10 years after the Gulf War offically ended Britain and the US continue to bomb Iraq. It only occasionally gets into the headlines, normally when civilians are killed. It is ironic that it is the Western soldiers who carried out the mass killings in that war who have become its most prominent victims in the […]
Author Archives: andrewnflood
The MRTA Peruvian embassy siege and what it tell us about the media
A look at media coverage of the ending of the siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima in which the MRTA were executed. This article written at the time in 1997 also documents early attackes on radical news sites and archives on the internet.
Blockade at Mountjoy jail as Shell to Sea protester jailed
The long running struggle in Erris (Rossport) against Shell’s attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on the local community has erupted in recent days with repeated local direct actions against the compound Shell are trying to construct. Meanwhile the state at the behest of Shell continues to press vindictive prosecutions against local activists. Back […]
Dublin student activism at the end of the 1980’s
I was a student at Trinity College Dublin in the last four years of the 1980’s. The following account is based entirely on my recollections of student activism in those years, unfortunately I don’t seem to have archived any of the actual leaflets or papers produced back then. At the time we were always disappointed […]
Government attacks workers through hiring freeze in public sector
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 […]
Video: Anarchism in Ireland – 1997 to 2007
The period from 1997 to 2007 saw anarchism in Ireland move from an ultra marginal role to just a marginal one, a similar level of significance to the rest of the far left. This video is a brief history of anarchism during that decade and why there was a massive growth in terms of percentages […]
March 30th national strike off – Employer’s retreat but ICTU talks are not a victory
An initial reaction to the ICTU announcement that March 30 is off 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 […]
Anarchist globalisation after Prague S26
From J18 City of London, to N30 Seattle, S11 Melborne, S26 Prague; these are all dates that signify a growing movement of international opposition to capitalism. I took part in the S26 demonstrations in Prague which succeeded in disrupting the IMF congress there. The IMF was forced to cancel its evening entertainment’s and so many […]
Report from the Prague September 2000 World Bank riot
This is my personal report on the demonstrations in Prague to shut down the IMF/World Bank on Tuesday September 26 2000. I marched near the front of the anarchist (blue) section of the demonstration.
Where did the anti-capitalist movement come from?
The strength of this movement is that it has come from many places, that it is a network without a head or a central committee that has successfully united many issues in a combined opposition to what we have been told was unopposable. If the demonstrations of the last years have achieved anything it is […]