Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
A Day at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2010
Date: Thu, 2010-06-17 12:19
Saturday the 29thof May saw the return of the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair to Liberty Hall. It is the 5th Bookfair to be held in the city (organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement),and from what started out as a small event in a community hall in the Liberties is now one of the landmark events in the calendar of the Irish left.
What happened on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - audio of Irish participants relating their experiences
Date: Wed, 2010-06-16 11:25
An IPSC meeting on Saturday saw some of the Irish participants on the Freedom Flotilla talk of their experiences, and discuss what practical steps Irish people can help take to bring about the end of the siege of Gaza and Israeli apartheid as a whole and secure self determination for the people of Palestine. This is the audio from the meeting.
About Us
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 20:52
- Radio Solidarity is show produced by the Workers Solidarity Movement and broadcast on NEARFM in Dublin. The aim of this show is to cover a range of issues and struggles that don’t get covered in the media.
- We do not pretend to be unbiased. We actively engage in politics and struggles to bring about change in society. We hope to cover some of the issues which we think are live at the moment in Irish society. We engage in those struggles and talk to others who are actively attempting to bring about change.
Revolutionary Experiments In Ireland 1917-1923 - Conor Kostick audio
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 16:03
Connor Kostick author of Revolution in Ireland: Popular militancy 1917 to 1923 spoke at the 2010 Dublin anarchist bookfair about the wave of workplace occupations and 'soviets' as well as the general strikes that are forgotten by conventional nationalist histories of this period.
The audio is about one hour in length and was first published on indymedia.ie.
Regressive Taxation
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 12:39
Progressive taxation is a taxation system which seeks a higher tax rate for higher incomes. It is a relatively common feature in the western democracies. In Ireland however, its implementation is almost entirely nominal.
The crisis highlights the bankruptcy of capitalism
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 12:05
Capitalism as a way of organising our society is bankrupt. It is bankrupt in both a literal and moral sense. Capitalism is at odds with any progressive notion of democracy in the 21st century
Dublin: Protest - Stop the Bailouts. End The Dictatorship The Markets
Date: Mon, 2010-06-14 22:04
Workers Solidarity Movement has called for support for the national protest against the Bank Bailouts and "the dictatorship of the markets" which will take place on Saturday 26th June (1:00p.m. Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street).
We urge everyone who is opposed to the government strategy of making ordinary people pay for the financial crisis to attend this protest and make your voice heard, joining with protests across the EU.
Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic Violence or Political Violence
Date: Mon, 2010-06-14 17:53
The current violence errupting in the southern region of Kyrgyzstan is deeply troubling.
If we are to go by the news reports given by the BBC, the violence is the culmination of long standing ethnic tensions. If we are to believe the Economist's recent article "Stalin's Harvest" we are seeing the inevitable fruits of Stalin's labour.
According to The Economist the ethnic violence is to be attributed to Stalin based on his inefficiency in drawing borders. Any ethno-geographer of the region would acknowledge that drawing effective borders, even if based on language groupings - is effectively impossible for Central Asia as populations are organised as consistently by elevation as by region. Uzbeks typically being in more sedentary populations at lower elevations, while the Kyrgyz historically lived in pastoral highlands. When ethnicity is brought into the equation things become even more complex. The result is a maze of populations where borders are abitrary by necessity.
Public Service Agrees to Implement Austerity Program
Date: Sun, 2010-06-13 12:51
Public services are safe from the threat of a fair deal for four years. The kind of crippling cuts that were recently pushed through by ICTU, amounting to a 10% pay cut in some cases in the form of a "pension levy", are now almost certain to remain.
CIA Propaganda Targets Western Europe
Date: Fri, 2010-06-11 22:15
A recently leaked report, which appears to have been produced by the CIA's Red Cell, aims to shore up support for the war in Afghanistan by manipulating public opinion in Western Europe. The report targets France and Germany as regions which need specially designed messages to stem an eroding popularity for the war.