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ireland / britain / the left Thursday April 02, 2009 - 18:22 bySeam Matthews
"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning." (Statement released by the anonymous group behind the attack.) ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 21:48 byAlan MacSimoin
It's just been announced that the strike for March 30 in Ireland is off. This is the article from WS108 arguing for it. The national strike called by ICTU should be just the first day of action in what must become a strike wave across every sector until all pay cuts are withdrawn. The super-rich can shoulder the costs of their crisis themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 18:12 byAndrew
Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very Irish Congress of Trade Unions leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / economy Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 19:09 byAmdrew
Our government has become more and more open about their plans for us. Cowan wants to drive down our living standards 12% and has already cut all our wages through the tax levy and slashed the wages of workers in the public sector further through the so called ‘pensions levy’. He openly talks of “four more years of even steeper cuts”. He is so confident of us taking this lying down that he had the cheek to announce his intention to drive down our living standards at what even RTE referred to as the “Dublin Chamber of Commerce's lavish AGM dinner which cost €160” a head. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:30 byGavin
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
ireland / britain / education Sunday February 08, 2009 - 20:20 byGregor Kerr
The Education Cuts announced in October’s Budget have unleashed a wave of protest across the country. During the months of November and December approximately 120,000 people took to the streets of Dublin, Galway, Tullamore, Cork and Donegal to register their anger at the government’s attempts to make schoolchildren pay for the financial crisis. Cowen, Lenihan and O’Keefe have been left in no doubt about the level of popular opposition to these cutbacks. In addition thousands of 3rd level students have also taken to the streets and participated in marches, pickets and blockades to protest at the proposed re-introduction of fees. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / economy Friday February 06, 2009 - 20:02 byChekov Feeney
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett commented on the US financial crisis that “it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked, and Wall Street now looks like a nudist beach.” Well when it comes to Ireland, the receding tide of the global economy has revealed that not only were our business and political elites swimming naked, they were engaged in a great big orgy as well. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / miscellaneous Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 12:09 byDavy Carlin
The Executive, having been set up on the basis of institutionalised sectarianism and ‘parity of esteem,’ is now seeing that very sectarianism causing chaos in the corridors of Stormont. While the DUP and Sinn Féin squabble over issues ranging from policing and justice through to the Maze Prison, working people are suffering in their daily lives on bread and butter issues. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / crime prison and punishment Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 11:49 bySean Matthews
In northern Ireland District Policing Partnerships (DPPs) were set up by the Policing Board in conjunction with local councils in early 2003 to provide “accountable and effective” policing ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 19:31 byGregor Kerr
As the Irish economy officially went into recession, as electricity bills go up by 17.5%, as food bills are officially 6.4% higher than this time last year, the leaders of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions negotiate through the night and emerge bleary-eyed from the ‘social partnership’ talks with 1) a pay pause and 2) pay increases, when Irish workers eventually get them, lower than the rate of inflation ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / gender Tuesday September 23, 2008 - 23:02 byAileen
Last year, in Ireland, a pregnant woman carrying a foetus which could not survive was brought before the Irish courts. The state insisted that she carry it to term. That is what Ireland’s anti-abortion law meant for Miss “D”, a 17 year old in the care of the Health Services Executive. She was four months pregnant when her foetus was diagnosed with anencephaly. The outlook for individuals with this is extremely poor; stillbirth or death a few hours after birth. As the Choice Ireland group said at the time “No woman should have to endure the trauma of carrying to full term a child who will not live more than a few hours. By preventing “Miss D” from travelling to Britain for an abortion the Irish government are defining women as uterine incubators rather than individuals entitled to basic human rights”.
This article examines how such of tragic state of affairs came to pass. It documents the struggle in Ireland for abortion rights, highlighting the role anarchists played in fighting for a womens right to choose. ... read full story / add a comment
İrlanda / büyük britanya / miscellaneous Sunday September 21, 2008 - 19:33 bySınıf Savaşı Federasyonu (Britanya)
Kara Kızıl Notlar dergisinin 3 nolu Eylül-Ekim-Kasım 2005 sayısında yayımlandı.
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ireland / britain / imperialism / war Monday July 14, 2008 - 20:44 byMathias
On 12th June, the Irish sent the media and the boss class into despair when 54% of Irish voters said "No" to the Lisbon Treaty, a re-working of the European Constitution. Libertarian communists mobilized in order to tinge this rejection with a social and anti-capitalist hue. [
Français] ... read full story / add a comment
irlande / grande-bretagne / impérialisme / guerre Monday July 14, 2008 - 18:20 byMatthias
Le 12 juin, les Irlandais ont mis les médias et le patronat au désespoir, en disant « non » à 54 % au traité de Lisbonne, resucée sommaire de la Constitution européenne. Les communistes libertaires se sont mobilisés pour donner à ce refus une coloration sociale et anticapitaliste. [
English] ... read full story / add a comment
irlanda / gran bretagna / vari Monday June 30, 2008 - 23:00 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Il trionfo del No in Irlanda è la chiara dimostrazione della mancanza di legittimità popolare del progetto europeo, spinto dai tecnocrati di Bruxelles e dalle transnazionali raggruppate nel cartello capitalista della ERT. Questo rifiuto da parte del paese coi più alti indici di approvazione e popolarità dell'UE, dimostra che è necessaria un altro tipo di unità europea, un'unità reale dei paesi. Inoltre, il divorzio esistente tra l'opinione popolare e quella dei suoi "rappresentanti" manifesta la crisi della democrazia rappresentativa e l'attualità della democrazia diretta. [Castellano] [English] [Ελληνικά] ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / imperialism / war Tuesday June 24, 2008 - 19:28 byChekov Feeney
With a large number of conflicting interpretations of the treaty in circulation before the vote, many voters’ voting decisions depended on whom they trusted the most. When it came down to it, the side that was represented by politicians and IBEC was always going to be in trouble. In the end, the loyalty test split the electorate on class lines. ... read full story / add a comment
Ιρλανδία / Μεγάλη Βρετανία / Διάφορα Monday June 23, 2008 - 20:49 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Greek translation of “The Lisbon Treaty Referendum in Ireland” by Jose Antonio Gutiιrrez D. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / miscellaneous Thursday June 19, 2008 - 20:32 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
The NO victory in Ireland is a clear demonstration of the lack of support among
the people for the European project being promoted by the Brussels technocrats
and the transnational corporations grouped together in the capitalist cartel, the
European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). This rejection by the country with
the highest levels of approval and popularity for the EU shows that a different
form of European unity is needed, a real unity of all the people. And the gap
between public opinion and their "representatives" is a clear sign of the crisis
in representative democracy and the need for direct democracy. [
Castellano] [Ελληνικά] ... read full story / add a comment
irlanda / gran bretaña / miscellaneous Wednesday June 18, 2008 - 17:34 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
El triunfo del NO en Irlanda es clara muestra de la falta de legitimidad popular del proyecto europeo, impulsado por los tecnócratas de Bruselas y las trasnacionales agrupadas en el cartel capitalista de ERT. Este rechazo por parte de el país con los más altos índices de aprobación y popularidad de la UE, demuestra que es necesaria otra clase de unidad europea, una unidad real de los pueblos. Además, el divorcio existente entre la opinión popular y la de sus "representantes" demuestra la crisis de la democracia representativa y la actualidad de la democracia directa. [English] [Ελληνικά] [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / imperialism / war Wednesday June 11, 2008 - 23:32 byPaul Bowman
Imagine that, leaving the pub on Saturday night, you find a fight outside. The Gardai turn up, grab a load of people, including you, and drag you off to the station, and throw in a beating in the back of the van. Next morning you are taken to an interview room and an old garda gives you a cup of tea, apologises for the “mix-up” earlier and says you can go as soon as you’ve signed a 6 page statement he’s prepared for you. ... read full story / add a comment |
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