Workers Solidarity Movement

 The Autumn 2007 issue of the Irish Anarchist Magazine Red & Black Revolution.
Red & Black 13

• A System in Need of a Cure
• Turkey: Modernisation, Authoritarianism & Political Islam
• Left Communism and its Ideology: Notes towards a critique
• Community Organising in Glasgow: A discussion with Praxis
• Bolivia: Social Movements on Fire

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The September/October 2007 issue of Workers Solidarity is now online and can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Contents

Something Rotten in Store Street
Postman Pat Says 'Stuff Your Pay Cut'
Why Ireland Never Got Nuclear Power
Workers Occupation Pays Off
The Great Gas Robbery
That's Capitalism
Is Equal Pay Possible?
Climate Change; Delusion and Hypocrisy
Anarchism and the WSM
Anarchists Against the Wall

The July/August 2007 issue of Workers Solidarity is now online and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
 

Would you accept a job without signing a proper legal contract? A job that means working long days for 400 euro a month doing chores like ironing, cooking, laundering, cleaning a 4 bed house and even mean babysitting four children aged between two and seven years old?

Lucy Parsons Newsletter Issue One Summer 2007

Domestic workers in Ireland
Would you accept a job without signing a proper legal contract? A job that means working long days for 400 euro a month doing chores like ironing, cooking, laundering, cleaning a 4 bed house and even mean babysitting four children aged between two and seven years old?

The Workers Solidarity Movement held its Spring 2007 National Conference in the Teachers' Club at the end of April. Our conference saw around 70% of the membership attending with many new faces since our last conference 6 months ago.

Full list of amended papers from this conference is below

Short Term Perspectives - http://www.wsm.ie/story/454
Constitution - http://www.wsm.ie/story/32
Trade Unions (short term) - http://www.wsm.ie/story/423
International - http://www.wsm.ie/story/848
Partition Of Ireland - http://www.wsm.ie/story/804
Publications - http://www.wsm.ie/story/456

The Southern general election saw six parties make it to the Dail. Five of them were open to coalition with any of the others, the PDs being willing to share power with anyone except Sinn Fein. They all looked for votes on the basis that they would be better managers of the present system.

Among the many sites blocked in China is this one.

Such is the fear that the mighty proletarian anarchist movement of Ireland strikes into the hearts of despots everywhere, that the Chinese government have blocked our site, retreated under the kitchen table and are now crying for their mammies.

Public Meeting
The Anarchist Alternative to Capitalism
Wednesday 6th June at 8pm in the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Organised by the Dublin 8 Branch of Workers Solidarity Movement

The Spring 2007 issue of Ireland's anarchist magazine Red & Black Revolution. The articles in this issue include

• The politics and reality of the peak oil scare
• Rossport - A Community Fighting Back
• Anarchism, Elections and all that
• The Grassroots Gatherings - Networking a “movement of movements”
• Connolly - A life and a legacy
• Direct Action Gets The Goods – But How??
• Review of Ramor Ryan's book - "Clandestines..."
• Interview with Ana Lopez from the International Union of Sex Workers
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