An overview of the Spanish Revolution and its lessons for anarchists and other radicals.
Class, Ecology and the bin tax
In 2003 in Dublin over 20 people were jailed for resisting the imposition of the bin tax in Dublin. There were some who saw the bin tax struggle as being an example where the ‘environmental agenda’ is counterpoised to the ‘working class’ agenda. I don’t and I think the few environmentalists who have supported the ruling class line in this have done great damage to the environmental cause. The bin tax pure and simple was about imposing the neo-liberal agenda, what some people call ‘globalisation’. A core part of this agenda is to transfer the costs of running society from the rich and corporations to workers and the poor.
Tories for social justice? WTF?!?!
The Tories are trying to out-left New Labour. Not difficult to do, but it really is a joke considering their track-record and current notions.
George Monbiot: Muppet of the Week, part 2
George Monbiot strikes again! He really should read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid!
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George Monbiot: Muppet of the week!
George Monbiot really does not have a clue about anarchism. It is a shame he keeps exposing that ignorance to the world.
John Kenneth Galbraith, RIP
In memory of a flawed economist whose work is worth reading as he understood the role of power in the market.
The roots of privatisation
Did you know that the Nazis invented privatisation?
Pinochet: Dead at last
One less evil dictator in the world. An evaluation of Pinochet’s neo-liberal regime.
Milton Friedman: Being wrong is no hindrance when you empower the rich
An obituary for Milton Friedman. Being consistently wrong does not stop you being considered a great economist, as long as it is what the ruling elite wants to hear.
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Shell to Sea escalates struggle in Mayo as pipeline ship approaches
After a quiet period the struggle against Shell’s attempt to impose a dangerous experimental gas pipeline in Erris, Co. Mayo has escalated once more over the last month. Shell are now attempting to bring the pipe ashore at Glenagad and over 20 people have been arrested to date resisting this. Shell’s Solitaire pipe-laying ship has arrived at the port of Killybegs and is expected in the Erris area any day making this a key period for Shell and for the community that is determined to halt its project.
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