September 2009

Dublin: anti-NAMA protest at Dail

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TUF unions to hold protest outside Leinster House over NAMA plan to bail out banks on backs of workers

NAMA is a class robbery

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The economic crisis we face in Ireland is that huge amounts of money have been lost with the collapse of the property bubble. The question is, who will pay? Will it be the crooked bankers and dodgy developers responsible for this mess, or us, the ordinary working people?

Dublin: fundraiser for Green Isle strikers

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Green Isle Foods, NAAS – TEEU official Strike to Protect Jobs

FUND RAISING EVENT

8.30pm on Friday 18 September 2009

Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin

You are Invited to:

a night of music and craic to support the 40 workers who are still on strike to defend the jobs of 6 of their colleagues at Green Isle Foods Naas.

40 Industrial Black and Tans have been brought in from Britain to take the jobs of the striking workers, prolonging the dispute.

Please support this event by showing solidarity with the Green Isle Workers
Them today you tomorrow?

Admission: By Donation (minimum €10.00)
Unemployed, students and pensioners €5.00

Dublin -Food Fight! Present: Transgènico

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Food Fight! Present:

Transgènico: Film Screening

Catalan Documentary on Genetics Campaigning

Dublin - Queer Spraoi Present: Bent Bars Presentation & Discussion

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Café 7pm (Come & get your dinner)
Presentation 8pm

“NAMA clearly shows why we should Vote No to Lisbon” – Workers Solidarity Movement

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Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has stated that the foisting of NAMA on the Irish people is a clear reason why people should reject the Lisbon treaty, and has rejected attempts by establishment politicians to claim that there is no connection between the two.

The politics of class and sectarianism in Belfast and rest of UK in the early 20th century

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During industrialisation, the northeast became an integral part of the British industrial output centred on the industrial triangle of Belfast, Merseyside and Glasgow. ‘Free trade’(heavily subsidised by the state of course) underpinned the empire and access to overseas markets were essential to the economy of Belfast and its periphery.

Dublin: March to MTL on Oct. 2nd

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TO ALL SUPPORTERS/CONTACTS

Once again, congratulations to all for a great effort . The turnout today was terrific with such short notice. Lookout for coverage on the strike site .

We are calling another march on MTL next Friday , 2nd October, . Start time 4pm,

Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism - Luigi Fabbri

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This text was originally written by Italian anarchist communist Luigi Fabbri either before or during the First World War. In it he addresses problems he sees as stemming from the stereotyping of anarchism in bourgeois literature and media and the unfortunate feedback effect this was having on some militants practice of anarchism and language. Long a popular pamphlet, the absence of an online version in English has been a lack until now. This English translation is the work of Chaz Bufe who has kindly given permission for its use.

Press Statement: Lisbon - If O'Leary is for it, it can't be in our interest

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Anarchist organisation, Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has attacked Michael O'Leary's support for the Lisbon treaty, describing O'Leary as "one of Ireland's most notorious anti-union employers"

Shell's prosecutions failing in Belmullet

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In order to break the resistance of the inhabitants of Erris to the Shell experimental gas pipeline dozens of people are now being prosecuted. Belmullet District Court is in the second day of a special 3 day session to carry out Shell's prosecutions. But things are not going Shell's way, of the 16 people being prosecuted in yesterdays session only one prosecution resulted in a fine.

Launch of 'The Lost Revolution' - audio

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September 10th saw the launch in Dublin of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book.

Lost Revolution - History of the Workers Party - launch in Dublin by Andrew Flood on Mixcloud