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Socialist Youth Summer Festival – Book your place today!

6 July, 2009 · Leave a Comment

21st-23rd August

Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

Socialist Youth’s annual residential Summer Festival is being held during the biggest crisis in capitalism since the 1930’s. Internationally there have been huge movements of young people from Greece to Iran fighting oppression and exploitation.

This camp is a must for anyone serious about changing society. It gives an opportunity for socialist activists across Ireland to get together and discuss building a real alternative.

This year’s event looks likely to be the biggest in a number of years. Discussions will include fees, dangers of sectarianism and the building a socialist youth movement to fight capitalism.

A full agenda is to come in the next few days.

To book your place today contact:
South  – 016772592

North – 02890232962

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Iran – Splits in the ruling Islamist-capitalist class

3 July, 2009 · Leave a Comment

iranprotestThe presidential elections in Iran, held on 12 June, triggered a revolutionary crisis. The ruling Islamist-capitalist class is deeply split over whether brutal repression or some concessions can stop the historic mass movement that has emerged. The rulers and increasingly the system have lost their legitimacy. Nationalist and religious propaganda have had little effect. Shootings, beatings and arrests are the last resort of the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad apparatus. The absence of mass workers’ organisations and revolutionary mass party, however, is also a major factor in these events.

By Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden

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Southern Bosses say: Cut the dole & minimum wage

29 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Make them emigrate!

The agenda of the establishment is clear – use the recession as an excuse to slash wages and conditions of workers. In line with this, there is a drive to cut the dole with a view to ensuring workers are forced to take up very low-paid work, probably on a lowered rate of minimum wage. Socialist Youth reporters give us updates on this agenda and raise the need for young people to fight back.

By Liam Cullinane, Cork Socialist Youth

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Iran erupts! Millions struggle for democratic rights

23 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

THE POLLS closed at 10pm on 12 June. Three hours later the electoral commission claimed to have hand counted 81% of 39 million votes and declared Ahmadinejad elected! At the same time as this announcement was being made, phones, text messaging, websites, and all communication channels were being shut down as the military and police forces moved onto the streets of Tehran. A coup was in motion.

By Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party

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Organiser of residents anti-racist protest receives death threat

19 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

One of the residents who organised a protest on Monday on the Lisburn Rd area of Belfast in defence of Romanian families has received a death threat.

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Blasphemy!

18 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

“A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000.” An archaic, perhaps medieval hangover from the past? On the contrary – in fact, this is actually being proposed by Minister Dermot Ahern as a new crime of blasphemous libel that will form an amendment to the Defamation Bill.

By Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Youth Dublin

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Belfast SY Public Meeting

8 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Public Meeting:

How to stop the BNP

6pm Friday 12th June
13 Lombard St
Belfast
BT1 1RB

Organised by Socialist Youth
07876146473

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Joe Higgins wins Dublin Euro Seat

8 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Joe Higgins, former Socialist Party TD, took the third MEP seat in the Dublin Euro area beating Eoin Ryan (Fianna FAIL) and Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein).

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Below is footage of Joe’s victory speech:

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8,000 march in Hong Kong to commemorate Tiananmen massacre

2 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment

get_imgHighest turnout since early 1990s shows that legacy of “6/4” (June 4th massacre) remains a powerful factor among Chinese people

By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Thousands marched through Hong Kong Island on Sunday 31 May to commemorate those slain in the June 4th 1989 Beijing massacre. The turnout of at least 8,000 according to organisers, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, was the highest for many years – since 1992 according to some veteran democracy campaigners. The last Sunday before June 4th has become the traditional date for a procession through Hong Kong, the only part of China where such protests are allowed, as a prelude to the much larger candle-light vigil that takes place in Victoria Park on the anniversary itself. This year, the 20th anniversary of the brutal crackdown ordered by Deng Xiaoping and the aged leaders of China’s so-called ‘communist’ party, is expected to see the biggest mobilisation for more than a decade. Last year, the June 4th vigil drew around 50,000 despite the Sichuan earthquake and Olympic hysteria being used by sections of the establishment to dissuade people from participating.

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BENEFIT GIG FOR JOE HIGGINS’ EURO ELECTION CAMPAIGN

29 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment

 This Sunday afternoon 31 May 4.30 to 7pm
Don Baker Dermot Byrne O’Shea’s Hotel, Talbot Street

No Cover Charge – Solidarity Donations Welcome

Please show your support – Thanks

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