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limerick / workers issues Thursday December 11, 2008 08:37 by seedot
“Anyone passing Roxboro in the last 8 weeks will have seen the workers from Curran Aluiminium standing outside on the Picket Line in the worst of weather conditions. “
The Harp, January 1908.
Consider, oh, my compatriots, what this implies! That Polack, whose advent into the workshop you are taught to view with such disfavor, if you could trace his ancestry back a few hundreds of years perhaps you would find for him an Irish ancestor who charged by the side of Hugh O’Neill on that fateful day when the English flag went down in disaster at the Yellow Ford. Reporting on Indymedia this evening, Andrew from the Workers Solidarity Movement (disguised as personal capacity) drew lessons from the large crowds who marched to Merrion Square in the bright and crisp December day.
How about a system where production is organised to meet people’s needs, where it would be regarded as insanity to have building workers idle while others go without adequate housing, where the idea of paying farmers not to grow food while hunger is still a daily reality in much of the world would be seen as immoral. This can only work when the means of producing and distributing wealth are owned in common, by all of society. That’s the meaning of socialism.
...... will require the participation of many of our work colleagues, neighbours and friends. It is about the majority rejecting control over us by any minority group (whether it be employers or politicians). If we want the interests of the vast majority to be respected, then the vast majority must be in control. Whatever, the anarchists and republicans were definitely along with the rest of us in learning something from na muinteoirí (teachers for our non-gaeilgeoir readers) today. Despite his intention to try and ignore our first answer and come back within a year with the same treaty for us to ratify the Offaly gentlemen currently holding the seal of Taoiseach (chieftan for the non-gaeilgeoir) will give up easy. You've always been thought to respect the elderly - now they're worth emulating. Reports below the fold - add your own with the publish button. Add your photos and set your rights unlike most other sites. The weather was good and the march got under way promptly at 12. Traffic into the city had been very heavy so it was obvious there was going to be a good turnout but nobody expected so many to come. Related Links: 150 TCD students protest against Batt O’Keeffe, SU President welcomes him! | Public Meeting: Stand up Against the Cuts | Education on Indymedia.ie
national / rights and freedoms Wednesday November 19, 2008 18:03 by Emma Beckett
![]() He blocks access to our education,
we block his access to the opening Image credits Hugh O'Brien http://www.limerickblogger.ie/blog/2008/11/
"He blocks access to our education, we block his access to the opening. - Pa O' Brien ULSU President, advocate of a graduate tax and Fianna Fail member. Minister Martin Cullen attended the opening of the newly built Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) building on University of Limerick campus last Monday evening. Ahead of the scheduled event, ULSU issued a press release headlined "UL Students to block Minister from ICO opening". What actually transpired was an entirely different set of events. Related Links: Free Education for Everyone homepage | Limerick Blogger Report | Winter of discontent | March against Fee's
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 11, 2008 21:52 by Seomra Spraoi
Seomra Spraoi opens new autonomous social centre. Related Links: Seomra Spraoi | Social Centre Stories | Seomra Spraoi on Indy.ie |
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