Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Tralee: Capitalism Is Failing ... Anarchism Is Fighting Back
Date: Wed, 2009-04-01 11:15
They got us into this mess but now they want us to pay the price for it too!
With the economic crisis now in full swing, anarchists are arguing for fundamental change and an end to capitalism. How can we achieve this and how should the new society be organised?
Anarchism in Ireland - 1997 to 2007 - Video
Date: Wed, 2009-04-01 10:28
In 2007/8 WSM member Andrew Flood spent a total of 16 weeks touring North American and Canada, giving talks in 44 cities. The topic was 'Building a popular anarchism in Ireland' which involved a history of anarchist involvement in struggle from around 1997 to 2007. This video is formed from the audio of the talk and images of the anarchist movement in Ireland from the mid 1990's to the present day.
Belfast: Picket Subway - Day of Action
Date: Tue, 2009-03-31 15:08
"Campaign in Defence of Sacked pregnant Subway Worker
Natalia Szymanska, a 19 year old polish woman, was sacked from Subway Belfast during her fifth month of pregancy on a dubious charge of being in breach of the company's health and safety policy.
Despiet repeated attempts by the Trades Council to engage with this employer to resolve the issue the employer remains intransigent.
Burn a Banker- legitimate class anger?
Date: Tue, 2009-03-31 14:49
"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning."
(Statement released by the anonymous group behind the attack.)
Reports from Maura Harrington Mountjoy protests
Date: Sun, 2009-03-29 11:44
Maura Harrington of Shell to Sea has been in Mountjoy prison for the last weeks, serving a 30 day sentence for supposadely assaulting a Gardai, WSM members have been taking part in solidarity protests outside the prison. Here we reproduce extracts from the blog of one WSM member who has attended some of these protest.
March 30th strike called off - Employers retreat but ICTU talks are not a victory
Date: Sat, 2009-03-28 12:11
That the very threat of a national strike was enough to force government and IBEC to change their position demonstrates the power the working class holds when we threaten to withdraw our labour. For all the media attempts to convince us we are powerless and that class struggle is a thing of the past when faced with the reality of the organised working class standing up both bosses and state were keen to avoid any confrontation that could illustrate and encourage our collective power.
Dublin: Act for Justice - Financial Fools Day!
Date: Sat, 2009-03-28 12:00
Call to Action from Bloom: Movement for Global Justice and the Seomra Spraoi Collective
Act for Justice on Wednesday, April 1st at 1pm - It's Financial Fools Day!
Belfast: Subway protest
Date: Thu, 2009-03-26 13:16
Subway
6-8 Great Victoria Street,
Belfast
12.30 – 1.30 pm Friday March 27th 2009
Dublin: Stanley Aronowitz to speak on Popular Education
Date: Mon, 2009-03-23 23:14
Stanley Aronowitz to speak on "Popular Education in a time of struggle" on March the 29th at 3 pm in
Seomra Spraoi (10 Belvedere Court)
To Working Men and Working Women
Date: Fri, 2009-03-20 15:21
Listen to me. For twenty-five years, the most intelligent and devoted of men have dedicated their lives to the defence of our holy cause. In their writings, speeches, reports, memoirs, investigations and statistics, they have pointed out, affirmed and demonstrated to the Government and to the wealthy that the working class is, in the present state of things, materially and morally placed in an intolerable condition of poverty and suffering