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Biotechnology, confusion, fear and
protest
Over the past few years developments in biotechnology such as cloning
and genetic modification of food have led to wide scale confusion,
fear and protest. In this article Conor Mc Loughlin explains
some of these technologies and asks are they safe? Have they any
benefits? Should they be rejected or could they be used for the
benefit of an anarchist society
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Blowing hot air over
Sellafield
We must take a lesson from our own past (Carnsore) and from the
highly successful anti-nuclear movement in Germany. We must recognise
that the British government, far from being willing to consider
closing Sellafield, wish to expand it. The only way they will be
forced to retreat from this position is if we push the political and
economic costs of keeping Sellafield open way up.
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The Battle for Kinsale
The Old Head of Kinsale in Co. Cork is an area of renowned beauty. It
has been enjoyed as an amenity by locals and by people from outside
Kinsale who have heard of the traditional walk out along the Old Head
to the lighthouse at the tip of the headland
March 31 2002 - People Power Wins At Old Head of Kinsale
Well over a hundred activists and protesters braved the elements, hostile private security, newly erected fencing and barbed wire at the Old Head of Kinsale on Easter Sunday to score yet another important victory for free public access to the Old Head of Kinsale Walk.
Sellafield's sick New Year gift
On December the 20th 2001 - Sellafield brought radioactive plutonium into the plant in a move to open up a MOX reprocessing plant for dirty radioactive materials.
Road Rage Wrecks Critical Mass in Dublin
The foot and mouth outbreak has led to more precautions than any other 'crisis' in living memory. Government has treated it far more seriously than the heroin epidemic, which killed hundreds and ravaged so many of our communities.
Anarchism and the Environmental movement
We should not create a false choice between anarchism and environmentalism but rather ask what sort of environmental theory and action should anarchists favour on the one hand and on the other explain why any environmentalist should also be a class struggle anarchist.
In a leaked World Bank memo he explained how the economic logic of dumping toxic waste in the less developed countries was impeccable.
Anarchist News No 24 -Why Reclaim the Streets?
The 'polluter pays' & the bin tax
The attempt to introduce refuse charges by the Dublin area county councils has been welcomed in some quarters. It is, we are told, necessary to fund a local waste management policy, that will increase the amount of waste recycled, and reduce the amount of landfill needed.
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Why half the world's children go to bed hungry
It's hard to know how any one can consider capitalism a viable system when looking at the situation of the less developed countries. A recent UN report estimates that 30 million people face starvation. Yet EC beef, butter and wine mountains rot in European warehouses, farmers are ploughing crops back into the land, in US corn belt fields of wheat are burnt.
The 1992 famine Somalia once again focussed attention on the problems of the less developed countries. Much of the response to the crisis is a short term one in the form of food aid. However in order to understand the causes of this and other famines in Africa it is necessary to race back the roots of the problem to colonisation and imperialism.
Why the bosses system can't sort it out
The ruling class will never invest in lower than average profit making businesses simply because they don't need to. And it is in their interests to keep people unemployed and hungry. The only sizable gains that are made for the workers are when they fight for them and win them against the ruling classes' wishes.
Feed the World don't Arm the World
This year alone the British Government will spend £6.3 billion on the procurement of new weaponry. Meanwhile, the US government is set to spend nearly £40 billion in a similar drive.
The world bank is the mechanism by which the bosses force whole country to tow, the line. How is this done?
The earth Summit took place in Rio in June of 1992. In spite of the enormous cost ($123 million) and publicity (8,749 media people) the final results were restricted to two weak treaties and the agreement of some "principles" on the environment
We get to live with the delays and the brunt of pollution, road accidents and traffic jams. So it is in our interests to press for change. We must press for transport that is people and environment friendly.
The Irish rail network is now close to disintegration according to CIE's own chief executive Michael McDonnell.
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The explosion and fire at the Hickson chemical plant in Ringaskiddy, Cork, in August 1993, has gone down as one of the most serious industrial accidents in Ireland to date.
Dublin Dockland to be developed - Who will benefit?
The Dublin Docklands, from Ringsend to Sheriff Street, are starting a very major re-development which will take place over the next fifteen years. Already the property developers are in the area buying up the land, a lot of which is owned by state and semi-state companies.
The company at the centre the explosion and fire in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, pleaded guilty to three charges of negligence and improper handling of hazardous chemical substances
Workplace accidents rarely happen. They are caused. It is equally the case that workers end up taking more than their fair share of blame when things do go wrong
Review: Anarchism, greens and all that
A review of the Anarchist Communist Federation pamphlet, Where there's brass there's muck
Letter...Muck, Brass and Green Bans
In your review of "Where There's Brass there's Muck" in Workers Solidarity no.52, you mention the successful "Green Bans" of the Builders Labourers Federation of New South Wales.
Free speech and the litter act
The use of the Litter Act to prevent the distribution of anti-racist leaflets is a very serious step. A blanket ban on the distribution of leaflets would have serious consequences for other political, environmental, civil liberties, community or trade union campaigns.
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April 7th 2001 - Protest outside US embassy against Bush's withdrawal from Kyoto agreement [with photos]
About 60 people picketed the US embassy
