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Audio from the Dublin anarchist bookfair

category ireland / britain | anarchist movement | link to audio author Friday April 03, 2009 23:27author by Andrewauthor email wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

In the region of 1,000 people attended the Dublin 2009 Anarchist bookfair at Liberty Hall the HQ of the biggest Irish union in March. Here we present the audio recordings made during the various meetings at the bookfair.
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All these files are mp3 files which should play on most computers, with the exception of the first most are an hour or so in length

A vox pop recorded at the Seomra Spraoi social after the bookfair, in it 25 people give their impressions of the bookfair.

'Left Unity? What sort of Left should we be trying to build?' Which was a debate between the WSM & ISN. There are contributions from the floor from "People before Profit' and the 'International Bolshevik Tedency'.

'‘Organising The Fightback’'. There were three speakers at the meeting, Gregor Kerr a WSM (and INTO) member, an Executive member of the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) and a representative of the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Campaign.

Palestine & womens rights : Organised by the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. The speaker is Nidal Saadeh, a leftist Palestinian activist from Bethlehem in the West Bank.

Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member told us about his experiences, the lessons he draws from them and what he thought of revolutionary politics in Ireland.

Martha Ackelsburg - a US anarchist feminist and author of the classic anarchist text 'Free women of Spain'. In her talk at the bookfair she discusses the movement of revolutionary anarchist women that arose during the Spanish revolution of 1936.

What is anarchism - discussion in the bar area, sound is a little ropey

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