Workers Solidarity Movement

Toda nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo de Oaxaca en su lucha en contra del corrupto Estado federal

Una mirada libertaria sobre la gran lucha del pueblo costarricense en contra del TLC.

In 1922 klaagde Emma Goldman dat "Sovjet Rusland het moderne socialistische Lourdes was geworden, waar de blinde en de kreupele, de dove en de stomme samen kwamen voor wonderbaarlijke genezingen."(1) De Russische Revolutie was de eerste gelegenheid waar de revolutionaire ideeën konden worden toegepast in het dagelijkse leven. Wat eerst theorie was, was nu praktijk. De strijd tussen de twee opvattingen der revolutie - de staatscentralisten en de libertarian federalisten - gingen van het abstracte naar het concrete rijk.

Marwa is a ten year old refugee from the village of Marwaheen in the south of Lebanon. Following an Israeli ultimatum Marwa’s family decided to flee. While driving away from the village the Israeli military fired on the pick up truck they were travelling in. Marwa recalls “The wind carried me far away, I woke up on the nearby rocks. Next to me, Mama and Mirna were sleeping. I went to them to wake them up but the plane saw me and came towards me so I ran away. My brother Wissam was hit in his leg and he could not reach me, he was hiding behind a rock and when the ambulance came he was waving to them to stop. Mirna was sleeping the whole time”. Marwa was sent to hospital for treatment for her burns and wounds. Her sister Mirna, 12, her brother Hadi, 5, and her mother Zahra, 51, were all killed (1)

At this point in time it is a rare and welcome event when a book by an Irish activist is published and rarer still when a book by an Irish anti-capitalist writer receives widespread praise and acclaim. Clandestines: the Pirate journals of an Irish Exile, which has received a slew of positive reviews following it?s publication in the US by AK Press, is just such a rarity, and as it is being launched in Ireland this week means readers here will soon be able to make their own appraisal of the book.

Today a social revolution that took place seventy years ago is remembered by libertarian socialists as an example of how our ideas can work. The Spanish revolution came closer to realising the possibilities of a free stateless society on a huge scale than any other revolution in history. (Image: Anarchist Milita woman during the revolution) 

Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity for September October 2006

The articles in this issue are below or you can download a PDF file of WS93

A New World In Our Hearts
Spinning Democracy
Review: The Gama Strike DVD
A Bigger Slice For Dominos Workers
Slaves May Not Leave Their Masters
Thats Capitalism! 
Anarchism And The WSM
Thinking About Anarchism: Anti-Imperalism
The Importance of Spain
WSM Supports Direct Action Against RAYETHON
Jury Frees Anti-War Sabateurs
The New Middle East
Tough at the top

Imperialism, in its most basic form involves wealthy and powerful governments using their military power to invade poorer parts of the world in order to impose their control upon them. There isn’t the space to go into all aspects of imperialism here, so I’m concentrating on the military form.

Slaving your life away just so you can make ends meet; having no say in the major decisions that affect your life; criminal politicians and businessmen plundering the country. Try to do something about it and they’ll lock you up. Yes, thats capitalism!

The number of soldiers absconding from the British Army has trebled since the invasion of Iraq. The high profile case of RAF officer Malcolm Kendall-Smith, who has been jailed for refusing to return to Iraq to fight what he regarded as an illegal war, is an indication of the discontent within the armed forces.