Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
As we enter recession the system still works for the rich
Date: Tue, 2008-09-09 21:56
Unemployment has risen by a third in the last year and everyone agrees that worse times are ahead. Worries about losing jobs and not being able to pay the mortgage are growing. Whose fault is it? Is it the politicians administering the economy, or is it the capitalist economy itself?
Why can’t all the socialists get together?
Date: Tue, 2008-09-09 21:47
The Irish Socialist Network is talking to a half dozen other groups about unity. The Socialist Workers Party, always in a hurry, simply wants everyone else to join their People Before Profit creation. Every few years we see the same game played, “why won’t the Judean Peoples Front join the Judean Popular Front?”
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
Date: Mon, 2008-09-08 10:52
The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective is delighted to announce the date and location for 2008:
St Werburghs Centre, Horley Rd, Bristol BS2 9TJ
Saturday 13 September, from 10am to 5pm
All welcome - free entry
TV Review: The Wire
Date: Sun, 2008-09-07 19:53
Raked over in newspapers since the fifth and final series made its way on to TnaG, it's hard to write anything new about the Wire. It's a portrait of America through Baltimore and the cop show vehicle; of failing school systems and crumbling communities, where drugs gangs and cops act in similar flurries of selfish brutality.
Hamas, the left and ‘liberation’ in Palestine
Date: Sun, 2008-09-07 19:40
Hamas' recent "clampdown" on Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade in Gaza, rather then its ongoing brutal repression against leftist dissent, including that of feminist voices, dominated Western coverage of life in the occupied territories.
Court upholds Gordon McNeill’s right to protest
Date: Sun, 2008-09-07 14:03
Unite leaders forced to back down from their attempt to imprison him.
Unite leaders’ attempt to cripple Gordon with legal costs thrown out by the court
“I will now be returning to my lawful protest outside Transport House” Gordon McNeill
The case brought by the Unite leadership against sacked airport shop steward, Gordon McNeill, was heard in the Belfast High Court this morning. Unite were attempting to have Gordon imprisoned for breaking an injunction barring him from protesting at Transport House.
Amadeu wins demands, hungerstrike ends - campaign continues
Date: Sun, 2008-09-07 13:50
After a hungerstrike which lasted 76 days, the Anarchist prisoner Amadeu Casellas won his demands for the privileges he had been denied, supervised freedom under the 3rdº degree, which iwill allow him two 48 hour passes followed by work outside of prison only to return to sleep.
Belfast anarchists picket in solidarity with anarchist hunger striker
Date: Thu, 2008-09-04 17:53
Members from the Belfast branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement in conjunction with Anarchist Black Cross will be holding a picket to highlight the case of political prisoner Amadeu Casellas outside Belfast City Hall this Monday 8th September at 5.30.
'Rapid Response' call as Shell to Sea Prepare for 'Day X' in Mayo
Date: Thu, 2008-09-04 10:18
Preparation is under way to resist unwelcome and destructive activities by Shell and Allseas Ltd