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A Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism (1867-1973)
Date: Thu, 2011-09-08 16:18
A Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism (1867-1973)
by Máirtín Ó Catháin
Contents
Introduction
Anarchism in an Irish and Ulster Context
The Nineteenth Century
The Early Twentieth Century
The Later Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Bibliography
National Organising Meeting of the Anti Household & Water Tax Campaign
Date: Thu, 2011-09-08 10:18
The €100 household charge annouced by the government comes into effect on 1st January 2012. It will be the first step in the governments plans to implement a fully fledged property and water tax by 2014 that could be around €1,200 according to one government economic advisor.
Back to school for the Eurozone as the Greek deal collapses
Date: Wed, 2011-09-07 21:32
Here we are at the end of the Summer and it’s time for the politicians and bureaucrats of the Eurozone to come back to the office and take a look at what’s lurking in their in-trays. By the same token, it’s also time for all of us interested in fighting back against a Europe of Austerity, to take stock of the lie of the land.
Galway sees Day of action against Fine Gael think-in
Date: Wed, 2011-09-07 21:15
The Fine Gael party was confronted with angry scenes at not one but two different blockades during a meeting of the parliamentary party in Galway city yesterday. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his cabinet were attending their pre-budget think-in at the luxury Radisson hotel when some 30 students from the NUIG Free Education for Everyone (FEE) group and the Students’ Union blockaded the entrance in protest at the government’s policy of education cuts, registration fee increases and the ever-looming prospect of full fees. They were joined by two dozen members of the Save Roscommon Hospital Alliance who were equally intent on showing the Fine Gael party what they think of their callous indifference to the welfare of the working class.
The Two Octobers (1927) by Piotr Archinov
Date: Wed, 2011-09-07 11:09
The victorious revolution of the workers and peasants in 1917 was legally established in the Bolshevik calendar as the October Revolution. There is sane truth in this, but it is not entirely exact. In October 1917 the workers and peasants of Russia surmounted a colossal obstacle to the development of their Revolution. They abolished the nominal power of the capitalist class, but even before that they achieved something of equal revolutionary importance and perhaps even more fundamental.
Film Night: “Listen to Venezuela” Thursday 8th Sept, 8 pm at Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2011-09-07 06:38
The film “Listen To Venezuela" has been described as,
"... taking the viewer into a contemporary revolution and extraordinary experiment in radical democracy and social justice. In Venezuela, ordinary people have rejected the savage neo-liberal capitalism that has been imposed the world over. In the west, democracy has been drained of any substantive connection with popular power and accountability over the powerful.
Loughlinstown 24-hour A&E due to reduce hours on 1st Novemeber
Date: Tue, 2011-09-06 20:52
This is a version of the text of a leaflet distributed by the Save Loughlinstown A&E Campaign.
For a longer analysis of the health system from the WSM please see our pamhlet "Towards a Cure" :
St.Collumcilles 24-hour A&E in Loughlinstown due to close on 1st of November:
Don't let it happen!
Nelson McCausland 'one strike and your out’ policy for anyone accused of ‘benefit fraud’
Date: Fri, 2011-09-02 09:53
Northern Ireland social security minister Nelson McCausland has announced further plans to reform the welfare benefits system including imposing a ‘one strike and your out’ policy for anyone accused of ‘benefit fraud’. The new penalty will cut a claimant's benefit, or stop it entirely, for four weeks following a first fraud offence. This is part of a continuing assault on welfare claimants rights and conditions such as the ‘steps to work programmes’ where we are forced to work for slave wages in token programmes which offer little employment at the end of it.
Noam Chomsky on student protest and why students should be anarchists
Date: Tue, 2011-08-30 15:14
In this interview with Noam Chomsky he reflects on the progress the left has made in the last 50 years particularly on university campuses. He reaffirms his self-identification as an anarchist and calls on students in general to "challenge authorities and join a long anarchist tradition." He was being interviewed by the German language publication ZEIT Campus.
Leprechaun Leader and his goverment of the little people
Date: Thu, 2011-08-25 09:11
Recently an American friend was over buying tatty gifts for the folks back home. She asked me how did the Leprechaun look come about. Who decided that they were all going to be short arsed red haired people? It was a good question. "Does anyone look like that anyway?" she said. Immediately our present prime minister sprang to mind.