Following the surrender of the Labour Party in Cabinet on JLCs, SIPTU has described the proposals as “relatively positive” on RTE Television News, July 28 and has given the government plan “a cautious welcome” (Martin Wall, Irish Times July 29).

This is a dark day for Irelands biggest union which was built by Larkin and Connolly

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The Shell to Sea national day of action is now in progress in Erris with a WSM member at the scene reporting that all work has been stopped, several fences have been pulled down and up to 30 people are now occupying Shell's compound. This despite the deployment of large number of private security who along with Garda have assaulted campaigners in a failed attempt to stop them gaining access to the site.

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Labour's Shame on Low Pay-Labour Party has capitulated to Fine Gael by agreeing to cut low pay

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A fuller report from today’s Irish Independent on the Labour capitulation on Low Pay is carried below.

Not alone has the Labour Party agreed to the scrapping of the Sunday premium for low paid workers, it has also agreed to allow employers to claim inability to pay and ,if successful, to pay a lesser rate for normal working days. In circumstances in which demand is being continuously removed from the economy by government, this can only lead to continuous reduction in the direction of the minimum wage and the effective collapse of the system. Compliant employers will be progressively undermined by those paying a lower rate.

The scrapping of the Sunday premium will simply add to the profits of highly successful multi-national retail chains at the expense of their employees.

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Maghaberry jail is where Irish Republican prisoners in the Six Counties who did not agree with the Good Friday Agreement remained while the Provisions walked out under the terms of the Agreement. Subsequently their numbers have been swelled by others also opposed to the GFA. Although the British and the Northern Ireland Executive's Justice Minister deny they are political prisoners, they call them "Separate" because they are separated from non-political prisoners within the jail. After broken agreements, ongoing harassment and violent and physically intrusive body searches, the prisoners now escalate their protest campaign.

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The software that runs the Indymedia Ireland website known as Oscailt has been updated with two new features that will be of interest to our users. The software itself will be officially released in the next few weeks so that other sites using the software can include these updates too.

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Every Tuesday evening at 20:30 LASC will be showing a film or documentary in La Dolce Vita Winebar, 5 Cow's Lane, Temple Bar. read full story / add a comment

Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourselves who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and continuous politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people and individual states of this federation to look at a troubling set of facts. There seems to have been “several” beneficiaries of 9-11 that don’t exactly fit the story line we were constantly fed by the propaganda machine and mainstream media as to how to connect the dots (which we were rhetorically asked to do). read full story / add a comment

On 88th anniversary of Lausanne Treaty which divided Kurdistan into four parts, Kurds in Ireland launched a 3-days hunger strike today outside European Union House. read full story / add a comment

OLTREMARA
Music and Dances from the South of Italy
5th AUGUST 2011 - OLTREMARA
9pm till late
donations: 8 euro @ SHE-D
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SHE-D 43 Gardiner Lane D1
(rear of HILL 16 pub on Gardiner st or from BUS PARKING on Mountjoy Sq South)
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EVERY THIRD SUNDAY @ from 7:00pm till late

Monthly meeting here dedicated to a specific human subject, like a philosopher or an artist. A very informal event, meant to be participative, where persons will have one month at least given to study the subject and bring in their contribution like readings, art, videos, performance actions, even if there is not a deep knowledge of these pers...onalities, but inspired (even vaguely) to it and site specific.

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Rossport Solidarity Camp is reporting that this morning Shell started work at the compound in Aughoose where they intend to start digging the tunnel to house a section of the experimental high pressure raw gas pipeline that has been opposed for a decade by the local community. read full story / add a comment

Anarchist Organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has issued a statement supporting the demands of the Maghaberry prisoners for their Rights and Dignity to be respected read full story / add a comment

You Tube Video– WIN NEWS – see the ACTUAL ACTION watch
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Early Thursday morning at 3am Mayo County Council illegally removed a caravan from private property in Aughoose, opposite Shell's temporary compound. People from the Rossport Solidarity Camp were woken by the noise and ran down to the road in pyjamas to find their caravan being loaded onto a flatbed trailer. The gardaí present said to "take it up with the County Council" if there was a problem. When questioned as to why they were doing it at 3am if the removal of the caravan was lawful, there was no response. read full story / add a comment

The idea of the citizen has a long and ambigous history. In the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building we have been using this term to talk about ourselves as political actors and as people with rights, specifically the right to use empty NAMA buildings. read full story / add a comment

Last Friday US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama administration has given formal recognition to Libya’s Transitional National Council . This perspective article in today's WSWS argues that formal recognition for the rebels ....."gives pseudo-legal cover for the US to steal billions in Libyan state assets and give them to the Benghazi-based TNC, which serves as NATO’s proxy land force in the war." read full story / add a comment

Rupert Murdoch, head of News International has been "pied". This was while he was being questioned by a British "House of Commons" committee investigating the phone hacking scandal.
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This Saturday (July 23) join us for late breakfast at the Old City Arts Building. We'll have tea and coffee and we're planning to bake some bread/cakes and maybe bbq a few suasages.

The old City Arts building is located at 23-25 Mosse Street, just down past Tara St. dart station,

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Travel through Latin America with LASC this summer with our Latin American film screenings in La Dolce Vita Winebar, 5 Cow's Lane, Temple Bar.

Every Tuesday evening at 20:30 LASC in collaboration with La Dolce Vita will be showing a film or documentary on the screen upstairs in the restaurant. The films will take us through the whole continent, beginning in Mexico and completing the journey in the Southern Cone.

A full programme for the summer will be available on the LASC website in the coming days.We hope you can join us for some great films and lovely wine over the next two months.

Admission is free but please be aware that space is very limited so come early to avoid disappointment.

For more information visit: http://www.lasc.ie/content/latin-american-summer-screenings

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