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New law puts property before life

23/01/2012

On Friday 13th January a new law came into effect allowing the use of 'reasonable force' to defend yourself and your property.

Habibi: work of art or Orientalist cliché?

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17/01/2012

Habibi, the latest graphic novel from Craig Thompson, is set in the made-up land of Wanatolia in a world which shifts between medieval times and modernity.

Aviva using crisis as excuse to cut jobs and throw its workers under a bus

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19/10/2011

(A message of support to the Aviva workers from Socialist Worker)

Igal Mayer CEO of Aviva Europe claims the 950 jobs to go are so Aviva Europe can be "competitive"
Aviva Europe's operating prof

Why conspiracy theories let the system off the hook

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18/05/2011

Conspiracy theories—the belief that secret networks of powerful individuals rule the world—have had a recent resurgence.

Census company connection to torture

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04/04/2011

When you fill in your census form, you think your information is confidential. This is what the Central Statistics Office (CSO) tells us.

Attacks on wages continue

21/03/2011

As part of the EU/IMF deal, a review of Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreement wage settings began on February 25th.

Are There Just Too Many Mouths To Feed?

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12/01/2011

Predictions of famine and food riots are growing as the price of wheat spirals to its highest ever level.

Abolish the Senate – But the Whole System is Rotten

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07/01/2011

A subtle change has taken place in the official discourse on Ireland’s economic crash.

Why The Eastern Block was not Socialist

29/11/2010

Autopsy

Nine years ago the Berlin Wall collapsed. Shortly afterwards the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe and Russia followed suit.

One Hundred Thousand March on GPO

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28/11/2010

As the first snow of the winter hit the plains of Ireland, a crowd of up to 100,000 assembled in Dublin city centre and marched in protest at the diasatrous economic mismanagement of the country by F

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