Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Labour Party Learns that the People are Revolting - Direct Action should be Encouraged
Date: Mon, 2012-04-16 20:07
Thousands of people marched from Eyre Square in Galway to the Labour Party conference at NUIG on Saturday. People had travelled from all over the country to show their opposition to the household tax and other attacks on people’s living standards. The story that made the evening news however, was one of the several hundred strong breakaway protest that reached the doors of the conference centre.
Surveys say poverty rising, resistance too
Date: Mon, 2012-04-16 16:07
Two recent surveys have shed a little light on the levels of poverty and financial distress being experienced in Ireland. A survey by the "What's left" found 47% of households (over 1.5million people) with €100 or less in hand monthly after essential bills have paid. The other survey by Social Justice Ireland calculated over 700,000 people now live impoverished lives in the state. The increasing cost of essentials, declining wages and rising unemployment are all contributing to this.
Anger flares in Galway at Labour Party after protesters attacked with pepper spray
Date: Mon, 2012-04-16 14:41
Saturdays Household tax demonstration in Galway at the Labour Party conference saw angry scenes after Garda attempted to keep the protesters out of sight and sound from the conference venue. Students who were being kept off their own campus were particularly annoyed and led a push against the Garda barriers during which several of them were attacked with pepper spray. They did however succeed in removing the barriers with the result that around 1,000 of the 4,000 or so Household tax demonstrators were able to march to the door of the conference center to protest in full sight of the Labour party delegates inside.
A number of WSM members were present at the protest, either with their various local Household tax delegations or with FEE, the student group. One of them was among the people pepper sprayed. We asked them to give us their accounts of what happened on the day.
An introduction to Hacktivism and Anarchism
Date: Sun, 2012-04-15 20:12
In the last few years, headlines have been filled with news of online attacks carried out against government and corporate websites claimed by groups calling themselves, among others, “Anonymous” and “Lulzsec”. Hacktivism is now so popular that a documentary will soon be released covering the Anonymous movement and others called “We Are Legion: The story of the Hacktivists”
Anarchist report from 1916 Easter Commemorations in Belfast
Date: Sat, 2012-04-14 11:20
This year marked the 96th anniversary of the Easter Rising traditionally a time when republicans across this island come out to remember the sacrifice of fallen comrades and renew their ideals set in stone in the 1916 proclamation. It is also a time when rival republican groups set out there stall in a show of strength and support; but what is noticeable in so-called republican heartlands is a decline in overall attendance and of the wearing of the Easter lily and houses flying the tri-colour.
Protest the Labour Party's vicious policies in Galway this Saturday!
Date: Thu, 2012-04-12 11:03
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The Campaign against Household and Water Taxes has organised a march and rally to protest the Labour Party's national convention in Galway this coming Saturday. Assembling in Eyre Square at 1pm, the march will proceed to the NUIG campus where the Labour Party will be busy planning how they proceed with selling out what little remains of their principles.
Kicking off the 2011 Revolts in the age of the Networked Individual
Date: Wed, 2012-04-11 13:44
To what extent do the revolutions and revolts of 2011 reflect a new world born from the shell of the old? Were these revolts of the internet generation -- networked individuals? Are people not only using new technology but becoming transformed by it? For anarchists, what lessons can we learn and to what extent must we transform our organisational methods and structures?
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Dub: Anarchists - who we are and what we are up to - public meeting in Dublin
Date: Tue, 2012-04-10 10:43
A Workers Solidarity Movement public meeting for everyone interested in finding out more about anarchism. Speakers will give an audio visual introduction to the history of anarchism before going on to looks at its relevance in Ireland today and detailing the various struggles that anarchists in Ireland are currently involved in. There will be time after the presentation for for your questions and discussion.
Wynns Hotel
Lower Abbey Street
19.00 12th April
Technical details of files deletions in relation to the GSOC interim report
Date: Thu, 2012-04-05 15:45
This technical note was produced by Shell to Sea to counter the misleading implications about file deletions found in the GSOC July 2011 ‘Interim Report’ into the Corrib cops 'rape tape' incident. It was published as part of a Shell to Sea response into that report. GSOC had used language to suggest that the recordings of the incident itself had been interfered with, a suggestion that was picked up and incorrectly reported by many sections of the media as fact. RTE were later forced to issue an apology for their inaccurate reporting.
NUIM academics on GSOC & the Rossport rape recordings
Date: Thu, 2012-04-05 15:32
Seven academics from NUI Maynooth have released this statement revealing the details of how GSOC treated them in the course of its 'investigation' into the Garda who recorded themseves threatening to rape a women in their custody to force her to give them her name and address. The statement was published as part of response to GSOC's highly misleading interim report.