Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
June 2012
Irish Anarchist Review 5 - Summer 2012
Date: Thu, 2012-06-14 15:03
Welcome to Irish Anarchist Review issue 5, produced by the Workers Solidarity Movement. In this magazine we look to explore theories, thoughts and ideas about political struggle. We set out to analyse where we are aiming for as a revolutionary movement and explore how we might get there. The purpose of ‘Irish Anarchist Review’ is to act as forum for a sharing of ideas about revolutionary struggle. Building a successful revolution demands genuine discussion, debate and sharing of ideas. We hope that the articles in here will help to stimulate discussion and provoke debate and perhaps even motivate some of our readers to respond with articles of your own.
Greece, the crisis, resistance & elections - audio & video panel
Date: Sat, 2012-06-16 09:14
Four anarchists including two Greek anarchists examine the real effects of the Euro crisis on the Greek population, resistance to the attempts to impose all the costs of the crisis on ordinary Greeks and the meaning of the second round of elections in particular the role of SYRIZA
Disillusionment with Stormont growing claims new poll
Date: Sun, 2012-06-17 17:02
A survey of more than a thousand Northern Ireland voters has revealed a high level of disillusionment and dissatisfaction with the current Stormont government. A Belfast Telegraph/LucidTalk poll found that only one in ten people believe the government is performing better than direct rule, and that half would label its performance as poor or very poor. This means that it is rated almost as badly as the Greek administration which was trounced in that country’s last recent election.
Dub: Choice fundraising party for Rally for Choice
Date: Tue, 2012-06-19 10:31
A fundraiser in the Seomra Spraoi social center June 22 to raise fund to help being people to the Rally for Choice in Belfast, July 7th which is a counter demonstration to the Forced Birthers 'rally for life' march.
Anger explodes at Youth Defense anti-choice posters targeting women - video shows paint thrown over posters
Date: Thu, 2012-06-21 12:38
A video being circulated on the internet shows Youth Defense anti-choice posters being sprayed with paint. Over the last month more and more bill boards from the anti-women anti-choice organisation Youth Defense have been appearing all over Dublin. It appears they have spent hundreds of thousands of euro in their latest campaign targeting women who have had abortions. In the last days we have seen or been sent photos of their posters that have been altered all over the city and just now we received notification of the video below which shows several of these sites being covered with paint or torn down.
PSNI losing battle for hearts and minds
Date: Sat, 2012-06-23 20:01
The PSNI’s Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie may have achieved a silver fainne in Irish language speaking (better Irish than Gerry Adams), but just one in four people in Northern Ireland would encourage a close relative to join the PSNI according to a poll conducted by Belfast Telegraph/Lucid Talk. That figure among Catholics drops to just one in ten.
Dub: Pride - march with PINC
Date: Tue, 2012-06-26 11:57
PINC! Is an LGBTQ group which rejects the idea that Pride needs sponsorship from groups which are actively oppressive in Irish society and the world at large. Corporations like Google actively use their power as information providers to censor internet content in many countries. State organisations like An Garda Siochanna routinely oppress students, grassroots activists in rural areas, the homeless, poor and working class people, as well as having a culture in which rape jokes are found acceptable.
Tories announce new plans to cut housing benefit from under 25s
Date: Tue, 2012-06-26 14:31
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David Cameron plans to end housing benefit for claimants aged 16-24. The ‘proposal’ forms part of wider recommendations to begin being implemented next year as part of the new Welfare Act. Further plans being rolled out including linking regional play with regional benefits, breaking the link between benefits and inflation, and considering linking benefits to average earnings and cost of living amounting to a further attack on worker’s rights and conditions.
Issues of Workers Solidarity from 1995: WS #44-46
Date: Tue, 2012-06-26 23:30
Incomplete index of 1995 articles (not al are online)
Dub: Eyewitness from the anarchist movement in Russia - public meeting
Date: Wed, 2012-06-27 10:46
The Dublin segment of a European speaking tour with an Anarchist from Moscow who will talk about the anarchist movement in Russia, its successes and failures. Antti Rautiainen lived in Moscow for 13 years, participating in anarchist activities.
Bel: Eyewitness from the anarchist movement in Russia - public meeting
Date: Wed, 2012-06-27 10:50
The Belfast segment of a European speaking tour with an Anarchist from Moscow who will talk about the anarchist movement in Russia, its successes and failures. Antti Rautiainen lived in Moscow for 13 years, participating in anarchist activities. His residence permit was revoked in March of this year, allegedly because he "called for a violent overthrow of constitutional order, or otherwise endangered the safety of Russian Federation or its citizens". He is member of Autonomous Action and the Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow.
Derry and the War on Drugs: An Anarchist View
Date: Thu, 2012-06-28 14:14
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News that the Red Cross, an international humanitarian organisation, have been directly assisting local community workers in the Rosemount area of Derryhas again heightened concerns of a potential “drugs epidemic” developing in the city.
The story first broke over the last few weeks prior to a BBC Spotlight programme investigating the vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs or RAAD. It revealed that the Red Cross has been working with the Rosemount Resource Centre over the past eight months, believed to be the first time ever the humanitarian group has worked with another organisation in the north.