Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
X-case legislation looking like a step backwards for women's rights
Date: Wed, 2013-05-01 16:45
The WSM has always argued that the X-Case legislation was not enough but even so we were shocked to finally see the details of the bill Fine Gael and Labour are preparing. We expected it to be a small but almost insignificant step foward. Instead there is a clear danger that women with unwanted pregnancies will be worse off than before if the final bill resembles what has been presented so far.
Review of Volume 2 of the Anarchist FAQ
Date: Tue, 2013-04-30 15:15
Back before many people had discovered the internet a small group of anarchists including this writer began work on the Anarchist FAQ. We were tired of having to provide the same basic explanations over and over as new people joined the news net group, alt.soc.anarchism, so we began the FAQ so newcomers could be referred to it.
Avoiding Burn Out - Self-Care and Support in Activism
Date: Tue, 2013-04-30 14:55
This is a glimpse into a process of investigation into ourselves and each other. It’s neither the beginning nor the end and so it’s open to change. It’s never static. For now, at least, it’s the culmination of a year of conversations around what it might look like to be part of a movement that cultivates an environment of collective and self-care, support, revolutionary love and self-determination. The opinions that will follow are my own but i will use the word ‘we’ throughout this piece to reflect that these ideas were inspired by others and created through conversation and dialogue. I take responsibility for them but am open to suggestions and the possibility that they will change where better versions replace them.
The Politics of Voices: Notes on Gender, Race & Class
Date: Tue, 2013-04-30 12:40
As class-struggle anarchists dealing with the relations between gender, race and class, we must, in theory and practice, pick a path between two pitfalls. On one side is economic reductionism – the reduction of all political questions to the social relations of production – which erases the perspectives and struggles of women, queers and people of colour; submerges their voices within an overly generalised class narrative, in which the idealised Worker is implicitly white heterosexual and male; or consigns their struggles to a secondary importance compared to the “real struggle” of (economic) class against class. On the other is a stultifying and inward-looking liberal-idealist identity politics, concerned fetishistically with the identification of privilege and the self-regulation of individual oppressive behaviour to the (near) exclusion of organised struggle, which, while amplifying the voices of the marginalised, consigns them to an echo chamber where they can resonate harmlessly.
Belfast May day march - Sat 4th May
Date: Mon, 2013-04-29 16:40
The Befast Mayday march which traditionally tends to be the largest on the island assembles in Writers Square at 12 noon Saturday 4th May. The WSM will be there, hope you can join us and maybe go for a pint & a chat afterwards. We will be posting details to the Facebook event we created to advertise Belfast Mayday so RSVP to that.
Dub: What is to be done between moments of excess? launch
Date: Mon, 2013-04-29 16:19
A book launch event and talk from two members of the Free Association from Leeds, who last year published the book "Moments of Excess". The talk will look back at the movements and period covered by the book, from Reclaim the Streets, the anti-G8 protests of the 2000s, up to the London Student riots a couple of years ago.
Cork - Veg Out Cafe, next Tuesday & every Tuesday from 7pm @solidarity books
Date: Sun, 2013-04-28 15:34
Veg Out Cafe every Tuesday from 7pm Delicious Vegan food (..not just for Vegans!), at the Veg Out Cafe every Tuesday from 7pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street (across from Fionn Barra’s)
Suggested donation appreciated: 5 euro – all welcome!
After Croke Park - Winning the Fight - Organising Together
Date: Fri, 2013-04-26 15:11
The massive vote by union members to reject the 'Croke Park Extension' proposals was a clear and unambiguous rejection of government attempts to impose yet another 1billion of austerity cuts on public service workers. It was also a clear statement of opposition to the trade union leadership's decision to enter talks on the basis of these cuts in the first place.
A 2013 visit into the Gaza Strip - 3 pm, Saturday 27th April 2013, Solidarity Bookshop, Douglas Street Cork
Date: Fri, 2013-04-26 13:07
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign would like to invite you to a presentation by one of our members who recently visited the Gaza Strip. Karim met a wide variety of people during his trip and recorded these encounters in photographs that will be shown in Solidarity Bookshop, Douglas Street Cork during the talk.
Home Taxes - We’re beyond elections; time for direct action - vote down electoralism on Saturday
Date: Thu, 2013-04-25 20:30
This article is a plea to campaign members and activists to vote down proposals that have been put in to this Saturday's CAHWT conference to endorse a slate of candidates in elections and to instead concentrate our collective energies on building the mood of political protest that is necessary to defeat the property tax in the immediate future. The WSM will be distributing this text as a leaflet on Saturday, let us know if you would like to help.