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Pro- Ukraine Workers impose sanctions : 1. Sabotage in Belarus: railway workers in action 2. Swedish Dockers Block Russian Ships
A Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign directed against the far-right ethnic cleanser régime of Russia is necessary. This can be a direct imitator the BDS campaign for Palestine against racist Israel – and the past Boycott Apartheid campaign directed against racist South Africa. Workers in states close to Ukraine – Belarus and Sweden – show us the way forward. For more information on active solidarity with Ukraine click here : http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article61759
Railway sabotage in Belarus: railway workers in action
In the aftermath of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Executive Committee of the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus stated: “We wish to assure you, dear Ukrainians, that the vast majority of Belarusians, including workers, condemn the reckless actions of the present Belarusian regime in tolerating the Russian aggression against Ukraine. We demand an immediate halt to hostilities and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, as well as from Belarus.”
Read the rest of this entry »Written by tomasoflatharta
Apr 17, 2022 at 10:50 am
Posted in Anti War Movements, Apartheid, Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), Eastern Europe, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war Basic consensus, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Israel, Mass Action, Mass Action Versus Militarism, Palestine, Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), South Africa, Sweden, Trade Unions, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia Tensions 2022, War
An Irish Rising Day, November 17 2012 – “The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!” – Jim Larkin
http://www.facebook.com/actiononx2012
The foundations of the right-wing Fine Gael / Labour Coalition are shaking, trembling, and rocking from side to side :
If it falls, good riddance
“Today a statue of “Big Jim” stands on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The inscription on the front of the monument is an extract in French, Irish and English from one of his famous speeches:
Les grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux: Levons-nous.
Ní uasal aon uasal ach sinne bheith íseal: Éirímis.
The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.The slogan, first used on the 18th century French radical paper Révolutions de Paris,[14] also appeared on the masthead of the Workers’ Republic, founded by James Connolly in Dublin in August, 1898. Originally the organ of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, this periodical later became the official organ of the Communist Party of Ireland, which was founded in 1921. The original slogan is usually attributed to Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), the French revolutionary”
Today :
Mass protest is the only way to win change on abortion
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/savita-protest-dublin-677586-Nov2012/
The November 17 Never Again Dublin Demonstration got huge media coverage in Ireland and abroad.
The Irish Times Reported :
It was headed by a giant banner which read “Never Again”, adorned with images of the 31-year-old Indian dentist.
Organisers of the Dublin march said about 20,000 people had turned out, but a Garda spokeswoman said they estimated the figure to be between 10,000 and 12,000.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1118/breaking3.html
Clare Daly TD spoke powerfully :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=faZj8L5pqGw
See also this statement from the ULA TD’s Clare Daly and Joan Collins :
Labour and Fine Gael bear responsibility for death of woman who was denied abortion
– The crisis is triggered by 7 governments’ refusals to act on the 20-year-old 1992 Supreme Court X Case Abortion Judgment
– The crisis is caused by the preventable death of Savita Halappanavar – 20 TD’s voted for Clare Daly TD’s Bill to implement the X Case Judgment – 111 Members of the Leinster House Parliament – mainly Fine Gael and Labour Government Deputies – voted against – Read the rest of this entry »
Written by tomasoflatharta
Nov 17, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Posted in 31st Dáil Elected 25.2.2011, Abortion, Barack Obama, Clare Daly TD, Dublin Governments, European Union, February 1992, Feminism, Fine Gael, Gaza, General Election 2011, International Political Analysis, Ireland, James Connolly, James Reilly TD, Jim Larkin, Mass Action, Palestine, Referendums, Revolutionary History, Tugging the Forelock, United Left Alliance, USA, X Case
Watch “Joe Higgins TD questions the Tanaiste on the illegal detention of Flotilla activists” on YouTube
Written by tomasoflatharta
Nov 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm
FreedomWaves Ships to Gaza – Key Information and News Items
Emergency Demonstration – Support the #FreedomWaves ships to Gaza – End the Siege of Gaza
Friday 4th November
6pm, The Spire
O’Connell Street
Dublin 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGhWzv5Tzc
Gaza flotilla interception ‘violent and dangerous’
Sunday, November 06, 2011 – 04:09 PM
http://www.paulmurphymep.eu/breaking-news-bad-treatment-of-crew-of-mv-saoirse-in-israeli-prison
Irish Ship To Gaza campaign – http://www.irishshiptogaza.org/
See also http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/11/201111335159309793.html