Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
20 years of inaction after the x-case - Action on X launched
Date: Fri, 2012-02-17 17:12
20 years ago this month details emerged of the X-case, when the Irish state injuncted a pregnant 14 year old who had been raped to prevent her traveling of England for an abortion. The x-case was the culmination of a decade of fundamentalist anti-choice hysteria that had flowed from the 1983 referendum designed to make it impossible to ever legalize abortion again in Ireland.
(Pic: Press launch - taken by RAG)
Household Tax: Cork keeps up the pressure
Date: Fri, 2012-02-17 15:41
Cork continues to organise against the household tax. Fermoy, Hollyhill, Macroom, Douglas and Mallow all had successful meetings this week with groups established in each area. Mallow was the biggest meeting with 250 people crowding into the town's Hibernian Hotel. Tonight the campaign rolls on with meetings in Charleville, Gurranabraher, Carrigaline and Bishopstown.
70 blockade Shell compound during day of Solidarity
Date: Fri, 2012-02-17 14:32
Seventy campaigners from all around Ireland this morning blockaded Shell's Aghoos compound in Erris, Co. Mayo. The 7am protest is intended to demonstrate support for the local community whose lives are being increasingly disrupted by Shell's haulage and construction works. Last week Shell began hauling materials along this road in convoys (usually 4 or 5 large trucks together) in order to setup the Glengad compound. The convoys have so far all been heavily escorted by Gardaí, usually with 2 Garda cars infront and 2 behind along with another Garda van bringing up the rear. The roads are extremely unsuitable for this haulage but Shell and the Gardaí seem intent on trying to use brute force to get Shell's job done.
The Austerity Treaty: Is the call for a referendum a sensible strategy?
Date: Thu, 2012-02-16 17:17
The fiscal treaty, as agreed by EU governments, is clearly an austerity treaty and will impose serious levels of economic and financial pain on Irish workers for years to come. In his blog ‘Notes On The Front’ Unite economist Michael Taft says “The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned”.[1]
Become a WSM supporter
Date: Thu, 2012-02-16 16:12
The work of the WSM is often limited by the resources available to us, both in terms of finance and labour. And although our members bring a wide range of knowledge and experience into the organisation for collective discussion there are also wide areas where we have much less knowledge and experience than we would want. The solution to this would be to have more members, and we are always seeking to get new people to join.
But we recognize that the time & financial commitments of WSM membership are not for everyone. And that some people who broadly agree with a lot of our work have significant differences with us in particular areas that would stop them joining. So we offer a Supporter Status for people who broadly like what we are doing but who for one reason or another can't commit to membership.
Jail! - An insight into prison life in Ireland, namely Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon
Date: Thu, 2012-02-16 13:31
“Your letters have sparked riots in the maximum security wing of my heart” - Sideshow Bob, the Simpsons!
On 21st April 2010 I was convicted of assaulting a number of Gardaí in relation to Shell to Sea protests and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. Remission for good behaviour means that prisoners will have their sentences reduced by a quarter, once you keep your nose clean. I was given credit for 2 weeks time served previously in 2009, before I was bailed out pending my appeal.
So I spent 4 months in jail from April to August in the summer of 2010.
Art - a Composite of Van Gogh's 'Exercise Yard' & Munch's 'Scream' by Prisoner Mick Connors.
Dub: Solidarity Books stall at Seomra
Date: Thu, 2012-02-16 11:02
Come along to the second Solidarity Books radical bookstall selling books of interest to anarchists, other socialists & republicans once a month in Seomra Spraoi.
Dub: Action on X - Public Meeting - 20 years on
Date: Wed, 2012-02-15 13:54
As yet another expert committee convenes to consider how the Government might implement the 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling on the X Case, the Action on X Alliance says: Enough!
Tuesday February 21 2012 at 07 PM Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street in Dublin
Household tax & Water Tax must be defeated
Date: Wed, 2012-02-15 11:24
WSM policy in opposition to the Household & Water Tax and how we think the campaign in opposition to it must be built.
Dublin Anti authoritarian assembly
Date: Wed, 2012-02-15 10:29
There's plenty going on in Dublin right now and never so many reasons to need to organise. RAG are calling an Anti-Authoritarian Assembly in Dublin 2.30pm, Saturday 18th February in Seomra Spraoi.