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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 07, 2011 21:52 by Paddy Hackett
Throwing more debt, in the short or long run, at the problem will not solve the problem. This is precisely because the source of the problem does not lie within the process of circulation (i.e. money and credit spheres). It is lodged within the production process.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 30, 2011 21:36 by GARC   image 1 image
Over the past few months, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) have been involved in intensive meetings involving the Catholic Church, CARA, the Parades Commission, the SDLP and a number of other Youth, Community and Political groups. To give our analysis of yearly unwelcome Loyal Order parades through the greater Ardoyne community and the equally unwelcome violence and destruction which they leave in their wake.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 28, 2011 08:49 by Kathy Kelly   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 03, 2011 15:30)   image 2 images   video 4 video files

Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade, in our ship, "The Audacity of Hope." Our team, and nine other ships' crews from countries around the world, want Israel to end its lethal blockade of Gaza by letting our crews through to shore to meet with Gazans. The US ship will bring over 3,000 letters of support to a population suffering its fifth continuous decade of de facto occupation, now in the form of a military blockade controlling Gaza's sea and sky, punctuated by frequent deadly military incursions, that has starved Gaza's economy and people to the exact level of cruelty considered acceptable to the domestic population of our own United States, Israel's staunchest ally.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 21:39 by Paddy Hackett
Financialisation is a universal scam dressed up as a sophisticated exercise designed to create the illusion that the economic system is faring well. But at the end of the day it is just a paper generator with no authentic exchange value. It just postpones the day when the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit manifests itself in the form of an economic crisis.

Marx's Capital has not lost its value as a means to a correct understanding of the nature of capitalism today. The law of value is every bit as relevant today as it was in the past. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 16:43 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers! read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday June 24, 2011 14:39 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are valuable to society than Bankers! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 21, 2011 14:47 by Brian Flannery   text 74 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2016 22:01)   1 attached file
In the last 10 years, numbers have risen drastically with people being incarcerated in prisons throughout Ireland.

We need a complete overhaul in the way our prisons are run. The latest report by Judge Reilly, Inspector of Prisons were shocking and indicated that many laws have been in fact been breached viz a viz basic human rights.

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Ruairí making the column inches by ignoring poverty issues.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 20, 2011 10:58 by indignant person   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2011 13:36)   image 1 image
I want to seperate out what is becoming problematic in terms of Irish Coalition Partnerships for a minute
and focus on how those people who attain power actually begin to use it. For instance , the Irish Dáil is
a place where ideology (of whatever flavour) is not an issue when entering into what we fondly term a junior
coalition partnership/ relationship with a majority party (JCP). it doesn't matter a bit, no political party , whatever
their stripe goes into poor areas and asks for votes , because they (and especially the Labour party) do not
care to know about poverty. It is invisible to them, and mostly at the moment in terms of access to education. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 18:58 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy. read full story / add a comment
The "sport that the Greyhound Nuts site promoted...
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 16:27 by Protecting Irish Hares from Coursing Cruelty   text 41 comments (last - friday june 24, 2011 13:36)   image 4 images
Hateful pro-hare coursing internet site shut down! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 07:33 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy.
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday June 16, 2011 17:19 by éirígí Sligeach   text 27 comments (last - tuesday february 07, 2012 14:04)   image 3 images
'Fracking' is a term that not everyone may be aware of. It is used to describe a method of shale gas extraction known as Hydraulic Fracturing. Unfortunately it is a term we are very likely to hear a lot more about in the coming months and years. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 15, 2011 16:51 by Peter Mulholland   text 16 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2011 15:21)
On May 23, 2011, the Israeli Special Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs Task Force on minority religious groups presented a 48-page report to the Minister of Welfare. The Report has been described as being "a blueprint for systematic, government-fuelled intolerance directed at minority religious communities throughout Israel". read full story / add a comment
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 15, 2011 11:41 by éirígí Sligeach   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 15, 2011 20:39)   image 2 images
The socialist republican party éirígí have described the latest proposals by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to slash essential services at a number of hospitals in the HSE west region as "appalling" and "totally unnecessary". According to éirígí Sligeach activist Gerry Casey, lives would be placed at great risk if these cutbacks proceed read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 14, 2011 23:46 by I. Greene
It is central tenet of any adversarial system that a defendant has the right to challenge any fact alleged against him. The right to mount such a challenge must be exercised in a way that is meaningful. At the heart of the common law system is the right to confront ones accusers and challenge them by way of cross examination as outlined by Judge Orie at the International Criminal Court in Le Hague in June 2011. This right had been set at nought in the Omagh civil case and resulted in the second miscarriage of justice against Michael McKevitt. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 14, 2011 03:15 by Roy Batty   image 1 image
This is a before-and-after story endemic to politics everywhere. Self-aggrandizing, rich assholes hide their true motives to get elected. Once they're elected they fiddle while Rome burns. read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday June 12, 2011 19:36 by Dave Moore   text 4 comments (last - monday september 12, 2011 21:19)
Today marks three months since the Dublin Food Co-op received a complaint of ‘physical assault and violent aggression’ on the premises. Despite the seriousness of the charge, the directors’ collective response was feeble in every respect, leaving those who reported the incident out in the cold. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday June 12, 2011 14:38 by ordinary citizen   text 5 comments (last - wednesday june 15, 2011 22:40)
The system is creating the backlash that could allow new ways of running the country, new ideas to be given a chance, a path of inclusion over competition read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 11, 2011 13:05 by Gerard Farrell
An article exploring the cultural effects of several decades of neoliberal ascendancy in the political arena. Previously published in the the 'Social and political review' of Trinity college Dublin; just putting it out there... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 11, 2011 04:59 by Kevin Keating
From "The Floodgates of Anarchy" to the fan of a state that boils people to death... read full story / add a comment
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