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Michael Albert talking in Dublin on Alternatives to Capitalism and the IMF
Date: Tue, 2011-09-27 11:26
Michael Albert, writer, activist, author of 'Parecon - Life after Capitalism' and co-founder of ZNet, will be giving talks at various locations in Europe in October 2011 including a talk in Dublin, October 11th. Subjects include media, participatory economics, the creation of a new international organisation for a participatory society, and strategy for social change.
Secret Documents reveal British state collusion
Date: Tue, 2011-09-27 10:48
New documents uncovered by the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry reveal the endemic collusion between the British army regiments and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. The declassified official documents uncovered highlight that the Ulster Defence Regiment’s (UDR) Belfast battalion was heavily infiltrated by the Ulster Volunteer Force(UVF) in the late 1970s.
Issues of Workers Solidarity from 1996 - WS #47-#48-#49
Date: Wed, 2011-09-21 21:49
Workers Solidarity No 47 Spring 1996
What is needed to Build a National Campaign against the Household Tax
Date: Fri, 2011-09-16 10:06
Workers Solidarity Movement member Gregor Kerr gave the leadoff at the session dealing with "Organising the Campaign" at the successful National Forum of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes on Saturday 10th September. What follows is the text of his contribution:
Hundreds on anti-SNA cuts march for opening of Dail
Date: Thu, 2011-09-15 14:47
Up to 800 people gathered in Central Bank plaza and marched on the Dáil with a c
lear message for the government; change up your policy and start protecting the vulnerable or you will find yourselves out of power in the wilderness along with the previous governing party. Banners were on the march from political organisations, community groups, parents associations, and National Traveller organisations. The mood was one of strong defiance.
This is the fifth protest on this very issue but what people have witnessed is a continuation of the cuts which were started by the previous Government. There had been a rumour which was converted into a promise by the political parties whilst they were campaigning that they were going to protect the vulnerable in this society. Politicians campaign in the poetry of promises and govern in the prose of policy and they are fooling nobody with this routine.
Support the Dale Farm families - Put a marker down to stop the racist onslaught against Travellers
Date: Wed, 2011-09-14 16:52
Dale Farm is a halting site which is also the largest concentration of Irish Travellers in Britain, being home to over 1000 people (about 100 families), many of whom are said to have their cultural roots in Rathkeale in Limerick. It was started in the 1960s when a number of families bought the former scrapyard site and Basildon council granted planning permission for 40 houses. This happened in the context of broad progress in race relations and a brief breeze of relative official tolerance for Travellers, epitomised in the liberal-sponsored 1968 Caravan Sites Act. Basildon Council have put aside an £18 million budget to bulldoze the site and forcefully evict the families (a staggering figure when you consider that in 2010 the total UK budget for providing Travellers with halting facilities was less than 30 million).
Successful National Forum sees Campaign against Household Tax gets organised
Date: Wed, 2011-09-14 12:12
Last Saturday (10th September) over 200 people attended the National Organising Meeting of the Anti-Household & Water Tax Campaign. People from over 16 counties arrived during the first session in the afternoon with more arriving later. The meeting was organised to co-ordinate a mass non-payment campaign against the €100 household charge announced by the government to come into effect on 1st January 2012. The campaign sees this as the “first step in the government’s plans to implement a fully fledged property and water tax by 2014 that could be around €1,200 according to one government economic advisor. “ In the long-term, this paves the way for the privatisation of the water supply, as occurred with refuse collection.
Northern Ireland Workplace related deaths on the rise
Date: Mon, 2011-09-12 16:55
The number of workplace related deaths in the north has increased by 50 per cent in the past year, according to latest official figures produced by the Health & Safety Executive’s annual report. To the end of March this nine people tragically lost their lives with six in agriculture, one in construction, one in general manufacturing and one due to carbon-monoxide poisoning. The increase in a casual and flexible labour force, the global erosion of workers rights and conditions are all the end product of a system which places profit before human need.
The History of Belfast anarchism
Date: Fri, 2011-09-09 15:29
Historian Mairtin O Cathain’s ‘Wee Black Booke’ has now been added to our archive for you to read or download. In it he pulls together reports of anarchism in and around Belfast in the years from 1867 to 1973. With no local movement for much of this period, the pamphlet looks at some individuals whose political activity merited mention in the media of the time. O Cathain’s work stops before the emergence in the late 1970s of the groups from which contemporary anarchist organisations Workers Solidarity Movement and Organise! can trace their roots.
Why we must organise to defeat the Household Tax
Date: Fri, 2011-09-09 14:22
The EU and IMF, enabled and supported by our Fine Gael/Labour Government, are imposing a new regressive tax on all of our homes. This tax will take no account of the ability to pay and will almost certainly move in only one direction (upwards) over the years once it is introduced.