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A round-up of WSM activity at the start of 2013
Date: Mon, 2013-04-15 10:19
Our members in Cork and Dublin have been active at local, regional and national levels in the Cam- paign Against Home and Water Taxes, helping with stalls, leaf- letting and demos, and arguing for greater grassroots democracy within the campaign. WSM members were also invloved in occupations of council offices and TDs offices in Cork and Dublin as part of the campaign.
1000's of anti-home taxes campaigners march on EU ministers
Date: Sun, 2013-04-14 13:50
Thousands took part in the CAHWT march yesterday on the EU Finance ministers march in Dublin castle. You can see more photos of the protest in our Facebook album of march on EU ministers.
Only mass action can defeat Austerity - WS129 Cover story
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 16:09
Five years into an austerity program that is only working to make the rich richer, most of us are very unhappy about the lack of resistance from the unions. During the Croke Park campaign the SIPTU National Executive Council released a statement that included: "There is, of course, a wider issue of fairness in the Country as a whole because the wealthy are not contributing to the degree that they can or should. This is a consequence of the political choices made by the voters at election time.”
CAHWT – inspiring people to demand participatory democracy
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 15:55
At a public meeting of the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (CAHWT) in Kildare last month, a query was raised from a woman anxious about the upcoming local elections. She explained her complete frustration with the austerity policies of the Fine Gael-Labour Government, and described her despair at not having the power to challenge policies that were ravaging her community, stating there “really is no one legitimate left to vote for.”
Queer Anarchism: Equality or Liberation? - DABF 2013
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 15:41
A talk from the 2013 Anarchist Bookfair which will discuss emergent radical queer politics which resist assimilation and question the foundations of gender and sexual identity
Elections: Quicksand for Socialist Ideas
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 10:12
We don't live in a socialist world. In fact never before has capitalism exercised such total hegemony. Despite huge disaffection with austerity and global capitalism, for billions of people the world over, an alternative is impossible to imagine. One of the key tasks of the left then, is not just to oppose attacks on the living conditions of working class people, but to provide an alternative vision of a society where we do not exist to serve the economy, but rather the economy exists to serve us, a society where the slogan "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" becomes a reality.
Four Public Service Unions will not be bound by ICTU vote
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 08:10
Four unions have indicated today (Thursday) that they will not be bound by a majority vote by ICTU affiliated unions in favour of the new Croke Park agreement. The INMO, CPSU, IMO and Unite made this known after a meeting this morning which was also attended by representatives of the TUI, ASTI and AHCPS all of whom are advocating a rejection of the agreement.
Fighting the Property & Water Taxes - how to fight and win - DABF 2013
Date: Thu, 2013-04-11 16:47
Kevin Doyle (a supporter of the WSM) and Alan Gibson, both of whom have been actively involved in helping to build the Campaign Against Home And Water Taxes, talked about the lessons learnt from the fight thus far against the household and property taxes and explored what type of campaign and campaigning is needed for the fight against the property tax (and the forthcoming water tax) to be successful.
The state of the unions - the legacy of 1913 and the trade union movement today
Date: Thu, 2013-04-11 11:30
Having spent the early part of this week at the annual conference of my union – the Irish National Teachers Organisation – I’m struck by the view that unions today appear to be a different world entirely from that of 100 years ago. My talk will focus less on 1913 and more on where the trade union movement finds itself today
Austerity and the PIIGS - anarchists from around Europe - DABF 2013
Date: Wed, 2013-04-10 17:10
The austerity policies of the latest phase of capitalism have wreaked havoc on the lives and living standards of working class people across Europe and beyond. The struggles in which communities find themselves as they attempt to resist these policies have a lot to learn from each other. As we strive for a better world and to build communities free from poverty, exploitation and hopelessness we need to find time and space to listen to each other, to find common cause and to support each other’s struggles.