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Audio: Class classification and its limitations
Date: Mon, 2009-11-02 12:00
Recording of a WSM branch education that looks at 'what is class' and outlines many of the different classifications that have been used before asking whether this is right approach to the question at all. Followed by a brief discussion of class in relation to Joe Duffy phone ins demanding a public sector pay cut.
November 6th strike & protest details
Date: Thu, 2009-10-29 17:41
Also today the ballot figures from IMPACT were released. Members voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes "if the Government moves to impose a second public service pay cut". The vote was 86% to 14%, with a 69% turnout. This compares to a 65% vote for industrial action – just short of the two-thirds required under IMPACT’s rules – on a 53% turnout in a similar ballot last March.
South African anarchist speaks in Cork
Date: Thu, 2009-10-29 13:48
October 26th the Cork branch of the Worker’s Solidarity Movement hosted a talk by South African anarchist and ZABALAZA Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) member, Jonathan. The ZACF is an organisation of anarchist individuals from South Africa who identify with the communist tradition within Anarchism. The front is organised around the principles of theoretical and tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. Their activities include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and participation within the class struggle.
Dublin: 100 Years of Liberty Hall
Date: Sat, 2009-10-24 00:17
A seminar to mark the centenary of the foundation of the ITGWU
Saturday 31 October
Liberty Hall, Dublin 1
South African Anarchist to speak in Dublin and Cork
Date: Wed, 2009-10-21 12:37
Hear a first hand account of Social Struggles in South Africa since the fall of Apartheid. Hear about the strikes and community revolt, and how normal people are fighting back! With a guest speaker from the Zabalaza ACF.
London: The struggle against Shell in Mayo
Date: Wed, 2009-10-21 12:31
WSM member Andrew Flood will present a talk for Dublin Shell to Sea on the struggle in Erris against Shell.
Greens & FF seek to impose water tax again
Date: Wed, 2009-10-21 11:08
The Greens and Fianna Fáil have agreed a deal whereby a €225 flat tax will be levied on every household, regardless of income. The levy is expected to generate nearly €300 million a year in revenue. For families which are just barely scraping by, a levy of €225 a year is a serious attack.
Dublin: Images of Resistance - Iraq and Beyond - photo exhibition
Date: Mon, 2009-10-19 18:22
This exhibition has been extended until Oct.30th.
UNITE trade union hall
55 Middle Abbey Street
Dublin 1
Monday to Thursday: 11am - 4pm
Fridays: 11am - 3pm
Admission is free
A collaboration of the work of many photographers including serving and former soldiers, the main purposes of this exhibition is to help raise consciousness and awareness in the public of the opposition to wars, the plight of the people in war torn countries, the real reasons behind wars, the effects of war and also to show the situations soldiers find themselves in.
Many of the images come from war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
Dublin: Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Date: Mon, 2009-10-19 17:23
Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Saturday November 7th, 10am – 4pm
Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin
RAG abortion film screening - audio recording & review
Date: Mon, 2009-10-19 10:59
On Saturday evening at Semora Spraoi RAG were screened two abortion rights documentaries, 'The Coat Hanger Project' and 'Abortion Democracy : Poland/South Africa'. The makers of both documentaries were present so the screenings were introduced by them and there was a wide ranging discussion after the films had been show. The audio of the introductions can be listened to below.