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‘No War But The Class War’ ✑ Not A Very Useful Slogan

People And Nature ☭ A guest post by Bob Myers.14-March-2022In a discussion I took part in last week, a comrade ended a piece he wrote about Ukraine with the following:The left slips into the two opposing camps quickly (pro-Putin/ pro-independence), and the tiny voices that call for working class unity and system change are hardly heard. What kind of actions – of self-defence, support etc –

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousTranscript: Michael Healy-Rae and Joe Duffy go to battle over use of phrase ‘airy fairies’The Syrian refugees with dreams of playing GAA for

Iran Regime Referred To International Criminal Court

Maryam Namazie ✒ #Iran regime referred To International Criminal Court for its war crimes in #Syria.22-February-2022 Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and UK barrister Haydee Dijkstal have filed a request to the International Criminal Court to open an examination into the Islamic regime of Iran’s role in war crimes in Syria. Clearly, the Russian, US and Turkish governments have played a role

RIP

Christopher Owens 🔖 Being the first American artist to be convicted of obscenity is quite a claim. And it’s a claim that belongs to Mike Diana. A notorious figure in the underground comix scene (which had already given us Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and An Phoblacht’s own Cormac), Diana took the underground’s obsession with taboo breaking and pushed the comix medium into

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P&O Ferries And The Modern Robber Barons

Matt Treacy ✒ The effective sacking by P&O Ferries of 800 of its staff last Thursday has led to almost universal condemnation.Staff who are in dispute with P&O over wages were removed from the ports where they work– including at Larne in county Antrim – by security staff armed with hand cuffs and replaced with agency workers from outside of Britain and Northern Ireland. These “scabs” as they are

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousOn Putin, the Ukraine War, the United States and FascismState’s welcome for Ukrainians reveals ‘hypocrisy’ of Irish immigration systemPutin’s Holy Man

Yemen ✑ The Forgotten Hell!

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ Not many people in Ireland today
or, for that matter, any other country will not have heard of the terrible
events occurring in the Ukraine. Day after day our news bulletins tell of the pounding the country receives from Russian explosive ordnance as their cities begin to crumble. There can be no doubt what is happening there, as in any war, is terrible.The United Nations

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Hats Off To Walter The Softy ... !

Michael Praetorius ✒ Yes, it was a memorable and gourmandizing return to busking for Miss Lotte Lenya last Saturday. By the time I was bawling out my fourth tune, she'd had three sausages and nearly a whole bag of treats. Then along came superchav Joe Cool in groovy grey tracksuit bottoms and hoodie.

Sausage roll for the dog, squire, he said. And produced a fat tree trunk of pastry from a paper