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WSM condemns police violence against students
Date: Thu, 2010-11-04 00:01
The WSM has released a press statement condemning the Garda attacks on student protesters in Dublin today during which many students were injured by Garda batons. We say that we need to stand together in this period of attack on our quality of life and futures. What is clear today that like elsewhere around Europe and the rest of the world, police repression will be used by the state to try an make our movements for social justice and equality fearful and less open and effective.
For an account of the protests as they happened with videos see Riot police attack students after they storm Department of Finance in Dublin
FEE reveal details of brutal Gardai assault on student protesters
Date: Wed, 2010-11-03 22:37
Students from Free Education for Everyone (FEE), who organised todays occupation of the Department of Finance, have released the following statement detailing why they organised the occupation, who took part and the giving some details of the brutal Gardai attack on the occupiers. A WSM member who was present and whose arm was injured in the Gardai assault revealed that as soon as the Gardai entered the occupation they started punching people in the face despite the face that the students were telling them it was a peaceful protest and they were not resisting them.
Riot police attack students after they occupy Department of Finance in Dublin
Date: Wed, 2010-11-03 15:07
Riot police attacked students in Dublin today with dogs, armoured vehicles and horses after the students protesting against government cuts occupied the Department of Finance and threw eggs at the Dail.
Upwards of thirty students occupied the Department of Finance in the center of Dublin with a couple of hundred supporting them in the streets outside.
Another larger group of students was reported outside the Dail throwing cans & bottles at it. Several students were injured in the suppression of the protest.
Tens of thousands of students were demonstrating as part of the USI protests against plans to introduce fees. The students carrying out the occupation appear to have broken away from the main demonstration which took place around the corner in Merrion Square. Student members of the WSM, eirigi and the SWP were at the scene. The WSM members published the reports below to this site.
Dub: The republican tradition - a place to build from? - RR5
Date: Tue, 2010-11-02 17:22
Ireland has an indigenous revolutionary tradition that successfully mobilized tens if not hundreds of thousands in the struggle for more freedom over the 200 years since 1798. Irish republicanism has always included a radical democratic and leveling element and which continues to provide part of the culture of resistance of the most down trodden sections of the working class. Many believe this makes it the best base to build from, Andrew Flood asks if they are right?
Map for the 1% Walking Tour - Radio Solidarity Program 8
Date: Tue, 2010-11-02 11:31
This afternoons Radio Solidarity show on Near FM will talk about the 1% Network tour of the Golden Circle heartland of Dublin 2 & 4. If you click on the this 1% Map - you will have a guide to the walking tour . This will prove helpful when you listen to our report on this walking tour in Radio Solidarity Program 8 - on Resistance going out this afternoon (2 Nov) at 15.30 on NEAR FM. An audio will be available for download later this week.
Harney gets paint bombed - Joe Duffy gets told
Date: Mon, 2010-11-01 16:58
Health minister Mary "the hatchet" Harney, was red faced today after a protester splattered her with paint. Harney has presided over huge cutbacks in the public Health service and advancing privatisation through co-location (giving public land to private health operators). Eirigi Councillor Louise Minihan poured the paint over Harney at an event in Dublin. The incident comes on the same day that the HSE annouced plans to make 5,000 workers redundant.
Cork: Spanish Revolution talk given by James O'Brien
Date: Mon, 2010-11-01 13:24
This Tuesdays Winter Talk at Solidarity Books, 8pm! 02/11/10 Come learn about The Spanish Revolution with a talk given by James O' Brien!
1% Network find the pot of gold on Shewsbury road
Date: Mon, 2010-11-01 12:12
Saturday 30th October saw the WSM take part in the latest 1% Network event, an after dark Halloween Treasure Hunt around Dublin's exclusive Shewsbury and Ailesbury roads taking in the mansions of multi millionare bankers, developers and financers as well as the HQ of Allied Irish Bank and the 32 million in tax avoidance of the luxury Four Seasons hotel. The tour was led off by a vampire capitalist accompanied by a contingent of Zombie bankers and developers and ghost estates with the vampire showing how much wealth was present at each stop and explaining the contacts between the 1%, the media and the government that enabled them to make hundreds of millions during the tiger. The tour was accompanied by uniformed Gardai and a car of special branch political police. The 1% network is a coalition of socialist groups including the WSM, eirigi, ISN and Semora Spraoi formed to highlight the fact that the richest 1% own 34% of the wealth.
Climate Change - Radio Solidarity Program 7
Date: Fri, 2010-10-29 13:37
An issue that’s been put on the back burner since the economy has fallen through the plug hole. We talk in Program 7 of Radio Solidarity to two women Jerrieann Sullivan and Molly Walsh who’ve been to the forefront of activism in ensuring that this issue has not disappeared off the agenda. They’ve both been involved in the recent Climate Camps amongst other campaigns and actions.