Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Cork City FC & Fan Owned Clubs, The Future of Soccer?
Date: Tue, 2011-01-18 11:12
When Cork City fans took control of their club in 2010 they were following a well worn path that has see soccer clubs that failed under the ownership of businessmen being taken over by fans in the last number of years. They joined Irish clubs Sligo Rovers, Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers as fan owned. The phenomena has also seen fans desert big corporate clubs to start their own as with United FC in Manchester a response to the Glazier takeover of Manchester United.
Without sugar and without oil - protests in Algeria
Date: Fri, 2011-01-14 23:16
On 5 January, the frustration, deep unease, and hopelessness of young Algerians exploded onto the streets. Since then, they have been throwing stones, burning tires and brandishing any object that they can turn into a weapon. By Amel Yacef
Tunisia: People power overthrows dictator Ben Ali
Date: Fri, 2011-01-14 19:40
After a dramatic 24 hours when Tunisia's dictator president Ben Ali first tried promising liberalisation and an end to police shootings of demonstrators and then, this evening at 16:00, declaring martial law, he has finally fallen from office. While the rumours are still swirling, one thing is clear, Ben Ali has left Tunisia and the army has stepped in.
Tunisia: The revolution will not be televised
Date: Wed, 2011-01-12 17:20
A mass wave of riots by ordinary people against the government have swept Tunisia for the last three weeks under a near-total media blackout in the West. We look at what's been happening and why it's being kept off our TV screens.
569 patients on trolleys in Irish Hospitals emergency departments
Date: Wed, 2011-01-05 15:39
There are now 569 people on trolleys in Irish hospital emergency wards. This is a new record. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation released the figures today.
UNITE formally propose plan of action to ICTU
Date: Tue, 2011-01-04 00:26
Jimmy Kelly the Regional Secretary of the Irish region of Unite has formally written to ICTU General Secretary David Begg and ICTU President Jack O’Connor proposing a Campaign against Austerity Cuts.
Default on bank debt say AFRI
Date: Sun, 2011-01-02 15:23
AFRI calls for Ireland to default on banks debt. Development group asks "why should ordinary Irish citizens now pick up that tab?"
Andy Storey, AFRI chairman, is highly critical of the IMF intervention. He urged that the lessons of the IMFs behaviour in the other countries be learned. The IMFs intervention had left increased poverty , social inequality and reduced spending on education and health. He gave the example of Argentina as a country that had rejected the IMF after a deep crisis and had a sustained recovery afterwards.
New Years eve Solidarity with Gaza
Date: Sun, 2011-01-02 14:58
New Years Eve in Dublin saw a gathering on the Hapenny bridge in Dublin to mark the anniversary of 'Operation Lead' when the Israeli attack on Gaza killed more that 1400 people. Meanwhile in Israel there were arrests of Israeli activists protesting the killing of a Palestinian women, Jawaher Abu Rahmah by teargas.
Radical Women of the IWW
Date: Fri, 2010-12-31 12:31
Donal Fallon profiles some of the women who played a large part in the illustrious history of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Complex systems theory & anarchism
Date: Thu, 2010-12-30 13:53
Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism.
Complex systems theory is a scientific theory coming out of a tradition of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, control theory, and especially cybernetics. Complex systems theory arises as a rejection of the traditional programme of reductionist science. It rejects reductionism as being both unnecessary and intractable.
Traditional physics has attempted to find fundamental laws at the smallest granularity possible. However, it is now known that because of the nature of interactions at very detailed granularity, it can be computationally intractable to predict behaviour of aggregate systems. Water, for instance, is best described (under most conditions) with fluid flow equations which describe aggregate behaviour with relatively simple (non-linear) equations. Attempting to describe it as an aggregate wave function of 1026 interacting quantum particles is not computationally feasible. Instead complex systems theory attempts to describe systems at a natural granularity that allows for tractable prediction of behaviour.