Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Religion in the Irish education system
Date: Mon, 2014-05-26 18:53
“Father Ted: It’s not as if everyone’s going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours.
Father Dougal: God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord’s gonna come back and judge us all!
Father Ted: No... No, Dougal, that’s us. That’s Catholicism.”
Dublin Housing Action: Past, Present and Future
Date: Fri, 2014-05-16 13:33
Over the years, Dublin’s working class has organised to fight landlords, developers and politicians in search of decent housing and well-being for all. This panel at the 9th Dublin anarchist bookfair considered how some of these earlier campaigns and direct actions can inform today’s struggles.
Dublin Housing Action: Past, Present and Future - Anarchist bookfair 2014 audio by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud
Fury in Turkey over miner's deaths - Statement by Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet
Date: Fri, 2014-05-16 10:02
We are relaying yesterday's statement from our comrades in Turkey's Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet (Revolutionary Anarchist Action) on the mining catastrophe in Soma, the AKP and state corruption behind it and the police repression of protestors in Turkey's major cities.
Sex Work as Work: Audio of A Conversation with Selma James at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
Date: Thu, 2014-05-15 10:01
Selma James lead off a discussion on sex work at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair alongside, sex worker Jenny O, and Wendy Lyon who blogs at Feminist Ire
There is then a 30 minute discussion with the audience around anarchism, sex work and feminism.
Sex Work as Work: A Conversation with Selma James at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud
Audio of 10 Minute Campaign Talks at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2014 - Stop NATO, Vegan, IOPS
Date: Tue, 2014-05-13 16:13
A space at which people involved in a variety of struggles explained them and sought solidarity. There were three talks, Vegan Information Project , Stop NATO in Cymru and the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS).
Priceless land: Resisting Displacement in Colombia ; resisting Fracking in Ireland - Audio from DABF 2014
Date: Fri, 2014-05-09 16:43
Nelly Cuadros a community activist from the central department of Tolima, Colombia shared with the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair her stories of resistance, and lessons on uniting against injustice. Women play a central role in these communities and, in spite of discrimination as both peasants and women, are emerging as important social leaders for this pivotal time.
This talk was part of Latin American Solidarity Week. As a last minute addition to the program Leah also spoke about the struggle against Fracking in Ireland
The British Miners strike of 1984-85 -Video & Audio from DABF 2014
Date: Fri, 2014-05-02 10:59
At this session at the Dublin anarchist bookfair Dave Douglass talked about his experiences of 1984 - the year the British mines almost defeated Thatcher. "That fight in 84-85 involved the whole community, it was not only about unions. It was partly about unions but it was about an industry, it was about a way of life. The miners were almost an ethnicity, with father to son for hundreds and hundreds of years in the same miner family. And we had a very strong revolutionary and radical tradition. So, all of the politics of power, fuel power was about political power and not just about energy. It was about more than that. It was about "Who rules ?""
Mayday: Building A New Workers Movement - International Anarchist statement
Date: Thu, 2014-05-01 11:01
The WSM is one of the signatures on this international anarchist statement produced for Mayday 2014 involving 8 groups in 7 countries at time of publication. This is part of our ongoing involvement in the Anarkismo.net network involving anarchist organisations in some 30 countries.
Care & Social Reproduction - Audio or Video of Selma James & Conor McCabe at DABF 2014
Date: Wed, 2014-04-30 13:46
The hardship of the current economic crisis has impacted unevenly across genders. This panel from the 2014 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair discussed the intersection of austerity, care-work and women’s reproductive rights. Selma James and Conor McCabe presented with Conor focusing on what this has meant in Ireland in particular.
Media panel on Manufacturing Consent at DABF 2014 - Audio
Date: Thu, 2014-04-24 16:20
Just how good are the mass media at keeping the rabble in line? This panel from the 2014 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair explores the media’s complicity with the rich and powerful and what we can do about it.
A Media panel on Manufacturing Consent at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2014 by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud