Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Anarchists take direct action against torture / rendition flights at Baldonnel
Date: Wed, 2006-04-19 10:51
Sunday April 16 saw the Irish government mark the 90th anniversary of the Easter 1916 insurrection against British imperialism. Some 120,000 turned out to watch a military parade and a fly past. To coincide with the event anti-war activists, most of them anarchists, were making their way to Baldonnel airbase where the planes and helicopters involved in the fly past took off from. This airbase has been used by USA Hercules military planes and has been involved in CIA torture flights.
The Easter Proclamation
Date: Fri, 2006-04-14 15:57
Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO, Dublin at the start of the Easter Rising, April 24 1916.
Constitution of the Irish Citizen Army
Date: Fri, 2006-04-14 15:47
As agreed at a public meeting, held Liberty Hall 22 March 1914 from a draft prepared by Sean O’Casey.
Intellectual Property in the Age of the Internet
Date: Thu, 2006-04-13 16:04
In this transcript of an educational I gave to the 1st of May branch I attempt to briefly consider how the internet and technology have impacted on intellectual property and what our perspectives on this might be as class struggle anarchists
Report from 2006 Independent Workers Union conference
Date: Thu, 2006-04-13 13:51
An anarchist reports from the conference of the Independent Workers Union held Saturday in Dublin. The IWU broke away from the ATGWU (another general union that admits all workers) in 2002 .
1916, left republicanism, anarchism and class struggle
Date: Thu, 2006-04-13 11:39
This article is an anarchist analysis of the 1916 insurrection and the war of independence in the context of the struggle for socialism in Ireland and internationally. It concentrates on the 'unknown' but intense class struggle that ran alongside the war of independence and the role republicanism played in the suppression of that struggle. It asks 'what is freedom' and shows how anarchism originated amongst earlier European left republicans as an answer to the limitations of republicanism.
Image: O'Connell street after the insurrection
1916 – what are they celebrating?
Date: Thu, 2006-04-13 11:09
There is something very odd with the official commemoration of 1916. The same government which is celebrating an insurrection against imperialism 90 years ago is today – against the wishes of the majority of the Irish people – allowing Irish airports to be used in support of an imperialist war. And whereas the 1916 proclamation referred to “the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland” successive southern governments have shown themselves to be on the side of international corporations. Most recently this has shown itself in the manner in which the Corrib gas fields of Co’ Mayo were handed over to the Shell corporation.
Dublin May Day march
Date: Wed, 2006-04-12 16:00
Celebrate May Day
Saturday April 29th
Assemble 2.30pm at Parnell Square.
March with the WSM
Rossport Solidarity Camp Reopens 2006
Date: Mon, 2006-04-10 15:01
Rosssport Solidarity Camp is re-opening at the moment, in preparation for any attempt by Shell to recommence work, something that they couldn’t do over winter, due to the fatal combination of rain and bog.
The Love Ulster Riot In Dublin
Date: Mon, 2006-04-10 14:58
A small band of fringe nationalists decided to stop the Love Ulster parade. There is no question but that crowd of loyalists are sectarian bigots. During a protest against the release of republican prisoners as part of the Good Friday agreement, their leader, Willie Frazer, was asked about loyalist murder gang prisoners “They should never have been locked up in the first place,” he replied.