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Irish Resources
Irish Activism / Irish Government / Irish Media / Political Parties of the Irish Left

Global Resources
Global Media / Social Justice / Economic Justice / War and Peace / Columnists

Irish Activism

Amnesty International: Amnesty International in Ireland
Choice Ireland: Choice Ireland
Digital Rights Ireland: Civil, Legal and Human Rights in a Digital Age
Doctors for Choice in Ireland: Irish healthcare professionals supporting the Right To Choose
Focus Ireland: Advancing the rights of the Homeless
ICCL: Fighting for Civil Liberties in Ireland
IFPA: Promotiong Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health
Irish Anti-War Movement: Ireland against Warfare
Merchants Quay Ireland: Working for Justice and Opportunities for the Excluded
PANA: Irish Peace And Neutrality Alliance
Red Cross: The International Red Cross in Ireland

Irish Government

Office of The President
Houses Of The Oireachtas: comprehensive website of the two houses of the Irish Parliament
Government of Ireland: Information provided by most government departments and offices
Elections Ireland: Up-to-date information on past Irish elections

Irish Media

Some sites require registration and / or a paid subscription

Political Parties and Organisations of the Irish Left

Global Media

Adbusters: advertising as banality, if not evil
Bitch: feminist responses to popular culture
The Boston Review: politics, art, philosophy
CounterPunch: muckraking newsletter on politics and everything else
Forward: crusading New York weekly
Frankfurter Rundschau: left-leaning newspaper from Frankfurt (daily, German and English)
Freitag: leftist from Berlin
Granma: official Cuban newspaper from Havana
Green Left Weekly: socialist news from Australia
The Guardian: left-leaning daily and weekly newspapers from England
Ha'aretz: Israel's best newspaper
In These Times: leftist news and opinion
Labour Notes: putting the movement back in the Labour movement
Liberation: left-leaning newspaper from Paris
Le Monde diplomatique: leftist from Paris
Il Manifesto leftist newspaper from Rome
Monthly Review: where southpaws from town and gown get down
Mother Jones: muckraking, biting, and informative, with a lot of web-only articles
The Nation: the leading weekly American leftist journal
New Left Review: premier serious journal of the left
Le Nouvel Observateur: left-leaning Paris newspaper
Off Our Backs: the best American feminist newsjournal around
People's Weekly World: official house organ of the Communist Party of the USA
Processed World: San Francisco zine about the political economy of work, computers, and the net
The Progressive: a leftist take on politics and culture
Red Pepper: British red-green monthly
Science and Society: interdisciplinary quarterly Marxist journal
Die Tageszeitung (taz): leftist newspaper from Berlin
Village Voice newspaper
Workplace: the journal for academic Labour
Z: Progressive American with a huge and hugely useful website
Alternet: independent syndicator of news and commentary
BrainShrub offers links to, and summaries of three vital stories every weekday morning
Buzzflash: the left's alternative to the Drudge Report
CommonDreams progressive news center: reprints and original material, updated daily
The Crisis Papers: the best reporting and commentary from the progressive Internet
Independent Media Center: grassroots news from all over the world
Independent Student Media Project: Activism, the arts, and academia
International Progressive Publications network: links and pointers to media from all over the world
Left Links: Nick Vogel's site with lots of useful links around the world
Liberal Slant: energetic and informative webzine aimed at countering the mainstream media
Liberal Soundbag has good, heartfelt, weekly commentary and satire
Online Journal: independent source of on-line news
Public Library of Science: free, top-drawer, electronic scientific journals
Rabble: Canadian activists with senses of humor
The Register: biting the hand that feeds IT
Signs of the Times: British website offering a non-sectarian forum for scholarly leftists
The Spleen: wonderful weekly webzine about just about everything
TomPaine.com: liberal and progressive opinion, with emphasis on history, politics, and economics
USNewslink has constantly updated links to what's new and important online
Voice of the Turtle: omnibus leftist online journal
Wiretap: on-line journal, with investigative articles and personal essays, for progressive youth
Year Zero: radical British politics (and spelling)
Yellow Times: International webzine full of strong opinions on current events and politics

Some sites require registration and / or a paid subscription

Social Justice

Amnesty International: protecting the rights of the jailed and comforting the oppressed
Anarchist links: Bakunin would be proud!
Brecht Forum: New York's home for Marxism for everyone from artists to zookeepers
Campaign to End the Death Penalty: current cases, activism, and news from around the US
Center for Guerrilla Law: radical think tank and service project
The Gully: informed and opinionated views on politics, lesbian and gay issues, race, class, and more
Infoshop: huge and informative omnibus archist site
Irrawaddy (Thailand): Burmese opposition in exile
National Organization for Women: working for equal rights and opportunity for men and women
The New Rules Project: Designing rules as if (we like to think because) community matters
Racetraitor: treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity
Ruckus Society : nonviolent civil disobedience for the new century
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice: public interest lawyers working for a more just Society

Economic Justice

Anarcho-Syndicalism 101: everything that you wanted to know about working-class solidarity
(ATTAC): an anti-globalization website promoting the "Tobin Tax" and other initiatives
Behind the Label: working for the rights of garment workers around the world
Clean Clothes: information on multinationals who use and profit from from sweatshop Labour
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions: confederation of unionized graduate students and faculty
Creative Commons: helping to restore the proper concept of copyright, from the supply side
Economic Policy Institute: researchers devoted to helping low- and middle-income Americans
Environmental Working Group: home of the Chemical Industry Papers
Friends of the Earth: working for the environment, Labour rights, and human rights in general
Industrial Workers of the World: working for one worthwhile union for all workers
Inequality.org: news and views on economic inequality
Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy: conservation, sustainable agriculture and forestry
Labournet: working for an international, democratic, Labour movement
LabourStart: all-purpose trade union web site for news and resources
Responsible Wealth: Millionaires with consciences
Union of Radical Political Economists: Social scientists who care about inequality and a better world

War and Peace

ACRONYM Institute: Advocacy for disarmament, arms control, and security
Center for Defense Information: independent information on military matters
Code Pink for Peace: Grassroots approach to peace and social justice
Federation of American Scientists: Information on science, technology, and public policy
Global Security: new approaches to international security
Gush-Shalom: Israelis dedicated to peace in Palestine and Gaza
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Supporting local press in the world's most troubled regions
National Security Archive: Publication of declassified documents
Union of Concerned scientists: Thinking on environmental, energy, and defense policy
US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project: Cost analysis of the US nuclear weapons program
War and Peace Foundation: War and peace issues, plus links to all sorts of resources

Columnists and Other People

Phillip Adams (The Australian)
Noam Chomsky: extensive archive of his works
Joe Conason (New York Observer)
E J Dionne (Washington Post)
Barbara Ehrenreich (The Progressive)
Larry Elliott (The Guardian)
Robert Fisk (The Independent, via an unofficial, third-party site)
Dennis Fox: radical psychologist, academic, essayist, and columnist
Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)
Sean Gonsalves (Cape Cod Times)
Charles Gordon (Ottawa Citizen)
William Greider: offical site, with archives
Adrian Hamilton (The Independent)
Bob Herbert (New York Times)
Jim Hightower proves that at least one politician is neither idiotic nor mendacious
Will Hutton (London Observer)
Molly Ivins (Austin Star-Telegram)
Derrick Jackson (Boston Globe)
Fergal Keane (The Independent)
Naomi Klein (The Nation)
Paul Krugman (New York Times)
Robert Kuttner (American Prospect)
David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle)
Martin Lee (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Seymour Melman tireless advocate of workplace democracy (Columbia University)
George Monbiot (The Guardian)
Nathan Newman (Progressive Populist)
Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune)
Greg Palast: American correspondent and investigative reporter (London Observer)
Katha Pollitt (The Nation)
Ted Rall creates both editorial cartoons and political columns
Andrew Rawnsley (London Observer)
Robert Reno (Long Island Newsday
Susan Riley (Ottawa Citizen)
Stephanie Salter (San Francisco Chronicle)
Michelangelo Signorile (New York Press)
Joan Smith (The Independent)
Harley Sorenson (San Francisco Chronicle)
Helen Thomas (Hearst Newspapers)
Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a social theorist at Harvard Law School
Natasha Walter (The Independent)
Jules Witcover (Baltimore Sun)
Hugo Young (late of the The Guardian)
Gary Younge (The Guardian)
Dave Zweifel (Madison Capital Times)

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