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Topic: Irish Workers Group

	Laws that Isolated and Impoverished the Irish
		Irish intervention on behalf of the Stuarts was to be made impossible forever by reducing the Catholic Irish to helpless impotence.
		The early Irish were famous for their excellence in arts and crafts, especially for their wonderful work in metals, bronze, silver and gold.
		Irish linen manufacturing met with the same fate when the Irish were forbidden to export their product to all other countries except England.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/unit_1.html (4429 words)

	Labor in the global economy
		Workers today must be able to follow their trade as it traverses the globe.
		Workers must be able to take their collective-bargaining agreements and their unions and move to any country to which their work has been relocated.
		All mass worker migrations have one common denominator, and that is the degradation of work and oppression in the geographic areas of the origins of the worker movement.
	www.workers.org /2006/us/silvera-0706 (1342 words)

	Do we need an anarchist federation?
		The Workers Revolutionary Party, which was the largest Trotskyist organisation - the only one in the world to be able to publish a daily paper - has disintegrated into at least seven competing and politically irrelevant factions.
		All of the Irish Trotskyist groups have failed to capitalise on the demise of Stalinism.
		The Militant group is suffering from a loss of members, the Socialist Workers Movement is holding its own in absolute terms with a membership of about 100.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/feder.html (1721 words)

	IrishWar.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Irish Brigade was specifically created to preserve this special identity and to advertise the important contributions to the Union cause that Irish Catholics made.
		Many Irish- Americans continued to enlist and to fight in the Union army, but neither their numbers nor their spirit matched the early days of the war.
		That there was never anything intrinsic about Irish support for the Northern cause is evident from the fact that those who settled in the Southern states had no trouble accepting the logic of that section on the war.
	www.28thmass.org /IrishWar/IrishWar.htm (1761 words)

	Workers Power (Britain): A Powerless Answer to Reformism
		Workers Power’s answer to reformism begins by making a tremendous concession to it: WP believes that reformism is in part a “social gain” of the working class and a product of the proletariat’s development as a class.
		Trotsky is discussing workers whose consciousness is moving leftward, but who are confused by their left-reformist leaders; the leaders are forced to reflect the workers’ forward motion in order to hold back the masses’ advance.
		The workers’ government slogan is central to the misuse of the Program because it has been used in fact as a substitute for the missing slogan of the workers’ state.
	www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/wpPR23.html (10747 words)

	Irish unions show their strength
		Irish Ferries agreed to pay immigrants the legal Irish minimum wage of 7.65 euros an hour (as opposed to the 3.60 originally offered) but they will continue to “outsource” crews, meaning they will be able to replace unionised crews with non-union labour.
		The notion that the laws of the Irish capitalist state will protect workers — immigrant or Irish — is a deadly illusion, cut from the same cloth as the myth that there can be “partnership” between workers, bosses and the government.
		The 9 December demonstration shows that workers in Ireland are sick to death of having their wages kept down by “partnership” deals, which have been instrumental in maintaining class peace while the capitalists make handsome profits.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/wh/193/dublindemo.html (809 words)

	roma in the uk
		Irish Travellers (sometimes known as "itinerants" or "Tinkers") are a very small minority group in Ireland.
		This word referred to their occupation as tinsmiths and metalworkers and was derived from the Irish word "ceard" (smith) or "tinceard" (tinsmith).
		The Centre's projects have focused on the education of the children of migrant workers and the education of the children of Gypsies and Travellers.
	groups.msn.com /romaintheuk/irishtravellers.msnw (1035 words)

	The Irish In England
		Keeping in mind that the majority of Irish migrating to England were strictly agricultural workers in their native country, it is easy to understand their willingness to accept any unskilled, low paying employment offered to them in the English towns.
		The Irish have, in those branches of industry which could be easily taught, either to children or adults, been a check on the combination of the English and Scotch of the western counties, as they could be brought over almost in any number, at a short notice, and at little expense.
		The belief of a majority of English that the Irish chose to remain living in their desperate state, that their degradation was self- inflicted, not the result of oppressiveness and unfair treatment at the hands of the English, seems hard to believe.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/irish.html (3307 words)

	The Celtic Tiger's lost generation \| IrishAsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The experience of fl manual workers in the US faced with thousands of Irish workers coming into the major cities of the US in the 1840s and 1850s gives us a fascinating glimpse of what is likely to happen to our unskilled workers over the next five years.
		The first is the scale of immigration and the second is the skill level of the Irish workers.
		According to the ESRI, 32.9pc of Irish workers in the labour force are unskilled and uneducated.
	www.irishasia.com /node/135 (1421 words)

	MM: Reviews - Connolly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His influence within Irish politics as the claimed patron of the Irish Labour Party, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Workers’ Party, the Communist Party, each of the Trotskyist groups, and the Republican Movement, is the main reason why the Irish Workers Group have published this analysis.
		On the contrary, it argues that, despite his many virtues, Connolly proved uncritical of nationalism in his original contribution to Socialist theory, and that this was a serious flaw in a country in which the pursuit of class struggle was deeply bound up with the struggle for national independence.
		His initiation of the rising was a bold, but misguided, attempt to take advantage of the weakness of the dominant Irish bourgeois party and of Britain’s preoccupation elsewhere, to reverse the collapse of the SPI and the defeat of the ITGWU in the 1913 lock-out.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no1/johnson.html (808 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		The first is the 'Irish Anarchist Black Cross', a group influenced by the Angry Brigade, which carried out a series of armed raids and attacks against the US and Spanish Embassy in Dublin in the mid-1970s.
		This small group, led by a mysterious man called 'Nick The Greek', was heavily influenced by Italian armed groups like Prima Linea or the Red Brigades (see for example the special issue of their journal The Ripening of Time).
		This was not aimed to be a traditional Irish 'kneecapping', but rather a local version of the Italian 'gambizatzione' ('legisation'), a common practice of Italian groups… The group was later associated with Jimmy Brown, after he had left the IRSP.
	lark.phoblacht.net /lor1401051g.html (1301 words)

	The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform
		MORE than 1,000 illegal Irish immigrants converged on Washington DC yesterday to lobby US law makers for a chance to remain in America in a last-ditch effort to rescue a proposal to reform immigration laws.
		Joined by a cross-party delegation of Irish politicians, the immigrants knocked on lawmakers' doors in the US House of Representatives and Senate to ask their support for an immigration bill that would create a path to permanent citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers in the US.
		Yesterday's rally was organised by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), a New York-based group that has dramatically raised the profile of the 25,000 undocumented Irish workers living in America.
	www.irishlobbyusa.org /press/june28indo.php (257 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		One other story missing from the record of the time when the Irish workers died is the activity of anti-immigrant vigilante groups in the area.
		The life of an Irish railroad worker in the first half of the 19th century was harsh and premature death frequently came from both natural and man made causes.
		In common with the Irish workers who died outside Philadelphia 20 years earlier, the Illinois dead also had to contend with a number of anti-Irish organizations then at work in their vicinity, including the Know Nothing party.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=15024 (973 words)

	Socialist Worker in Decline? - Indymedia Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Socialist Worker, newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, was substantially revamped in the last year with colour being introduced and layout being improved, but one of the larger changes seems to be a reduction in editions, or at least substantial irregularity.
		Originally launched as "The Worker" in the early seventies and renamed Socialist Worker in the mid nineteen eighties is was originally a bi-montly then a monthly from the late eighties.
		Irish involvement in the war on Iraq/Afghanistan loses its sex appeal, mainstream media coverage etc. SWP priorities are set frmo London Central or the Irish mainstream media.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/78246 (10375 words)

	Irish-Americans: Work and Song
		Explain that Irish immigration to the United States skyrocketed in the 1840’s and 1850’s, coinciding with the Potato Famine in Ireland.
		Irish immigrants were instrumental in building the railroad system in the country.
		Once students have demonstrated a deeper understanding of the experience of Irish immigrants who worked on building the railroads, explain that they will be writing their own "folk songs" about these experiences.
	www.thirteen.org /edonline/lessons/irish_americans/b.html (1477 words)

	The Irish Shrine at Lemmon Street
		The Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum at Lemmon Street is a historic site that celebrates the history of the immense Irish presence in Southwest Baltimore City in the late 1840's.
		Two of the houses, 918 and 920 Lemmon St., are the Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum.
		The Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum are the centerpiece of a larger historical district that includes the BandO Railroad Museum, St. Peter the Apostle Church, the Hollins Street Market, and St. Peter the Apostle Cemetery.
	www.irishshrine.org (261 words)

	Entertainment: Wild Irish footwork
		When Irish music's playing, the feet of the Riverdance troupe move so quickly they almost blur.
		When John McColgan first brought his Irish dance show to a European stage, nothing could have prepared him for the reaction.
		What she found was an energetic group of local amateurs, many of whom are still with the show.
	www.sptimes.com /News/20999/Entertainment/Wild_Irish_footwork.html (707 words)

	The Simpsons Archive: Irish References On The Simpsons
		Lisa's T-shirt: I Kissed the Balmoweloud is analogous to Irish "I kissed the Blarney Stone" T-shirts.
		Milhouse says "It the wearin' of the Green, Bart" "The Wearin' of the Green" is an Irish ballad about how wearing the color green was a jailable offense during the 18th century as an illegal sign of Irish nationalism and rebellion against the British.
		Irish dancing is a big craze in Europe and the United States (shown on PBS).
	www.snpp.com /guides/irish.refs.html (1222 words)

	Labour in Irish History
		It failed ridiculously to cause a single Irish worker in town or country to strike a blow for the Stuart cause in the years of the Scottish Rebellions in 1715 and 1745, but it prevented them from striking any blows for their own cause, or from taking advantage of the civil feuds of their enemies.
		In the effort to assimilate the first two the Irish were unhappily too successful, so successful that to-day the majority of the Irish do not know that their fathers ever knew another system of ownership, and the Irish Irelanders are painfully grappling with their mother tongue with the hesitating accent of a foreigner.
		Our Irish politics, even to this day and generation, have been and are largely determined by the light in which the different sections of the Irish people regarded the prolonged conflict which closed with the surrender of Sarsfield and the garrison of Limerick to the investing forces of the Williamite party.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/published/E900002-001.html (15299 words)

	All About Irish - Nano Nagle
		Those laws were intended to suppress Irish nationalism and support of the Stuarts who had received Irish Catholic support in their opposition to the English Crown.
		She enjoyed the social life of a privileged daughter of a wealthy Irish family for a period of time until, stories tell us, she saw a group of workers waiting to attend Mass.
		On a return trip to Ireland she witnessed the plight of the poor Irish Catholic children but felt unable to provide assistance with the Penal Laws still in force.
	allaboutirish.com /library/people/presentation.shtm (416 words)

	RTE News - Irish Ferries 'unaware' of initiative
		Irish Ferries have said they have no knowledge of any initiative to break the deadlock in the dispute over replacing more than 500 Irish workers with staff from overseas.
		Last night, a source close to talks involving the National Implementation Body said the employers' group IBEC and the Congress of Trade Unions were continuing exploratory discussions with both sides.
		The dispute worsened on Monday when the company rejected a Labour Court recommendation vetoing its plan to replace around 550 Irish workers with cheaper agency staff from overseas.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/1117/irishferries.html (153 words)

	The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform
		Coachloads of Irish workers both legal and illegal went to the rally on buses from New York City, Boston and Pittsburgh.
		The march was organisedby the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, a New York-based group launched in December last year, with an E30,000 grant from the Irish Government.
		Thousands of Irish immigrants say they contribute to the American economy but are unable to become legal citizens.
	www.irishlobbyusa.org /press/dailymail.php (372 words)

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		With information workers around the world using Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint on a daily basis, the company’s software is an integral part of workplace success for many, and Microsoft is doing its part to help them.
		According to Smithwick, most information workers are being asked to do more with less as companies try to manage their costs and get products and services out the door more quickly.
		And so, ironically, while workers could become more productive by using advanced features and templates in their desktop software to meet these challenges, they often aren’t able to invest the time up front in determining how to apply the software to their everyday functions, tasks, processes or business needs.
	www.irishdev.com /NewsArticle.aspx?id=2740 (1306 words)

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		More than a third of workers carry between two and four devices, while the top six percent of the mobile worker population lugged five, six or even seven devices.
		Through technologies such as application virtualisation, companies can reduce the number of devices mobile workers have to carry by giving employees access to applications and information back in the data centre through any network connection.
		Organisations that would like to offer their mobile workers an alternative to carrying pounds of heavy electronic equipment can turn to any one of three Citrix solutions.
	www.irishdev.com /NewsArticle.aspx?id=3947 (631 words)

	October 1917 : A lost opportunity for socialism? The Russian Revolution
		In early 1921 food shortages led to a strike by Moscow workers which was repressed by the Bolsheviks
		Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship
		Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
	www.struggle.ws /russia.html (630 words)

	RTE News - Protesting teachers will have wages docked
		In the meantime the wider trade union movement has warned that the ferries dispute is a clear example of the problems a controversial EU directive could pose for Irish workers in the future.
		Employers' group IBEC has welcomed the statement but the unions remain cautious about entering a new round of pay talks in advance of a settlement of the ferries dispute.
		The framework for talks drawn up by the NIB asks Irish Ferries to postpone its re-flagging of Irish ships but raises the possibility of it going ahead some time in the future.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/1206/irishferries.html (552 words)

	Irish members expelled in Workers Power International Split - Indymedia Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andy Johnston and Maureen Gallagher, two long standing members of Workers Power Ireland (formerly the Irish Workers Group) have been expelled.
		RSS and atom feeds allow you to keep track of new comments on particular stories.
		Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/77992 (263 words)

	TEI header for Labour in Irish History
		A bibliography of Irish labour history, Saothar: journal of the Irish Labour History Society 5 (1979).
		John F. Murphy, Implications of the Irish past: the socialist ideology of James Connolly from an historical perspective (Unpublished MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1983).
		Schüller, James Connolly and Irish freedom: a marxist analysis (Cork: Cork Workers Club 1974, reprint of a work first published Chicago 1926).
	www.ucc.ie /celt/online/E900002-001/header.html (1148 words)

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