Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Workers Solidarity Movement closing statement
Date: Mon, 2023-03-06 11:35
This is the promised detailed analysis of the end of the WSM following on from our very brief announcement of December 7th, 2021 titled 'WSM has come to an end - we look forward to new anarchist beginnings'.Developed over a couple of dozen meeting since it outlines our collective reflections on why we have taken this decision. It outlines the WSM’s achievements, the challenges we have encountered, and the lessons we feel can be drawn for the future. We are writing for our comrades, friends and supporters who have worked with the WSM in the past. We are also writing for fellow anarchists internationally and all those who struggle in our social movements and wish to see a world without bosses. We hope this statement will be useful to those who wish to start new conversations and discussions about the kinds of movements and organisations we need to win
Detailed topic list
Date: Tue, 2022-09-20 15:32
As we published materi to the WSM site we often added tags to indicate what topic they covered so although this index will miss some articles where this did not happen it should link to many of those that were
WSM has come to an end - we look forward to new anarchist beginnings
Date: Wed, 2021-12-08 10:25
The Workers Solidarity Movement has taken the decision to disband the organisation some 37 years after it formed. While we recognise the WSM’s many achievements over the years and while we are each committed to continuing the cause of anarchism in some capacity, we have collectively agreed that the WSM is no longer the best vehicle to achieve that aim.
Covid and Class Struggle in Ireland's Meat Plants
Date: Sun, 2020-09-20 11:25
A fresh outbreak of Covid 19 in a meat plant in Waterford this week brings to a total of 44 the number of clusters in meat plants across the State in the past 6 months, or some 1,600 confirmed cases of the virus. One cluster is unfortunate, two might be carelessness, but forty-four is capitalism. The sustained outbreaks of COVID 19 in Ireland’s meat plants reveal how the meat industry and its management really operate on the basis of unchecked power and exploitation. And that’s a problem for us all.
Photo: Standing room only. Meat plant workers on the 6am bus to work in Waterford.
Credit: @Deisesupes
THE OPPRESSED CLASSES RISE UP AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION
Date: Sun, 2020-07-12 12:37
The murder of George Floyd in the United States by the police has unleashed a wave of popular outrage in that country and throughout the world. Massive demonstrations, direct action against the police and in response to repression have been common these past weeks. This murder, adding to thousands of others, revives the widespread protests of 2014 in the United States, following the many murders of black people, especially youth.
Wave of protests in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter 6th June
Date: Sun, 2020-06-14 18:33
Today in Dublin, there were three solidarity protests with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United (Disunited) States.
Isolation is Communal - Covid19
Date: Sat, 2020-04-04 14:38
Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine - Under the shelter of each other people survive.
It is within times of crisis when the thin veil of neoliberalism slips to reveal the emperor is not wearing any clothes. It exposes the sheer inefficacy of capitalism to cope with human crises and cater for the most basic human needs. In these times, when the capitalist state is left reeling, we see glimpses of community, solidarity and interdependence emerge once again - the very ideals neoliberalism has for the last 40 odd years attempted to erode and eradicate. It exposes that the ‘common sense’ manner of organising our lives, work and economy is entirely at odds with the will of the people but also, very importantly, it provides us with the opportunity to imagine a transformed world.