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international / crime and justice / other press Friday December 19, 2008 04:30 by Afrikakorps
The Defence Lawyers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda allege "manipulation of the ICTR by member states" and a "cover-up" of RPF crimes which has "been the root cause of millions of deaths in Rwanda, the Congo and the Great Lakes region since the RPF invaded Rwanda with the help of Uganda in 1990. The ICTR has done "a disservice to International Justice" the lawers say. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 18, 2008 10:51 by update   text 24 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 13:25)
The latest edition of the ISN's paper, Resistance, is available from the usual outlets and from an ISN member near you. For copies (frre and post-free), email irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 16, 2008 15:47 by Phier   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 19:46)
Supt Joe Gannon, of Pearse Street Garda Station said:

"The difference is the streets are cleared earlier," he says. "When we had the theatre licences one lot were coming out of bars at 2.30am and another lot coming out of the late clubs at 3.30am, so there were people on the streets until about 5am.

"Now they are all coming out together at 2.30am. The fast-food places don't have the capacity for them all, so a lot head straight home.

"If it is staggered, there is less volume at once, which is easier to deal with. There is less potential for volatility on the streets." read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday December 15, 2008 13:06 by v   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2008 11:51)
The Socialist Party has produced a pamphlet answering the lies of the Unite leaders in relation to their dispute with the sacked Bellfast airport workers. We are posting the contents of this pamphlet on our website in response to the fact that Unite continue to spread these lies on their website. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday December 13, 2008 20:13 by l
The Center For Strategic Anarchy blog is being continually updated with news, images, video, and accounts from solidarity actions around the world. Come get your piping hot Greek riot news: http://anarchiststrategy.blogspot.com read full story / add a comment
national / education / other press Wednesday December 10, 2008 15:35 by Dev
There are good teachers, then there are the incompetent. Read more about them at Gombeennation.

It seems that Irish teachers are about to have a belated introduction to the hire-and-fire aspect of the world of work – but at least they’ll still have their holidays, counted in months, to recover from the trauma. This follows a revolutionary agreement forged between Department of Education, and school and teacher representatives.
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national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 10, 2008 11:39 by Steerpike   image 1 image
A story in the Indo describes the disparity between Bank estimates of the millionaire numbers, and Revenue records. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday December 08, 2008 14:35 by John Cornford   text 30 comments (last - thursday january 22, 2009 19:09)
Lindsey German and John Rees have declared all out war on the SWP central committee majority. There can be only one winner in this fight. If Lindsey and John lose the battle then a split is likely. Peter Manson reports on this fight to the finish. Full story at link.

The SWP leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central committee at the SWP annual conference, due to take place in London over the weekend of January 9-11 2009. Meeting on Wednesday November 26, the CC decided to exclude Rees from its take-it-or-leave-it slate, with only his long-time allies, Chris Bambery and Chris Nineham, voting against ditching him. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday December 07, 2008 19:39 by pat c
This is an extract from an interview with Ali Pichgah, one of the founding members of the oil workers’ shora (council) who later played an important role in the first major oil strike against the Theocracy. Ali details the oil workers actions which helped to bring down the Shah and the later struggles against the Theocracy. Comrade Pichgah is a supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran. Full text at link.

How do you assess current workers’ struggles in Iran?

First of all, I must say that as long as capitalism rules class struggle exists. The capitalist order in Iran has managed to survive through repression and force, and the spreading of religious superstition and falsehoods. However, as far as the workers’ struggle is concerned, our ranks are divided; and as long as we can’t unite on a large scale, this repression will continue. Unity requires the building of strong, mass workers’ organisations. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 14:21 by RTÉ
Gardaí estimate that up to 60,000 people have joined the protest against education cutbacks in Dublin city centre. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 12:10 by Jim Gibney   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 00:48)   image 1 image
RTE is this country’s national broadcasting agency for both television and radio.

I doubt it very much if a columnist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Britain would feel the need to write, ‘The BBC is this country’s national broadcasting agency’. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 01:01 by V. Ritas   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 21:26)   video 1 video file
Ben Mcintyre and Paul Orengoh reveal in the Times of London how President-elect Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was brutally tortured by the British during the Mau Mau freedom fighters uprising in support of Kenyan independence. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday December 05, 2008 11:54 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 17:02)
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 04, 2008 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 16:38 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link.

IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty?

Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation .

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 02, 2008 22:58 by Coilín   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 20:35)
The Danish evening paper, Ekstra Bladet, reports that foreign minister Per Stig Moeller has provided the parliament with written documentation to show that the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was aware of a UN report indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, eleven days before the government submitted a parliamentary bill to invade Iraq. Fogh has previously denied all knowledge of the report.
This development may signal a rift in the Liberal-Conservative coalition and ultimately lead to a parliamentary majority to launch an investigation of Denmark's participation in the invasion. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday December 02, 2008 17:22 by redjade
A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report.

Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday November 29, 2008 00:28 by anticopyright   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 13, 2010 09:46)   image 1 image
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