Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dublin student activism at the end of the 1980's
Date: Wed, 2009-02-04 15:02
I was a student at Trinity College Dublin in the last four years of the 1980's. The following account is based entirely on my recollections of student activism in those years, unfortunately I don't seem to have archived any of the actual leaflets or papers produced back then. At the time we were always disappointed with the level of struggle, it’s only in hindsight that I realize that period was one of relative militancy in terms of student struggles in Ireland.
DONT UNHIDE: Education struggles; yesterday, today and elsewhere
Date: Tue, 2009-02-03 17:03
This is a collection of articles on Education struggles in Ireland and elsewhere over the last decade. Most have been written by anarchists and are first hand accounts of struggles the authors were involved in. We are making them available so new generations of activists could learn what worked and did not work in these earlier struggles.
Support workers occupying Waterford Glass
Date: Tue, 2009-02-03 12:10
Workers have been occupying the Waterford Glass factory in Kilbarry for five days now after the receiver was unable to borrow further funds to keep the plant operating. Yesterday as 150 workers continued the occupation members of the Cork WSM visited the plant and interviewed Joe Kelly, the chairman of the Crystal Unite branch. The Cork branch later issued a statement in support of the occupation.
"British Jobs for British Workers"?
Date: Mon, 2009-02-02 17:02
As the recession continues to bite strikes and mass demonstrations break out from the streets of Paris to oil and power plants across the UK.
Limerick: Capitalism Is Failing ... Anarchism Is Fighting Back
Date: Thu, 2009-01-29 11:59
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?
Issues of Workers Solidarity in 2009
Date: Wed, 2009-01-28 20:42
The issues of Workers Solidarity in 2009
The Emperor has No Clothes
Date: Wed, 2009-01-28 14:12
DUP MLA Sammy Wilson claims jobs should be given to locals before migrant workers.
Now is a good time to join the WSM
Date: Wed, 2009-01-28 13:28
For almost twenty years those of us who argued for an alternative to capitalism were told There Is No Alternative (TINA). We were presented with two arguments, firstly that capitalism was resulting in increased prosperity across the world and over time there would be a trickle down of that prosperity so that even the poorest would benefit. And secondly that socialism meant dictatorship and inefficiency so whatever our ideals it was no real alternative.
Gaza: Against passivity in the face of the spectacle of slaughter
Date: Wed, 2009-01-28 12:59
Slaughter in Gaza. It's in the papers, on the radio, on the TV news. We stare numbed at the images of horror while eating our dinner. And then the spokespeople, one after another. Hamas are blaming Israel. Israel and the US are blaming Hamas. The Europeans and the rest of the world are blaming the US. One one thing they are all agreed, it's not their fault, the blood is on somebody else's hands. Meanwhile bloodied parents stagger through the streets of Gaza bearing the shattered bodies of their children.
Class loyalty will tell: The state hires Merrill Lynch as financial advisers
Date: Mon, 2009-01-26 21:03
The Irish government has called in as financial adviser Henrietta Baldock of the remarkable loss making machine that is Merrill Lynch