Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Dub: Syria - Revolution, Civil war & the Arab Spring meeting
Date: Wed, 2013-10-02 16:25
Farah Azadi who lived in Damascus, Syria from December 2005 until war broke out in Lebanon in the summer of 2006 will lead off a discussion on Syria, next Wednesday evening 9 October in Seomra Spraoi at 20.30.
Dublin: 'Protect Primary Education' Protest
Date: Thu, 2013-09-26 16:11
Protect Primary Education
No more cuts to Primary Education in this year's budget
No increase in class size
Protest by parents, children and teachers
Department of Education & Skills, Marlborough St., Dublin 1
4:30pm
Wednesday 2nd October
Organised by Irish National Teachers Organisation
2013 Belfast Anarchist Bookfair
Date: Thu, 2013-09-19 17:45
Join us at the 6th Annual Belfast Anarchist Bookfair with talks such as Social Housing - Co-operative Alternatives, Transitory Economics, Anarchists and the Abortion Struggle in Ireland. Stalls include Abortion Rights Campaign, Anarchist Studies, Anti-Fascist Action and a WSM Stall.
Date: Saturday, 5th October 2013
Time: 12-5pm
Venue: Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FG
March for Choice 2013
Date: Thu, 2013-09-19 17:35
Join the Abortion Rights Campaign on September 28th at 2 pm at the Garden of Remembrance to March for Choice along with millions of people across the world who will participate in the Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion!
Date: Saturday, 28 September 2013
Venue: Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
Time: 2pm
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/329860480483574/
German elections to open new season of Eurocrisis show
Date: Thu, 2013-09-19 12:00
Like the fading sun of the Summer, there is now little time left to enjoy the last days of Eurostasis we have been enveloped in of late. The relative calm that descended on the Eurocrisis, with the brief exception of the Cyrpus panic in March, is coming to an end with the German elections this coming Sunday.Greek Neo-nazis murder anti-fascist hip-hop artist
Date: Wed, 2013-09-18 15:09
Last night, just after midnight a cowardly attack by over 15 members of Golden Dawn resulted in the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist, left militant and hip-hop artist also known by his rap name Killah P.
Athens which is already in the grip of a public sector general strike, is in turmoil with Greek anti-fascists vowing vengence. Despite the murderer, reportedly a member of Golden Dawn, being arrested at the scene, knife in hand, the Greek neo-nazi party denied any involvement in what was clearly a pre-meditated ambush by a paramilitary uniformed mob.
Lessons from the Mass Student strike in Quebec - Ireland tour September 2013
Date: Thu, 2013-09-12 11:26
In 2012 the attempt by the government to Quebec to introduce a 75% fee hike was defeated by the organisation of a mass student strike that lasted over 6 months. That fee increase was part of the global process of imposing the privatisation and commodification of education. Since the victory, organisers of the strike have been being doing speaking tours to aid the process whereby "youth and students everywhere are becoming increasingly conscious of the need to organize as a means to defend education as a social right". In September this tour reaches Ireland where we need to hear how a sustained and militant student movement that can win is built.
[PDF of leaflet about the tour to download and distribute]
Sample audio from the tour (actually from our launch dinner & discussion on feminist organising in the strike)
Quebec Strudent Mass Strike 2012 - sampler from tour around Ireland with Vanessa by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud
Syrian anarchist on imperialist interventions and the Syrian Revolution
Date: Wed, 2013-08-28 10:49
The Syrian revolution is a revolution that began as a struggle for self-determination. The Syrian people demanded to determine their own destiny. And, for more than two years, against all odds, and in the face of massive repression and destruction from the Assad regime, they persevered. In the course of the revolutionary process, many other actors have also appeared on the scene to work against the struggle for self-determination. Iran and its militias, with the backing of Russia, came to the aid of the regime, to ensure the Syrian people would not be given this right. The jihadis of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham and others, under the guise of “fighting the Assad regime,” worked against this right as well. And I feel the same way about any Western intervention.
Internment, parading and the politics of class
Date: Fri, 2013-08-23 10:13
The eruption of conflict and intense rioting in Belfast over the last couple of months is a clear illustration that, no matter what lengths Stormont and the media circus go to to disguise the ugly reality of the ‘peace process’, the scars of the past and frequent eruption of sectarian conflict refuse to go away as political parties play the sectarian card to get one over on their rivals.
With over 300 police officers apparently injured so far this year, the honeymoon period following a 'successful' G8 conference has long passed - lifting the veil from a colonial sectarian settlement that has delivered a few crumbs to our class while the rich get richer. While at the same time our rulers in Stormont are busy stuffing themselves with £250,000 subsidised food expenses in 2012.
Building an effective anarchist movement in Australia
Date: Tue, 2013-08-20 16:55
This post- Melbourne Anarchist bookfair conversation took place in the Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC) which has a history stretching back to the 1890s. While visiting the premises which contains a library, meeting space and infoshop I caught up with Brendan and Ben two active members of the collective and Kieran from Anarchist Affinity which is seeking to build a similar organisation to the WSM, based on theoretical and tactical unity and collective responsibility.
Topics discussed included the history of MAC, opinions on the third Melbourne bookfair, struggles engaged in by anarchists, and the potential for building a viable anarchist movement in Australia. Other areas discussed included Australia's treatment towards refugees, it's history built on the genocide and dispossession of its indigenous people and ongoing land struggles.