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WSM take part in European anarchist conference

Date: Wed, 2010-02-17 00:06

Over the weekend of February 5th the Workers Solidarity Movement sent delegates to Paris to take place in a European conference of the groups involved in Anarkismo.net. Anarkismo.net is a multi-lingual news and analysis site made up of 31 organisations around the world who agree with the Anarkismo.net editorial statement*. WSM members were involved in founding this project almost five years ago, this was the first formal meeting of some of the groups involved.

Towards an anarchist history of the Chinese revolution

Date: Tue, 2010-02-16 16:21

Outside of a few events including the Long March and the Shanghai commune the development of the Chinese revolution is relatively unknown on the western left in comparison with the revolutions in Russia in 1917, Spain in 1936 or even the Paris spring of 1968. Those sections of that left influenced by or proclaiming themselves to be Maoist haven't helped that situation much. Their histories have tended towards simple tales focusing on the role of one man and collapsed a 100-year history of revolution into the events important to him.

Dublin: Picket of Shell HQ in solidarity with jailed fisherman

Date: Tue, 2010-02-16 13:52

Dublin Shell To Sea will be holding a public demonstration against the jailing of Pat "The Chief" O'Donnell . We encourage as many of our supporters to come along on Tues and let Shell know we will continue our campaign against the theft of our natural resources. Please spread the word and bring as many people as you can.

New Zealand: Anarchism in Ireland

Date: Tue, 2010-02-16 13:50

An anarchist from the Belfast branch of Workers Solidarity Movement, Ireland, will be speaking on the history of anarchism in Ireland, the growth of the Workers Solidarity Movement and how the WSM works in Ireland in 2010.

WSM member to speak in New Zealand on anarchism and Ireland

Date: Sat, 2010-02-13 12:03

An anarchist from the Belfast branch of Workers Solidarity Movement, Ireland, will be speaking on the history of anarchism in Ireland, the growth of the Workers Solidarity Movement and how the WSM works in Ireland in 2010.

Dublin Classed Closets, Queer Lives

Date: Wed, 2010-02-10 16:20

The talk will be an informal conversation, followed by a chance to mingle and discuss over warm vegan food procured by Seomra's finest! Come along!

Protest outside German Embassy in Solidarity with FAU - Dublin Jan 29th

Date: Wed, 2010-02-03 17:17

Members of WSM and Organise gathered on a bright afternoon light of a cold Janaury day, in the leafy surburbs of Booterstown, Dublin, outside the German Embassy to protest recent Berlin District Court Decision to stop the Free Workers Union (FAU - Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union) from being able to call itself a Union.

Public Meetings in Cork and Dublin - Haiti: Catastrophe and the legacy of imperialism

Date: Wed, 2010-02-03 16:43

Public meetings to be held in Cork and Dublin this week will pose the question of how the legacy of U.S. imperialism has impacted on the catastrophe visited on Haiti in the recent earthquake.

Audio of Haiti Talk in Cork

Date: Wed, 2010-02-03 15:44

Approximately 40 people packed in Solidarity Books in Cork to hear Elsie Haas (a Haitian film-maker and journalist, based in Paris) and Jose Antonio Gutierrez (of the Latin American Solidarity Centre in Dublin) talk about the political and economic history of Haiti and how the recent US intervention in the country, following the earthquake, is just a continuation of the UN-led occupation since 2004, following on from 200 years of occupations and imperialism.