Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
The dimmer wing of the ruling class
Date: Sun, 2008-09-28 14:19
Senior members of the DUP have been busy embarrassing themselves over the last few weeks.Comments by Ian Paisley Jr that the PSNI should shoot dissident republicans on sight indicate the ingrained right-wing stance of the party. Meanwhile his colleagues have been outdoing him in making their party a laughing stock. Iris Robinson repeatedly put her foot in it by describing homosexuality as an abomination while Edwin Poots and Meryvn Storey clambered somewhere back to the bronze age in their bid to have Christian creationism taught in science class.
WTO Trade talks collapse in Doha
Date: Sun, 2008-09-28 14:13
The recent bitter collapse of the Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks has put the WTO back in the news around the world. The latest talks failed in large part because rich countries refuse to reduce subsidies to their own farmers, while insisting that the poor countries should reduce theirs. But what is the WTO, and how is it relevant to our everyday lives here in Ireland?
Capitalism and the exploitation of women
Date: Sun, 2008-09-28 14:06
When the Irish constitution was unveiled in 1937 it set out a special place for women within the home. In Ireland as elsewhere ‘women’s life within the home’ has to a large extent been characterized by long hours of thankless drudgery. While the struggles of Irish women for greater liberties during the last century have improved our lives in many ways, the drudgery of housework remains thankless and the workplace has not brought the liberation that certain feminists promised. As anarchists see it, this is because as long as we live in a capitalist society women (or men) can never be meaningfully liberated.
The rise of fascism in Weimer Germany and its role today
Date: Fri, 2008-09-26 15:28
In a period of mass unemployment in 1920's Germany fascism came to power despite not only the presence of mass Communist and Social Democratic parties but also of significant anti-fascist street fighting. Why did the left fail and what was the attraction of fascism. What about fascist movements today, do they represent a similar threat? Can we even agree a single definition of what fascism is?
Thats capitalism WS 105
Date: Thu, 2008-09-25 12:18
According to World Bank's 2008 World Development Report, 2.1 billion people live on less than US$2 a day. 880 million of these live on less that US$1 a day
Oil giant Exxon Mobil made a profit of $11.68 billion between April and June, breaking its own record for the highest quarterly profit by a US company.
Foreign Affairs magazine reported that in 2005 six hedge funds managers pocketed €2.15 billion dollars between them
Navy Called in as Corrib Protest Escalates
Date: Thu, 2008-09-25 12:10
The Irish navy gunboat, the LE Orla has been mobilized in the latest escalation of the standoff between Shell, the Irish state and Shell to Sea campaigners in County Mayo. The standoff comes after a relatively quiet period in the campaign and centers on attempts by campaigners to halt Shell's pipe- laying work in Broadhaven Bay and on Glengad beach, where Shell intend to bring their high-pressure gas pipeline ashore. The Irish navy gunboat has been called in after a request by Gardai and will support Garda facilitation of the Shell's works in the bay.
Dublin: Choice Ireland social
Date: Wed, 2008-09-24 11:09
Following the successful pickets over the summer on the WRC Choice Ireland are having a social get together for pro-choice activists in the Teacher's Club this Friday at 7pm.
The Student Movement
Date: Tue, 2008-09-23 16:25
Workers Solidarity Movement postion paper on the Student Movement as amended at Autumn 2008 National Conference.
Anarchism & the Chinese Revolution - video and audio
Date: Tue, 2008-09-23 10:59
A 60 minute recording of a talk and discussion on the Chinese revolution and the Chinese anarchist movement. It's available here as google video, mp4 and mp3 formats, the first two are preferred as the viewer will then be able to see the images referenced during the talk. The talk covers the period from the 1840's to the victory of the CCP in 1949.
Anarchism and the Kibbutz movement - Audio
Date: Tue, 2008-09-23 10:50
An mp3 talk on the Kibbutz movement in Palestine / Israel focusing on the radical and anarchist elements of it.