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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 03, 2007 20:03 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 10:30)
Aspects of living in Dublin 2002-07 reminded of my formative years in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A marriage of police corruption with the denial of basic civil liberties and routine deaths in custody. Times that produced some pretty good music. "Pig City" was an '83 punk single by anarchist friend Tony Kniepp, recently it became the title of a book about the Brisbane music scene under Joh and a few months it was a reunion gig. Download the recent radio show on the link below.... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 03, 2007 12:07 by Navid Minayee   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 15:51)   image 1 image
More repression of student activations has taken place in Iran. A report below comes from the Communist Youth Organisation of Iran. Full text at link.

According to the news received by the Communist Youth Organisation of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran today, December 2, the Iranian Police raided the residences of Anoushe Azadfar and Elnaz Jamshidi, arrested them, and taken them to an unknown place. Elnaz Jamshidi’s brother, who was inquiring about his sister’s situation, was also arrested. Mehdi Garailou, Ehsan Azadfar, and Nader Ahsani have also been arrested by the police forces. Saeed Habibi, another student activist, has also disappeared. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday December 03, 2007 11:27 by tomeile   text 20 comments (last - friday january 04, 2008 20:10)   image 1 image
Ann Talbot from WSWS reports on the Amis-Eagleton controversy .
Ronan Bennett accused the British author Martin Amis of thinly disguised racism in a Guardian article last month . Bennett's article added to the controversy which began when literary theorist ,Terry Eagleton , criticised Islamophobic remarks made by Amis in 2006 .

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anti Chav students at private university (denied funds for being antiChav) celebrate 16 year olds remaining voteless..,
international / politics / elections / other press Monday December 03, 2007 10:19 by gurgle, ribbid, hmmmmmm   text 13 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 22:29)   image 2 images
Chavez has very narrowly lost the referendum on two proposed block reforms to the 1999 constitution of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela. These being "block a" indefinite re-election & "block b" votes for 16 year olds.
It is too early to apportion blame or even theorise that the socialist project which is associated with Hugo Chavez is damaged by this. Though naturally that is what both sides (chav and antiChav) are doing. Hugo had in his closing speeches in the campaign railed against an alliance of Spain, its King, the USA and Colombia and then in a typical performance brought in the nazi's, but left out Farc (video attached) whereas the opposing side gurggled about dictatorships, pointed at Bolivia's worrysome crises of the last week & gleefully clapped their little handies when this time they won what Chavez curiously called a "Pyrrhic vicory".
That being a classical reference to a naval battle of the early Roman empire whose victory was had at such great cost as to be worthless. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Monday December 03, 2007 10:18 by Motherschoice
We expect that a top Irish obstetrician with so much experience and training would have a firm understanding of what normal birth entails.

We should also expect that all maternity practices are based on the latest international clinical guidelines......are our expectations too high?

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday December 02, 2007 18:39 by Global Women's Strike
Today the people of Venezuela are voting on constitutional reform, amid renewed media attacks and assassination attempts against President Chávez..the advances which are being put forward and the process they come out of have been entirely hidden by the media. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday December 02, 2007 11:50 by Miriam Cotton   text 11 comments (last - monday december 03, 2007 13:57)
Mainstream media see,hears and speaks no evil. Not in its own backyard at any rate. Funny how it manages to see all manner of halucinations in Venezuela. The New York Times has been screaming propaganda from the top of its lungs about today's referendum in Venezuela. The distortions and hypocrisies of its editorial is breathtaking.

Since he took office eight years ago, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has grabbed more and more power, exploiting his nation’s oil wealth to buy up popular support. Now there are hopeful signs that his plan to become president for life may be too blatant for the electorate to swallow.

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Iraq Freedom Congress
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 18:45 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 15:15)   image 2 images
Below is a statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress in which they condemn US aggression towards Iran.

Militarization and the use of force is a key element in the US administration ideology to impose its hegemony on the world. Beating the war drums is always part of US policy to contain its international competitors such as the European Union, Russia and China, and this policy is an extension to the one that is implemented in Iraq to wage the second Gulf War and the imposition of economic blockade, which lasted thirteen year then its occupation of Iraq. The US administration justified its inhuman policy with the pretext which is "possession of weapons of mass destruction". read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 16:02 by ISN'er   text 4 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 11:50)
The latest issue of Resistance, paper of the Irish Socialist Network, has come out in the past week or so.

Produced to its usual high standards - full colour, solid content - it is free, and copies can be obtained (post free) by emailing irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie

Copies should be available in the usual outets soon. (Watch the comment space below this story) read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 08:42 by Former Fan   text 3 comments (last - friday may 29, 2009 09:26)
In a transition reminiscent of the co-option of the Greens in Ireland, Midnight Oil's lead singer now finds himself as Australia's Minister of the Environment in a ministry now gutted by the right wing PM Rudd. Garrett has rapidly reversed his former radical poilitics to fast track to power and status. Here's a humourous clip, an analysis & an update! read full story / add a comment
The Socialist #30 - December 2007
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday November 28, 2007 20:54 by SP Online   image 1 image
The December 2007 issue of The Socialist (#30) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 21:53 by Anne   text 10 comments (last - sunday december 02, 2007 23:19)   image 1 image
Despite an unforeseen clash with an Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) demo on the same day, the meeting attracted around 30 participants and was an interesting and informative event.

Deirdre Clancy, a leading anti-war activist, chaired the first part of the meeting. Deirdre became known for her role in an action that disarmed a US war plane in Shannon in February 2003. She and four other activists were arrested, imprisoned and later tried on counts of criminal damage that could have meant up to 10 years in prison. But after two collapsed trials the five defendants were finally unanimously acquitted by a jury in 2005.

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national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 21:01 by NIFC
Charlie Laverty of the Fenian Graves Association is the guest on the 10th segment of the National Irish Freedom Committee’s (NIFC) Free-form Video (FFV) Series. Charlie is also the principal historian for the Fenian Graves Project. This purpose of the project is to honor and record the activities of Fenians and other likeminded activists who lived all or part of their lives in the Americas, and who fought and worked in various ways for Ireland's freedom and also very often fought for the freedom of America. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 10:50 by Stephen O Regan   text 60 comments (last - saturday march 01, 2008 10:44)
Coverage of the Bin Tax Protest held outside City Hall last night (Nov 26 2007). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday November 26, 2007 16:50 by Aragon   text 1 comment (last - monday november 26, 2007 17:05)
If predictions by Professor Nouriel Roubini, of the Stern School of Economics are correct - and some say he is the most accurate predictor of world economic perofrmance - then the world is in for a very rough ride for the forseeable future. The capitalist glutton fest of the last 15 years is about to catch up - and guess who is going to have to pay for it all? read full story / add a comment
Maryam Hosseinkhah
international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday November 26, 2007 16:50 by Dorothy Gale   text 8 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 15:02)   image 4 images
Maryam Hosseinkhah wrote this article in Evin Prison. Maryam was arrested on November 17 in relation to her activities and writings in defense of equal rights for women. On the 18th, a very high bail order was issued in her case. Maryam couldnt meet it and she was committed to Evin Prison.

This is prison; the women's ward of Evin prison. This is not my first time here; not the first time I've come to Evin. The first time, I came here as a journalist. Alongside the warden, I walked from cell to cell to listen to the stories of women who were here on charges of addiction, prostitution and murder. read full story / add a comment
Reza Dehghan.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 26, 2007 15:58 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 15:58)   image 1 image
This is an appeal for support for the imprisoned Iranian TU Activist Reza Dehghan. Messages of support should be sent to: s.naghashan@yahoo.com

Reza Dehghan, a labour activist and a member of the Founding Committee of the Syndicate of Building 's Painters and Decoration's Workers have been arrested and incarcerated since November 18, 2007. The following letter to international labour organization has been sent by the founding Committee on November 25, 2007.

This is to inform you that Reza Dehghan, labor activist and founding member of painters union in Iran has been detained by the Iranian security forces with no regard to legal procedures without producing any court summon nor informing him, his family or any one about his charges. read full story / add a comment
Plan Mexico!
international / crime and justice / other press Sunday November 25, 2007 11:01 by Frieda   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 14:09)   image 2 images
The Illustration is of a Frida Kahlo painting.Her dress, which was part of the identity that
she assumed as a campaigner and as a Mexican woman hung between the borders of
the Juggernaut America (Henry Ford's Vision) and Mexico as a sustainable and unique
country. Unfortunately Diego did work for Ford and Kahlo died after contracting Pneumonia
fighting the barricades after the CIA overthrew Guatemala. (in a wheelchair).

Bush is of course using FTAs to re-absorb Central and South American States, and he is
blithely installing dictators such as Ulises Ruis, Felip Calderon to accomplish food and
drug supply chains to the USA. read full story / add a comment
The waxing - arrivals
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 25, 2007 05:14 by Seán Ryan   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 06:34)   image 2 images
Planes used by CIA war criminals in their illegal rendition program have landed all over Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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