William Thompson (1775 - 1833) - Introduction to the writings of William Thompson

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William Thompson was one of the of the first people to critically engage with political economy and attempt to turn it around to defend the improvement of the condition of the working class and rural poor. He was from a Anglo- Irish landowning family from West Cork and was to become a leading figure in the early Co-operative movement.

The WSM mail order bookservice

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As it can be hard to get hold of good anarchist books in Irish bookshops the WSM used to run a mail order anarchist bookservice and provide anarchist bookstalls for events.

PLEASE NOTE: AS OF 2012 WE ARE NO LONGER DOING A MAIL ORDER BOOKSERVICE 

You check out the latest catalogue and announcements from the bookservice below. Please note that we only deliver books within Ireland. This is not an international service. If you're outside Ireland try AK Press or Active Distribution.

Artykuly WSM w Jezyku Polskim

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Archiwum artykulow opublikowanych przez WSM przetlumaczonych na jezyk polski. (An archive of articles published by the WSM that have been translated into Polish).

Tesco eksploatuje cudzoziemców

Article index for WSM article published before 2006

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Up until 2006 all WSM articles published after 1990 were hosted as part of the Struggle collection on another server.  We hope to eventually move all the articles stored there to this site but in the meantime these subject indices take you to the pages still stored on that site.

All the issues of Workers Solidarity Ireland's anarchist newspaper

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This is an index linking to every issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity for which there are articles on online (currently back to 1991)

2009 - http://www.wsm.ie/story/5083

2008 - http://www.wsm.ie/story/3444

2007 - http://www.wsm.ie/story/2304

Issues of irish anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution

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Links to all the issues of Red and Black Revolution from No1 published in 1994 onwards. Includes links to PDF files of each issue.

Back issues of Red and Black Revolution

Red & Black Revolution 15 - Spring 2009 - [PDF file]
Capitalist crisis - Women of the IWW - Feminism in the Muslim world - Imperial Finance - Practical Organising - Global Game

Rethinking revolution discussions in Dublin

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Rethinking revolution is a series of discussions about the core ideas those of us who want revolutionary change think we have in common and so too often neglect to discuss. The discussions will be kicked off by an opinionated presentation of one or more approaches on these questions with the purpose of drawing all present into a discussion that we hope will continue long after the meeting. The talks are organised by the Outreach group of the WSM and inspired by those arguments we keep having in the kitchen at parties.



Shell ignores the law but gets campaigners jailed

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Shell to Sea Campaigners outside court

This week as it was revealed in the Irish Times that 20 months after entering into a legal agreement with local fishermen Shell has still not submitted an application as required to the Environmental Protection Agency to review the emissions licence for the experimental gas pipeline it is imposing on the people of Erris. Yet this week 27 Shell to Sea campaigners are being prosecuted on behalf of Shell in the local courts and today one of them received three five month sentences.
Pic: Many of the 27 at a previous court appearance, in the front row Niall is far right, Pat is in the middle and Maura is on the far left

NAMA Board Gets a Pay Increase

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It was announced today that the NAMA board members received a huge pay hike with the board's chair receiving a 70% pay increase. This is in stark contract to the two successive wage cuts of between 14% - 18% of income for all public sector workers.We've consistently heard the idea that we "all need to pull together" to get out of this recession, and that painful cuts are necessary. This however has shown itself to be little more than a slogan.