Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Facing Deportations - audio from the Dublin anarchist book fair
Date: Tue, 2013-04-23 16:30
Facing Deportations – speakers from the 2013 Dublin anarchist bookfair on how we can organise to prevent deportations, the session aimed to share the direct practical actions that need to be done and to raise awareness, unveil truths and correct misconceptions surrounding the issue of asylum application and deportation.
Brazilian anarchism interview on the Crisis, World Cup, Especifismo
Date: Tue, 2013-04-23 16:04
In a wide ranging interview Paul Bowman talked to Felipe Corrêa (FC) a Brazilian anarchist who is member of Organização Anarquista Socialismo Libertário [Libertarian Socialist Anarchist Organization] (OASL) about anarchist orgainising in Brasil, just how global the crisis really is and the forthcoming World Cup.
Successful anti-eviction defence of squatted house on Manor street
Date: Tue, 2013-04-23 11:17
Around lunchtime on April 15th we received word that there was an anti-eviction protest underway on Manor street in Dublin outside a house that had been squatted. A Garda had called at the door that morning and after being refused entrance had said he'd be back later with more Garda. The building had been squatted on and off a couple of times in recent years and was recently re-occupied.
10% of female suicides used to be of pregnant women until UK abortion became accessible
Date: Tue, 2013-04-23 10:53
The anti-choice movements have been repeating over and over the message in recent months that 'abortion is never a treatment for suicidality' This is frequently coupled with citing the realtively low current rate of suicide among pregnant women. But like other myths of the anti-choice movement it has emerged that until abortion became accessible to Irish women, through travelling to the UK, 10% of suicides of women in Ireland were of pregnant women, a figure far in excess of the general population.
Hidden from View: Asylum & Deportation in Ireland
Date: Mon, 2013-04-22 21:58
This article was prompted by a number of recent events. Firstly, the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) organised a meeting on April 3rd to organise a campaign aimed at ending the inhumane system known as Direct Provision . And secondly, ADI (Anti-Deportation Ireland) held a workshop at Dublin’s Anarchist Bookfair on April 6th, followed by an ADI public meeting in Dublin on April 11th. Both ADI events aimed to build a campaign against deportations in Ireland.
Dublin: Protest against Further Education Cuts - organised by TUI
Date: Mon, 2013-04-22 18:43
Protest against Cuts to Further Education and increases to Pupil Teacher Ratio -
Dub: Zine making workshop with Abortion Rights Campaign
Date: Mon, 2013-04-22 13:48
Creative and Direct Action from the Abortion Rights Campaign are looking to create a zine about choice, which would be one of many. We will be doing the zine making workshop on Tuesday 30th April at 7.30pm in Seomra and you are welcome to join us. This can be the first of many zines that can be targeted to different groups e.g. teens, Y-Factor, etc.
Dub: We demand X legislation by the summer
Date: Mon, 2013-04-22 11:51
It's 21 years since the X Case, when the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is legal if pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's life – including by suicide. (X was 14 and suicidal because she was pregnant due to rape). Despite the death of Savita Halappanavar, the government continues to delay legislating to allow abortion if pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's life. Action on X have called a protest at City Hall (Dublin Castle) Monday, 29 April 2013 at 18:00
Squatting, Urban Politics & the Dublin Housing Action Committee: 1968-71
Date: Mon, 2013-04-22 11:04
The contemporary crisis of capitalism has made markedly visible the relationship between finance capital and property speculation, between the concentrated money-power of bankers and speculators and the shaping of the built environment in our towns and cities.
After Croke Park: Defeating austerity - prepare to Strike to Win
Date: Sun, 2013-04-21 13:30
Public service workers proved in the Croke Park vote that we are capable of getting organised to defeat the careful plans of the government to make us swallow yet another round of cuts. This despite the fact that the leadership of the two biggest public sector unions were working with the government in trying to get us to accept that plan. And now they are in a panic because the No vote to Croke Park represents a massive refusal of their claim that austerity is the solution to the crisis. Almost 300,000 workers have declared that Enough is Enough, add in our immediate families and this is probably quarter of the population.
This doesn't mean the fight is over, the No vote is only the start of defeating austerity. Public Service Workers are not alone, 400,000 households have not registered for the Property Tax. Across society ordinary working people are saying Enough, that is one of strengths. We think we can beat any attempt to unilaterally oppose pay cuts around the points that follow