A disturbing feature of the prison rebellion in Cloverhill yesterday was that, if the prison is to be believed, a large group of prisoners took a fellow prisoner as a hostage seemingly because he was a migrant. Up to 60 prisoners were initially involved in a protest in the exercise yard. 45 agreed to return […]
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Dublin protest against Suruc massacre outside Turkish embassy
Dublin protested last night against ISIS and the support it has received to date from the Turkish state. The protest was called by Lookleft in the aftermath of the Suruc bombing. 32 humanitarian volunteers on the way to help in the rebuilding of Kobane were killed in the bombing, at least 2 anarchists were amongst […]
Avacado squat eviction in Phibsboro Dublin July 2015
This video shows some of the violent eviction of a house on Phibsboro Avenue in Dublin during which the inhabitants were pepper sprayed and arrested on a ridiculous burglary charge. They had been living in the house two months and were of course later released without charge.
Garda arrest pro-choice campaigners at WSM rally in Dublin
A large number of Garda made arrests towards the end of a pro-choice rally in Dublin this evening. Three pro-choice campaigners were arrested, at least one of them was pepper sprayed when they were already on the ground.
Dublin protests in solidarity with the Belfast mother charged with supplying the abortion pill to her daugher
A couple of hundred people came to the pro choice solidarity rally in Dublin last night. It was called to protest against the prosecution of a women in Belfast for supplying her daughter with the abortion pill. Banners reading Drop The Charges and Free Safe Legal Abortion had been prepared the previous evening for […]
Even right wing tabloids outraged by Bertie’s ludicrous fibs to banking enquiry in Ireland
Bertie’s ‘testimony’ to the banking enquiry could hardly have provided a better example of the way politicians in this country understand they are protected from any consequences of their wrongdoing. Apparently we are to believe that he hardly knew any developers. Even the Mail is outraged, but what will be done about it?
The Bolt Interview – a squatted emergency accommodation hostel in Dublin – video interview
The Bolt is an abandoned hostel for the homeless that has been occupied and brought back into use by an alliance of 6 housing groups in Dublin. In this video Solidarity Times interview one of the organisers in some detail about the building, support from local residents and what has been going on with the […]
Interview with Black Άκυροι on Anarchism, Ireland, Greece & Horizontalism
This is a by email interview Andrew did with Black Άκυροι from from Thessaloniki Greece in April 2015 about the Dublin anarchist bookfair, squatting & policing in Ireland, Syriza and horizontalism. At the end you will find a link for the interview as published.
ISIS, ideology and the Rojava Revolution – why the YPG/J fight
17th May and ISIS capture Ramadi and with it another huge stock of modern US weaponry. Something like 6000 US trained Iraqi soldiers have fled the city without putting up much of a fight. From all accounts the ISIS force was considerable smaller and reliant on a waves of suicide car bombs for its final […]
Syriza are not the limits of our dreams
Austerity was never going to be defeated by the vote. We don’t live in an economic democracy, we live in an economic dictatorship where only those with vast wealth determine its course. Parliament provides a useful illusion, one that limits our dreams and stops us acting to make them a reality. The real defeat in […]