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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday July 02, 2009 12:21 by Belfast Branch
The recent racist attacks in Northern Ireland against migrant workers are an indictment of the status-quo which thrives on blaming minorities for the problems inherent in capitalism. It is the political class and sections of the tabloid press who constantly provide the ammunition for racist attacks. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 02, 2009 12:05 by Rebels Yell
This analysis of the recent Red Cross Gaza report into the 22 day Israeli war (Jan '09) will be split into two parts. Only by understanding the extenuating circumstances that 1.4-1.5 million imprisoned people were subject too prior to the 22 day onslaught, can we fully comprehend it’s aftermath. You can subscribe via RSS from our site www.therebelsyell.com to receive the next installment! read full story / add a comment
well it's not exactly guarding Stargate but they do have a job.
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 01, 2009 11:00 by iosaf   image 1 image
Europeans were mostly responsible for the museum industry as much as the grand symphonic orchestras, opera and zoos. They used these things at first not out of any wish to educate nor illuminate in the laudable manner of contemporary interpretative centres but to solve three important 19th century bourgois problems.

1) how to gainfully employ people who really smellt bad but are now represented as Indiano Jones.
2) how to reclaim supposedly civilised history from the church of Rome.
3) how to offer vandals like Lord Elgin bequest options and subsequent relief from death taxes. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 30, 2009 23:53 by Victim of Abuse   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 01:12)
Recent allegations that Sr Stanislaus new about abuse in the religeous order years ago came across as sickening to me.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 30, 2009 23:10 by Just popped in!   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 08:33)   image 1 image
Title V, Solidarity Clause, Article 188R, Page 132 Lisbon Treaty.
1. The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The Union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the military resources made available by the Member States, to: assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a terrorist attack; read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 28, 2009 11:48 by Guillotine   text 2 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 10:09)
A series of 17 Bills which are in the queue for legislation for the Dáil period
2009 are now subject to guillotine debate and are expected to be passed into
law. One of the list is the 2006 Defamation Bill which was part of a twinset
introduced to the Dáil by now defunct Minister for Justice and Barrister
Michael Mc Dowell.

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About 1 in every 35 Gardai working in the state are on Shell duty, just like these
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 26, 2009 16:34 by FSB!   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 28, 2009 19:43)   image 2 images
A written reply to a Dáil question by Aengus Ó Snodaigh by justice minister Dermot Ahern shows that Garda personnel strength in a large majority of Irish counties is less than the number of Gardai deployed in Erris to protect Shell's interests. For example, Shell has more cops than Co. Clare, Co. Kerry, or Co Sligo. Shell also has more cops defending its corrupt Corrib Gas Project than there are Gardai 'defending' the citizens of Galway, Waterford or Dún Laoghaire. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 14:33 by League for the Fourth International
For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 12:14 by Socialism or Barbarism!
An in-depth socialist review of the IMF report on the economy of the Republic of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 02:57 by Nick Folley   text 43 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 02:33)   image 3 images
So Sarkozy – and others in the UK – cry ‘Ban the burkha!’

What do they have against it? I picked up a copy of the Daily Express (Wednesday 24th June 2009) which carried the loud headline “Ban the Burkha here in Britain” (all in capitals in the original, of course) with my morning coffee, hoping to shed some light on the answer. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 24, 2009 16:21 by paul o toole
Generous Multinationals...stop giving out about them read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 24, 2009 16:20 by john   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 25, 2009 10:13)
Their names are John Kerr, former British ambassador to US and deputy chairman of Shell UK, also Jeroen Van der Veer, CEO Netherlands.

Also present at this meeting were Irishman Dermot Gleeson who is or has been involved with Independent News Media, has recently resigned as Chairman of AIB and is chairman of UCC governing body since 2007 and another Irishman Peter Sutherland who is worth looking at on Wikipedia as someone who has his fingers in a lot of pies.

A Guardian journalist, Charlie Skelton attempting to report on events was seriously followed and harassed over several days. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 24, 2009 00:44 by I. Greene
On 8 June 2009 Mr Justice (Sir) Declan Morgan delivered the judgment in the marathon Omagh civil case. The judgment delivery ended the year long hearing leaving more questions unanswered than answered with its content less than convincing. The burden of proof in civil cases is based on the laws of probability and in this case Mr. Justice Morgan stretched the probability rule well outside the boundaries. The judgment in its entirety contained multiple ambiguities and inevitably the defendants will appeal. One can only assume that Mr Morgan is a highly intelligent man by the very fact that he has recently been elevated to the office of Lord Chief Justice, however this particular judgment may come back to haunt him. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 23, 2009 14:13 by Socialist Party   text 13 comments (last - wednesday june 24, 2009 11:32)
Analysis of Local and European elections and the aftermath. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 22, 2009 23:40 by John   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 09:08)
While in Cobh today, we also met some of the local fishermen who still manage to work despite years of depredation by the pharmaceutical industry in the harbour. We passed on to them copies of this letter printed here which we encourage anyone else with any contacts whatsoever in the fishing community to use to communicate to the the situation to other fishermen. I am also looking for information regarding the state of the fishing industry in Ireland over the last 60 years.
I am coming to understand that our fishing rights have been given away as surely as our oil and gas over a longer period. I am convinced that these issues have to be linked in the common consciousness.
A significant difference being that fishing, done right is a renewable resource. It ain't being done right now. The sea is being f**ked and so are the fishermen. If only ye could stand together lads. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 18, 2009 14:14 by Davy Carlin   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 18, 2009 14:17)
sligo / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday June 15, 2009 19:52 by Ray   text 11 comments (last - sunday june 21, 2009 19:37)
Labour Councillor Jim Mc Garry has been elected as Mayor of Sligo at the Council AGM this afternoon. The voting alliance between Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour which elected Cllr Mc Garry was harsly criticised at this afternoon’s meeting of Sligo Borough Council. After all the speculation, there will be no left-wing alliance on the Council, despite the fact that seven of the 12 councillors elected onto the new council are from left-wing parties.

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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 15, 2009 15:21 by Davy Carlin   text 15 comments (last - wednesday october 21, 2009 13:06)
Racist attacks on Lisburn Rd Belfast

Questions need to be answered by police

Accusations of ‘police inaction’ and ‘feeding misinformation’ to media

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international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 13, 2009 01:02 by Daniel James   text 7 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 17:56)
Is a decline in the glorification of Irish heroes and the use of the Irish languge just a fad or a worrying, long-term trend on the part of the Gaelic Athletic Association? The disappointing latter may well be true. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 11, 2009 10:06 by rebels yell   text 1 comment (last - friday june 12, 2009 06:58)
European Election OR Sectarian Head Count 2009? Sinn Féin's sitting MEP Bairbre de Brún created Northern Ireland electoral history by topping the poll with 126,184 votes. However, both the Dublin and Irish governments will tonight be pondering nervously about the future of their landmark Good Friday Agreement (Sunningdale Mark II). read full story / add a comment
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