The WEF is not democratic in any sense, being composed of representatives from selected corporations who pay 30,000 plus a year for the privilege. Yet it is one of the key bodies which decide how life will be for the 6 billion of us who inhabit the globe.
Author Archives: andrewnflood
Developments in Iraq occupation to June 2003
George Bush may have declared major combat operations over in Iraq on May 1st but resistance to the US occupation forces goes on. The killing today of one more US soldier at a petrol station in Baghdad means 42 have been killed in combat since that date, almost one per day. And every week US […]
Shannon – at the end of a long road
Report on the 12 April 2003 Shannon demonstration which was only attended by about 470 people, many of these being from the political parties that make up the IAWM. The movement that could mobilise 100,000 ends up leading 467 into a protest pen at Shannon as in the background military flights taxi for take off.
Report on March 1st 2003 attempted mass direct action at Shannon airport
Report written in the aftermath of the attempted March 1st 2003 Direct Action at Shannon airport which looks at what happened and what it means for the anti-war movement.
Why the time for direct action against the war is now!
Article written in the aftermath of the massive February 15th 2003 anti-war demonstrations arguing that now (before the wart started) was the time to be organising mass direct actions and arguing for the one planned for March 1st 2003 at Shannon airport.
Mass anti-war trespass at Shannon airport October 2002
Report on the October 2002 anti-war demonstration at Shannon airport when part of the perimeter fence was torn down and up to 150 people entered the airfield.
Reports on the 1998 Bradford Mayday conference
Over the Mayday weekend of 1998 around 250 anarchists travelled to the small town of Bradford in England for a weekend of activity which included a conference. As I understand it the planning for what was to become the J18 Day of Action against the city of London started at Bradford but in any case […]
Generation Kill and the reality of war
In Workers Solidarity 105 we reviewed David Simon’s ‘The Wire’. His follow on project ‘Generation Kill’ which features some of the same actors is a 7 episode series following the United States Marine Corps’ 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the invasion of Iraq . It’s based on the book published by Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright.
It didn’t start in Seattle, it won’t end in Genoa
Bin charges; hundreds sleeping on the streets in the midst of an economic boom; soaring profits for the banks while many workers can’t afford decent housing; underfunding of health, education and public transport. This is the reality for workers in Ireland today, elsewhere, and particularly in Africa, it is far worse. For years we have […]
Prospects for revolution
This talk was probably part of a debate at a conference of the Irish anarchist groups (WSM, Organise, Class War) in 1994. We are living in a time of great change for the left. For this century the left has been identified with social-democracy (Labour, WP etc.) who saw socialism as being introduced through a […]