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WSM members report from RIR homecoming protests
Date: Mon, 2008-11-10 16:09
The Workers Solidarity Movement held a public demonstration in Belfast in opposition to the Ministry of Defence's decision to hold a march celebrating the occupation and continued atrocities in Afganistan. Here we present two individual reports from members who took part in the protest.
Report on the Fall 2008 National Conference of the WSM
Date: Sun, 2008-11-09 13:27
Report of the National Secretary for the Fall 2008 Conference held at the Teachers Club in Dublin on the 25th and 26 of October.
The Spirit of 1968 - Lessons from the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement
Date: Thu, 2008-11-06 15:37
AS we continue to bear the brunt of the recession and our politicians stabilise the interests of the rich and fat cats, the 1960s provides us with an example in the necessity for struggle and social revolution. Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party, pillars of the establishment continue to squabble over the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement they all share one thing in common when it comes to defending the status-quo and attacks on workers rights and conditions.
Belfast: Picket Subway in support of Sacked Young Pregnant Migrant Worker
Date: Thu, 2008-11-06 11:43
You can make a difference.
Join the Protest
Subway
141 Lisburn Road,
(Across from Wellington Park Avenue)
Belfast
12.30 – 1.30 pm Friday 7th November
Grassroots Gathering in Cork
Date: Thu, 2008-11-06 10:49
The next Grass Roots Gathering will take place in Cork on the weekend of the 14th, 15th and 16th of November.
This Gathering will have the twin themes of Inclusion and Community Building - Surviving the ' Recession'.
Workshops, activities and events being planned so far include : The present legal situation for LGBT people, Travellers and settled people working together, Telling stories, sharing experience looking at exclusion, Housing cooperatives, food security, tackling racism in times of unemployment, reproductive rights, women's right to choose, conflict resolution, social centres: recent experience, L.E.T.S. and reclaiming our natural resources.
UCD meeting on the Commercialisation of Education 6/11/08
Date: Wed, 2008-11-05 16:38
To mark the International Day of Action Against the Commercialisation of Education , Free Education for Everyone (FEE) will be hosting a public meeting and discussion on Thursday, 6th November at 5pm in UCD, room F101.
Cabaret Fundraiser for Queer Equality group
Date: Tue, 2008-11-04 19:01
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Subject: DRAGNET RETURNS!! Dragnet Two Fri. 7th Nov. 8pm @ The Sugar Club
Hey Noisy People!
DRAGNET is returning to the Sugar Club on Leeson Street this Friday 7th November with a new exposition of the GLORIOUS ART of CABARET! See our up-coming event page for photos from the previous Dragnet and a snazzy trailor for this Dragnet!
All your favourites from Dragnet One will be back - Miss Bunny, Sid Viscous, Julian Mandrews and more; plus a host of Dragnet newbies such as Bertha Defect and Juicy Dangler will be taking to the stage for your entertainment - and for a good cause.
Lurgan anti-fascist honoured
Date: Tue, 2008-11-04 17:58
Craigavon & District Council of Trade Unions present the inaugural
JIM HAUGHEY MEMORIAL LECTURE
The historical development of the global financial order under US hegemony
Date: Tue, 2008-11-04 17:00
In 'Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction', Paul Bowman examined the derivatives market and promised that the succeeding article would cover the 'story of the historical development of successive regimes of global financial orders' and would explain the role of the Eurodollars market 'in undermining the Keynesian Bretton Woods system'.
However, in the interests of space and relevance, I will only tell the story of the historical development of the regime of global financial order under US hegemony. I will begin by examining how the centre of capital accumulation shifted from Europe to the US in the first half of the twentieth century, and how following World War II the global financial order became centred around the US through the Bretton Woods system.
I will then look at how the Bretton Woods System was undermined, concentrating as much on the role of workers’ militancy as on the role of the Eurodollars market. After considering the response to the crisis of Bretton Woods, I'll look at the Clinton boom bringing us up to the current situation of the US’s current heavy dependence on foreign borrowing.
Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
Date: Tue, 2008-11-04 17:00
Written months before the banking crash of the Autumn of 2008 this is the first part of a series of articles investigating the capitalist financial markets from a critical perspective. It explains in some detail what the various financial instruments are that were to be blamed for the crash and what implication they have for class struggle. (Image: Just around the corner)