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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 18:36 by Anne Mc Shane
 24 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2010 15:36)
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
national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 21:22 by Luke Eastwood
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Typical short-sightedness on the part of the government is leading to Ireland falling behind rather than making positive developments for our future... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 18:11 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora
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Gael-Taca: www.gael-taca.com Forbairt Feirste: www.forbairtfeirste.com Gaillimh Le Gaeilge: www.gleg.ie read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 15:48 by john throne
In 1973 the democratically elected Allende government which was trying to improve conditions for the Chilean workers and peasants was overthrown by a US backed dictatorship. The thug Pinochet was put in power. It slaughtered tens of thousands of workers and peasants. Pinera the President of Chile we see with his phony grin and his brother were backers of the dictatorship. We need to reach out to the miners to help them use their worldwide fame and strength to organize an international tour to organize the organized and to build solidarity with all workers. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2010 17:40 by john throne
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Now is the time for the international workers movement to build a world tour for the Chilean miners. this should have as objectives. Organize the unorganized. explaining that capitalism does not work. Promoting the alternative of democratic socialism world wide. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday October 08, 2010 19:50 by Paddy Healy
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Among the taxation proposals being mooted by government for the next and subsequent budgets is an extension of tax to the lower paid. This is to be accompanied by continued draconian reductions in the provision of health, education and other services required by the population generally and particularly by the poor. Government cuts and impositions on the poor and those on middle incomes who spend most of their income in Ireland will flatten the economy and increase the disastrous levels of unemployment and emigration. read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday October 07, 2010 17:03 by Barry McColgan
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We all remember the slogan's so well, 'Yes for Jobs and Investment', from the soldiers of misfortune, 'Yes it's that important' from the latte supping continental sophisticated lot, and even got exposed to a pair of melons and a tight pair of EU branded Speedos in a sexed up poster campaign from the blue shirts, all in promotion and pursuit of a yes vote for the Lisbon Treaty this time last year.
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dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday October 07, 2010 00:15 by Bernie Wright
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Smithfield HORSE market in Dublin 7 is held on the first Sunday of every month. It has been held every month for almost 280 years. Last Sunday the scene there was akin to a scene from Mad Max the movie. A tiny foal was abandoned in a sad neglected condition, two punch ups broke out with crowds charging dangerously to get a closer look. A man was spotted carrying a sword and Sulkies and 4-wheeled carts were raced around the roads despite the best efforts by Gardai to stop this. The incidents of two wheeled carts being ridden with distressed horses and at immense speed around the city roads are increasing at an alarming rate. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 03, 2010 07:16 by Michael Hudson with General Joe
8 comments (last - tuesday october 05, 2010 16:14)
"The neoliberals are fully in control of the bureaucracy, and they are reviving Margaret Thatcher's slogan, TINA: There Is No Alternative. But there is, of course. In the small Baltic economies, pro-labor parties have made it clear that the alternative to government shrinkage is to simply repeal the debts, withdraw from the Euro and break the banks. It is either the banks or labor - and Europe has just realized that this is truly a fight to the economic death. And the first test will come this Saturday, when Latvia holds its national parliamentary elections." read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 30, 2010 11:29 by RNU PRO
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On behalf of the Republican Network for Unity (RNU), I’d like to claim victory as the draft Public Assemblies Parades and Protest Bill surpassed its dead line and fell flat on its face. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday September 27, 2010 16:57 by Declan Cullen
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With all the talk of who should govern the country, and how much Brian Cowen drank. There is still the fact that the Irish people are being led around like hapless sheep. It would not matter a damn who got into power, because the banks, EU and the IMF (in the near future) would be the ones calling all the shots. read full story / add a comment
City centre business already counting cost of major '' Luas Metro'construction on St Stephen’s Green
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 27, 2010 16:12 by David
2 comments (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 11:37)
We have spent billions on the LUAS tram rail which only stretches a couple of miles,in the city of dublin,and now we are having to spend a further couple of billion for a project that is over budget and already late for the schedule date!There is a market in ireland for a national connected rail,not just an over budget rail that only stretches a few miles from dublin to killiney..Bus services and train services in ireland are infamous for being uncordinated.There are places in ireland you still cannot get to,and in order to get anwhere in ireland you need a car,to travel,maybe it could even clean up road deaths. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday September 24, 2010 22:45 by Clodagh
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In the decade of widespread access to information technology and all the sucess, it has brought few, there are still an abundance of laws that need to be amended. While the business elites were re packaging the internet which later became known as the user friendly World Wide Web. There are a lot of unresolved problems that have yet to be dealt with such as criminality on the internet, the buying and selling of stolen goods, weapons, human trafficing, snuff video's and of course,peadophilia. In some countries for instance it is not illegal to view naked images of young girls and boys. If European citizens are law abiding and have nothing to hide, they should have no problem with declaration 29. A proposal to retain all Internet search traffic, known as "Written Declaration 29," was adopted by the European Parliament last week. Framed as a measure to crack down on paedophiles, the controversial Declaration calls on the EU to require that search engines store all search traffic for up to two year read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 24, 2010 12:58 by Paddy Hackett
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The forces of production determine the character of the relations of production. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 22, 2010 21:48 by Clodagh
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Larry Murpy was arrested by the gardai,after he kidnapped a woman and raped her,and was very close to killing her..Only for two deer hunters,actually came across her in a distressed state,muddied,bloodied,and with no clothing,she was brought into her local garda station by these two men,who then later tried to catch larry murphy with the gards in tow. He was also suspected of killing a number of other women,and was even one of the top names on ireland's cold case list.. It is evident the irish justice system has let us down,when a man of such evil can not only walk the streets of ireland,but of spain. As there is no RESTRICTION on suspected serial killers,(who are freed by the irish judicial system) travelling throughout Europe.. He was released 5 years early on good behavior,good behavior should be relevant to the crime committed..and in a cell with other predominantly male prison guards,surrounding the cells,how can this be proven. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday September 19, 2010 17:54 by elaine morrisey
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FAS,the troubled state agency has lost all credibility,and this has not just been recently,this has been happening for years,with the government of the state 'training educational' agency,standing by still in support of these 'services',to provide free labour,and continue to not pay the people making FAS happen,the ce workers.FAS pay employers who take on their FAS employees hundreds of euros,while the FAS ce or apprentices,get paid by social welfare,this is not a system that works for the unemployed,currently only 3 % of former fas workers are employed in the jobs market,so what good has FAS done for the unemployed minus themselves and thier business associates apart from making the dole stats look good,what use is that when FAS are draining our economy and providing no job oppurtunities across the board. brainstorming for a new name will not solve the old problems in the well heeled FAS senior management. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 16, 2010 00:36 by Latif Serhildan
Noting the results of Sunday's referendum, Kurds in Irealnd reiterates their position that Turkey's democratization ultimately requires a completely new, civilian constitution and, perhaps even more importantly, a democratic solution to the Kurdish issue. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2010 11:53 by Grupo Raíces – the Irish Colombia Solidarity Group
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Alvaro Uribe's reign as president was one of the darkest periods in modern Colombian history - and his policies look set to continue under Uribe's successor read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2010 08:41 by Paul Larkin
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Paul Larkin sent the following complaint to the Guardian's editorial standards editor today in reference to Henry McDonald's "exclusive" interview with the Real IRA. The article can be read here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/14/real-ira-targe...nkers read full story / add a comment |
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