Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
After Croke Park: what to do now? - facing reality in our unions
Date: Mon, 2010-06-21 11:47
In mid-June the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee voted to accept the ‘Croke Park deal’. ‘Social partnership’, presumed dead and buried when the government unilaterally imposed pay cuts on public sector workers in the December ’09 budget, was revived and given a new lease of life. But this is ‘social partnership’ with a difference. Instead of the union leadership believing that ‘partnership’ gives them some input into government policy (as they have wrongly thought for the past 20 years), all they can now offer in its defence is that this is the “least worst deal” and that “it’s better to be inside the tent than outside.”
Union opposes mandatory IBEC recognition
Date: Sat, 2010-06-19 00:11
The unions have warned that any attempt to introduce mandatory IBEC (Irish Business and Employers Confederation) recognition would endanger working conditions, pay rates and general government policy.
After the anti-capitalist blocs - fighting their crisis - audio from Anarchist Bookfair
Date: Thu, 2010-06-17 14:13
Recorded at the Dublin anarchist bookfair, three speakers look at the economy, what the real situation of the resistance is and what needs to be built and examples of what has been achieved in the unions to date. This is followed by contributions from the floor from a wide range of perspectives.
A Day at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2010
Date: Thu, 2010-06-17 12:19
Saturday the 29thof May saw the return of the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair to Liberty Hall. It is the 5th Bookfair to be held in the city (organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement),and from what started out as a small event in a community hall in the Liberties is now one of the landmark events in the calendar of the Irish left.
What happened on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - audio of Irish participants relating their experiences
Date: Wed, 2010-06-16 11:25
An IPSC meeting on Saturday saw some of the Irish participants on the Freedom Flotilla talk of their experiences, and discuss what practical steps Irish people can help take to bring about the end of the siege of Gaza and Israeli apartheid as a whole and secure self determination for the people of Palestine. This is the audio from the meeting.
About Us
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 20:52
- Radio Solidarity is show produced by the Workers Solidarity Movement and broadcast on NEARFM in Dublin. The aim of this show is to cover a range of issues and struggles that don’t get covered in the media.
- We do not pretend to be unbiased. We actively engage in politics and struggles to bring about change in society. We hope to cover some of the issues which we think are live at the moment in Irish society. We engage in those struggles and talk to others who are actively attempting to bring about change.
Revolutionary Experiments In Ireland 1917-1923 - Conor Kostick audio
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 16:03
Connor Kostick author of Revolution in Ireland: Popular militancy 1917 to 1923 spoke at the 2010 Dublin anarchist bookfair about the wave of workplace occupations and 'soviets' as well as the general strikes that are forgotten by conventional nationalist histories of this period.
The audio is about one hour in length and was first published on indymedia.ie.
Regressive Taxation
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 12:39
Progressive taxation is a taxation system which seeks a higher tax rate for higher incomes. It is a relatively common feature in the western democracies. In Ireland however, its implementation is almost entirely nominal.
The crisis highlights the bankruptcy of capitalism
Date: Tue, 2010-06-15 12:05
Capitalism as a way of organising our society is bankrupt. It is bankrupt in both a literal and moral sense. Capitalism is at odds with any progressive notion of democracy in the 21st century
Dublin: Protest - Stop the Bailouts. End The Dictatorship The Markets
Date: Mon, 2010-06-14 22:04
Workers Solidarity Movement has called for support for the national protest against the Bank Bailouts and "the dictatorship of the markets" which will take place on Saturday 26th June (1:00p.m. Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street).
We urge everyone who is opposed to the government strategy of making ordinary people pay for the financial crisis to attend this protest and make your voice heard, joining with protests across the EU.