Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Travellers targetted by Limerick County Council
Date: Mon, 2010-12-20 17:33
Limerick County Council has revived an old bylaw to enable it to seize caravans and cars belonging to Travellers. The move comes as hundreds of members of the families of Travellers who call Rathkeale home arrive for the Christmas break. This is an annual event that has been going on for years. Due to the lack of facilities families often end up camping on the roadside. This unavoibably causes tension with other local residents and road users. The county council has never made any serious effort to address the shortage of short term halting facilities in Rathkeale over the Christmas despite having fore knowledge of the problem.
Tragedy strikes Western Australia
Date: Mon, 2010-12-20 13:41
The tragic deaths of at least 30 ‘asylum seekers’ at Christmas island of the coast in Western Australian is an indictment on an entire criminal system that condemns humanity to misery and enslavement in the interests of capital and statism.
Global Political Repercussions of the capitalist crisis
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 15:20
As soon as the scale of the crisis became clear, all rhetoric about free-markets and competition vanished. Bankers, capitalists and right wing politicians were all suddenly huge believers in the role of the state and the importance of regulation.
The development of the capitalist crisis 2008 to 2009
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 15:19
The first 18 months of the crash from the Credit Crunch to the spread to the 'real economy.
The neoliberal origins of the global capitalist crisis
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 15:17
The neoliberal model that global capitalism has depended upon for its growth over the last three decades has collapsed in spectacular fashion. The collapse has been remarkable for the astonishing speed with which it has spread all over the world and into every corner of the global economy.
Red & Black Revolution 15
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 14:06
This is the Spring 2009 issue of Ireland's anarchist magazine Red Black Revolution, issue 15. You can read the articles online or download the PDF file.
Derry: POSTPONED Anarchism, the rich and the struggle against the cuts down south
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 12:13
DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED TILL THE NEW YEAR
The population of the south have just been subjected to the toughest austerity budget that western Europe has seen in 30 years. Yet the tax hikes that targeted the low paid and those on average income actually saw the richest 1% gain! Someone earning only 15,000 euro could be paying nearly 6% more tax but someone whose income is a million will be paying 6% less tax.
Doctors For Choice welcomes ABC judgement
Date: Thu, 2010-12-16 13:00
Doctors For Choice welcomes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in favour of one of the three women applicants in the ABC case and demands that the government now legislate on abortion provision as a matter of urgency. Much time wasting and obstruction has taken place while womens health has been, and continues to be compromised by the lack of abortion provision in Ireland. This ruling confirms what Irish doctors have known for many years; that Irish women are being denied reproductive justice in their own country. The three cases were representative of a broad spectrum of women who are forced to travel abroad to access abortion.
Hugely welcome - Doctor Mary Favier on the ABC judgements implication for the pro-choice movement
Date: Thu, 2010-12-16 12:53
Dr Mary Favier, a Cork GP and a founder member of Doctors for Choice, says the ABC case decision is a hugely welcome, important and significant decision. That will make a fundamental difference and force the government to legislate for the X Case. She then explains the background to the ABC v Ireland case currently before the European Court of Human Rights. She explains why the outcome of the case (and the issues it raises) are central to the predicament currently faced my thousands of Irish women every year in Ireland. Pointing out the Irish Government has fought the three women (A, B and C) along every step of their long and arduous route to the European Court, she also addresses the issue of the silence of within the Irish medical profession in relation to the matter of abortion. Over 5000 Irish women leave Ireland each year to have abortions in European countries.
European court hearing on lack of access to abortion in Ireland says government has violated rights, failed to legislate for the X-case
Date: Thu, 2010-12-16 11:52
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled on the ABC case finding in favor of one of the three women who brought the cases and has said that the government has failed to legislate for abortion under the X case. The court found that the government had violated the rights of the woman who had a rare form of cancer and who had to travel to Britain for an abortion. This puts pressure on the government to legislate for abortion under the conditions of the 1992 “X” case. In the aftermath of massive street protests against the de facto internment of a 14 year old rape victim ('X') to prevent her traveling to Britain for an abortion the Supreme Court was forced to allow X to travel and ruled that terminating a pregnancy is lawful where the life of a mother is at risk.