Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Occupy - the assembly process is the revolution
Date: Thu, 2011-11-10 17:16
As we prepare to enter the 3rd month of the Occupy movement a commonly heard criticism targets both the lack of clear demands and the related complex and often drawn out decision making processes being used at Occupy General Assemblies. These criticisms however miss the point, against the traditional left with its package of pre-set answers (best before 1917) what makes Occupy different is that process of decision making through assembly. The assembly form is not just a way of making decisions but also a different form of doing politics. The Assembly is in embryo the different world we seek to create.
Prison Officers to walk away with 60 million in north as sectarian legacy continues in prisons
Date: Thu, 2011-11-10 12:10
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The sixty million payoff to prison officers in Northern Ireland could be much better spent on addressing the causes of crime such as poverty, social deprivation and prison rehabilitation. Prison officers who served during the Troubles could walk away from their jobs with packages of more than £120,000 plus pension as part of a £60m redundancy programme aimed at ‘modernising’ the service.
Picket at pro Water Tax Seminar
Date: Tue, 2011-11-08 17:33
Emergency Protest 8:30am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at the International Institute for European Affairs on 8 North Great Georges Street where Phil Hogan will be given a speech at a pro Water Tax seminar entitled the 'Future of Water Management'. Come and spread the word
Solidarity Books in Cork - making a difference
Date: Mon, 2011-11-07 20:48
Early in the morning the crew arrive from the Occupy Cork camp to do their dish washing in the back kitchen of Solidarity Books. At 12 o'clock the days first volunteer arrives to open the bookshop and by lunch time the campers are back for the lunchtime wash up. By evening the bookshop is closed but will invariably re open by 8 for a meeting or organising group, maybe a movie showing or a talk, the Climate Campers doing their vegan cafe or it could be the Couchsurfers for their meet up, maybe the Campaign Against the HouseHold Tax for an organising meeting or just a crew to paste posters onto corriboard.
An introduction to the crisis in Ireland - causes and potential conflicts
Date: Mon, 2011-11-07 15:44
Something entirely unexpected has happened in Ireland - history has gone into reverse. While North Africa, Egypt and the Middle East are struggling to shake of the shackles of neo-colonial dictatorships, Ireland after the Celtic tiger finds itself back in a situation of direct rule. This time not from London, but from the head quarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and the European Commission in Brussels. A state which it now shares with it’s fellow PIGs, Portugal and Greece. For most of the last 60 years we have been told that liberal history went in one direction, from dictatorship and colonial rule to liberal democracy. This picture no longer fits the new status of the PIGs within the European project.
Eyewitness Oakland General Strike - analysis of post N2 controversy in Occupy Oakland
Date: Mon, 2011-11-07 12:19
This eyewitness account of the build to and events of the 'Occupy' Oakland General Strike of Nov 2 describes how momentum developed in the aftermath of the violent eviction of Occupy Oakland, the events of November 2nd itself including the shut down of the port, the attempted occupation of the Traveler's Aid Society building and the black bloc's attack on bank buildings. The author looks at the controversy around these last two actions in the aftermath of November 2nd and warns that "If the Oakland Commune does not continue to accelerate the process of communization, it will fall back into either pure symbolism, or assume the counterrevolutionary form of reformism (two processes already in progress)"
Cork: Colombia - Documentary Screening & Discussion with Javier Orozco, Wed. 9th Nov. 8pm, @solidaritybooks
Date: Sun, 2011-11-06 15:28
This Wednesday November 9th, Solidarity Books will host a screening of 'Colombia: the new wave of social protest and the dirty war against the people'
Start time is 8pm and the film's director, Javier Orozco, Colombian Refugee and Trade Unionist, will attend.
Wed. 9th Nov.
8pm,
Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas St,
Cork
Workers Solidarity 124
Date: Fri, 2011-11-04 16:22
Issue 124 of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity November / December 2011.
Resisting the Household Tax - what to expect
Date: Fri, 2011-11-04 16:20
Across the country, communities have begun to organise to resist the new household tax. The government have introduced this tax, due to be levied from 1st January, at €100 per year in a bid to sneak in what will within a couple of years amount to a bill of up to €1,300 for every household, combining a property and water tax.
Prison Torture Continues in the North
Date: Fri, 2011-11-04 14:48
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The temporary release of terminal ill prisoner Brendan Lillis from Maghaberry prison, following a mass support campaign across Ireland, marked an important first step in the battle for prisoner rights. However the wider policy to punish, brutalise and isolate republican prisoners continues. Regular beatings, brutal strip-searching, denial of legal rights and recreational activities constitutes a callous disregard for the lives of political prisoners.