This article looks at how direct action had forced one military airline out of Shannon in the context of how dependent modern wars are on long supply chains. This is used to argue that similar actions across Europe and the US could prevent the war from taking place. "In this war our rulers do not […]
Author Archives: andrewnflood
USA warplanes using Shannon airport in 2002
A front cover story for Workers Solidarity in 2002 on the use of Shannon airport for refuleing US war planes
February 15 2003 anti-war march in Dublin and plan for March 1st at Shannon
Report on the massive anti-war march in Dublin February 2003 and the plans for the March 1st direct action at Shannon airport that developed out of the meeting that morning.
Interviews with anarchists in 17 cities across the USA
Between February and May 2008 I interviewed 31 anarchists in the USA located in 17 different cities. The interviews are linked to below and provide a snapshot of the anarchist movement across the United States and anarchist attitudes towards local struggles and the US elections. The interviews were conducted during my ‘Building a Popular Anarchism […]
Bosnia, Rwanda and UN intervention
The WSM has always said socialists should not support any intervention by the UN anywhere. What is currently happening in Bosnia and Rwanda demonstrates the reasons why we should not call on the UN to intervene.
Yugoslavia: Whose bloody war?
THE WAR in what was Yugoslavia continues to drag on, with an ever increasing toll of people terrorized from their homes, killed or imprisoned. Most ordinary people are disgusted at the failure of the EC to do anything about it. Yet is EC or UN involvement any sort of answer or would it just make […]
The common backgrounds of Bush and bin-Laden
Millionaires go to WAR! – Expect world’s workers to fight for them!!!
How wars end – A brief history of resistance to war
The history of resistance to war, often by those soldiers and sailors conscripted to fight it is always buried when our rulers celebrate their historic achievements in sending workers off to kill each other. From the mutinies of World War One, WWII and Vietname to the general strike of the Tragic Week against Spanish imperialism it […]
Review: Refueling Peace website
Refueling Peace is one of the many anti-war groups that has sprung up over the last year. They have defined themselves around a very specific purpose, to "monitor and stop US military flights refuelling in Ireland". The information gathering aspect of this is proving essential in moving the Shannon refuelling issue to the centre of […]
A plan for the anti-war movement
Polls show most people in Ireland oppose the war, and refuelling at Shannon, yet the government continue to provide support for the US and British war drive. This is yet another demonstration of how meaningless parliamentary democracy is. Unless we are talking of marches of tens or hundreds of thousands we won’t frighten the government […]