Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Interview - The struggle for safe, legal abortion on demand continues.
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 16:13
Official Ireland pretends that abortion doesn't exist, the estimated 100,000 women who have travelled abroad to terminate pregnancies since the 1983 amendment to the Constitution know different. Workers Solidarity spoke to Niav Keating from the new pro-choice youth group.
Anarchist youth group formed
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 16:09
Late last year some younger anarchists in Dublin and Wicklow got together and formed their own organisation. Workers Solidarity asked them why?
Review: Chomsky on anarchism
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 16:06
This book is a collection of essays by and interviews on anarchism with the man who has recently been voted the most popular intellectual in the world, (not that he was very impressed by that!)
Rossport - Go west (and make Shell go offshore)
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:32
Though the issue of the Rossport pipeline was last in the news when the the five local men were released from prison, the conflict with Shell hasn't gone away. Since then the government commissioned a report, which essentially whitewashed Shell and gave the go ahead to build this dangerous pipeline
Thinking about Anarchism: What is anarchism?
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:19
Many people still associate anarchism with violence, destruction, and chaos. This concept of anarchism is reinforced by the corporate media, and those that have an interest in discrediting the anarchist movement. Needless to say this idea of anarchism bears no correlation with the society we are trying to create, or our struggle to achieve it.
The WSM - Who We Are, What We're For..
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:16
It's one of anarchism's fundamental claims that it's possible to organise in an effective manner without submitting to authority. Not only that, but we believe that it's more effective than organising in a hierarchial manner as it makes use of everybody's talents and minimises the alientation that comes with decisions being made over your head. That's why we don't have a leadership - we think it's ineffective.
That's capitalism - WS90
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:13
Ireland now has six euro billionaires, Northern Ireland Assembly has cost taxpayers £78 million, 1,250 barristers and solicitors earn more than €200,000, Bertie Ahern received no less than 5 pay rises in the 6 months
Irish Ferries - Ships occupied
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:02
The (Irish Ferries) dispute escalated on November 24th when goons from a private security firm brought Eastern European seafarers onto the ships. If the ferries resumed sailing the dispute would be effectively over, with Irish Ferries winning hands down.
Irish Ferries demonstrations - Magnificent show of solidarity
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 14:58
The old union motto "an injury to one is the concern of all" is taken more seriously by ordinary union members than by many of our "leaders". The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, sheltering behind the 1990 Industrial Relations Act which makes strikes in support of other workers unlawful, didn't call for a national walk-out. We knew they wanted us to strike and march but their over-cautious approach didn't exactly inspire workers with particularly aggressive employers.
Irish ferries - a great struggle but a terrible deal
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 14:53
On December 14th the three week dispute at Irish Ferries came to an end. SIPTU claimed that the deal protects a "threshold of decency". Irish Ferries had offered redundancy to 543 crew members, who were to be replaced with staff employed on wages of just €3.60 an hour - less than half the national minimum wage.