Workers Solidarity Movement

Rząd robiąc kozła ofiarnego z emigrantów zachęca rasistowskie zbiry

 Ostatni byliśmy świadkami walecznych zmagań emigranckich pracowników o równe płace i warunki pracy takie same jak ich irlandzkich kolegów. 900 tureckich pracowników i 300 irlandzkich zostało zatrudnionych przez firmę budowlana GAMA. Zgodnie z umowa o zarejestrowanym zatrudnieniu, żaden z pracowników budowlanych który pracuje legalnie, nie może być zatrudniany za mniej niż 12.96 eu za godzinę, jednak GAMA płaciła swym tureckim pracownikom zaledwie 2.20 za godzinę.

In February of 2006 during his hectic visit to Dublin the Workers Solidarity Movement arranged a meeting between Noam Chomsky and anarchists living in Ireland. Around 90 anarchist from all over the counrty attended

The Shell to Sea Campaign is organising a march and rally in Dublin

Anyone who has had a child in primary school over the past couple of years has no doubt heard of the ‘Tesco Computers for Schools’ scheme whereby in return for vouchers collected when you do your shopping, Tesco give ‘free’ computer equipment to schools. You’ve probably also heard about Tesco’s ‘Sport For Schools and Clubs’ and SuperValu’s ‘Kids in Action’ schemes. If you’ve seen the TV ads for the SuperValu version, you’ll probably associate SuperValu with healthy, happy kids.

Anarchist books by post, a new catalogue for 2007

Red and Black Revolution issue 11 published October 2006

Contents include
Focus on Precarity
Anarchism, insurrections and insurrectionalism, 
The insurrection of Easter 1916, 
Review: Caliban and the Witch - women, the body and primitive accumulation

As well as reading the articles below you can download the PDF file of RBR11

Over the past year there has been an emerging preoccupation among anarchists and socialists with precarity as it’s an expression of a new work discipline imposed by neo-liberalism. Already there have been several precarity forums in European cities aimed at etching out a sense of the identities formed through the shared experience of the demands of job market flexibility.

The Independent Workers Union (IWU) is a new small Irish trade union which stands outside the partnership consensus and is attempting to build a radical trade union.

The Easter 1916 rising in Dublin is often portrayed simply as nationalist blood sacrifice but it can also be examined as an insurrection which was seriously planned to defeat the British army. It is credited with transforming political attitudes in Ireland, leading to the partally successful war of independance but nationalist histories tend to understate the other reasons why the situation was transformed and to completely ignore the wave of workers struggles that broke out during the war.