Over 200 people packed into the Royal Dublin Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in early December for a public meeting on the topic ‘Democracy and Policing: How accountable are the Gardaí to the Irish people?’

In early December classroom assistants in the North returned to work after a series of strike actions which had gone on since September. This action by the classroom assistants showed in stark form the two faces of the trade union movement. On the one hand there was the tremendous bravery and solidarity shown by the workers themselves in standing up to attempts to bully and harass them back to work. On the other hand was the duplicitousness and skulduggery of some trade union bureaucrats who not alone did their best to undermine the dispute but actively worked with management and politicians to betray the workers.

The contradictory meanings of "communism:" both as a society of freedom and as one of totalitarianism. What Bakuknin, Kropotkin, and Marx had meant by communism and how this term was changed by the Leninists.

How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people

These three pieces were written by WSM members for indymedia.ie about the results of the 2007 election and its impact on the left. See our Election 2007 page at http://www.wsm.ie/election07 for what we had to say in advance of the election.

1pm Saturday 31st March
Assemble at the Arts College, York Street, Belfast.

Este nuevo boletín, Liberación, es la edición internacional en castellano del periódico en lengua inglesa Workers Solidarity (Solidaridad Obrera),
editado por el Workers Solidarity Movement (Movimiento de Solidaridad
Obrera) de Irlanda, que se viene editando desde el año 1984. A continuación, pueden acceder a los artículos o pueden bajar Liberación en formato PDF.

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These are articles on community struggles that were published on our old web site prior to 2006 and which may not be on this new site yet. It does not include articles published from 2006 on

Trade Unions are important organs of the working-class. Gregor Kerr - a member of the Irish National Teachers Organisation who has been involved in campaigns against "social partnership" and in many strike support groups - argues that trade union involvement should form a central part of the political activity of all anarchists.