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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2004 09:32 by Time For Change
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The end of the Civil Service pay dispute has been a bitter pill for NIPSA members to swallow. NIPSA members have fought the governments for eight months firmly believing that our campaign was about fundamental issues. As the dispute developed that view was confirmed. This dispute has been a struggle for the right to be properly recognised as a trade union including the right to negotiate on behalf of members, it was a struggle for the end of low pay in the Civil Service and it was the a struggle to end pay inequality. Unfortunately in the final settlement none of these issues was properly addressed. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 14, 2004 19:36 by Frank Rotering
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The expansion of humanity's ecological impact on the planet cannot continue much longer without violating natural thresholds. To survive, we must develop a new way of thinking about our economic activities. This article briefly describes the author's approach to such a new mode of thought. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday September 13, 2004 22:37 by Michael Hennigan
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It is strange that while it is often said that the purchase of a house is the biggest decision which most people have to make, newspapers make no claims that property reviews are objective. Nevertheless, they are presented under journalists' bylines, sometimes following a site visit, but the resultant copy does not differ from what an estate agent would produce. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday September 12, 2004 01:05 by Tom
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In order to evolve from our current , stagnant state as human beings; to progress to a higher level of understanding and purpose; to realise radical cultural change and evolution...and to alleviate conflict around the world; we must stop competing against each other for energy. This can only be achieved if we learn how to fill ourselves with energy from sources other than each other. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Saturday September 11, 2004 11:40 by Tom
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"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian." - Emma Goldman read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 10, 2004 23:57 by Michael hennigan
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In 1974, Spain, Portugal and Greece were run by dictatorships and together with the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, democracy in Europe was an endangered specie. By joining the EU, countries have strenghthened their democratic structures and the same opportunity is available to Turkey. In recent times, the human rights situation has improved and the repression of the culture of the minority Kurdish population has been eased. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 22:57 by Deirdre DeBurca
6 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 10:53)
Text of a presentation delivered at the recent Desmond Greaves Summer School. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 18:06 by Someone
16 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 00:00)
Paddy woodworth gave a dissapointing talk on terrorism at UL this afternoon as part of the ACIS conference. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 02:08 by David C.
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December 17th, 1939 was the date when the 1000th German solider died while bringing liberty to the people of France. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:34 by Michael Hennigan
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The UN Security Council continues to respond at glacial speed to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the world shrugs it collective shoulders. Why does it seem that there has to be an American angle to a humanitarian issue for people to get fired up? read full story / add a comment 
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:15 by dunk
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2500 years ago people communicated in the agora in athens we are in a new age :: new agora:: is a dual system of using real and virtual together to again develop healthy discussion an attempt to make a live feed from the ESF in london to convergence festival in dublin a week after ISF 2 is underway read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 07, 2004 11:50 by Dave Lordan
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Account of meeting with former OTPOR leader in Belgrade read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 06, 2004 21:00 by Chris O'Malley
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People of Dún Laoghaire Boycott Boyd-Barrett Protest Following the massive failure of Richard Boyd Barrett’s “Save Our Sea Front” protest to attract the support of the people of Dún Laoghaire on Sunday, it is now clear that the group holds little or no mandate to speak on the topic. Barrett & the SWP have consistently claimed they have the support of the majority of locals in the area – yet just a little over 150 people out of a possible 50,000 residents in the Dún Laoghaire Ward turned up to support the protest. I hope all the local Councillors Bailey, Devlin, Mitchell-O'Connor, Regan, Ireland & Dillon-Byrne will now stand-up to this fascist - bullyboy and move ahead with a second competition to develop the Dún Laoghaire Baths Site in partnership with the community so as to create a sustainable development that benefits the Town and the wider business community. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday September 04, 2004 18:36 by Sean Crudden
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Are the received ideas on child development and the standards of practice in Irish schools in harmony with the needs of the growing child or the young adult? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday September 03, 2004 18:34 by antrophe
Paulo is a former student activist from Chile, who spent a number of years as a representative in his union, he is now working in Ireland, we managed to grab him for a brief chat about his experiences in the student movement and what problems face education in Chile. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday September 03, 2004 18:28 by Caoimhe K
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Immigration is a relatively new experience for Ireland with 1997 being the year which marked the start of large numbers of people (generally 10,000 a year) coming to Ireland seeking asylum. Ireland has a demographic problem, in that it has an ageing population and needs this immigration to sustain economic growth and labour supply. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday September 03, 2004 17:35 by people from UCD
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Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1950’s he redefined the field of linguistics, but outside of his linguistic work, he has become famed as a political dissident for his work in exposing the reality of American foreign intervention across the globe and in his analysis of the power structures governing the media machine guaranteeing the proliferation of ideas benefiting the established social order and elites. The New York Times described him as ‘arguably the most important intellectual alive.’ read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 03, 2004 16:42 by stepping razor
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Right wing patriotic chechyan extemists holding Russian school children hostage, in Russia were initially trained by the CIA in the 1980s at the height of the cold war. Chechyan muslim extremists were trained and armed by the US, in order to destablise the then communist Soviet union. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 01, 2004 19:33 by Dec McCarthy
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The primary role of the police is to preserve the status quo in society. In other words, the first task of the police force, of any police force, is to ensure the rule of the State and the rich elite. In practice this means priority is given to concerns of State over that of the population. For example, in Stoneybatter, near Dublin city-centre, on a number of occasions, the Guards have responded to break-ins over 12 hours after the event. In contrast the Guards were always prompt in attending to the scene of a bin-truck blockade. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 01, 2004 00:06 by sharp
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As a protestant who used Maysfield leisure centre, the decision to close Maysfield leisure centre appears blatantly sectarian against the nearby catholic community close to the centre and protestants who chose to use the centre because of its convenience. read full story / add a comment |
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