Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
DEIS Schools in massive protest at Department of Education: Campaign continues for reversal of budget cuts
Date: Sun, 2012-01-29 14:56
Over 6,000 members of Dublin DEIS school communities – parents, teachers and children – protested outside the Department of Education & Skills on Marlborough Streetin Dublin’s city centre on Thursday 19th January.
Dublin - Anti Household Tax protest at Dublin City Council
Date: Sun, 2012-01-29 13:09
To coincide with a motion opposing the household tax proposed by Cllrs Louise Minihan, Cieran Perry, Pat Dunne and Brid Smith the Campaign Against Household And Water Taxes has called a protest outside the meeting of Dublin City Council at City Hall, Dame St., for Monday 6th February at 6:15pm
Please attend and show your opposition to this tax.
Over 500 at Cork city meeting Against the Household tax
Date: Sun, 2012-01-29 12:59
Arriving at 6.45 to help set up the room Mick informs me there have been 22 phone calls to the hotel to ask what time the meeting is starting. The room has capacity for 290 sitting. We know there is going to be a problem. By 8 the room is full beyond capacity, people are all along the aisles, backed against the walls and spilling into the corridor, an overflow room is full. 500 at least. Campaign activists are collecting names and distributing literature. Almost 200 people sign up for membership, over 100 for activity in local groups and another 300 put themselves on the contact list. Hundreds of window posters, car stickers and newsletters are taken.
Household Tax: Union Branches support 'Don't Register, Don't Pay' campaign
Date: Fri, 2012-01-27 18:28
2 branches of the INTO (Irish National Teachers Organisation) - Dublin North City and Gorey Co. Wexford - have passed a motion condemning the Household tax and supporting the campaign of non-registration and non-payment at their Annual General Meetings.
The motion further calls on the CEC (Central Executive Committee) of the union to “support in any way possible INTO members who are victimised for refusing to register for or pay this tax.”
Bloody Sunday in Derry - Origins & Consequences of a Massacre
Date: Wed, 2012-01-25 12:23
On the 30th January 1972 British soldiers opened fire on protesters in the city of Derry, north-west Ireland. Twenty six unarmed protesters were shot, 13 died immediately or within hours, one more died just over four months later. Derry was in the section of Ireland claimed by the British state and the shootings happened in the context of the suppression of a growing civil rights movement demanding equality for Catholics in the 6 of Ulster’s counties claimed by Britain.
Bloody Sunday 40 Years On – March For Justice - press release
Date: Wed, 2012-01-25 11:56
The Derry Anarchists and the Workers Solidarity Movement support the call for people to attend and support all Bloody Sunday commemorative events over the upcoming weekend, including the 'March for Justice' leaving Creggan shops at 2.30 pm on Sunday 29 January.We stand in solidarity with and salute the courage and dignity of all of the members the Bloody Sunday families and the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign in their long struggle for justice and truth.
A quick introduction to Occupy Dame Street
Date: Tue, 2012-01-24 16:39
Over the last year, from Tahrir Square in Cairo to New York, a new movement sprung from the discontent of millions. It brought down a dictatorship in Egypt, re-awakened the libertarian spirit in Spain and affected a sea change in American politics. The Occupy movement, as it has become popularly known in English speaking countries, shook the world in 2011.
The crisis is changing politics
Date: Tue, 2012-01-24 16:37
If the recent budget highlighted anything, it was the fact that the working class in Ireland is under severe attack. Services, too numerous to mention here, are being cut or removed entirely, while the real living standards of many of us are being driven down and down. Meanwhile the banker-thieves and investment-gamblers still live the highlife.
Belfast - Fighting The Cuts And The Anarchist Alternative public meeting - Press Release
Date: Tue, 2012-01-24 15:29
‘We need to build a united militant campaign against the cuts being imposed by London and their lackeys at Stormont’(Sean Matthews)
Class struggle anarchist organisation, Workers Solidarity Movement will be organising a public meeting against the cuts and the anarchist alternative at 2pm in the Na Croisbhealaí workers co-operative, 48 King Street, Belfast this Saturday 28th January at 2pm.