The revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World marked its 100th anniversary in 2005. To mark this event a conference was held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, hosted by the editors (Fred Lee and Jon Bekken) of this useful selection of talks from it. As well as an introduction, this book has ten […]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Christy Moore visits Occupy Dame Street and sings Ride On
Singer songwriter Christy Moore dropped into Occupy Dame Street in Dublin last night to sing and send grettings to all the Occupy camps in the major cities of Ireland, at Cork, Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, Kerry, Athlone, Galway and the over 2000 Occupy camps world wide. In the video Christy refers to being in the ‘Yellow […]
Understanding state TV apology for bias in Corrib gas dispute & role of police ombudsman
Station’s crime correspondent Paul Reynolds falsely reported that recording of Garda rape conversation was ‘tampered with’ Shell to Sea has revealed that RTÉ is being compelled to broadcast an apology ahead of Wednesday’s Six-One and Nine O’Clock TV news programmes, as a result of RTÉ’s biased coverage of Shell’s attempt to build an experimental gas […]
Spectacle of Defiance & Hope parades through Dublin
Saturday saw the 2nd Spectacle of Defiance & Hope take place in Dublin, just ahead of the budget cuts that are expected to further devastate community organisations & services. The Spectacle describes itself as a "broadly based alliance of community organisations from Dublin and beyond" and also represents an attempt to break from the standard […]
Anarchist Theory – Use it or Lose it
This is a write up of a talk given at the 2011 London Anarchist bookfair. Its blurb was: “Why bother with dead anarchists? For some, while anarchists may do beards well we don’t do theory. This is wrong. We do have theory, as my An Anarchist FAQ and Property is Theft! show. Anarchism is a […]
Pay Inequality: where it comes from and what to do about it
“The exploitation of man by man, someone once said, is theft” (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon) The global Occupy movement has struck a cord with the 99% and the ruling class is worried. Rightly so, given that the neo-liberal agenda that has allowed the few to become obscenely rich at the expense of the rest has come under […]