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ireland / britain / economy / anarchist communist event Monday May 17, 2010 20:20 by Andrew
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Over the last week the police in Ireland have twice physically attacked demonstrations about the capitalist crisis. The WSM along with other groups has called for the formation of an anti-capitalist bloc for the next such demonstration to take place outside the Irish parliament building (the Dail) on Tuesday read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / link to audio Monday May 10, 2010 20:47 by Speaker Aileen; Editing Andrew
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IT workers and struggles in work over time - 3rd Rethinking Revolution discussion In this audio download from the third of the Rethinking Revolution sessions Aileen O'Carroll draws on the stories and diaries of those working in IT company’s to talk about the secrets and contradictions of working in a global industry. The myth is that IT workers happily work a 60 hour week but like workplaces of a previous era, there is a struggle over the nature of work and the length of working time within our lives. The left tends to focus on the formal visible struggles conducted through trade unions. What can this other level of often individualised struggle teach us in the fight for a new world? read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / opinion / analysis Friday May 07, 2010 00:02 by Andrew
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The long days and nights of bargaining between government and union top brass at Croke Park ended when the participants emerged and presented the fruits of their deliberations. It is a pretty awful deal, which rubber stamped the pay cuts already handed out to public sector workers and added a whole layer of new working conditions, essentially extra hours and responsibilities for the same or lower pay. Over the couple of weeks that followed, the various public sector unions in conference or at executive level recommended either accepting or rejecting this deal, with the final call resting with the membership. As we go to print the final result of these ballots are still unknown but recent experience should warn us that, in either case, the battle is far from over. read full story / add a comment 
international / the left / link to audio Tuesday May 04, 2010 02:36 by Andrew
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This is the audio recording of the second 'Rethinking Revolution' meeting on the topic of 'Will there be a revolution in our lifetime.' "Are we spending our precious time outside of work at protests and meetings because we want to improve our lives or are we just fighting for future generations. In either case what is it that we are trying to do as we move from topic to topic and struggle to struggle?" read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / anarchist communist event Tuesday May 04, 2010 02:29 by Andrew
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Aileen O'Carroll draw on the stories and diaries of those working in IT company’s to talk about the secrets and contradictions of working in a global industry. The myth is that IT workers happily work a 60 hour week but like workplaces of a previous era, there is a struggle over the nature of work and the length of working time within our lives. The left tends to focus on the formal visible struggles conducted through trade unions. What can this other level of often individualised struggle teach us in the fight for a new world? read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Friday March 26, 2010 18:11 by Andrew N Flood
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Around the time of the visit of Shell’s pipe-laying ship the Solitaire in June, it became clear that the Gardai had been told that they could do anything to remove Shell to Sea campaigners from the scene and they would be looked after. Rulings from the District Court, in particular the denial of bail to 7 campaigners charged with the most minor of public order offences, removed people with vital water skills from the area by interning them in Mountjoy and Castlerea prisons. Local fisherman Pat O’Donnell had one of his boats sunk from under him when four masked men boarded the boat in the middle of the night and held Pat and the other crew member at gunpoint while they sabotaged the boat, leading to its sinking. When Pat took to sea in another boat as the Solitaire arrived, he was arrested under the Public Order Act for loitering and once more sent to prison, leaving the way clear for the Solitaire. read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Wednesday March 24, 2010 04:53 by Andrew Flood
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This week as it was revealed in the Irish Times that 20 months after entering into a legal agreement with local fishermen Shell has still not submitted an application as required to the Environmental Protection Agency to review the emissions licence for the experimental gas pipeline it is imposing on the people of Erris. Yet this week 27 Shell to Sea campaigners are being prosecuted on behalf of Shell in the local courts and today one of them received three five month sentences. read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Tuesday February 23, 2010 22:21 by Andrew
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The week before last Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell was jailed for seven months for his part in the communities ongoing resistance to Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on them. Across the country local Shell to Sea groups have been holding solidarity protests and other events for Pat. In Dublin this has included two protests and a public meeting in UCD. Meanwhile Shell have been forced to admit a temporary defeat in the face of local opposition and call off the construction they have planned for Glengad this year. read full story / add a comment 
asia orientale / storia dell'anarchismo / opinione / analisi Monday February 22, 2010 18:32 by Andrew Flood
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Se si escludono alcuni eventi quali la Lunga Marcia e la Comune di Shanghai ben poco si sa negli ambienti della sinistra occidentale dello sviluppo della Rivoluzione Cinese, a confronto di quanto si sa sulla Rivoluzione Russa del 1917, sulla Rivoluzione Spagnola nel 1936 o persino sulla primavera di Parigi nel 1968. Né hanno portato ulteriori conoscenze quelle frazioni della sinistra che sono state influenzate dal maoismo o che si sono autoproclamate maoiste. Il loro contributo storico si è fondato su una semplificazione per quale era importante solamente il ruolo svolto da un solo uomo, mentre 100 anni di storia rivoluzionaria venivano oscurati a vantaggio di eventi importanti solo per la figura di Mao. [English] read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Wednesday February 17, 2010 19:34 by Andrew N Flood
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Over 50 Shell to Sea campaigners gathered at the Shell head quarters in Leeson street Dublin Tuesday evening to protest at the jailing of 52 year old Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell for resisting Shell's experimental gas pipeline. Pat received a seven month sentence which has the added benefit for Shell of taking his boat off of Broadhaven Bay for the period they need to carry out major underwater construction work and repairs. Pat has twice previously been arrested and held without charge when Shell has needed to carry out work in the bay. read full story / add a comment 
central asia / history / opinion / analysis Tuesday February 16, 2010 23:32 by Andrew Flood
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Outside of a few events including the Long March and the Shanghai commune the development of the Chinese revolution is relatively unknown on the western left in comparison with the revolutions in Russia in 1917, Spain in 1936 or even the Paris spring of 1968. Those sections of that left influenced by or proclaiming themselves to be Maoist haven't helped that situation much. Their histories have tended towards simple tales focusing on the role of one man and collapsed a 100-year history of revolution into the events important to him. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment
Κεντρική Αμερική / Καραϊβική / Ιμπεριαλισμός / Πόλεμος / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Sunday January 31, 2010 18:08 by Andrew Flood (WSM)
Μια λαϊκή παροιμία της Αϊτής λέει «Tanbou prete pa janm fe bon dans» («Ένα δανεισμένο τύμπανο ποτέ δεν παράγει καλό χορό»), δείχνοντας μια γενική συνειδητοποίηση του ποιος είναι ο πραγματικός ρόλος της εξωτερικής παρέμβασης. Φυσικά, αν η ιμπεριαλιστική επέμβαση δεν τελείωσε το1790, δεν τελείωσε και η αντίσταση του λαού της Αϊτής. Η αλληλεγγύη με τον λαό της Αϊτής δεν αρχίζει και τελειώνει με αφορμή αυτόν τον τραγικό σεισμό, αλλά πρέπει να επεκταθεί στους αγώνες που θα ξετυλιχθούν στον απόηχό του, ενάντια στον «καπιταλισμό της καταστροφής» που επιχειρείται τώρα να επιβληθεί. read full story / add a comment
Κεντρική Αμερική / Καραϊβική / Ιμπεριαλισμός / Πόλεμος / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Sunday January 31, 2010 17:55 by Andrew Flood (WSM)
Καθώς οι προβλέψεις για τον αριθμό των νεκρών από το σεισμοί στην Αϊτή μιλούν για πάνω από 200.000, οι ειδήσεις στο ABC News ανέφεραν ότι τα αεροπλάνα που μεταφέρουν ιατρικό εξοπλισμό και εφόδια αρωγής πρέπει να αντιμετωπίσουν στρατιώτες για τον πολύτιμο διαθέσιμο χρόνο στο αεροδρόμιο του Πορτ-ο-Πρενς που εξαγοράστηκε από τον στρατό των ΗΠΑ μετά το σεισμό. Από την έναρξη της μεγάλης δημοκρατικής εξέγερσης ενάντια στο καθεστώς σκλαβιάς σχεδόν 220 χρόνια πριν, η Αϊτή έχει παρουσιαστεί ως μια επικίνδυνη χώρα ανίκανη να διεκπεραιώσει τις δικές της υποθέσεις και απαιτεί την ξένη επέμβαση. read full story / add a comment 
central america / caribbean / history / opinion / analysis Wednesday January 20, 2010 23:17 by Andrew Flood
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As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the start of the great anti-slavery republican insurrection nearly 220 years ago, Haiti has been presented as a dangerous place incapable of running its own affairs and requiring foreign intervention. Yet the reality is its people were the first enslaved population to deliver themselves from slavery and also carried out what was only the third successful republican insurrection on the planet. The threat of this good example was rewarded with centuries of invasion, blackmail, the robbery of Haiti's natural resources and the impoverishment of its people. This articles summarizes that history of intervention and the resistance to it in order to put into context what is happening in Haiti after the quake. read full story / add a comment 
scandinavia / denmark / iceland / environment / link to audio Tuesday December 15, 2009 17:58 by Andrew interviewing Ronan
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This audio interview conducted by Mobile phone on Monday evening covers the protests at the COP15 summit in Copenhagen. Ronan who was a member of WSM in Ireland has been living in Denmark for a year and a half and is involved in a new Libertarian Socialist group and the local infoshop in the autonomous Youth House. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / link to audio Tuesday December 15, 2009 00:55 by Dara (interviewer) Andrew (editor)
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This audio consists of 10 brief interviews with public sector strikers made during the national strike in Ireland on 24th November. Picketers at various locations across Dublin talk of what the strike is about, the effects of the cuts and how their unions organised for the strike. read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / feature Monday December 07, 2009 23:26 by Andrew
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The cancellation of the December 3rd strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / the left / anarchist communist event Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:41 by Andrew
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The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment 
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 22:42 by Andrew
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On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened in Ireland. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / link to audio Friday November 13, 2009 19:35 by Andrew
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At the end of October a visiting speaker from the South Africa ZACF was hosted by the WSM in Dublin and Cork. The audio of the Dublin talk will be found below. The opening section of the talk looks at the very recent repression of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo at the Kennedy road informal settlement. Several people were killed and over 1000 displaced when an ANC led gang targetted the settlement and a meeting that was in progess there. read full story / add a comment |
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