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PSNI terrorise children in stop and search operation directed at RNU
Date: Mon, 2011-06-27 14:27
The reality behind the new beginning to policing was once again revealed on the streets of the North yesterday when children returning from a bus trip to Dublin where terrorised by heavily armed PSNI members for up two hours. The bus trip organised by the Republican Network for Unity contained 13 children and 6 adults were returning from a trip to Kilmainham Gaol was stopped and searched allegedly for explosives just outside Banbridge by up to 60-70 PSNI officers with a forensic lab and helicopters.
Democracy and Oligarchy - politics & definitions from Greece to Ireland
Date: Sat, 2011-06-25 10:57
A good few words in the world originate from my mother tongue Greek. Nearly all words in Greek mean something. That helps me understand things better when i interact with people in English plus it creates a sense of pride. In my opinion, specially in the last 100 years, the political systems, we all live in, have tried very hard to manipulate words and language. They constantly change the meaning of the words we are using, to either mean something completely diffrent to what their original real meaning was, or to make them soft, light and insignificant without power.
Greek Default: A game of Euro-Chicken?
Date: Fri, 2011-06-24 13:52
The big bad ECB wolf is a-huffing and a-puffing but the first of the three little pigs is showing no signs of surrendering just yet. And behind the spectacle of the Greek populace standing up against its government and the core EU powers, lurks a recent historical shadow - a spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Yugoslavia.
Today Greece is the target of pressure and brinkmanship by the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund who are holding back the next installment in the so-called "bailout" agreed last year. The payment of €12 billion was originally scheduled for this month and without it Greece will default on repaying its existing bonds due for redemption on Jul 15.
What Recession? – World’s Wealthiest Individuals increase their Wealth
Date: Fri, 2011-06-24 11:32
The “World Wealth Report 2011”, published by finance conglomerates Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, has shown that the amount of wealth held by the world’s wealthiest elite increased by almost 10% in 2010. The number of ‘High Net Worth Individuals’ (i.e. those with investable assets of over $1million) also rose last year – to 10.9 million.
Greek police join demonstrations
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 17:00
The population of Greece are in revolt again the IMF /ECB austerity plan that is being imposed on them. WSM member Con who is a migrant to Ireland from Greece tells us what it is like to follow the struggle by home from Ireland and especially the extraordinary events yesterday when many police, who for months have been attacking demonstrators, instead joined the demonstrations. Presumably they will soon be bought off and return to business as usual but all the same perhaps such an usual event is close to a miracle.
Friends of Durruti - a balance sheet
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 13:56
WHAT WE THINK
To the activist who strives to contribute to the birth of an authentic memory of the anti-authoritarian current of the workers' movement, the question is posed thus: what is the contribution of the historic episode that was the acts and ideas of the Friends of Durruti? Therefore to complete this study, we must draw up a balance-sheet, to assess in some way their achievements and failures.
The 'Friends of Durruti' and the 'People's friend' part 2
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 13:54
WAR AND REVOLUTION
In the first issue, there is an article on page 4 with the very title "war and revolution". Here are the main passages.
The 'Friends of Durruti' and the 'People's friend' - part 1
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 13:50
WHO WERE THE FRIENDS OF DURRUTI
We saw, in part one, that opposition began to show itself against the lawyers who were, to a greater or lesser extent, accustomed to ministerial collaboration. Notably the Catalan Libertarian youth had declared their refusal to "become accomplices by staying silent" and they had even added "we are ready to return to illegal existence if necessary..."
The bourgeois republic and the revolutionaries
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 13:45
THE REPUBLIC OF 14 APRIL 1931
The anti-fascist camp in the Spanish revolution
Date: Thu, 2011-06-23 12:49
It is absolutely necessary - the Friends of Durruti tried to point out - to find a path which allows revolutionaries, without compromising and without falling into an unprincipled anti-fascist front, to have a practical strategy of struggle which unifies the proletarian forces against the violent blows of the reaction, militarism and fascism. One understands why the Friends of Durruti, should have given such importance to the so-called choice 'war or revolution'
But, before addressing the events and their analysis, we must lay out, as briefly as possible, the composition of the forces present on the "antifascist" side, in order to assist the journey of the non expert reader across what one author has called the "Spanish Labyrinth". The bibliography which we give will allow one to find fuller information.