Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
The Personal and Political within Catholic Ireland
Date: Mon, 2017-09-25 10:27
Sci-fi is a genre that I’ve never been able to get into and have never had the desire to change this. I find myself in the strange position now, however, of wishing I was some kind of sci-fi expert so that I could easily find a term for something that is half alive and half ghost. If there were such a term I’d use it to personify catholic Ireland, an institution that is still alive but dying with a ghost that wields most of its power.
Catholic Ireland was a violent, brutal regime that existed – among many other reasons - to dehumanise, torture and inflict as much pain as possible on women. The church sexualised us from no age through instilling notions of modesty and chastity in us. They then shamed us and hid us away when we did have sex and the evidence was there to prove it. While in hiding they tortured us in laundries and traumatised us in Mother and Baby Homes.
Why YOU need to get out and March for Choice on the 30th Sept
Date: Wed, 2017-09-20 16:34
We are in the 4th decade of the struggle to get rid of the 8th amendment - no one under the age of 52 could even have voted for it. But this year should be the year and that's why everyone should be on the March for Choice in Dublin, September 30th.
The 1803 rebellion Ireland and Robert Emmet
Date: Wed, 2017-09-20 15:08
The 1803 rebellion followed only five years after the rebellion of 1798. 1798 involved tens of thousands under arms, rising across the country over months and the liberation of parts of Wexford, Wicklow and Waterford for long enough for a republic to be declared. It was smashed by the British empire with great brutality directed at those under arms but also the civilian populations. As many as 30,000 may have died.
Despite this Robert Emmet who was the brother of one of the 1798 leaders reorganised and with Thomas Russell and others attempted another rebellion in 1803.
Rober Emmets courtroom speech prior to his 1803 execution
Date: Wed, 2017-09-20 14:17
This is the text of the speech Robert Emmet delivered from the dock in Green Street when on trial for his role in organising the rebellion of 1803. He was sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered and executed outside St Catherines on Thomas street, 20th September 1803. We are posting this on the 114th anniversary of the exection.
Buy a Ticket! Dublin Bus to Belfast RALLY FOR CHOICE
Date: Tue, 2017-09-19 15:07
Online ticket sales have now closed. The bus will be leaving Hugh Lane Gallery at 10 am sharp. Please message the WSM Facebook page or email activity@wsm.ie if you wish to be placed on a standby list in the event there are any cancellations in the run up to the Rally.
- Tickets are €10 per person
- If you cannot attend please consider making a donation to help us subsidise tickets for those on low or no income.
- Meeting for the bus at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square at 10am sharp, returning at 7.00pm
- Click on the button, enter the amount corresponding to the number of tickets you want: 1 ticket = €10, two tickets = €20 etc.
- Be sure to leave your Name, Email, and Mobile Phone Number so we can contact you, with confirmation and updates. (Please allow time for confirmation).
- If making a donation, just enter “donation” in the address field
For any queries contact: activity@wsm.ie
Co. Clare mobilises for the March for Choice - interviews from Ennistymon
Date: Tue, 2017-09-19 12:18
We caught up with abortion rights activists in Clare as they held a public information stall in Ennistymon, they will be running buses to the Sept 30th March for Choice in Dublin. [Video]
We will march for choice. Will you?
Date: Tue, 2017-09-19 11:35
Ask yourself a question.
A relative, a friend, a neighbour, a co-worker or a stranger on a bus says to you that they were pregnant but exercised their right to choose and secured a termination. Would you then imprison them for 14 years? If you wouldn’t jail someone for exercising their right to choose, would you want to be associated in any way with their jailors?
If the answer to the above is ‘no’, then you might consider joining the 6th Annual March for Choice will take place in Dublin this Saturday, 30th September. We anarchists of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be assembling with thousands of other pro-choice people at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm, before we march on Dáil Éireann at 2pm.
It was the X-case which politicised me - and I'll march again on the 30th
Date: Fri, 2017-09-15 15:54
Choice is a political issue. I emigrated to the UK in the 80’s and when I returned to Dublin it was the X-case which politicised me. It was incomprehensible to me as a 23 year old that this young 14 year old girl who had been raped was not allowed to leave the country.
I was not the only one who felt strongly about this, and there were massive marches asking for the young woman to be let go to the UK to have an abortion. That was 1992 [in the picture I am there holding the placard on the left]. I felt like I had to leave this place to come back and see it with new eyes, and see how dysfunctional it truly was, and remains.
Irish Housing Network aid residents threatened with eviction in Offaly
Date: Fri, 2017-09-15 15:24
Members of the Kildare branch of the Irish Housing Network were invited to attend a meeting in Tullamore 9th September by concerned residents of 'Lann Elo', a facility. Five members of Housing Action Kildare (IHN), two local Offaly county councillors, one Fianna Fail TD and one Sinn Fein TD were in attendance, along with eight residents.
Eight residents and a number of young children were advised in writing on 23rd August that they had to be out of the facility by 6th October or their cases may be referred to the Residential Tenancies Board. This caused a great deal of unnecessary stress for residents, especially those with young children as they did not know what this process would entail.
Kilkenny shows Youth Defence the door
Date: Fri, 2017-09-15 14:49
Saturday 22 July and Youth Defence, the real bottom of the barrel of the anti-choice campaign, brought their roadshow to Kilkenny. They have embarrassing historical ties with neo-nazis and plenty of shady American dollars to pay for their slick corporate stall, glossy flyers and huge banners, mostly featuring mangled foetuses and scare tactic slogans.