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Feb 09, 2010
# The 'shock doctrine' for Haiti

# Mass strike in Turkey: Video and Background

Feb 08, 2010
# Dublin City Council Expresses Solidarity with Council Workers Work to Rule

# United we can fight against racism

# Shut down this Facebook hate site!

# Water charges on the way?

Feb 05, 2010
# Looking After Their Own

# Howard Zinn: a life of insubordination

Feb 04, 2010
# Bank Inquiry won't reveal truth

# Climate strategy after Copenhagen

# US Drones Killed 123 Civilians, Three al-Qaeda Men in January

# Futuristic Avatar reflects today

Feb 03, 2010
# Students for Socialism

# Socialist Education for Activists 2010

# Swine Flu: The Profits of Panic

Feb 02, 2010
# North's political crisis doesn't stop the cuts

# The Canonisation of Brian Lenihan

# Robinsons’ Jam

# What lies behind the water crisis?

Feb 01, 2010
# The Fight Back Begins: Union Action Starts Across Public Sector

# Special Needs Assistants Sacked: Making Disabled Children Pay

# Haiti: No Natural Disaster

Jan 29, 2010
# Can Palestinians and Israelis Live in One State?

# Kerry Campaign Against Cuts: Public Meeting Launch

Jan 28, 2010
# Youth Projects fight threat of further budget cuts: Report and Video

# Haiti: Food Not Troops: Actions in 24 Cities

# Nazi BNP plan "Day of Action" in Larne

Jan 27, 2010
# Anti War Movement to demonstrate at the British Embassy, Friday 29th February as Blair gives evidence on Iraq

# How could Haiti win its freedom?

# Council Budget – Labour And Fine Gael Implement Cuts To Services And Abolish Bin Tax Waivers

# Campaign launched to save Shanganagh and Rathsallagh Youth Centre

Jan 26, 2010
# Incinerator on the rocks?

# Report on the People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka

Jan 25, 2010
# Haiti: The humanitarian myth

# Iraqi puppet government spent $80m on British water diviners to detect bombs

# Record patients numbers on trolleys as more wards close

# Youth Projects in Dublin are under threat of further budget cuts.

Jan 22, 2010
# VAT to be levied on Public Services

# The Propaganda Machine of the Wealthy

Jan 21, 2010
# Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

# Fujitsu workers launch their latest round of strike action

# Air Traffic Controllers take action following suspensions

# Workers Protest at Mater Private Hospital

Jan 20, 2010
# Gazans raise money for Haiti

# Derry celebrates return of Viva Palestina volunteers

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TOP STORY: Haiti
By Ashley Smith & Helen Scott

Feb 09, 2010

The 'shock doctrine' for Haiti

One month after the devastating earthquake, Ashley Smith reports that the U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death" and Helen Scott, an author of numerous articles on Haitian history, looks at what the U.S. could be doing--but won't--to lift the burden for earthquake-ravaged Haitians.

Feb 09, 2010

Feb 05, 2010

Feb 08, 2010

At its monthly meeting last week Dublin City Council expressed its solidarity with Council workers involved in industrial action against wage cuts. The motion was proposed by People Before Profit Councillors Brid Smith and Joan Collins

Feb 08, 2010

The anti racist group "Love Music HateRacism" as called for the shutting down of an anti-Romanian hate site on facebook.

Feb 08, 2010

Fianna Fáil and the Greens now seem determined to make another attempt at forcing domestic users to pay on the double for our water.

Feb 04, 2010

Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis.

Feb 03, 2010

Saturday 27th Feb, Trinity College Dublin, 10am-6pm

Feb 03, 2010

Activists need to understand the dynamics of the system and be capable of arguing strategy and tactics in the upheavals ahead. This short course is designed to aid in this.

Feb 02, 2010

As the Stormont institutions teetered on the brink of collapse, Executive Ministers continued their attacks on front-line services.

Feb 02, 2010

The current water crisis, the result of years of inadequate investment in public infrastructure, has been seized on by advocates of water charges. The Privateers are close behind, writes Liam Cummins

Feb 01, 2010

In a move that shows just how low Brian Cowan’s government is prepared to go to grab money for the banks, they have just sacked an estimated one thousand Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) from schools around the country.

Jan 29, 2010

Jan 29, 2010

A new pressure group will hold a public meeting in Tralee to launch a broad campaign against the various cuts proposed by the Fianna Fail/Green government.

Jan 28, 2010

Hundreds of young people and project workers joined a protest called by Dublin Focus on Youth outside the Dail on Wednesday 27th January against cuts to funding

Jan 28, 2010

24 cities and communities in solidarity with Haiti during Haiti Emergency Earthquake International Solidarity Week:

Jan 28, 2010

The BNP is trying to establish itself, and recruit members, in Larne and across Northern Ireland.

Jan 27, 2010

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) will hold a demonstration this Friday January 29th at 5pm outside the British Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Jan 27, 2010

Labour and Fine Gael claim to be in opposition to the Government. Yet even though they have a majority on Dublin City Council, they had no problem passing on cuts in this year’s budget.

Jan 26, 2010

As Dublin City Council says it is pushing ahead with construction of the Dublin Bay incinerator, major cracks are opening up in its plans.

Jan 26, 2010

New Report notes: "The Government of Sri Lanka pursued military actions in violation of international law, including the Geneva Conventions and the Declaration of Human Rights."

Jan 25, 2010

Last week saw record numbers of patients on trolleys throughout Ireland according to the Irish Nurses Organisation, despite Mary Harney's promise two years ago to sort the problem within months.

Jan 22, 2010

The cost of using council swimming pools, bin charges and other council services is going to rise after a recent EU decision, it was revealed this week.

Jan 21, 2010

Fujitsu workers launch their latest round of strike action today across the UK including Northern Ireland. This is the text of the latest Socialist Worker leaflet

Jan 21, 2010

Air Traffic Controllers took industrial action yesterday after 15 controllers were taken off the pay-roll by the employers, the Irish Aviation Authority, for following union policy and refusing to operate new work practices pending a LRC hearing.

Jan 16, 2010

Around 50 people took part in an angry protest outside, at the officially opening of the doors of the new Criminal Courts of Justice on Parkgate Street, Dublin.

Feb 09, 2010

About five thousand union members employed in various sectors, including railway and public services ground to a halt Thursday (February 4) in Turkey in a show of support for striking workers of TEKEL, the former state owned tobacco and alcohol monopoly.

Feb 08, 2010

The Fianna Fail/Green government are determined not just to make the working and the poor of this country suffer in the recession, but also to target immigrants.

Feb 05, 2010

Last week saw the the death of one of the most beloved figures on the US left, the 87 year-old 'people's historian' Howard Zinn.

Feb 04, 2010

So, after all Fianna Fail’s arguments as to why an inquiry into the banks would be unwise and unhelpful, we are going to have one anyway, writes Rory Connolly.

Feb 04, 2010

Despite recent attempts to revive the climate change skepticism debate, it is now universally recognized within science that humanity is confronting the prospect — if we do not soon change course — of a planetary ecological collapse.

Feb 04, 2010

Avatar seems like a futuristic and utopian film but it is also describing what is happening in the world right now, writes Linda Mjo.

Feb 03, 2010

In the last few months hundreds of thousands of Irish people, and millions around the world, have been vaccinated, at huge public expense, against the threat of Swine Flu.

Feb 02, 2010

Feb 02, 2010

The lurid details of Iris Robinson’s private life have provided rich pickings for the media. But the involvement of rich property developers is more important, writes Eamonn McCann

Feb 09, 2010

One month after the devastating earthquake, Ashley Smith reports that the U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death" and Helen Scott, an author of numerous articles on Haitian history, looks at what the U.S. could be doing--but won't--to lift the burden for earthquake-ravaged Haitians.

Jan 22, 2010

The media is in the public good and provides information that is beneficial for society. This, at least, is the official version of the role of the media in a modern society. The reality is very different as two recent cases show.

Jan 20, 2010

With all attention on Afghanistan as violence and US troop commitment there surges, the occupation in Iraq has received less attention in recent months than it has since the invasion of Iraq took place in March 2003.

Jan 18, 2010

When public sector workers get their pay cheques in January, they will see exactly what the attack on their wages and salaries means.

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FEATURED VIDEOS

Youth Projects in Dublin are under threat of further budget cuts. Dublin Focus on Youth are calling on politicians and public officials to put a stop to these cuts. The campaign called a protest on Wednesday 27th January at 4pm at the Dail.

Youth Against Dole Cuts building for Wednesday's protest to defend youth projects and services. Video by Paula Geraghty.

Fujitsu workers national strike January 2010. Interviews with workers at the Belfast offices

New wave of protests in Iran

Tuesday 5th January 14.00 GMT: Viva Palestina Convoy vehicles begin to leave port at Al-Arish

An alternative video for the song 'Strength in Numbers' by Colin Scallan, from the album 'Songs for A Sinking World'. Documenting recent socio-economic events in Ireland.

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