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ireland / britain / imperialism / war / news report Monday September 06, 2010 - 22:09 by Julian & andrew   image 1 image
At 9:30 Saturday morning, people gathered on O'Connell Street In Dublin to protest against the presence of war criminal and ex British prime-minister Tony Blair. Blair arrived at Easons at around 10am for the book-signing of his recent autobiography, escorted and protected by a sizable gardai presence. Despite the heavy rain, hundreds of protestors took part.  At least one protester managed to get past the heavy security to try to make a citizens arrest of Blair for his war crimes. It is reported that Blair is now considering cancelling his London appearance. ... read full story / add a comment
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ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Thursday August 26, 2010 - 20:29 by andrew   image 1 image
The decade long struggle against the construction of an experimental raw gas pipeline by Shell as part of its Corrib gas project continued in the west of Ireland with further direct actions against the project and the opening of a public hearing by the planning authority on the latest phase of Shell's plan. Meanwhile the irish government continues to give away hundreds of billions of oil & gas reserves to corporations. These two reports published on the WSM site this week explain the latest developments. ... read full story / add a comment
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ireland / britain / environment / news report Thursday August 12, 2010 - 20:31 by andrew   image 1 image
On Tuesday morning in the west of Irealand forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary in Erris brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill when they walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey. Shell has two barges drilling over 80 test holes in this Special Areas of Conservation, work that is opposed by the local community as part of their ongoing resistance to Shell's plan to run an experimental high pressure raw gas pipeline near their houses. ... read full story / add a comment
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nord america / messico / la sinistra / cronaca Thursday July 01, 2010 - 21:25 by andrew   image 1 image
Almeno 600 sono stati gli arrestati durante il G20 di Toronto nel corso della violenta repressione usata dalla polizia per disperdere i manifestanti. I media dicono che la maggior parte delle persone picchiate erano giornalisti al lavoro per documentare la protesta. Il G20 era stato convocato per coordinare ulteriori attacchi alla classe lavoratrice mondiale. [English] ... read full story / add a comment
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north america / mexico / the left / news report Tuesday June 29, 2010 - 18:30 by andrew   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 - 00:29)   image 1 image
At least 600 arrests took place at the G20 summit in Toronto as police used considerable force to break up protests. Media reports& video (below) indicate that many of the beaten were journalists covering the protest. The G20 was meeting to co-ordinate further attacks on the global working class. This is what the coded statements from the G20 about 'austerity budgets' and 'cutting deficits' will mean in practice. This despite the "risk that synchronised fiscal adjustment across several major economies could adversely impact the recovery" acknowledged in the final G20 communique. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
Watching them watching us back in June - photo from author
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Friday March 26, 2010 - 18:11 by andrew N Flood   image 1 image
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
Many of the 27 at a previous court appearance, in the front row Niall is far right, Pat is in the middle and Maura is on the far left
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Wednesday March 24, 2010 - 04:53 by andrew Flood   image 1 image
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
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ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 22:21 by andrew   image 1 image   video 1 video file   audio 2 audio files
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
The protest at Shell HQ
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Wednesday February 17, 2010 - 19:34 by andrew N Flood   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
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
Number of strike days each year - the 2009 is just for Thursdays strike, in fact the final figure would include the many small disputes that have gone on this year
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 22:42 by andrew   image 1 image
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
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ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Monday November 09, 2009 - 20:20 by andrew & Kevin   image 9 images
Tens of thousands of workers marched in Ireland on Friday 6 November as part of union organised demonstrations in nine cities protests against the Irish governments attempts to make workers pay for the crisis. In the region of 20,000 workers march through Cork City centre to oppose Government cuts and the ongoing attacks on wages and conditions. Cork anarchists from the WSM handed out 2000 leaflets at the march. Workers from a wide section of the union movement were present – SIPTU, TEEU, Unite, INO, INTO, ASTI, CWU, IWU, TUI, PNA. ... read full story / add a comment
Intersections #5
north america / mexico / anarchist movement / press release Thursday September 03, 2009 - 01:42 by andrew   image 1 image
Common Action announces the fifth issue of our quarterly newsletter Intersections. Read about a new free health clinic in Olympia that challenges the top-down approach to fixing health care. Also in this issue, reflections on the anti-globalization movement, a review of a certain British wizard, and notes on the increasing criminalization of sex workers. ... read full story / add a comment
Pic: Niall Harnett
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Friday July 10, 2009 - 20:56 by WSM (Audio - andrew Text- Fin) + S2S (Txt-Stephl)   image 1 image
Monday July 6th Shell to Sea protestors broke through a weak spot in the armada deployed to defend the Solitaire at Shell's the supply port in Killybeg, North Western Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Wednesday July 08, 2009 - 18:41 by andrew   image 2 images
I arrived in occupied Erris on Friday evening having travelled down to take part in a national meeting of Shell to Sea groups. It had been a busy week for the campaign as the state had reacted to the ongoing resistance to Shell in Erris by seizing fishing boats, sending 7 people to jail without trial and banning two more from Co. Mayo. Not only had hundreds of state forces including the police, navy, air force and possibly the army been deployed to suppress protest in Erris but those of us doing solidarity work elsewhere had found from time to time that we were being followed by the secret police. ... read full story / add a comment
Shell dreggers protected by 18 police and private security ribs
ireland / britain / community struggles / news report Saturday June 27, 2009 - 00:04 by andrew   text 1 comment (last - friday july 03, 2009 - 00:26)   image 7 images   audio 2 audio files
The long running struggle in the west of Ireland against the imposition of an experimental gas pipeline on the community of Rossport has once more reached a high water mark with the arrival of Shell's pipelayingship off the coast. It is escorted by 2 Irish Navy gunboats, 18+ police and private security ribs a helicopter, 300 police and 180 private security on shore. WSM members on the ground at Rossport are reporting on the resistance and repression live via Twitter and by audio interview via Skype.
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Intersections #4
north america / mexico / anarchist movement / press release Saturday June 06, 2009 - 15:40 by andrew   image 1 image
Common Action announces the fourth issue of our quarterly newsletter Intersections. The informal theme of this issue is an anarchist perspective on "security." From police to the supervision of children, the very things we assume are keeping us safe are often part of the problem. And when we are in trouble, who should we call? ... read full story / add a comment
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ireland / britain / anarchist movement / news report Thursday May 14, 2009 - 20:21 by andrew & Sean   image 5 images
Thirty or so anarchists marched with the WSM and/or Organise! at the Belfast May day march this year. Initially the rally was addressed by trade unionists including John Maguire, Visteon union convenor.

Alan from the WSM described it as "A lovely sunny day with a good anarchist turnout." and reported that "several people I spoke to afterwards thought a minimum of 2,000 people were on the march, the majority of these from the unions with maybe 20% from different left groups" ... read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / anarchist movement / news report Thursday May 07, 2009 - 01:45 by andrew
From Saturday, April 25 to Sunday, April 26, members of the anarchist organization Common Action met in Seattle, WA for our fourth general assembly. Members from Seattle, Bremerton, Tacoma and Olympia were in attendance, as well as a guest from Portland. We came together to continue developing our politics together, start work on new Common Action projects - and sing lots of karaoke. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Thursday April 02, 2009 - 19:04 by andrew
In the latest round of attacks on ordinary workers in order to force us to pay for the crisis in capitalism the government had "declared a moratorium on Recruitment and Promotions in the Public Service with effect from 27th March". This is both yet another direct attack on public sector workers and an indirect attack on all workers as it means our access to health, education and other essential services will be further reduced. ... read full story / add a comment
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ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Thursday March 26, 2009 - 21:54 by andrew   image 1 image
That the very threat of a national strike was enough to force government and IBEC (Irish employers' organisation) to change their position demonstrates the power the working class holds when we threaten to withdraw our labor. For all the media attempts to convince us we are powerless and that class struggle is a thing of the past when faced with the reality of the organised working class standing up both bosses and state were keen to avoid any confrontation that could illustrate and encourage our collective power. ... read full story / add a comment
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