Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Wikileaks Cables: Harmless Gossip or Threat to World Stability?
Date: Mon, 2010-12-06 13:17
Wikileaks is currently making headlines daily. Aside from the various revelations, there are also two widely told stories which are suppose to help us put these leaks into context.
The first story is that the leaks are nothing more than gossip. They are stories about Gaddafi's nurse[1] and what the ambassador thinks of David Cameron[2]. Anyone who isn't a tabloid reader or nosey-parker should be disinterested in the content.
Capitalism is the real problem
Date: Mon, 2010-12-06 12:32
This article was first published in the Monday edition of the Andersonstown News a few weeks ago.
The dreaded IMF have now landed on our shores, thanks to the bankers, property developers and their lackeys in power.
Once again, ordinary people will bear the brunt of a new round of vicious cutbacks in jobs, wages and conditions and social services, all, we are told, in the name of the ‘national interest’ .
Colm McCarthy's Fire Sale of Semi-States
Date: Sun, 2010-12-05 23:46
The former chairman of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure (otherwise known as ‘An Bord Snip Nua’), UCD economist Colm McCarthy, is currently heading another cutting group, the Review Group on State Assets, which is looking into the fire-sale of state firms.
State enterprises such as the ESB, An Post, Irish Rail, Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports, (all owned by Dublin Airport Authority) 10 port companies, the VHI, TG4, RTE, Eirgrid, CIE, Bord na Móna, Bus éireann Expressway, Bord Gáis, HRI, RTÉ, utilities (like water and refuse collection, where provided through local authorities), and Coillte are being looked at.
James Connolly - from Anarchy #6
Date: Sun, 2010-12-05 13:11
JAMES CONNOLLY (1868-1916) born in Edinburgh of a Co. Monaghan father, was Commandant-General of the Dublin Division. He was a member of the Military Council and Provisional Government. He founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in Dublin in 1896. In 1903 he emigrated to the U.S.A., but returned after seven years. With Padraic Pearse he led the main Insurgent force from Liberty Hall to the G.P.O. Severely wounded during the fighting, he was taken after the surrender to Dublin Castle. Despite his condition he was executed - sitting on a chair - on May 12th, in Kilmainham Jail.
WikiLeaks and the Politics of Information
Date: Fri, 2010-12-03 17:36
It is an uncommon pleasure to see the world’s politicians scuttling around furiously, much like woodlice uncovered by the lifting of a rock. WikiLeaks are the ones who did the lifting, and have exposed for us the working of US diplomacy; the information, intentions and concerns of the world’s dominant power.
1% Network urges support for Budget Night Protests - Press Release
Date: Fri, 2010-12-03 12:08
“Ordinary people are being sacrificed on the altar of international capitalism. We absolutely must step up the protests against what’s being done to us.” – Gregor Kerr, 1% Network spokesperson
The 1% Network has called on “workers, the unemployed and all who care about any form of democracy or equality” to protest outside the Dáil on Budget night, Tuesday 7th December.
Why students must protest against this budget
Date: Fri, 2010-12-03 02:12
Workers Solidarity Movement and Free Education for Everyone member Donal Ó Fallúin on the need for students to protest this upcoming, savage budget.
Mayday 2004 and why we still need to resist the EU project
Date: Wed, 2010-12-01 23:35
With the European Central Bank in partnership with the IMF taking over the running of Ireland's economic policy and hence social policy for the next few years we thought it timely to revisit the weekend of Mayday 2004 when Dublin saw major protests against the EU summit and the neo-liberal policies that were being adopted. This is not an article about how “right” anarchist were about the EU, but we thought it timely to remind people of the biggest, openly organised weekend of protest against hierarchy, power and capitalism Ireland has so far seen. It includes a 30 minute documentary that shows the highlights of the weekend that we think has not yet been put online.
Students March in Cork to Oppose Coming Budget Cuts and Fees Hike
Date: Wed, 2010-12-01 20:54
Over 1,500 students from Cork’s various colleges took to the streets to protest the fee increases and cuts to the education system anticipated in the upcoming budget. Students gathered at the UCC grounds, and when the marchers from CIT made it to the university grounds the protest moved off and headed to the city centre by an unusual route via Dyke Parade, the north Leeside quays and Patrick St. to the plaza at Grand Parade.
The ICTU march and the call for elections to bring about change
Date: Wed, 2010-12-01 20:15
You have a gathering of nearly a 100,000 people, many of them active trade union members, and we are supposed to phone up one delusional Green party leader and try to get him to do our bidding. We, as workers and trade Union members are supposed to have that power to change things. We can do so by withdrawing our Labour! We do not do it by putting through phone calls like we are voting in the X-Factor and praying that our voice prevails.