This week as Shell prepares to start construction on the final leg of their controversial Corrib gas pipeline & refinery they have faced multiple set backs. In Erris Shell were prevented accessing construction sites by a blockade of protesters on a number of days while in Dublin Shell were forced to pull out of a […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
The SWP versus Anarchism
These are two letters and part of a leaflet related to an article in the SWP’s Socialist Review by Pat Stack on anarchism. This article (imaginatively entitled "Anarchy in the UK?") was an attempt to rubbish anarchism in the eyes of the "anti-globalisation" movement at the time (around 2000). It had to be the worse […]
“governing the people will always be swindling the people”
The ConDem’s are continuing the grand tradition of all governments in proving anarchists right. Our so-called representatives are able to ignore their manifestos, are free to break their solemn pre-election pledges and vote as they like – all in the interests of capital.
Workplace Occupations and Anarchism
As part of our agitation in the student protests, anarchists have raised the necessity of direct action such as occupations. This has a wider application than students and anarchists have long argued that as part of any social revolution workers would need to occupy their workplaces.
The 1% are doing all right – Irish rich now much richer
The richest 300 people in Ireland are now worth 57 billion, almost as much as the entire IMF /ECB bailout. What’s more, when the rest of us saw our take home pay fall massively in the last year they got 13% or 6.7 billion euro richer. Which hasn’t stopped them demanding pay cuts for the […]
Audio from the 2011 Feminist Walking Tour in Dublin
Around 80 people took part in Sunday’s annual Feminist Walking Tour to mark International Women’s Day. The tour was organised by Choice Ireland, Lashback and RAG and for the first time was confined to the south side of the city, starting at Stephen’s Green and ending up in Temple Bar. The audio from the individual […]
Corrib pipeline – resistance wipes out Shell’s profits but Fine Gael are clueless
It has been revealed that the decade long resistance of the people of Erris to Shell’s experimental gas pipeline has now wiped out Shell’s projected profits from the project. Brian O’Cathain, the Managing Director of Enterprise Energy Ireland let the cat out of the bag at a debate at the IFI on the 4th December. […]
Super rich try to slash wage at Davenport hotel – Labour court to make ruling
Some 300,000 workers in Ireland should be watching the Labour Court as it rules on the attempt by the Davenport Hotel, owned by the 122nd richest person in the country, to cut the wages of workers by almost a euro an hour. Five workers there were removed from the payroll after they refused to sign […]
Fine Gael & Labour excuse tearing up of election promises
As the first step to sorting out some sort of coalition deal Fine Gael & Labour in a co-ordinated move last night announced that they had discovered the financial situation was worse than expected. This follows only days after the election and the subsequent vote by all but two of Labour’s central council to enter […]
Some thoughts on small-scale anarchist publishing
In December 2010, I and a few other people published 200 copies of Anarkismens ABC, a Danish translation of Alexander Berkman’s ABC of Anarchism. Since I had never tried publishing a book before, I have decided to note down some of my experiences with the process, in the hope that it might be useful for […]