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Protest at Israeli Embassy
Date: Mon, 2007-01-15 22:27
From: Justin Morahan ( mailto:justinmorahan@ eircom.net )
James Connolly - A life and a legacy
Date: Sun, 2007-01-14 13:24
Revolutionary martyrs, being unable to speak for themselves, are liable to be claimed by all sorts of organisations with whom in real life they would have had little in common. When they are of national or international importance, like the Irish syndicalist James Connolly, this also mean that biographies often tend to be very partisan affairs, aimed at recruiting the dead to one cause or another. The story of their life becomes reduced to a morality tale whose conclusion is whatever positions the author holds dear today.
Red and Black Revolution 11 - October 2006
Date: Fri, 2007-01-12 12:07
Red and Black Revolution issue 11 published October 2006
Contents include
Focus on Precarity
Anarchism, insurrections and insurrectionalism,
The insurrection of Easter 1916,
Review: Caliban and the Witch - women, the body and primitive accumulation
As well as reading the articles below you can download the PDF file of RBR11
Caoimhe Butterly to Speak in Dublin on Lebanon
Date: Thu, 2007-01-11 13:45
Caoimhe Butterly, who has spent the past five months in Lebanon and who experienced the results of Israel's onslaught last year, will be back in Ireland briefly at the end of January.
During her visit, she will speak on her experiences in Lebanon (in both Beirut and the South) and will be highlighting projects that she is currently involved with (including a film project about life in the wake of the Israeli bombardment and invasion).
Focus on precarity - Change To Win (USA)
Date: Mon, 2007-01-08 15:56
Last September saw a split in the USA’s Congress of Trade Unions, the AFL-CIO. The Change to Win Federation held its founding convention in St. Louis, Missouri, where they set out their plans: cut down on bureaucracy, devote a lot more resources to organising the unorganised, and start building industry-wide super-unions.
Organising with the T&G, and beyond?
Date: Mon, 2007-01-08 15:52
In the UK union membership has been in steady decline for the past 25 years, not least due to how people are being employed - casualised labour, increased imposition of agency work, temporary, short term contracts & contracts of ‘self-employment’, along with the general lack of confidence in unions after years of complacency, compromises and defeats.
Focus on precarity - Ireland
Date: Mon, 2007-01-08 15:49
Over the past year there has been an emerging preoccupation among anarchists and socialists with precarity as it’s an expression of a new work discipline imposed by neo-liberalism. Already there have been several precarity forums in European cities aimed at etching out a sense of the identities formed through the shared experience of the demands of job market flexibility.
Independent Workers Union
Date: Mon, 2007-01-08 15:27
The Independent Workers Union (IWU) is a new small Irish trade union which stands outside the partnership consensus and is attempting to build a radical trade union.
The insurrection of Easter 1916
Date: Mon, 2007-01-08 15:06
The Easter 1916 rising in Dublin is often portrayed simply as nationalist blood sacrifice but it can also be examined as an insurrection which was seriously planned to defeat the British army. It is credited with transforming political attitudes in Ireland, leading to the partally successful war of independance but nationalist histories tend to understate the other reasons why the situation was transformed and to completely ignore the wave of workers struggles that broke out during the war.
The rising in Oaxaca (Mexico)
Date: Sun, 2007-01-07 18:28
The Dublin Zapatista Action Group is holding a meeting in the Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 at 7pm