Workers Solidarity Movement

The word anarchy has its’ origins in the Greek an-archos, meaning absence of a ruler. Since the mid-1800's, anarchism has developed as a definite political theory which aims to create a society without bosses and without authoritarian rule.

The horrific death toll from the earthquake in Haiti briefly focused the world’s attention on the plight of the Haitian people. The earthquake was a natural disaster coming on top of decades of human disasters imposed upon the people as its economy has been forced to transform to suit the needs of transnational corporations. This is the reason so many people were packed into substandard accommodation in Port-au-prince.

January - February 2010 Edition of the Workers Solidarity freesheet.

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Trade Unionists betrayed by leadership

Women and children attacked
Climate change – the business connection
Noam Chomsky visits Ireland
Thinking About Anarchism: Anarchism and Human Nature
A People’s Historian - Howard Zinn
That's Capitalism

“Human nature being what it is, you could never have an anarchist society – not one in which both individual freedom and co-operation exist anyway”. How often have you heard something like that?

Workers Solidarity reporters met America’s most famous dissident for breakfast during his recent visit, here is a transcript of some of what we talked about.

The government has inflicted growing hardship upon workers and communities across the country, spreading the ethos that we should all commit to sharing the pain. This has been perpetuated by mainstream media, as “sharing the pain” has been portrayed, as the only way out of this crisis.

November - December 2009 Edition of the Workers Solidarity freesheet.
 

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There is Another Way : Anarchists find huge hoard of wealth
It's Time to Strike Back
Francisco Ferrer: Murdered By the State
Social Solidarity Network formed
Review of the Someday Independent
Fascists Get the Boot
A veteran anarchist speaks of revolution, war and bad coffee…
Thinking About Anarchism: Workers Have the Power
Review of Black Flame
That's Capitalism
 

“Someday Independent” is a 4 page leaflet produced by Dublin Shell to Sea. The design/layout and graphical work is of a very high standard and compares favourably to high cost, professionally produced brochures. The overall colour scheme and design is a pleasing blue “wave” design which is easy on the eye and appropriate to the subject material without drawing too much attention to itself.

The rich remain rich and the rest of us are supposed to keep them that way. That’s why we get pay cuts, health cuts, education cuts, job cuts. It’s not as if dipping into the pockets of PAYE workers is the only way to foot bills.

In the WSM we're often asked why we spend so much time talking about the working class. Even the title of our paper, Workers Solidarity, seems a bit odd to some - why are we talking so much about workers? Isn't anarchism for everybody? And aren't we all middle class now?