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Snouts in Anglo Irish Bank trough
Date: Thu, 2010-04-29 19:10
A pay cut, a ‘pension levy’ and a refusal to pay agreed wage rises has been the lot of public sector workers. Well, not quite all of them.
Former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes has refused to give up his €100,000 Dáil pension despite earning even more as the state-appointed chairman of the nationalized Anglo Irish Bank. He was directly appointed by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan in March.
Campaign for Women's Right to Choose! (1983)
Date: Thu, 2010-04-29 14:40
The Dublin Anarchist Collective actively supports the Women’s Right to Choose Campaign. The right of everybody to self-determination is a basic of Anarchist belief. Women in particular are denied this right. In this society we have little or no control over the issues which affect are daily lives. Transcription of an article from the June/July 1983 issue of 'Resistance' the paper of the Dublin Anarchist Collective.
Public Sector Deal or No Deal – It’s a Scrap Either Way
Date: Thu, 2010-04-29 10:32
The long days and nights of bargaining between government and union top brass at Croke Park ended when the participants emerged and presented the fruits of their deliberations. It is a pretty awful deal, which rubber stamped the pay cuts already handed out to public sector workers and added a whole layer of new working conditions, essentially extra hours and responsibilities for the same or lower pay. Over the couple of weeks that followed, the various public sector unions in conference or at executive level recommended either accepting or rejecting this deal, with the final call resting with the membership. As we go to print the final result of these ballots are still unknown but recent experience should warn us that, in either case, the battle is far from over.
CPSU activists produce leaflet against Public Sector deal
Date: Thu, 2010-04-29 10:03
The CPSU activist group have produced a leaflet calling on members of the CPSU to vote No to the public sector deal. "Many public sector workers have been shocked and angered that such a deal was agreed in the first place, some general secretaries including our own tried to present the deal as some kind of “victory”. Of course we can now see clearly that this is a rotten deal."
Polish syndicalist Marcel Szary passed away
Date: Thu, 2010-04-29 09:50
Marcel Szary, an activist of Workers' Initiative Trade Union in Cegielski factory, died . He was one of the founders of the union. It is a huge loss for the syndicalist and workers' movement in Poland.
Pride, as relevant in Ireland today as during Stonewall
Date: Wed, 2010-04-28 17:13
The
re will be celebrations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT)
Pride across Ireland this summer, including Cork's Pride Parade on June 5th and Dublin's Parade on June 26th. The original Pride marches were held to commemorate the Stonewall riots in New York which began on June 28, 1969, and which were led
mainly by working class Black and Puerto Rican trans people, butch dykes and drag queens sick of being beaten up and arrested by the police. The following year, in commemoration of the riots, the Gay Liberation Front organised a march from Greenwich Village to Central Park. Almost 10,000 women and men attended the march. Today, many major cities all over the world hold LGBT/Queer Pride Marches on the last Sunday of June in honour of Stonewall.
Castlerea Prison protest for Pat O'Donnell's
Date: Wed, 2010-04-28 15:55
50 days and counting into his Shell-imposed imprisonment, Shell to Sea shows support for their hero and friend
Iranian Protestors at War with God
Date: Wed, 2010-04-28 13:56
On Monday November 9th last year, news of the impending execution of Ehsan Fattahian, a 28-year-old Iranian political activist of Kurdish origins, began reaching the outside world. Human rights groups, caught unaware, began a frantic effort to halt the execution. In less than 24 hours, 15,000 people had signed an online petition addressing UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, asking him to intervene.
Successful International Women’s Day Celebration in Cork
Date: Tue, 2010-04-27 21:18
The Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) in Cork was delighted by the success of the Douglas Street Community Celebration of International Women’s Day on Monday, 8th March. The day comprised of fifty free, open events involving poetry, music, workshops, speakers, fortune tellers, performance art, a community dinner, knitting club, films, a community art exhibition and much more. The celebration ran from 10am to midnight at Solidarity Books and many other venues on and around Douglas Street.
Should the Catholic Church remain in control of our schools? - Thinking about Anarchism
Date: Tue, 2010-04-27 21:12
Despite the Catholic hierarchy’s shameful efforts to silence the survivors of abuse, we now have some idea of what was happening behind the walls of church-run institutions across Ireland. In the wake of this, many people have begun asking whether the Catholic Church should continue to have any control whatsoever over state-funded education. As it stands, the Church still control 92% of primary schools. However a MRBI/Irish Times poll in January of this year found that a majority of Irish people now want this situation remedied.