Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dub: Finance Under Foot walking tour
Date: Tue, 2013-04-02 12:01
“Finance Under Foot” is a walking tour through Ireland’s most important sites of financial power, past and present. The idea behind the tour is to make the nature of organised money power accessible, understandable and even entertaining. Your Tour Guides: Conor McCabe and Tom Murray
Sunday 7th April, Time: 2:30p.m.
Starting point: Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Sign up at the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/453899021353700
Defeating Croke Park 2 – Every Vote Counts
Date: Thu, 2013-03-28 22:29
An analysis of the voting results on the first Croke Park Agreement shows that the votes of a few hundred union members in a couple of unions could decide the fate of the ‘Croke Park Extension’ deal currently being voted on by union members. Because of the bizarre - and rather anti-democratic - system of voting at the public services committee of the ICTU, a small margin in favour or against the deal in any particular union swings all the votes of that union either for or against.
Dub: Conversations about anarchism - Racism
Date: Tue, 2013-03-26 11:57
The 2013 Conversations about Anarchism continues April 4th in the WSM space in Seomra Spraoi. The topic is Anarchism & Racism
Dub: Culture of Resistance social in Seomra Spraoi as part of DABF
Date: Fri, 2013-03-22 16:00
The 2013 Dublin anarchist bookfair will be getting off to a flying start in Seomra Spraoi Friday 5th April with a night themed Culture of Struggle.
Croke Park proposal shows why we have to take our unions back & organise to win
Date: Thu, 2013-03-21 19:29
It is quite incredible that the majority of the union leadership had the nerve to stay in the Croke Park talks and return to us, the members, asking us to vote for such a terrible deal. All of the unions should have had a ballot before entering into negotiations and we should have voted to refuse to enter discussions at all as long as a billion euro of cuts was a precondition of talks. Once we entered on that basis, nothing good could come out of talks. And after making the mistake of entering on that condition, all the unions should have had a change of heart and walked out once the reality of what would have to be accepted became clear.
We have to ask ourselves how we have found ourselves in unions where the leadership was allowed take such an approach. And we have to work out how we create unions that we control and which will help us organise together to defend our common interests.
Property Tax: Frequently asked Questions
Date: Thu, 2013-03-21 19:04
T
he Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes has produced this useful FAQ on the new Property Tax that answers basic questions about the tax that will be of interest to those determined to resist it.
Don’t sign up for more austerity - Boycott property tax Forms - Mobilise to put them under pressure
Date: Thu, 2013-03-21 19:03
The Government call it a Property Tax but it’s really a tax on the family home and once they get the foot in the door with this tax it will only rise. Along with the water tax (which comes in next year) households will be hit with bills of 1,000 euro a year and more before too long.
Five years of austerity have hammered ordinary people. No more. The Government must be stopped in their tracks on this one.
Review of Paul Mason, 2013, Why It’s STILL Kicking Off Everywhere
Date: Thu, 2013-03-21 14:45
A question. If depression is the inability to construct a future, does depression not appear very like the world’s prevailing mood or zeitgeist right now? As I write, the immense working majority faces into continued hierarchy, exploitation and polarisation, characterised by, among other things, ecological catastrophe, austerity without end, technocratic governance, nuclear annihilation, escalation of war... Compounding these dilemmas is our collective inability, real or illusory (I am not sure which), to construct an alternative future.
Today, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. And yet. Something else is stirring. 2011 occasioned a shared, transnational impulse of ‘outrage’, ‘indignation’ and ‘enough’ against the cruelties of global financial institutions and the petty thuggery of enthralled states. The occupation of the world’s squares was simultaneously an impulse of ‘hope’, ‘solidarity’ and ‘the commons’, directed towards a dimly perceived yet somehow more just, more humane future. Tracking their emergence, evolution, fading, and re-emergence around the world – now in Cairo, then in Syntagma, here in Zuccotti Park, there in Puerta del Sol - Paul Mason, BBC journalist and author, has provided an insightful record and (somewhat more questionable) analysis of these revolts.