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national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 20:12 by Ronoc
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de·moc·ra·cy n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A political or social unit that has such a government. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. Majority rule. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community. "Junior Minister Martin Mansergh has suggested that the holding of a referendum on each EU Treaty needed to be looked at" - http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0618/eulisbon.html read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 18:03 by José Antonio Gutiérrez
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This is an old article written originally for www.anarkismo.net on the occupation of Haiti. we republished this article to give some background before the Haiti awareness evening organised by Viatores Christi and LASC http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87920 read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 17:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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The following article is an old one written originally for www.anarkismo.net on the situation in Haiti. We re-publish it to provide some background for the June 19th Haiti Awareness evening http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87920 read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 13:44 by Howard Holby
Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty with a decisive majority and very high turnout, period. Yet, the Commission and the European Council declared the dead Lisbon Treaty still ‘alive’. The fallacious premise the EU has chosen as a basis for continuing to justify the unjustifiable course of Lisbon: “the Treaty has been ratified by 18 states”. The factual premise however is this: 1) The Lisbon Treaty has been rejected by Ireland; 2) The Lisbon Treaty, in its earlier form as the ‘EU Constitution’ [1], had already been rejected by France and Netherlands long before the said 18 countries started to ratify it under a new name. For many of the NO voters one of the main reasons to reject the Lisbon Treaty has been the fact that the Lisbon Treaty is already a dead treaty to begin with. If the EU insists that Europe’s ‘problems’ can be solved only without the agreement of its 500 million voters and only with a version of Lisbon Treaty - that is the real problem of Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:53 by Zapata
Working Class voted overwhelmingly against the Lisbon treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:02 by S - Mac
Radical Movements have been destroyed over and over again by their own membership. What are the traits and what can we do about it? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 11:16 by Yuri
If an act of savagery such as the bombing of an airliner, the murder of captive on an internet video, the assassination of a politician etc with the publicity it generates in the modern media can shake the will of a society that is more economically powerful and militarily stronger, an individual already contemptuous of decadent democratic politics, might be inclined to believe it is a greater crime not to use political violence and information manipulation to achieve his ends. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 16, 2008 14:33 by Leo Magee
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Any attempt at developing a revolutionary project has lost all direction. All energy has been consumed within the so-called anti-war movement. The anti-war movement will be in disarray with the election of Obama. The Left are dead but serve a very useful purpose by mopping up people who amazingly want to do something to change the world. A plethora of groups now exist to neutralise dissent by consuming possible dissenters into dreary political parties (all of whom claim to be left or socialist or green or in the Irish context 'left republican' etc etc) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 13, 2008 14:24 by jim travers
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The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate has not only told politicians, in what now appears to be a unified one party state made up of Labour, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, that the Irish people will not tolerate any interference to our Constitution by unknown bureaucrats in the EU. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday June 12, 2008 13:31 by old fashioned Green
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these are the main reasons why I and many Green party members are voting no to Lisbon and why we refused to campaign for a yes vote. Reason no 1: REACH Reason no 2: Nuclear power Reason no 3: EU Corruption Reason no 4: EU Police state. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 17:53 by jmstipe20
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Background information for the Irish referendum on June 12: The EU today lacks proper democratic procedures. The Lisbon Treaty boosts this lack of democracy making the EU even more remote to its citizens. This is the conclusion of a study by Michael Efler, Percy Vogel, Gerald Häfner, Roman Huber and Felix Wünsche. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 14:52 by Cathal Brennan
Video from the Lisbon Debate hosted by the Socialist Party in Wynn's Hotel on the 5th June 2008. Here Joe Higgins outlines the No argument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89u1OMnJFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACw6U4Nbgc&feature=user http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIERKAGbl2U&feature=user read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 14:31 by Raymond Bhreatnach
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AN INFORMED AND REASONED PIECE ON WHY TO VOTE A BIG NO TO LISBON read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 11:58 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
13 comments (last - friday june 27, 2008 21:23)
In the last few days, Brian Cowen has stated that Ireland's future will be decided by the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. If, therefore, its ratification is so paramount with regard to the future of Ireland, and indeed Europe, then why are we the only nation voting on it? Surely, in any democracy, people are entitled to decide on issues which fundamentally shape their future, right? A half a billion people now live in the E.U., but only a few million are being asked for their opinion in a referendum being billed by Cowen as the most import in a generation. Either European democracy is well or truly a thing of the past, or Cowen, Kenny and Gilmore are exaggerating the importance of this referendum with a view to sparing their blushes on the corridors of power in Brussels. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 10:27 by Howard Holby
The areas in which national competences will be or potentially will be transferred to the Union, and the procedure of how the national parliaments may try to retain the remainder of their competences. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 10, 2008 17:04 by paul o toole
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Nutrality in Ireland has been reduced in our constitution as nothing more than 'aspirational' by our courts. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 10, 2008 01:18 by Galway woman
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I just got a leaflet through the door from Labour today calling for a Yes vote. It is worse that I could have guessed. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday June 09, 2008 10:07 by Howard Holby
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This article summarises our main arguments against Lisbon and presents a most recent example as a further proof of our former claims. read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / opinion/analysis Monday June 09, 2008 00:01 by Frustrated Galwegian
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Written after reading comments by Michael D. in the Local Press urging people to vote Yes. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 08, 2008 09:45 by Ramor Ryan
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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake." - Stephen Daedalus, in Ulysses, James Joyce 1922 Oaxaca City, Mexico, May 15 - Midnight in Oaxaca, and walking around the historic center, it's almost as if nothing had ever happened here. The bourgeoisie sit around under the colonial arches in the long stretch of French-style outdoor cafes lining the central plaza. Aside from being beset by a small army of ambulant trinket vendors and beggars, the well-heeled citizens sipping cappuccinos seem very at ease with the world. A few late night tourists wander about the pleasant old streets under the starry sky, and the industrious hum of the sultry cosmopolitan city invokes an eternal calm. read full story / add a comment |
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