Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Burton threatens unemployed
Date: Tue, 2011-07-19 11:47
Labour minister Joan Burtons proposed dole are cuts designed to force people into low wage jobs. Wages are under attack in the lowest paid sections of the economy with the active support of the government, as a result people are far less inclined to take up employment in these areas. To resolve this the government wish to compel people to take up these jobs by threatening their social welfare payments. This is the strategy that was developed and enforced by Maggie Thatchers rightwing government in Britain in the eighties.
Social class a key factor behind suicide rate in north
Date: Mon, 2011-07-18 15:15
One of North Belfast’s top psychiatric doctors Dr Maria O’Kane said at least 70% of patients her staff are treating in the Mater Hospital in Belfast for suicide and self harm issues have a history of alcohol misuse.
Release Brendan Lillis Now!
Date: Sun, 2011-07-17 16:38
Brendan Lillis is a prisoner in Maghaberry jail in the North. He is close to death, weighing only 5.5 stone and having an estimated 10 days to live. His partner has pleaded for support as she watches Brendan slowly die. There is a media blackout and he can no longer speak nor move, and is confined to his bed, in a prison cell with no windows.
Northern Ireland's sectarian violence
Date: Sat, 2011-07-16 11:07
Following on from this weeks July 12th rioting across the North and report from a WSM member present during the disturbances in Ardoyne, Guardian presenters Hugh Muir and Peter Sale have produced an excellent podcast reviewing the roots of the latest trouble. The podcast interviews convicted members of 'dissident republican' organisations and examines the socio/economic and political context of the latest sectarian violence. The podcast concludes that the violence remains within the fringes of the working-class, but is dangerous nevertheless.
Special needs anti-education cuts protest marks end of new Govt. honeymoon
Date: Fri, 2011-07-15 14:45
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Hundreds of parents, children, teachers, political representatives and people from communities all over the country gathered outside the Dáil on Wednesday to express their anger and dismay at the government’s plan to cut Special Needs Assistants and Resource teachers. It was possibly the finest day of this patchy summer, and as one father of a young man with Down syndrome put it, we should be at the beach instead of protesting outside the house of elected representatives. He went on to say that his young boy would not be the great young man he is at 17 without the help and dedication of the Special Needs Assistants who’ve worked with him since he started his education.
Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne anti-Orange Order riot
Date: Thu, 2011-07-14 23:41
Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bullets fired leaving many people injured.
Film Night: Closely Watched Trains, Czechoslovakia (1966) 92 mins, directed by Jiří Menzel, Sun July 17th 8pm @SolidarityBooks
Date: Thu, 2011-07-14 20:23
Life is not easy in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for young Miloš, between seductresses and...
Closely Watched Trains,
Czechoslovakia (1966) 92 mins
directed by Jiří Menzel
"one of the pinnacles of the Czech New Wave of the 60s" The Guardian
"earthy humor...wonderfully sly...charming and poignant comprehension of the psychology of sex" N.Y. Times
Sunday July 17th 8 pm at Solidarity Books 43 Douglas Street http://solidaritybooks.org admission free, donations appreciated
Book Launch & Talk, Conor McCabe "Sins of the Father", 8pm, Tuesday 19 July @ solidaritybooks
Date: Thu, 2011-07-14 16:26
On Tuesday July 19th Solidarity Books will host the Cork launch of Conor McCabe's important and topical new book 'Sins of the Fathers' The author will give a talk on the central themes of the book and an open discussion will follow. Start time is 8 o'clock. Hope to see you there.
Conor McCabe is a journalist and writer with the online publications Dublin Opinion and Irish Left Review. His specialities are economics and Irish politics.
WSM twitter live during Ardoyne Orange Order July 12th parade
Date: Mon, 2011-07-11 15:29
It is this time of year again when the spectre of sectarianism and division comes to the fore in the north of Ireland. It is a time when communities, kerbstones and poles are marked and carved into territory. There are those who will be living in fear and silenced from speaking out while the rest of us are told to turn the other check in the interests of peace and stability. It is unfortunate, if perhaps somewhat inevitable, that the now annual battles around the ‘marching season’ fall along religious lines. The Orange parades are being used to test the supposed 'neutrality' of the northern regime and the PSNI in particular. The losing side in this dangerous game however is likely to be the working class, as the confrontations and the sectarian attacks that occur around the Orange marches drive people further into ‘their own’ communities.
Anarchist reports from protests suppressed in Malaysia
Date: Mon, 2011-07-11 10:12
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More than 20,000 people demonstrated for electoral reforms across Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, on Saturday in a rare protest that was declared illegal by police.