Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
May 22nd - Vote Yes to Defeat the Bigots
Date: Fri, 2015-05-22 13:24
May 22nd offers an opportunity for many of us in Ireland to strike a blow against homophobia in voting for Marriage equality.
Homophobic No Campaigners Setting Up Fake Equality Pages
Date: Fri, 2015-05-22 13:12
In the last 24 hours anti-equality campaigners have been setting up fake Yes to equality Facebook pages and then posting links around to large groups like the 26,000 strong anti water charges group. The intention being to trick people into voting No by trying to give credence to the fevered imaginations of homophobes.
Migrants Call for Vote for Marriage Equality
Date: Fri, 2015-05-22 13:06
On Friday Ireland goes to the polls for a referendum to introduce Marriage equality, when it is passed Ireland will be the first country to introduce Marriage equality by popular vote. In the final days of campaigning the reactionary anti-equality crowd are becoming increasingly open about their homophobia as they become increasingly desperate in the face of defeat.
Voting Yes for Marriage Equality
Date: Fri, 2015-05-22 13:02
Marriage as an institution has no great appeal for anarchists. Its primary role in capitalist society is to regulate property ‘rights’ and to promote social norms. But we also know that in our current society marriage has a social standing to which many people aspire. To tell a significant section of the population that they should be denied access to marriage is to ask them to accept a secondclass position vis a vis their straight family members, workmates and friends.
Self organising and the city - Squatting panel at Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2015 video & audio
Date: Mon, 2015-05-18 15:56
What are the challenges and possibilities of popular self-organisation to reclaim our lives, our homes and our cities.
At this years Dublin anarchist bookfair Jenny and Zoe looked at recent occupations in Dublin, including the Grangegorman Squat in Smithfield where resistance to eviction is ongoing
Voting for Marriage Equality While Being Critical of Marriage - DABF 21015 Panel Video & audio
Date: Mon, 2015-05-18 15:07
We find ourselves in Ireland facing a imminent referendum on marriage equality, which the hardline religious right are opposing as part of their program of maintaining multiple oppressions.
A No vote in that context would be disastrous, serving only to entrench homophobia. Therefore anarchists are campaigning for a Yes to Marriage Equality vote but beyond the need to ensure the referendum is not defeated this session of the 2015 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair asked what else needed to be said?
How Nuclear Power was Defeated in Ireland - Video from DABF 2015
Date: Fri, 2015-05-15 16:38
Alan MacSimoin explains the successful campaign of the 1970's that stopped nuclear power coming to Ireland
Defending the Amazon, Defending Life Video & Audio from the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
Date: Fri, 2015-05-15 10:20
You can now view the video of the Defending the Amazon defending life from the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
The Rojava Revolution, Gender Liberation & Feudalism Video & Audio from DABF 2015
Date: Wed, 2015-05-13 16:02
This session at the 2015 Dublin anarchist bookfair examined the reasons why gender liberation is central to the Rojava revolution in northern Syria and looks in particular at the importance of the struggle against tribal feudalism.
The Housing Crisis is Really a Capitalist Crisis - Resist, Repopulate, Reclaim!
Date: Sun, 2015-05-10 15:50
“Ours is a society in which, in every field, one group of people makes decisions, exercise control, limits choices, while the great majority have to accept these decisions, submit to this control and act within the limits of these externally imposed choices. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of housing: one of those basic human needs which throughout history and all over the world people have satisfied as well as they could for themselves, using the materials what were at hand and their own, and their neighbors labor. The marvelously resourceful anonymous vernacular architecture of every part of the globe is a testimony to their skill, using timber, straw, grass, leaves, hides, stone, clay, bone, earth, mud sand even snow. Consider the igloo: maximum enclosure of space with minimum of labor. Cost of materials and transportation, nil. And all made of water. Nowadays, of course, the Eskimos live on welfare handouts in little northern slums. Man, as Habraken says “no longer houses himself: he is housed” – Colin Ward