Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dublin: Social Solidarity Network - Building a Network of Resistance
Date: Tue, 2009-09-01 18:36
Job losses, wage cuts, cuts in essential public services, pension levies..... Our living standards and our social services are under huge attack.
Building anarchism in Belfast
Date: Mon, 2009-08-31 19:09
A public meeting in which speakers will present a brief overview of the Workers Solidarity Movement, its goals and aim as an anarchist organisation and what struggles it is currently involved in. If you are interested in the joining the WSM or simply want to find out more please feel free to come along.
Dublin: Strikes, Healthcare and a New Union Model in Las Vegas.
Date: Mon, 2009-08-31 11:54
A presentation on four years of organizing workers in the American healthcare system. The talk will focus on organizing strategies and tactics in the context of US unions and Healthcare in Las Vegas, and also tell the story of the first and only nursing strike in Nevada state history. A discussion will follow the presentation.ost:
5,000 march for gay rights
Date: Sun, 2009-08-30 17:41
Sunday, August 9th saw over 5,000 demonstrators in Dublin take part in a march in support of equal marriage status for gay couples. The ‘March for Marriage’ was organised by lobby group LGBT Noise, and was supported by the LGBT community, heterosexuals, and political groups, including the Workers Solidarity Movement.
That's Capitalism! - WS111
Date: Sun, 2009-08-30 17:39
Mayawati, the Prime Minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh province has spent €177 million of taxpayers’ money on massive statues of herself and of her party’s symbol, the elephant. She also spent €11.2 million on a private jet to save her 10 minutes on her visits to New Delhi.
A good man with sheds and fences...
Date: Sun, 2009-08-30 17:36
John Fleming, the west Cork businessman who began his career making sheds and ended up owing the banks €1 billion – the tab for which we will be picking up, no doubt – is a great example of how the other half is dealing with the recession. Whereas you and I have to pinch and scrape, John Fleming can still call on plenty of spare coins – despite his massive debt.
‘Sicko’ at Leas Cross
Date: Sun, 2009-08-30 17:34
The report into the Leas Cross Nursing home scandal was a shocker. Elderly patients were dying in unexplained circumstances; others had open and infected sores which were left untreated; others still were being restrained and held against their wishes. Odd though isn’t it, given the uproar about what went on there, that so little attention was focused on the businessman who ran Leas Cross. There’s a reason for that.
Community Development Projects protest Tuesday 8th September
Date: Thu, 2009-08-27 15:23
CDP - Call to Action
Tuesday 8th September
1pm
SIPTU, Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin 1
The occupation of Thomas Cook
Date: Thu, 2009-08-27 09:47
On Friday 31st July workers at Thomas Cook occupied the shop on Grafton street. Management got a court injunction against the occupation and on Monday morning a huge force of Gardai sealed off the area, smashed their way into the shop and arrested the 28 workers inside.
Interview with Thomas Cook worker on occupation of Dublin office
Date: Wed, 2009-08-26 21:33
Dublin football fans will want to forget the August Bank Holiday weekend as the Dubs failed to perform in Croke Park against the might of the Kingdom. But one group of Dublin workers are unlikely to forget the 5 days from Friday 31st July to Tuesday 4th August. When the workers in the Thomas Cook office at the top of Grafton Street in Dublin’s city centre went to work as usual on the Friday morning little did they realise that before going home again they would spend 3 days and (almost) 4 nights in occupation of their workplace, that they would be hauled off at 5a.m. in the morning of the 4th night by a force of 80 – 100 gardai who blocked off the street and battered in the door as if they were on the trail of a dangerous terrorist group, and that they would spend several hours held in the Bridewell Garda station before finally being released by the High Court and allowed to go home.