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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday May 17, 2013 01:02 by Dublin Basque Solidarity
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The 600 Basque political prisoners constitute 0.02% of the Basque population of less than three million, a percentage which would produce 1,300 political prisoners in Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 16, 2013 22:04 by Solidarity with the Basque Country
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On the 26 of May the Spanish Supreme Cout will analize the sentence against four youths. In that situation, and with last news about Urtza Alkorta's imprisonment, Eleak movement has made a call to create a new Herri Harresia (Human Wall). read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 16, 2013 20:04 by T
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In the last week or so it was announced by the government that they were seriously considering extending the current free Pre-School year to a second free pre-school year. The government has been giving it a positive spin but also on the table as part of the deal is the suggestion that child benefit would be reduced by €20 per month. A lot of figures have been bandied about but the real question is: are the government trying to pull a fast one yet again and how do the numbers stack up? We attempt to look at the figures here. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 16, 2013 14:22 by Barry O'Sullivan
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Yassamine Mather looks at the candidates for the presidency, who have to be approved by a council of clerics, and reckons they have anything to offer to the ordinary people. On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani registered as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president and is standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably one of the richest men in Iran. The newst that Rafsanjani had entered the race ‘to save the country’ generated hysteria. The principlists (conservative, hard-line supporters of ayatollah Ali Khamenei) accuse Rafsanjani of holding back before making his last-minute move in order to surprise his opponents. There is some truth to this claim: principlists entered the presidential elections with at least 7 serious candidates and another 14 less serious contenders. Had they known they would be facing such a figure, they would have tried to rally round a single candidate. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday May 15, 2013 20:11 by Turing
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The IRSP in Dublin would like to invite all Republicans and Socialists, along with friends, family and supporters of the movement to their Hunger Strike commemoration which will take place on O'Connell Street Bridge as a banner drop and Black Flag vigil the eve of the anniversary of the death of Comrade Patsy O'Hara 32 years ago Saturday 18 May 5 pm.. 'Let the fight go on!' read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday May 13, 2013 23:22 by Joe Murphy
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Next Friday there are a couple of commemorative public events taken place on the anniversary of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The annual wreath laying and oration at the Talbot Street memorial in the morning and a mass in the afternoon. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday May 13, 2013 20:10 by Turing
Press statement: Joe Higgins TD Joe Higgins TD seeks topical issue debate tomorrow in Dáil on Bus Eireann strike Challenge Minister Varadkar on his desire to engineer privatisation of company Despite possibility of talks there is no basis to call of strike until cuts in pay and conditions are rescinded Following on from his previous statement of support for the striking Bus Eireann workers and his subsequent visits to the picket lines in Broadstone and Busaras Joe Higgins TD has today submitted a request to the Ceann Comhairle for a topical issue debate to be held in the Dáil tomorrow on the dispute: "I want an opportunity tomorrow to put directly to Minister Varadkar the points that the workers on the picket line made to me about this dispute. It is undeniable that Minister Varadkar supports the wholesale privatisation of Bus Eireann and is willing to use his position in government to help engineer that end. I want to put to him directly points that were made to me about the levels of six figure executive pay in the firm, recent pay hikes these top brass have obtained and the €70 million that has been banked by CIE. It has been raised with me and party colleagues by some of the workers that the government want the company to financially sink as a prelude to selling it off. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday May 13, 2013 17:17 by Paddy Hackett
But the key problem is that there exists no revolutionary communist party to provide leadership in the class struggle. The Socialist Party, the SWP and the People Before Profit are merely reformist organisations that seek to provide a more benevolent capitalism. In this sense they are Utopian and seek to inculcate illusions within the working class. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 13, 2013 01:38 by IPSC
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The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is proud to present a speaking tour featuring Palestinian activist, farmer and former political prisoner Mousa Abu Maria. Mousa will visit Belfast (Mon 13 May), Cork (Wed 15 May), Limerick (Thur 16 May) and Dublin (Fri 17 May), and be speaking on the topic of ‘The Palestinian Nakba – An Ongoing Catastrophe’, to commemorate Nakba Week. The full itinerary is below: read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday May 13, 2013 01:36 by Frank Hayes
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And so, today, a group of Irish workers stand firm in front of a vicious right wing government’s bullying, harassment from the state media lie machine, the scandalous complicity of some reactionary Trade Union ‘leaders’ whose only vision is to compromise and collaborate. Forced to defend their class interests from conscious ruling class attacks, they are the first to step forward on their own terms, in their own time, with their class dignity and power. In 2013, this is not a defeated rabble! But their strike action is also a thing in itself, which starkly changes the very balance of class forces in this crippled capitalist state. It is, objectively, a political action, because the Austerity Politics and anti-public service Friedmanite ethos which it confronts, is itself, a conscious politically co-ordinated strategy on the part of the ruling class. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday May 12, 2013 22:15 by M. 0’ hAnluain
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Throughout my time taking an interest in Mr. McKevitt’s case, I uncovered some very distasteful information. The detail included that some of his former comrades had covertly assisted in the slanderous media campaign against him and the entire family including his wife Bernadette. The most prominent of those who gave assistance and misleading information was a former Sinn Fein publicity director, which shocked me greatly. Many creditable journalists will to this day verify my claim. Neither should it be overlooked that the McKevitts were singled out as the most prominent opponents of the Good Friday Agreement and for that very reason, perhaps those individuals felt justified in assisting in the vilification campaign against them read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 11, 2013 13:29 by Turing
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Where are the UN/EU Sanctions? Where are the calls for intervention? Oh! I forgot, its home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and there was intervention: in 2011 Saudi Arabia intervened to crush the protesters, Full text at link. Thousands of anti-government activists flocked to the streets of the Shiite village of Daih in Bahrain to protest against the torture of victims arrested by the minority Sunni-ruled monarchy. The frustrated mob held up signs that read: “Manama, capital of torture,” and waved the national flag. “Torture is a practice rooted in the security agencies,” in Bahrain, the main Shiite opposition bloc Al-Wefaq said in a statement. It added that these practice were “embedded in the security doctrine - corrupt and hostile to the citizens.” read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 10, 2013 19:40 by Brian Clarke
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The following article was published in some Irish American newspapers on May the 8th. It is another another insight in to the standard of healthcare in Ireland under the leadership Minister James Reilly, with the support of the Irish Labour Party.It is well known fact worldwide, even in the third world that Ireland is one of the worst places to get sick. In this article April Drew an American certainly agrees from first hand experience. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Friday May 10, 2013 17:26 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Call Out: Come to the Rossport Solidarity Camp, Pullathomas, Co. Mayo for a week of action in June against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. This week has been called to coincide with one of Shell’s busiest work times. Come to act in solidarity with the 13 year old campaign in Mayo against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. The week will be jam packed with a wide variety of actions! There will be something useful for everyone to do, regardless of your experience and skills. The Rossport Solidarity Camp is being erected specifically for this week, and will be taken back down when the week is completed. So if you are planning on traveling to Mayo this summer – make it this week! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday May 10, 2013 02:42 by Republican Sinn Féin Galway
With the release of the survey by the National Youth Council of Ireland stating that over 300,000 Irish people have been forced to emigrate from the state in the last four years we should stand back and take stock of what is once again happening in this country. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / other press Thursday May 09, 2013 23:16 by BINZ
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Come by and rock the BINZ. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:37 by IPSC
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BELFAST IPSC NAKBA DAY MEETING Monday 13th May 2013, @ 7.30pm in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FG read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:31 by IPSC
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Mousa Abu Maria is a Palestinian activist and farmer from the town of Beit Ommar, a village located in the West Bank about half way between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently surrounded by six Israeli settlements. He will speak in conversation with famed Irish writer Dervla Murphy in Cork on Wednesday 15th May (Nakba Day) at 8pm in The Gresham Metropole Hotel, McCurtain St. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:18 by IPSC
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On Saturday 11 May 2012 at 2pm, the IPSC will hold a ‘Moving Gallery’, where people will walk from St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St entrance) to the Spire on O’Connell Street carrying large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags read full story / add a comment 
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:09 by IPSC
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Mousa Abu Maria is a Palestinian activist and farmer from the town of Beit Ommar, a village located in the West Bank about half way between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently surrounded by six Israeli settlements. As part of the IPSC’s week of Nakba Commemoration, he will speak in Pery’s Hotel, Glenworth Street, Limerick on Thursday 16th May at 8pm. read full story / add a comment |
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