For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit
The death of politics? Well, not quite, but it?s going to be more difficult? 16:56 Fri Jun 01, 2012 | WorldbyStorm
Reading Sean O?Callaghan?s The Informer? 13:27 Fri Jun 01, 2012 | WorldbyStorm
The shift in support for same-sex marriage in the US? 12:22 Fri Jun 01, 2012 | WorldbyStorm
This Week At The Irish Election Literature Blog 05:13 Fri Jun 01, 2012 | irishelectionliterature
Repudiate the Debt Campaign An appeal to the Irish people 16:46 Thu May 31, 2012 | WorldbyStorm Cedar Lounge >>
It's a group blog. What more do you need to know?
PLEASE MAKE THE BAD MAN GO AWAY 14:36 Fri Jun 01, 2012
QUISLING 17:15 Thu May 31, 2012
Richard Murphy | Towards a New Tax Consensus 13:56 Thu May 31, 2012
GOOSIE GOOSIE GANLEY, WHERE SHALL WE WANDER? 19:41 Tue May 29, 2012
EAMON GILMORE GOOGLED 01:43 Wed May 23, 2012 Dublin Opinion >>
Joined up thinking for the Irish Left
This makes me want to puke?. Fri Jun 01, 2012 15:50 | Donagh
Owen Jones | It?s time to demolish the myth about Tony Blair Fri Jun 01, 2012 15:43 | Donagh
Campaign Against the Austerity Treaty: Irish people bullied into voting Yes Fri Jun 01, 2012 15:15 | Irish Left Review
Hanging on to our memories Thu May 31, 2012 16:59 | Richard
To defend what?s left of our democracy, a No vote is vital Thu May 31, 2012 14:21 | Andy Storey Irish Left Review >>
A shot at bias in the media
The Household Charge - How They Failed to Shape Our Perspectives Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:48
The web's political rainbow Wed Dec 07, 2011 09:47
The Forgotten Constituency: The Majority and The Irish Economic Crisis Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:49
A curse on the zombie establishment Tue Sep 21, 2010 15:11
'Officials say', 'officials say', 'according to an official' Tue Jul 27, 2010 17:05 MediaBite >>
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Basque trade union barricade during general strike in March
A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy.
Related Links:
The Abertzale Left makes big electoral gains in the basque Country – but is it being steered towards social democracy? |
Basque Trade Unions Square Up To The Spanish State |
Report on the largest demo ever in the Basque Country, estimated 100,000, Bilbao January this year -- in solidarity with political prisoners
General Strike in the Basque Country
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Location of Basque Country
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Basque football players demand a Basque selection in sports
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Bilbao Athletic players at game this month wearing T-shirts to express solidarity with family of one of their fans shot by Ertzaintza rubber projectile at short range who later died in hospital
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Prisoner solidarity demonstration
national / eu Tuesday April 24, 2012 06:00 by Sonya Oldham
Here we go again. Do what you are told by government.
Presently we are being given a referendum on the 'Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union', ( the Fiscal Compact Treaty), this treaty lays out the 'conditions' of receiving a bailout from the European Stabilty Mechanism, which so far we are not being given a referendum on. These 3 aspects are inextricably intertwined, with the ESM being the mechanism, the article 136 TEFU amendment the instrument being used to enable the ESM to have a legal basis, while the fiscal compact treaty sets out the conditions for accessing finance through the ESM.
There are in fact 3 different aspects, only the last of which we are allowed a say on:
1. The article 136 TFEU amendment to the treaties.
2. The ESM treaty
3. The Fiscal Compact Treaty.
External Links:
Fiscal Treaty will copper fasten austerity, make even emergency public expenditure impossible, and worsen poverty |
Fiscal Treaty Files: The Fiscal Treaty is Unsafe, Uncertain and Unnecessary | Democracy instead of the Fiscal Treaty! |
Do you know what the fiscal compact treaty is all about? |
Fiscal Treaty Referendum Poll Result |
Fiscal Treaty Files: The Fiscal Treaty is Unsafe, Uncertain and Unnecessary | Generating an Improved Debate on the Fiscal Treaty | Austerity Treaty flies in the face of 1916 Proclamation – Ó Caoláin |
Why this really is an Austerity Treaty | EU summit adopts Fiscal Pact for European-wide austerity
Indymedia Links:
People's Movment: Ireland has better options | Thomas Pringle Q&A;: ESM Constitutional Challenge | Important Background & Analysis on SCG ("Fiscal Compact") Treaty, for Dáil Debate on Irish Referendum (Wed., Thurs., Fri.) | Irish Constitutional challenge to ESM |
The Recession, Bank Bailout or our Deficit? | Mandate To Default On The Unjust Bank Debt That Is Sinking Our Economy
Events: EU Permanent Austerity Treaty - why you should vote NO!
Document: The Fiscal Treaty
No Campaign Websites:
http://www.nofiscaltreaty.net/ - Fight back and vote No! |
http://no-fiscal-treaty.org/ |
http://voteno.ie/ - Vote No to the EU Austerity Treaty |
http://www.FarmersForNo.eu - Farmers For No
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