Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
The 100th issue of Workers Solidarity
Date: Mon, 2007-11-19 16:16
This is the 100th issue of Workers Solidarity. Why do we bother? After all, nobody gets paid for writing, or doing layout, or stuffing envelopes, or putting copies through neighbours’ letterboxes, or giving them out at union meetings or in city centres.
Well, we are sick and tired of a system that won’t provide us with decent health care, or economic security, or affordable housing. We are sick and tired of a system that pays farmers in one country not to grow food while people in another country starve to death, a system that spends billions on weapons of mass destruction but won’t cough up to keep people alive.
Review of 'The Many Headed Hydra' by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Date: Fri, 2007-11-16 02:19
The book is about the circulation of revolutionary ideas around the Atlantic. The authors don't set out to prove their thesis of circulation and improvement of revolutionary ideas systematically with tables of figures and statistics. Instead the book is a series of case studies, interesting in themselves, but each showing common features.
El Soviet de Limerick de 1919
Date: Fri, 2007-11-16 02:02
La huelga que iba a precipitar la formación del Soviet de Limerick fue convocada por la muerte de Robert Byrne un republicano y Trade Unionista.
Byrne había trabajado como telefonista en la Oficina de Correos de Limerick. En enero de 1919 perdió su trabajo. Fue expulsado por asistir al funeral de un volutario de Limerick (John Daly). Algunos días más tarde la casa de sus padres fue tomada por la policía. Byrne fue arrestado y sentenciado a 12 meses de prisión con trabajos forzados por posesión ilegal de un revolver y munición.
La Comuna de Paris
Date: Fri, 2007-11-16 01:17
En 1871 Francia fue a la guerra con Prusia y fue derrotada. La cabeza del gobierno nacional era Adolphe Thiers, él tuvo que negociar los detalles de la paz con Prusia. Después de hacer esto tuvo que afrontar el problema de volver a controlar Paris, de convencer a la ciudad de que la guerra con Prusia había terminado y del desarme de la Guardia Nacional. A Thiers sólo se le permitían 12.000 soldados después de la tregua, y con ellos tuvo que hacer frente a varios cientos de miles de guardias nacionales.
In English: http://www.wsm.ie/content/paris-commune
Stand up for Striking Busworkers
Date: Thu, 2007-11-15 17:15
As the grey misty rain fell throughout the day – you truly knew it was winter. The fact that over 300 bus workers were gathered in this dog of an afternoon outside Dublin Bus HQ would indicate that we all have entered the season of discontent.
Rossport Rises Again - Nov 2007 day of action report
Date: Thu, 2007-11-15 17:00
Friday 9th November saw hundreds of people travel from around Ireland to show solidarity with dozens of local Corrib protesters in the latest 'day of action' against the attempt by Shell to impose a dangerous experimental gas pipeline on the community. WSM members from Dublin and Cork took part in the protests, here we present their account of what happened along with a selection of photographs from indymedia.ie.
Support the Bus workers
Date: Wed, 2007-11-14 00:22
Drivers from Harristown Garage are marching on Dublin Bus Head Office in O'Connell Street tomorrow (Wednesday 14th) . The march starts at 11am from the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square.
What's wrong with the World Bank?
Date: Sun, 2007-11-11 20:48
The World Bank and its sisters organisations of global capitalism, the IMF and WTO have their origins in the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944. Although the World Bank attempts to present the goal of the organisation as “reducing poverty”, this has never been their objective. Their main objective is to fund large-scale power and infrastructure projects in the third world to prepare the way for the exploitation of these countries natural resources and cheap labour by northern corporations.
Limerick Meeting: What Is Anarchism
Date: Fri, 2007-11-09 17:01
Forthcoming meeting on anarchism ...