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offsite link The Jobs Bloodbath is Only Just Beginning Wed Jan 08, 2025 15:18 | Sallust
If Rachel Reeves thought companies could easily absorb the extra ?24bn in NI charges she is about to see she was very much mistaken. As Next replaces till staff with self-scanners, the jobs bloodbath is just beginning.
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offsite link The Grooming Gangs Scandal is the Tip of the Iceberg of Public Sector Failure Wed Jan 08, 2025 13:00 | Dr Rowena Slope
The grooming gangs scandal has horrors all of its own. But it's also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to public sector failure, where managerial bureaucracy has killed compassion and common sense, says Dr Rowena Slope.
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offsite link Keir Starmer Will Order Labour MPs to Block Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Parliament Today Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer is set to block a national inquiry into child grooming gangs in Parliament today, ordering his MPs to oppose an amendment tabled by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that would trigger a new official inquiry.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter Three: ?Papers, Please!? Wed Jan 08, 2025 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Chapter three of Declined ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic ? is here. This week: the Government clamps down on "anti-health extremists".
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offsite link The Psychoses of the Established Political Parties Wed Jan 08, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thier... Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:58 | en

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offsite link Pentagon could create a second Kurdish state Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:31 | en

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 28, 2009 01:37 by Justin Morahan
Free Gaza Movement reports that Mairead Maguire was detained on 15 May by Homeland Security on entry to US and attaches her statement on release. read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / press release Wednesday May 27, 2009 10:56 by Residents Against Racism   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 21:17)   image 1 image
Residents Against Racism is preparing to protest a second mass deportation to Nigeria within a month - a move the group describes as unprecedented. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 25, 2009 22:21 by Grainne Quinn   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 14:10)   audio 1 audio file
Upcoming launch for Pathways To Palestine, affiliated with MAP [Medical Aid Palestine ] this Wednesday. The 4000 mile cycle aims to raise money for humanitarian aid and awareness of the plight of ordinary civilians in Gaza.

4 Students.
4000 miles.
14 countries.
40 days. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 15:56 by Michael Murphy   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 06:00)
10,000 leaflets to be delivered in Cork attacking the Green party sellout read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday May 25, 2009 12:38 by Paul Dunphy
Oxfam Ireland needs 10 million of your unwanted goods!
Give goods a second life
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dublin / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 11:27 by Irish Socialist Network   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 10:02)

The shabby treatment of people living in the Ballymun flats shows what's wrong with town planning and local government in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 22:48 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dublin Euro Election Candidate, Joe Higgins has signed a pledge from the European Federation of Public Service Unions on defending public services and public sector workers. Joe stands fully in defence of workers rights and public services. Workers and our services should not be made pay for the crisis caused by neoliberal governments, big business and the rich. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 19:56 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 16:43)
The publication of the long awaited “The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report” into abuse suffered by children and young people at the hands of religious orders while detained in residential institutions has exposed as never before the deep class hatred of working people and the rural poor that permeated the state, government and its agencies as well as the Catholic Church itself. This whole horrible feature of Irish society cannot be understood if its class nature is not recoginsed.
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dublin / arts and media / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 14:36 by Lee Welch   text 1 comment (last - friday may 22, 2009 12:33)   image 2 images
FOUR Presents: Ghosts of Mars by Mark Hamilton

Curated by Leif Magne Tangen

Opening: Thursday 21 May 2009 6-9 pm
Exhibition continues from 22 May–18 July 2009 read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Wednesday May 20, 2009 14:49 by Irish Socialist Network

The Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) has taken a welcome stand against the culture of greed that has created the current economic crisis. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Wednesday May 20, 2009 00:33 by Erik Eblana
An independent candidate submitted his nomination papers today along with a solicitors letter protesting at the returning officers demand that the candidate must use the term ‘non-party’ which he, the candidate, believes contravenes his constitutional rights.
Mr. Erik Eblana, 40, from Ranelagh is running for a seat on Dublin City Council in the Pembroke-Rathmines constituency.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday May 19, 2009 15:17 by Teresa hallow   image 1 image
Protest at Our lady's Children;s Hospital Crumlin Sat the 23rd of May
In responce to the HSE forcing hospital to make cut backs in front line services read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday May 17, 2009 18:49 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
A former Irish army officer and decorated UN peacekeeper, Dr. Edward Horgan, is due to appear in Shannon District Court on Wednesday 20 May to answer charges arising from his demands that airport security officers and members of the Garda search a CIA jet at Shannon Airport on June 18th last. read full story / add a comment
On May Day, workers and their families who had gathered at Tehran’s Laleh Park, following a call by the May Day Organising Committee (made up of Iran’s independent labour organisations), to voice their demands and to commemorate this day, were attacked by the police and security forces and plain clothes officers. A number of people who were in the park were also attacked. Using various brutal means and instruments, the security forces seriously injured a large number of people and arrested and put in jail over 150. Of these, around 100 are still in prison. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / press release Friday May 15, 2009 16:25 by Darya Homan
Members and supporters of Hands Off the People of Iran will be leafleting a meeting organised by The Guardian Public Forum on the evening of Tuesday May 19 in the reading room of the British Museum. Amongst the speakers will be Ata’ollah Mohajerani, an adviser to ayatollah Mehdi Karroubi, who is one of the reformist candidates in the June 12 presidential elections in Iran; and Elaheh Rostami-Povey, a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
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international / arts and media / press release Friday May 15, 2009 16:10 by PPP Publications   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 16, 2009 11:40)
The PaganPoetryPages e-zine presents the Bealtine Edition, with a wide variety of new poetry, from both regular contributors and new poets. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday May 14, 2009 13:48 by Éamann Mac Mánais   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 16, 2009 12:59)
This Saturday and Sunday [May 16-17] sees éirigí's Ard Fheis 2009 in the West County Hotel, Chapelizod, Dublin and the annual James Connolly commemoration in Arbour Hill Cemetery. The socialist republican party’s Ard Fheis will begin on Saturday with debateson language, culture, political prisoners, international solidarity and socio-economic issues. read full story / add a comment
kerry / animal rights / press release Tuesday May 12, 2009 18:32 by Bernie Wright   text 16 comments (last - saturday june 20, 2009 15:21)
The sad and unnecessary fatalities of six HORSES at Killarney race course on Sunday puts the safety of jumps racing under increasing scrutiny. Coincidently, last week in Australia a review of jumps-racing in Victoria was instigated as Jumps racing was suspended-due to 13 horses dying last year .The future of Jumps racing at least in Australia is now under threat due to the treatment of horses. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday May 11, 2009 16:04 by IAWM   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 19:33)
The Irish Anti-War Movement condemns the recent US bombing in Afghanistan that killed many civilians. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Monday May 11, 2009 15:25 by Irish Socialist Network   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 18:52)

Irish Socialist Network candidate John O'Neill gives his backing to Joe Higgins. read full story / add a comment
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