Workers Solidarity Movement

Anarchist books by post, a new catalogue for 2007

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

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.

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 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.

Workers Solidarity 94 is now available online including the PDF file of this issue.

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Among our recent activities was the ‘Change Not Chaos’ mini-festival organised by a Derry WSM member. Saturday September 30th saw the Dunlgoe Bar play host to a day of anarchist talks, films and music. 

O Movimento de Solidariedade dos Trabalhadores foi fundado em Dublin, Irlanda, em 1984 como consequencia de uma serie de discussões levantadas por parte de grupos anarquistas locais e com o fim de criar uma organização anarquista nacional. Nessa época, com a injustiça e o desemprego em seu clímax, existiam numerosas razões para o anarquismo e para uma mudança revolucionaria na sociedade irlandesa. E ela não tem mudado.

Dvizenjeto na Rabotnickata Solidarnost bese osnovano vo Dablin, Irska vo 1984, sledstveno na diskusiite na nekolku lokalni anarhisticki grupi okolu potrebata od nacionalna anarhisticka organizacija. Vo toa vreme na porast na nevrabotenosta i neednakvosta, postoeja site pricini za zalaganje za anarhizam i revolucionerna promena vo Irskoto opstestvo. Toa e se uste isto.

Benvenuta la tregua indetta dall'IRA. Negli ultimi 25 anni oltre tremila persone sono rimaste uccise ed oltre 40000 ferite. A migliaia incarcerate o tuttora in prigione. La responsabilita' di queste morti e di tutte queste sofferenze va principalmente imputata allo Stato britannico. Nessun cessafuoco e' stato a tutt'oggi annunciato dallo Stato britannico, ne' dalle forze paramilitari lealiste che hanno ucciso civili cattolici e minato un'ufficio del Sinn Fein dalla cessazione della campagna militare dell'IRA (da quella data, 31 Agosto, si conti anche la bomba sul treno Belfast-Dublino del 12 Settembre posta dagli oltranzisti del Ulster Volunteer Force che ha provocato due feriti, N.d.T.).In tali circostanze il cessafuoco della sola IRA non arrechera' pace, tantomeno giustizia. [...]