Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Why join an Anarchist organisation
Date: Mon, 2002-05-13 23:57
'Liberty without socialism is poverty and injustice. Socialism without liberty is tyranny and brutality'
(Bakunin)
Bakunin had a vision of an alternative way to run society and it is a vision that we share today. I want the replacement of the current economic system, a system based on profit and hierarchy, with a system based on need and freedom. I don't believe the current system can be reformed to make it more human. In different ways, and on various levels, the political work I do is aimed at creating the possibility of revolution. Revolutionary change is not as unusual as is often thought; in 1974 we had the Portuguese revolution, in 1979 Iranian Revolution, in 1979 Nicaragua, in the eighties we saw the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Max Stirner and anarchism
Date: Sun, 2002-05-05 16:23
Max Stirner was an obscure prophet of individualism living in nineteenth century Germany. many anarchists today including anarcho communists also consider themselves Stirnerists and a Stirnerist tradition lives on in places like Glasgow. Conor Mc Loughlin examines some of Stirner's ideas.
Crime, Punishment, and Community Policing
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 22:58
The term 'community policing' has been much abused in recent times, most particularly in the North of Ireland where it has become shorthand for vicious punishment beatings and shootings. In this article Gregor Kerr takes a look at the issue of community policing - what it is and more importantly what it isn't. The question of what levels of real community policing would actually be possible or allowed under capitalism is looked at, and the debate about crime, anti-social behaviour and reactions to it in an anarchist society is touched on. (pic: Anti-heroin dealer march, N. Inner city Dublin c1996 Photo Joe Black)
Crime, Punishment & Community policing
Bakunin's ideas on revolutionary organisation
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 22:57
The Russian revolutionary Micheal Bakunin is often presented as the 'founding father' of anarchism. He was a larger than life figure whose disputes with Marx in the 1st international form an essential role in the clarification of the role of the vanguard and of the state in the revolutionary process. Yet his concrete ideas on anarchist organisation are not so well knowm. Andrew N. Flood takes a closer look at them.
After Genoa - Bashing the Black Bloc?
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 19:27
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In the wake of the G8 protests in Genoa, Ray Cunningham, who took part in the demonstrations there, looks at the future for the Black Bloc and the 'anti-globalisation' movement (Pic: Black bloc in Genoa)
The media and the Afghan war
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 15:57
Terry Clancy, of the Free Earth website, examines the 'free' press to find out why we shouldn't expect them to provide neutral or impartial coverage, especially during a war.
Red and Black Revolution 6
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 11:10
Red & Black Revolution number 6 published in the winter of 2002.
PDF file at http://struggle.ws/pdfs/RBR6.pdf
Statement of Joe Moffatt who was arrested at the Genoa G8 protests
Date: Mon, 2001-08-20 14:50
In July 2001 after the Genoa G8 summit protests during which Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by police a WSM member and Irish protester Joe Moffat was arrested. He was held for 16 days during which he was beaten and imprisoned. On his release and return to Ireland he released the following statement detailing what happened to him during those days of arrest and prison. For details of what happened in Genoa before these events see Eyewitness account of the Genoa G8 protest written by another WSM member who was there.
Eyewitness account of the Genoa G8 protest
Date: Fri, 2001-07-20 14:11
Republished to mark the 10th anniversary of the Genoa G8 summit protest these are the recollections of a WSM member about the days running up to the protest and the main event itself. Ho took part in one of the Genoa Black Bloc's. It includes about 50 photos taken in Genoa.
Red and Black Revolution Issue 5
Date: Tue, 2001-05-08 13:01
Issue 5 of Irelands anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution published in 2001
* Biotechnology, confusion, fear and protest
* Peadar O'Donnell and the Spanish Revolution
* Anarchism and elections
* Review: No Logo
* Review: Globalise this
* Revolutionary Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement