Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dublin: anti-NAMA protest at Dail
Date: Mon, 2009-09-14 17:13
TUF unions to hold protest outside Leinster House over NAMA plan to bail out banks on backs of workers
Press Statement: Anarchist Organisation launches ‘No to Lisbon’ poster campaign
Date: Sun, 2009-09-13 22:17
Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has launched two ‘Vote No to Lisbon’ posters. One features pictures of John Gormley, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen and Mary Harney under the slogan ‘Would you buy a second hand treaty from these chancers?’ The other urges people to vote no to Lisbon but also to ‘Organise For Real Social Change’.
NAMA = Class Robbery = Capitalism At Work
Date: Sat, 2009-09-12 23:58
NAMA is nothing short of straight class robbery – robbery from ordinary workers in order to shore up the property developers and big bankers who got us into this mess in the first place. It can be described as unfair, it can be described as immoral but in reality it’s naked capitalism at work.
A biography of an Irish anarchist- Doctor John Creaghe
Date: Fri, 2009-09-11 16:44
A few years ago a comrade from Leeds introduced me to the life and times of this colourful figure, Dr John Creaghe who helped spread the flames of anarchism across three continents. In the words of the famous Italian anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti this pamphlet is dedicated to the ‘nameless in the vast crowd of nameless ones.’
A veteran Spanish anarchist speaks of revolution, war and bad coffee…
Date: Wed, 2009-09-09 17:43
During his recent visit to Dublin, Workers Solidarity took the opportunity, over “bad coffee”, to chat to 93 year old Roma Marquez Santo about some of his experiences of the Spanish revolution. In 1936 Roma was a metal worker and a member of both the UGT trade union and the POUM, an anti-Stalinist communist party.
Retired teacher Maura Harrington jailed for 4th time this year over opposition to Shell refinery
Date: Wed, 2009-09-09 16:49
Retired school principal Maura Harrington has been jailed for the fourth time this year in connection with her opposition to Shell’s experimental inland refinery and high-pressure pipeline in north Mayo.
Dublin: Protest Mounjoy jail 6pm
Date: Wed, 2009-09-09 14:33
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has received a 3 months sentence todayin court. She is currently en route to Mountjoy,there will be a protest at the jail from 6pm
Press Statement: Anarchist organisation calls for No to Lisbon
Date: Tue, 2009-09-08 23:02
The Workers Solidarity Movement(WSM) has called for a No vote in the Lisbon referendum, referring to it as “a treaty for the rich”, and claiming that “people in Ireland can do a lot better than a choice between the clowns in the Dáil or those in Brussels”.
Sammy Wilson attacks victims
Date: Tue, 2009-09-08 17:44
The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. This statement comes not long after more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes in South Belfast due to racist intimidation and attacks.
Will the real communists please stand up
Date: Tue, 2009-09-08 17:42
Today the word "communism" is most often associated with the totalitarian one-party states of Soviet Russia or China. Nothing could be further from the anarchist goal of a stateless, free society. So the association of anarchism with communism seems, at first sight, perverse.