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Red and Black Revolution 10
Date: Wed, 2006-02-01 15:11
Issue 10 of the WSM magazine Red and Black Revolution published Autumn 2005
Interview: Looking Back On The Battle of The Bins and Lessons Learnt
Communism: What’s In A Word
Enviromentalism: Class and Community Struggle
Book Review: Anarchy’s Cossak; a review of the latest book on Makhno
Situationism and Anarchism
A New Direction For The Zapatistas
Looking back on the battle of the Bins & the Lessons Learnt - Interview
Date: Wed, 2006-02-01 15:11
The campaign against the bin charges was one of the largest organised mass movements of resistance to the state in recent years. Local organising groups popped up across the city. It climaxed in the winter of 2003, with the jailings of numerous activists in quick succession. Here we talk to Dermot Sreenan, a member of the WSM who has been a prominent activist in the campaign from the off.
A New Direction For The Zapatistas
Date: Wed, 2006-02-01 15:11
Over the summer of 2005 the Zapatistas surprised their supporters by suddenly declaring a Red Alert out of the blue. After a couple of days of near panic it emerged that this was just because they were undergoing a consulta (a discussion and referendum) which would decide on a new path for the movement. This new path is to once more turn outwards and to aim to build a new alliance across Mexico and beyond
Communism: What's In A Word?
Date: Wed, 2006-02-01 15:10
This article opens by looking at how the meaning of communism as opposed to socialism evolved in the late nineteenth century and closes with a look at how this applies to the free software movement today. The terms socialism and communism appear in England around the 1820s as terms adopted by members of the cooperative movement who were sick of hearing their politics referred to as "Owenism". Originally the two terms were undifferentiated but by the 1840s communism was used by revolutionaries to differentiate themselves from reformists such as J.S.Mill who had adopted socialism to cover an indigestible mess of reformisms.
Anarchism and a moneyless economy
Date: Tue, 2006-01-31 14:25
Anarchists are usually pretty good at listing the things we are against: capitalism, racism, religious sectarianism, authoritarianism and so on. We are usually pretty good at explaining how best to struggle: direct democracy and mass direct action.
Where we often fall down is in explaining what we want at the end of the day, and convincing our listeners that it is a realistic alternative rather than a utopian pipe dream.
1st Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - 2006
Date: Sun, 2006-01-29 15:56
The first Dublin anarchist bookfair was held in the Nicholas Myra community hall in the Liberties. Much of the information below was retrieved from the blogspot used to promote that bookfair.
Protest in support of asylum seekers
Date: Tue, 2006-01-24 23:17
Let asylum seekers stay and work! Stop the deportations
Hundreds of asylum seekers in Ireland entered 2006 facing an uncertain future at best, as they wait to see whether Justice Minister Michael McDowell agrees to let them stay in Ireland or tries to deport them, as he has many others.
A look at the Situationists
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 17:37
The Situationists are mostly known to anarchists as a group that had something to do with the May 1968 Paris Uprising. However, the Situationists played a relatively peripheral role in the disturbances. Although much of the graffiti that appeared around the city (some famous ones included : "Never Work" and "All Power to the Imagination") were taken from Situationist works, the group did not play a major role in initiating the revolt themselves.
Irish Examiner does an Irish ferries
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 16:17
We were assured during the Irish Ferries saga that it could only happen because it was a maritime industry and landbound Irish jobs were safe. Many newspapers editorialised against escalation and for reasoned negotiation etc, the Irish Examiner was no different.