous / feature Friday January 23, 2009 23:37 by anarchaeologist   text 35 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 22:48)   image 7 images   video 4 video files
The death has occurred of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army.
The death has occurred in London of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade. Bob, whose health had been failing for some time had survived a recent double heart attack, before passing peacefully last night surrounded by his family. He was a few weeks short of his 93rd birthday.

Bob's career as an political activist has been recorded in his book Brigadista, which recounted his early life in Dublin as a Republican volunteer and later as a member of the Republican Congress, prior to his abortive first attempt to fight against Franco in July 1937, which saw him stow away on a ship to Valencia.

On his return to London (which he was to make his home for the remainder of his life) Bob contacted the CP and arrived in Spain by the more usual route, walking over the Pyrenees in a group o read full story / add a comment
Fighting for the Right - in Ireland and internationally - no 'narrow nationalism' here
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday January 23, 2009 22:18 by Harry Wells   text 19 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 16:36)   image 7 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
The recent attacks on Gaza by the Israeli state have brought strange bedfellows out of the Irish woodwork. Almost to a man, and woman, those who were vitriolic in opposition to the Irish Peace Process have been four-square behind the slaughter in Gaza.

Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Tom Carew, Ruth Dudley Edwards, please take a bow.

A short report on the role they played in support of the IDF – Israeli Defence Forces – is in order. Here is what they said and how it relates to their Irish politics. read full story / add a comment
When their not twiddling their thumbs, what else is there to do
mayo / environment / feature Friday January 23, 2009 18:55 by S2S   text 11 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 14:18)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Yesterday (January 22nd), Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin stated that it is "extraordinary" that gas from the Corrib field has not yet been brought onshore. Shell to Sea feels that what is really "extraordinary" is that the Government is still trying to force this experimental project through given the local community concerns regarding their health, safety and local environment. read full story / add a comment
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