Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Rossport Solidarity Camp Returns to Glengad with a Fresh Call Out for Action in 2008
Date: Wed, 2008-08-27 11:28
The Rossport Solidarity Camp was originally set up on ‘Rossport 5’ Philip McGrath’s land in 2005. In the Spring of 2006 the camp was set up again close to the beach at Glengad near the ‘landfall’ for Shell’s proposed pipeline. Following a mendacious but successful application by Mayo County Council for an order of eviction against the camp in September of 2007, the camp agreed to leave the dunes by January 1st 2008. Since then the 'camp' has organised from the Rossport Solidarity House in Pollathomas
Property developers expect us to bail them out?
Date: Wed, 2008-08-27 09:15
While the rest of us are coming to terms with a deepening recession, growing house repossessions, stagnation in rises and steep rise in the cost of living. In the face of a so-called downturn in the housing market and credit crunch, the wealthy in the form of parasitic property developers and speculators expect to be bailed out by the Government for their calculated error in borrowing too much from Banks and leanding to first time buyers
Washington DC: The Struggle for Abortion rights in Ireland
Date: Tue, 2008-08-26 22:30
Saturday, August 30th, 6 PM
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church
1525 Newton Street NW Washington, DC 20010
(near the Columbia Heights metro, Green Line)
Anarchists call for mass opposition to RIR military parade
Date: Mon, 2008-08-25 23:42
Responding to last week's controversial decision by Belfast City Council to hold a 'civic reception' and military parade in November for returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michael McGovern, spokesperson for the Belfast branch of the anarchist Workers Solidarity Movement states,
Report: Anarchism and Class Struggle in Latin America
Date: Mon, 2008-08-25 00:15
Recently, Belfast WSM held our 2nd public meeting in the Culturlann on Saturday 16th August. Award winning documentary “Our Oil and other Tales” was shown and WSM guest speaker Pepe gave an overview of the current anarchist movement in Latin America. Members and guests listened intently. Issues that arose included the importance of social movements and its contradictions on the continent and the lessons that can be learned at home from the campaign against water charges and privatization of water in Cochabamba(Bolivia).
Belfast WSM stall
Date: Sun, 2008-08-24 13:21
The Belfast branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be having a stall in Belfast City Centre at 12pm outside Tescos on Royal Avenue (please note: provisional depending on the weather on the day)
Life Despite Capitalism - Building Radical Economies
Date: Sat, 2008-08-23 01:16
Life Despite Capitalism
Building Radical Economies
Friday 31st October –
Tuesday 4th November, 2008
@ ESCANDA
Summary
In the beginning of November 2008, the Escanda collective in Spain along with others will be hosting a four-day radical economics gathering. We will analyse why the current economic system has failed and we will learn from the possibilities and experiences of those working despite capitalism to build autonomous networks of production and circulation from a basis of sustainability, self organization,
The gathering will focus both on the theory of radical economics and the practice: working towards creating and building radical economies within and between our own movements and collectives. We will provide a space for networking and there will be our very own radical marketplace for participants to bring, exchange, barter and give away goods as well as services etc.
Interview with militant anti-fascist organisation Antifa.
Date: Wed, 2008-08-20 22:44
Over a period of several months Sean Matthews interviewed a representative from the anti-fa organisation in relation to their current activity in combatting the far-right, building support with migrant workers and lessons we can learn in Ireland both North and South plus lots more......
Anti-fa is committed to physically and idealogical opposition to fascism. The 'Antifa' initiative has come from members of the Anarchist Federation, Class War Federation, and No Platform. Although coming from the anarchist tradition, antifa are open to work with any group/individual that is serious about militant anti-fascism, but will NOT work with any state affiliated groups. Image: *eightball* - http://flickr.com/photos/kola1965/
The Irish Peace Process and the Working Class
Date: Wed, 2008-08-20 12:04
The progress of the Irish Peace process has been both a long and turbulent one. It had seen the development in recent times of the once unimaginable, with Ian Paisley the leader of the DUP and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness sharing Power within the local administration. Since then, Paisley has stood down and Peter Robinson has taken over such leadership roles. No doubt in the years ahead many will attempt to pull the threads together of how such in it’s entirety had been moved to happen. Yet with now seeing such an administration up and running, has it delivered beneficial change for working class communities, and more importantly what change, if any, has there been for working class communities since the ending of the ‘war’.
An introduction to the WSM
Date: Tue, 2008-08-19 10:29
Meeting The WSM believes that the world can be made a much better place, and that millions of ordinary people like ourselves can take on that job. And that puts us into conflict with the bosses.
We are anti-capitalists because capitalism can never satisfy the needs of the majority. It is locked into a cycle of boom and slump. It is based on a division of society into bosses and workers, order-givers and order-takers. Its unwritten motto is ‘greed is good’.The world we live in is capable of feeding, housing, clothing and providing for the leisure and scientific needs of the world's population yet capitalism means that there can be a shortage of good public housing while building workers are unemployed. It means tax reliefs for the super-rich while public services like hospitals and schools suffer spending cuts.