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So much for Solidarity - ICTU and sex workers
Date: Thu, 2014-04-10 08:02
In 2012 The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) made a submission to the Irish government’s public consultation on the prostitution laws. Most of it was just a cut-and-paste job of text sent to them by the Turn Off The Red Light campaign, which seeks the introduction of the Swedish model. But there is one part of ICTU’s original contribution which I found remarkable. A few paragraphs down the submission cites – clearly for the purpose of endorsing – the view of the Technical, Electrical & Engineering Union‘s General Secretary that “prostitution could not be considered work”.
Irish Anarchist Review 9
Date: Wed, 2014-04-09 10:55
Welcome to Issue nine of the Irish Anarchist Review, published for the 2014 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair.
EDITORIAL:
We've been hearing scare stories about the damage being done to the environment by co2 emissions for decades now. Terms like “climate change”, “greenhouse effect”, “the ozone layer” (more importantly, the holes in the ozone layer) and “global warming”, are part of everyday language. We know that the polar ice caps are melting, causing sea levels to rise and we know that the weather is doing crazy things in parts of the world that are usually temperate. And, we know that all this is being caused by the stuff we produce and how we produce it. What has our response been?
By and large, we've done nothing. In fact we've done the opposite. We've continued to create stuff. More and more stuff. We produce enough food to feed the world at least twice over and a third of it is wasted. We produce gadgets we don't really need, war machines to subjugate people, we plan obsolescence so that we have to keep producing things to replace other things so that the wheels of the global economy keep turning and profit keeps accumulating. Billions of humans, across the planet, spend a large chunk of every day, doing things they'd prefer not to to produce things they don't need in a process that is making the planet unfit for their habitation.
Fracking Hell - how it is coming to Ireland & the development of resistance
Date: Wed, 2014-04-09 10:53
On the 26th of March 2010, the Fianna Fail / Green governing coalition announced that they were inviting applications for ‘Onshore Licensing Options over the Northwest Carboniferous Basin and the Clare Basin.’ The senior minister in the department at the time was Green Party TD, Eamon Ryan. Conor Lenihan (Fianna Fail) was the department’s junior minister.
On the day this invitation to the oil and gas industry was announced Conor Lenihan stated that “over recent months there has been renewed interest in targeting the natural gas resource potential of the two basins, which had been identified in earlier exploration. Finding and producing our indigenous natural gas resources is critical to enhancing Ireland’s security of energy supply and reducing our reliance on imported fuels”.
Legal action threatens future of trade unions - political protest response needed
Date: Fri, 2014-03-28 01:11
Events in the High Court over the course of a week in the middle of March, and the lack of any real response to them, should be of huge concern to all trade unionists here. Effectively a declaration of war against trade unions and trade union organisers has been made – and the response from the trade union side has been somewhat less than overwhelming.
On Wednesday 12th March High Court judge Paul Gilligan issued an injunction to the Dublin Airport Authority restraining SIPTU members from holding a 4-hour stoppage which had been planned for Friday morning (14th March). The stoppage was planned as part of a campaign by workers in Aer Lingus and the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to force their employers to deal with a huge deficit in their pension scheme. 80% of SIPTU members in Aer Lingus and 89% of members in the DAA had voted for strike action – a vote that was described by SIPTU as a demonstration that staff are“…angry, disillusioned and frustrated that an acceptable resolution has not been found to the pensions crisis.”
Report on WSM National Conference - Autumn 2013
Date: Tue, 2013-12-17 19:01
The WSM had its Autumn national conference in Dublin on the 23rd November. National Conference is the ultimate decision making body in the WSM. It happens every six months usually over a day or two. As well as discussing motions time is also spent on discussing the past six months activity and prospects for the next period. Conference also hears reports of activity from all branches, officers and working groups. This covered areas like the Irish Anarchist Review, WSM Website, Dublin Anarchist Bookfair and our pro-choice and anti racist work.
On Ireland being No1 for business. Tech workers, society, night clubs & cycle lanes
Date: Mon, 2013-12-09 17:11
Mainstream media were very excited earlier this week with Forbe's proclaiming the republics "extremely pro-business environment" with of course no critical commentary over what that reality means for the mass of the population who rely on paid labour or social welfare to get by. What lies behind phrases like " low tax burden, investor protection"? Why has there been more investment by US companies since 2008 ( $129.5 billion ) then in the previous 58 years? Should we really be cheering being No1 for attracting corporations?
Irish Anarchist Review no 8 - Autumn 2013
Date: Wed, 2013-11-27 13:21
This issue of the Irish Anarchist Review, explores the idea of solidarity, beyond the workplace, as it extends to women in struggle, travellers, migrants and others. We look at how, solidarity and mutual aid, should involve, not just supporting the exploited and oppressed, but in assisting them in their struggles, and rather than presenting ourselves as saviors, with the solution to their problems, to listen and help amplify their voices as they work towards their own solutions.
Contents:
All of IAR8 is now online and linked below. You can access a high quality PDF on scribd, a lower quality PDF is embedded in this post at the bottom. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get notification when future editions are published.
- Solidarity for ever?
- Apartheid, Irish style
- Horizons of our Imaginations: Anarchist & Educations
- Many shades, second sex
- The conquest of Robots
- Creating an Anarchist Theory of Privilege
- Interview: Anti-Deportations Ireland
- Solidarity, Engagement and the Revolutionary Organisation
- Why I became an anarchist
- Spanish Civil War walking tour
- Book review: Anarchy in a Cold War
- Interview: Quebec student movement
Interview with Anti-Deportation Ireland activists
Date: Tue, 2013-10-29 13:57
Leticia Ortega (WSM) conducts a joint interview with a woman seeking asylum and Luke Budha of Anti-Deportation Ireland (ADI) and the Anti Racism Network (ARN).
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/
