Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Letter on Millbank student riots replying to Belfast Telegraph
Date: Mon, 2010-11-22 13:43
The only way to stop cuts is to stand up now
I was disappointed to read that the editorial of this paper (Belfast Telegraph November 11) has pinned the blame of the student riots in London on ‘anarchist elements’. Firstly this assumption is based on a misguided view that students are incapable of acting in there own interests and underestimates the genuine anger and frustration out there.
The Four Year Plan will attack YOU!
Date: Mon, 2010-11-22 12:15
The government is to launch an all out attack on the living standards of the working class. The four year plan outlines a cut in the minimum wage, water charges, a household tax, a 5% cut in welfare payments, taxing of low wage workers, an €1000 increase in college fees, and cutting of 20,000 jobs.
TEEU call for campaign of civil disobedience
Date: Sat, 2010-11-20 16:17
Technical, Engineering & Electrical Union (TEEU) call for a campaign of civil disobedience. Union members overwhelmingly endorsed the emergency motion at their conference this morning.
This is not an IMF bailout but end to ECB life support
Date: Sat, 2010-11-20 12:51
Why is the director of the IMF complaining that the rate of progress of the IMF negotiations in Dublin is going too slowly? What's wrong with this picture? The answer is nothing, so long as you understand that the IMF are not the driving force in these negotiations.
Despite the newpaper headlines, what is happening is not an IMF bailout. This is a European debt restructuring process in which the IMF are playing a merely supportive role as consultants. This is a Eurozone process and although the political masters of the Eurozone, through their EU Commissioners, have the final say on passing or vetoing the final agreement, the true driving force behind this process is the ECB.
IMF arrival does not transform yesterday's enemies into today's friends
Date: Fri, 2010-11-19 16:20
Even the Irish Times has now editorialized against the IMF intervention but, like most of the emerging mainstream concerns, the Times is not concerned about the cuts in jobs, wages and welfare that the IMF will be used to impose. No, their concern is for the loss of 'sovereignty' as IMF intervention results in a rise in populist cross-class nationalism, a tide which ironically the ruling party, which is bringing in the IMF to make the cuts it would like to, will be best placed to ride.
Dub: Launch party for RAG5
Date: Wed, 2010-11-17 20:21
Rag celebrates the launch of our 5th annual magazine with a Queer Anarchafeminist Cabaret. Food, feminists reading magazines, dancing, music fun fun fun fun.
Who is afraid of the IMF - their opportunity and ours
Date: Wed, 2010-11-17 16:53
It's now official, the Irish state is in talks with the EU and the IMF about a so called 'rescue plan' to bail out the Irish capitalist class from the disaster created by the international crash of the capitalist economic system. A crisis that was magnified in Ireland by the corruption of local crony capitalism on the one hand and the dependency of the economy on 'globalization' on the other. Trapped between such a cast of crooks and idiots it is perhaps not surprising that many in Ireland hope things will be improved when the running of our lives will be handed over to those who many hope might have a clue.
Understanding the jargon behind the banking crisis - What are they talking About?
Date: Tue, 2010-11-16 17:44
Financial ‘experts’ and economists seem to speak a different language to the rest of us. They rely on us not understanding what they’re on about. They know that if the gamble which constitutes the supposedly all-powerful ‘markets’ is revealed to us we will see just how crazy a system capitalism actually is.
But the truth is revolutionary and it is important that we look behind their jargon. Here we explain just a few of the most commonly heard terms. [In Italian]
Uranium Mining in Ireland - the view from 1980
Date: Tue, 2010-11-16 11:08
An article from 1980 that details the available information on extensive prospecting taking place in the Wicklow granites in the context of the succesful campaign against the plan to build a nuclear reactor at Carnsore that this issue of the Contaminated Crow mostly dealt with.
Bond crisis: If all else fails... blame the Germans
Date: Fri, 2010-11-12 16:08
Last Friday we reported on the mounting crisis of Ireland's sovereign debt bond yields. Particularly how the announcement of Lenihan's "Shock and Awe" 6 bn cuts plan had failed to move the markets. This week, as bond yields have moved from the business pages onto the front page, the search for an explanation for this failure began. By the middle of the week, the story was set - blame the Germans!