Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Education cuts - Moving from Protest to Success
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 17:56
The Education Cuts announced in October’s Budget have unleashed a wave of protest across the country. During the months of November and December approximately 120,000 people took to the streets of Dublin, Galway, Tullamore, Cork and Donegal to register their anger at the government’s attempts to make schoolchildren pay for the financial crisis. Cowen, Lenihan and O’Keefe have been left in no doubt about the level of popular opposition to these cutbacks. In addition thousands of 3rd level students have also taken to the streets and participated in marches, pickets and blockades to protest at the proposed re-introduction of fees.
Grassroots Gathering held in Cork - Organising In Challenging Times
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 17:55
The Grassroots Gathering is a twice-yearly coming together of anarchists and libertarian socialists who are active in political groups and campaigns up and down the island of Ireland. The second of 2008's Gatherings was held in Cork on 14th-16th November. The 90 or so attending, combined with the quality of the discussions, left its organisers very pleased with the weekend. It showed that there's a lot of life left in the Grassroots Gathering as a show-case for trends and thinking among Ireland's libertarian left.
Free-market entrepreneurs created the crash
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:40
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett commented on the US financial crisis that “it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked, and Wall Street now looks like a nudist beach.” Well when it comes to Ireland, the receding tide of the global economy has revealed that not only were our business and political elites swimming naked, they were engaged in a great big orgy as well.
The Selfish Gene?
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:33
Anarchists want to change the world. Instead of the present order – capitalism – with its focus on inequality and profits for a few, we want to build a new society based around the principles of participatory democracy, freedom and production for need not profit. For anarchists the type of society we want to build is best summed up by the slogan: ‘To each according to their needs, from each according to their ability’.
A Quick Guide to Social Welfare for the Newly Jobless
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:29
Workers Solidarity’s Vincent O’Malley spoke to his local Citizens Information Centre about some of the obstacles facing people who have lost their jobs.
Loansharks prey on 40,000 across Northern Ireland
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:27
A major financial company with 40,000 customers in the North has admitted that it charges 183.2% interest. This is no backstreet loanshark operation, Provident Financial is a completely legal and government regulated firm.
Public sector - Lower pay, less jobs - Whose National Interest
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:26
WSM member Joe King, a clerical officer in the public sector, responds to the calls for pay cuts and redundancies.
TV REVIEW - Generation Kill and the reality of war
Date: Tue, 2009-01-06 16:24
In Workers Solidarity 105 we reviewed David Simon's 'The Wire'. His follow on project 'Generation Kill' which features some of the same actors is a 7 episode series following the United States Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the invasion of Iraq . It's based on the book published by Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright.
Ideas & Action - A new movement magazine
Date: Mon, 2009-01-05 16:29
In the world today there is no body of revolutionary theory that provides a fully convincing picture of where we are or a program for the future. The left is trapped in a cycle of state ideology and reactions to state ideology.
Photos from the Palastine Solidarity March in Dublin
Date: Sat, 2009-01-03 22:34
It was a freezing cold Saturday, yet hundreds still marched in solidarity with the people of Palastine.