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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday February 20, 2009 16:32 by pat c
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All are strongly urged to turn out with their unions on the ICTU March to-morrow. March begins at 2 pm from Parnell Sq. Leaflets can be collected at Royal Dublin Hotel, O Connell St, from 1pm on Saturday for distribution in your section of ICTU March. Text of leaflet (not laid out) is set out below. Next General Meeting of Public Service Alliance, Thursday Feb 26, 8.15PM, Teachers Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin. All are welcome. Keep up the "grassroots" pressure read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 16, 2009 13:06 by Paul O' Sullivan
What Senators say on Sundays read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 12, 2009 17:50 by paulosullivan01@gmail.com
Sixty-five thousand people in the cold, lots of vilis but only one Robbie Keane. But it's important to say it like it is, in football and politics. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 11, 2009 23:29 by Paul O' Sullivan
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Oh, Pat. We really can't stand you now. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 10, 2009 19:07 by Paul O' Sullivan
Takes four seasons to find one's voice read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday February 09, 2009 22:44 by jim travers
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The man is in a corner, his party in a hole, the opposition lining up to take on the government’s toxic debts and Ireland once again is in an economic shithole that was brought about by political representatives who neither knew how to spend wisely nor how to manage properly, in case of a rainy day, the state’s finances. Joe Higgins was a total gobeen for telling us that we were on a slide to disaster, while David McWilliams was criticised by everybody and anybody who proudly professed their expertise in the financial affairs of the state. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday February 08, 2009 19:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
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Last week, Martin Mansergh unwittingly gave an insight into the Fianna Fail's attitude toward the opinions of the electorate. His appearance on TV3 was a reminder of his less antagonising sibling. read full story / add a comment
national / education / opinion/analysis Saturday February 07, 2009 01:13 by Conor.M
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Third level fees should be re-introduced. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday February 06, 2009 10:00 by Gavin
2 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 06:08)
Dublin Bus is slated to see huge cuts in both staff and services. As many as 290 workers and 100 buses will be cut. This means fewer routes and less frequent service. If the Dublin Bus workers go on strike, it will mean an inconvenience for a few days. However, if they take action and force the company to back down, it will in the long run save us all time and money and will help the environment. It will also serve as a message to the politicians. If they want cuts, they can start by tightening the belts at the top, not the bottom. The politicians are giving bailouts to bankers while they hand out cuts to workers and commuters. It's clear where the money to support public services should come from. It should come from the people who created the crisis! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 18:39 by Con Carroll
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class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 17:04 by Gerry Downing
7 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 21:37)
The strike is now coming to a conclusion. The British labour movement will emerge from it a great deal worse that when it began. The negotiations are centred around which nationality gets which jobs, with even more reactionary demands emerging from the SP that jobs should be 'local'. The strike began about BJ4BW, some gave whole hearted support and pretended the posters, union jacks and pickets comments were just 'media lies' (Galloway et al), others came to the schizophrenic conclusion that the strike might be on reactionary demands, but ‘really’, dialectically, in a contradictory way it was about a fight to advance the rights of all workers and since it might become that it was ok – a sort of ‘if your aunt had balls’ argument. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 14:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
A look at who's really to blame from a self-confessed Celtic Tiger cub read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 04, 2009 18:36 by Mik Wilde
Is the use of intrusive technology like that used by BetEire to track who is using the M50, when they used it and to extort payment for usage the first step down the road to where technology of this kind will be used to track and control our every movement? read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 03, 2009 21:35 by Paul O' Sullivan
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Account of covering local council meetings read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 03, 2009 19:17 by Clare Gallagher
5 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 08:42)
What a biased media rhetoric we really have in this country! The agenda of RTE has become apparent to anyone tuning in to so-called National Broadcaster that it serves to maintain the interests of the social order. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 27, 2009 21:33 by Sean Matthews
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DUP MLA Sammy Wilson claims jobs should be given to locals before migrant workers. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 27, 2009 10:26 by 1st of May branch
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For almost twenty years those of us who argued for an alternative to capitalism were told There Is No Alternative (TINA). We were presented with two arguments, firstly that capitalism was resulting in increased prosperity across the world and over time there would be a trickle down of that prosperity so that even the poorest would benefit. And secondly that socialism meant dictatorship and inefficiency so whatever our ideals it was no real alternative. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday January 23, 2009 14:25 by Marie O'Connor
1 comment (last - saturday january 24, 2009 13:08)
Privatisation is at the heart of the Government's so-called 'reform programme' in health. Now cloaked by the current economic crisis, the present 'slash and burn' approach to public health services, has been in preparation since the mid-90s. 'Transformation' is a code for marketisation. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday January 22, 2009 13:40 by Dunk
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Dear Pat, (Wednesday 21 January, 2009) Strange times indeed! Yesterday Martin Luther King’s dream was realised with Barack Obama becoming the first black president of the united States. Today sees Ireland celebrating, after much movement building based on Hope and Bold-ness of vision, the 90th anniversary since the first meeting of Dail Éireann. But strangest of all is that we are living in times of such climate catastrophe, which threatens our collective existence regardless of nation and race, and in Ireland this fact is neither sufficiently recognised, nor is sufficient assistance given to those with visions for sustainable change. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday January 22, 2009 01:22 by Liz Curry
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This is an attempt at a summary of the results of questionnaires, interviews and a focus group at the Dublin Grassroots Gathering in June 2008 on the theme of what is winning in horizontal activism. This was done to hopefully be part of a broader movement discussion on goals, strategies, and visions. Thanks again to everyone who participated. Long may the experiments continue! Queries and comments welcome. Thanks again! read full story / add a comment |
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