Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dublin Bus sacks union representative
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 14:35
The sacking of Eugene McDonagh by Dublin Bus management and his simultaneous suspension by the National Bus & Rail Union from its national executive shows the true face of ‘social partnership’. Eugene has been a bus driver for 21 years and has an unblemished work record. The bosses and the senior union bureaucracy have come together to attack effective trade unionism in Harristown garage.
INTO Teachers union splits down middle on proposed public sector deal
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 14:32
The conference of the Irish National Teachers Organisation conference has split down the middle on the question of whether to accept or reject the Public Sector Agreement negotiated by the trade union bosses. Delegates voted 304 for and 308 against an amendment which would have meant the rejection of the deal. Delegates who oppose the deal are now meeting up to start the organisation of a No campaign in the INTO.
PALESTINIAN LAND DAY commemoration
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 12:42
A number of WSM members attended the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) commemoration of Land Day – March 30th which has become a symbolic day of support both in Palestine and throughout the world. This marks the day when strikes were organised in many Palestinian towns in Israel back in 1976 as a reaction to the expropriation of more land by that aggressor state.
US forces kill journalists, ambulance crew, shoot children in Iraq
Date: Mon, 2010-04-05 23:57
Al Jazerra have released this video that shows US Apache helicopters use a mini gun against a group of journalists & civilians in Iraq. When a van arrives to evacuate the injured that is also shot up, killing the driver. When US troops arrive on the scene the pilots laugh when they run over a body and then when they are told that the injured include two children laugh again saying 'you shouldn't bring your children to a war.' Except of course those they have killed were not in a war, they were walking down a street before being gunned down from the sky without cause or warning.
Report from Easter Rising Commemorations in Cork city
Date: Mon, 2010-04-05 14:26
James reports from the Workers Party, 32 County Sovereignty Movement, Republican Sinn Fein and Sinn Fein commemorations at the republican plot on Easter Sunday in Cork's St. Finbarrs cemetery.
The 1916 rising and class struggle in Ireland 1886-1923
Date: Sun, 2010-04-04 13:06
Articles on 1916, the War of Independence and related issues published by the WSM as well as material by other anarchists and documents from the period.
Image: Money issued by the 1919 Limerick Soviet
Public Sector Agreement - exposing the real transformation agenda
Date: Thu, 2010-04-01 10:28
WSM member and UNITE activist Dermot Sreenan gives his initial opinion on the (Draft) Public Sector Agreement. "We must reject this deal and when we vote for rejecting this deal – we are going back to what we voted for back in October, Strike. If the leadership cannot allow, contemplate or enable us to do that – then we replace them. Our Unions are still ours. It is time to clean house – it is time to get back to injury to one is the concern of all."
Dublin Bike Courier dispute 2001/2002
Date: Wed, 2010-03-31 13:49
Back in 2001 - 2002, bike messengers in Cyclone Couriers in Dublin got a bit bolshie and began to get organised. Always a tricky industry to make headway in, we won a couple of pay rises and fought back the boss's attempt to reduce our working conditions.
Draft Public Service Agreement - the full text of March 2010 Irish union leaderships proposed agreement
Date: Wed, 2010-03-31 11:00
This is the full text of the (Draft) Public Sector Agreement drawn up between Public Service management and unions and being described in the media as 'a comprehensive agenda for Public Service transformation and on a framework for public service pay determination over the period to 2014'. The WSM are making the text available on our website to allow workers to judge the agreement and the massive impact it will have on working conditions. In order for it to be passed it will have to be vote for by union members in the public sector, we expect there will be a significant campaign for a No vote
Anarchists Reach Highest Mountain in Ireland! 'Red and Black' raised on Carrantuohill Mountain for Solidarity Books, Cork
Date: Wed, 2010-03-31 09:54
Anarchists, along with the Rebel Hill Walkers and lots of supporters, climbed Carrantuohill in Kerry on Sunday as part of a fundraiser for Solidarity Books in Cork. Guided by the esteemed and experienced James McBarron, the large group set off shortly after 11 am. A number had to turn back for health reasons, but the majority headed on to establish ‘base camp’ under the summit at around 3.30 pm – delays and picnics were the order of the day – ahead of the final assault on the peak.