Older additions to Struggle

July

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• People Power Confronts Shell
  The jailing of 5 Rossport men for refusing to allow Shell to install a potentially lethal pipeline has suddenly focussed attention on the whole project. But it has done more than highlight safety issues. It has highlighted the cosy relationship between business and the Irish State.
• Dangerous Men Loose in Dublin
  Garda Brutality : Business As Usual with the death of Donegal man Richie Barron and other cases
• Found: CAZ and Barracka Books share premises
  New radical spaces in Cork city - The Cork Autonomous Zone (CAZ) and Barracka Books, a workers' co-op.
• Gama Workers' Strike Wins Back Stolen Cash
  The striking Gama workers got back the part of their wages which had been stolen by their employer and hidden in a Dutch bank; and at the end of May they voted to accept terms relating to overtime. A big bullying multinational construction firm had manners put on it.
• Review: 'Anarchism & Environmental Survival' by Graham Purchase..
  The book sort of falls between the polemical and academic stools. It's too short and under referenced to be truly academic yet lacks the bite and poetry of good polemic. That said there are some new and fairly fascinating ideas here.
• Irish Ferries Fly The Jolly Roger
  Agencies like CF Sharp Crew (which was Salvacion's employer by the way) have been used by shipping companies for decades as a device to drive down sailors' pay, and to take the blame or legal responsibility for horror stories like Salvacion's . They operate in countries where labour laws are so unfair and so weakly applied that they facilitate this robbery from labour by ruthless profit-seekers.
• The G8, Live 8, and Africa - Taking Hypocrisy to New Levels
  There is always a temptation to welcome any well intentioned efforts to make the world a better place and those who concentrate on criticising others' efforts to improve the world can find themselves being easily dismissed as cynics and knockers.
• That's capitalism
  Includes Money for Bertie's make-up, Money for Bankers, Money for Management, Money for Nothing but No money for starving children
• Anarchism and the WSM
  Recently, members of the WSM have been agitating with the Dissent network in Scotland against the G8.We're also involved on a more local basis, from the "stand up for your rights campaign" aimed at unionising unorganised workers, anti-racism, and trade union struggles.
• Thinking about Anarchism - Social Revolution
  Anarchists often talk of the 'Social Revolution' as the event which will destroy hierarchical and exploitative institutions, thus opening the way to living our lives according to our desires.
• INTO Branch Opposes Tactics Of Deportation Cops
  The Dublin City North Branch of the INTO has passed a motion endorsing the call by outgoing union president, Austin Corcoran, that all schools become safe places for all children -to be given the status of embassies. It is hoped that more branches within the union will take up this issue and that by next year's annual congress a campaign will be launched in the union to make this a reality
• Man Deported Because Of Garda Brutality Cover up
  In the early hours of May 19th Michael Alabi was deported by the Irish State. Michael was resident of a hostel in Lower Gardiner street and was part of a group of Nigerian men who decided to go on hunger strike to protest against the department of Justice's draconian immigration policies.

• Lyrics and translation of Bella Ciao
  Italian partisan song now widely sung in all the mediterrian countries.
• V for Very Annoying
  Looks like the movie of "Ve for Vendetta" is butchering the book. No anarchy, no wonder Alan Moore has disowned it.
• One less shit in the world
  The founder of the fascist BNP has died. What a shame.
• We have always been at war with Eurasia
  On Blair denying the obvious links between his own policies in Iraq and 7/7 as well as his rewriting of why we invaded Iraq in the first place.
• The Cost of War
  The human cost of war and why the Iraqi Body Count figure of 25,000 dead does not contradict the Lancet's100,000
• The Bush Junta: the Few Bad Apples
  The facts are emerging that prove that the US torture in Iraq was not the product of a few people at the bottom. What a surprise
• Oil well that ends well
  What a surprise, the Iraqi government is planning to lease its oil fields to international oil companies.
• Against Terrorism! Against Imperialism!
  On the London bombings of 7/7
• Say no to ID cards
  New Labour's biometric ID cards are a con and a step nearer a police state. The fact that in opposition Blair opposed them shows that the state shapes the politicians, not vice versa
• Repeating history, when not rewriting it
  An analysis of the SWP's post-election article, plus reminding them that Tom Mann was a syndicalist after becoming disgusted with the electoralism they have embraced.
• Bush now willing to negotiate with 'terrorists'
  The Bush Junta has admitted to negotiate with the insurgents they previously called terrorists. This shows that their imperial ambitions are in difficulty. Something Bush's speech showed.
• "The Culture of Life" verses Profit
  Guess what comes first? Republican's rehetoric on the "culture of life" or corporate interest?
• Mission Unaccomplished (yet again)
  Things are going from bad to worse in Afghanistan because of US imperial designs on Iraq. Not the first time that US imperialism has messed up that country...
• Do they have no shame?
  Leninists call their book published "Haymarket" after the Haymarket Martyrs and yet only stock books attacking anarchism! Muppets.
• Sack the Secretary!
  On the Downing Street Memos which prove that the Iraq war had been precided months before it started.
• That was then, this is now...
  Bush hates timetables for withdrawal. Except when Clinton was President...
• The Two Souls of Democracy
  An analysis of Tony Benn's Channel 5 programme of democracy.

May

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• The Murder Machine
  Thousands of US soldiers desert rather than fight or die for Bush in Iraq
• Postal Workers Under Fire
  Interview: An Post and the Threat of Privatisation I hope things will come around and that at the end of the day we will manage to save An Post from privatisation. You don't want to think the opposite, because it is your job. But the truth is that all the signs, everything is pointing the other way around.
• The great Housing rip off
  Whether we pay rent or a mortgage, the cost of keeping a roof over our heads takes up a huge proportion of our income - those of us who are 'lucky' enough to be in a position to do so. Everywhere we look - both in Dublin and other cities and also in small rural villages and towns - the skyline is dotted with cranes and houses and apartments seem to be springing up everywhere.
• The Iraqi 'Resistance'
  A Closer Look at the Forces Fighting the US in Iraq. It is clear that there is no single 'resistance' in Iraq but rather a network of organizations often with conflicting end goals once you look beyond the question of removing the US presence.
• International Women's Day
  International Women's Day (IWD) is on 8th March and is an inherently political event that started in 1910 when Clara Zetkin proposed that it be celebrated every year around the world at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women.
• Book Review: Peter Kropotkin's Masterpiece 'The Conquest of Bread'
  The first thing that really strikes you about the book is the simplicity of the arguments: the author describes clearly the basis of anarchist communism, without resorting to obscurities which, usually, veil one's lack of arguments.
• Water Tax
  They want to take more money away from us. The British government plans to impose a water charge averaging £340 a year in Northern Ireland. That's for 2006, and we can be sure it will rise every year.
• Red Ink Bookshop
  Review of the new Radical Bookshop in Dublin's Temple Bar
• Cork City: Culture of Capital
  A group of artists in Cork, aware of the lack of affordable work space, took over an empty building in the centre of Cork at the beginning of February.
• Liberty
  It is often said that there are two types of liberty, positive liberty and negative liberty, or, roughly, 'freedom to...' and 'freedom from...' This, I believe, is a false and meaningless dichotomy
• Internet Review: Dissent Network Against the G8
  The Dissent! Network was formed to provide a networking tool to co-ordinate radical resistance to the upcoming G8 (the 7 richest countries in the world plus Russia) Summit in Scotland. The network was founded in the autumn of 2003
• Getting organised for a brighter future
  We are social creatures. We cannot do many things on our own, we flock together, and in most cases we solve our problems together.
• That's Capitalism
  Bank Robbers and Robbing Bankers - Brazen Wolves, Obedient Sheep

• Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
  A review of Rudolf Rocker's classic introduction to anarcho-syndicalism.
• "If you are not cowards, kill me!"
  A review of a book about anarchist heroine Louise Michel. Edited by a Marxist, it downplays her anarchism and reflect the usual Marxist ignorance of anarchism and the Paris Commune.
• Inequality kills
  Welcome to modern Britain, where the difference in life expectancy between the poorest and most affluent parts of the country is now wider than in Victorian times.
• Yet more Bush Hypocrisy: This time it's the Sudan
  The Bush Junta is changing line on genocide by dictatorial Sudan. Why? Intelligence sharing and oil. Scumbags.
• Testing times
  For a "damp squib," the controversy over the Attorney General's legal advice is pretty lively. The key issue is that in his 7 March legal advice, Lord Goldsmith said that if there was no second UN resolution authorising war against Iraq, there had to be 'hard evidence' of Iraqi 'non-compliance and non-cooperation' with its disarmament obligations.
• Snippets on Iraq, Blair and the war.
  Why the war was apparently legal because Blair said it was, on "democracy" in Iraq, the cost of war and why taxi drivers in Bagdad problemly won't get a tip taking people to the airport.

April

• Now and Then
  The SWP revised history somewhat on its coverage on the 15th anniversay of the Poll Tax Riot.
• Movie News: V for Vendetta
  Hopefully Alan Moore's classic novel about an anarchist superhero fighting a fascist state will be turned into a good movie. Probably not, though.
• For war not back
  A few words about the UK election. Time to spoil your ballot paper...
• The new Pope
  Meet the new Pope, even worse than the old one!
• A tale of two atrocities
  Comparing the reporting on Saddam's mass murder compared to the 100,000 killed by Bush and Blair.
• No news is good news...
  The US State Department is not printing its annual terrorism report. Why? because the number of terror attacks is at an all-time high. So much for Bush's "war on terror."
• Incredible, but true
  The FBI is censoring reports released under the Freedom of Information Act as disclosure harm the "personal privacy" of Osama bin Laden! What does Bush have to hide?
• Just a coincidence?
  The Bush Junta has just got $500 million to build bases in Iraq.
• A modest proposal...
  MG Rover's collapse exposes the ugly face of capitalism. Occupation to form a co-operative is the only libertarian solution
• Not welcome Anywhere!
  Bush gets booed at the Pope's funeral while in Iraq 300,000 protesters burn him in effigy. Only such mass protests backed up by direct action can end the occupation.
• Deterring Democracy in Iraq
  How the US has ensured that democracy in Iraq does not threaten its plans for the country.
• People Power in Lebanon
  On the protests in Lebanon and how Bush is not responsible for them.
• Must try harder!
  While the US is happy to attack its new "democratic" regime in Iraq for human rights abuses, it remains silent on its own.
• Priorities and Hypocrisy
  What Terri Schiavo tells us about the priorities and politics of the republicans.
• What a coincidence!
  The new Afghan government will allow the US to build permanent bases while the new Iraqi government is made up of previous US appointees. What are the chances of that happening?
• On the Pope
  Against the "great man" view of history, how the pope hardly ended Stalinism and why he was hardly a champion of freedom.
• Democracy in Action?
  Reports say that United Iraqi Alliance has abandoned its election promise to demand a timeline for U.S. withdrawal. Welcome to western-style democracy!

March

• High Sea Adventures
  Ocean Crossings in Search of the Revolutionary Atlantic. So we've been doing the rounds around the Caribbean, picking up bananas at a variety of ports. Heading towards the Dominican Republic, our ship the MV Suriname, a four thousand ton reefer vessel flying under a Panamanian flag, cuts through the breezy tropical sea at a steady eighteen knots.
• The Battle of Cancun
  a closer look at the Anti-Globalization/ Global Justice Movement as it mobilized in Cancun, explaining how the infrastructure of resistance was set up, outlining the aims and objectives of the mobilization and evaluating the impact of the various different forms of protest and direct action on the general proceedings.
• Anarchism and Community Politics
  An article summarising why anarchists reject electioneering and suggesting an alternative in the form of popular assemblies (from Black Flag no. 224, autumn/winter 2004)
• On the road (block) to Freedom...
  On the Iraqi elections, why Bush did not want them and how they will not end the occupation
• Lost in Translation
  Why did Bush cancel a "town-hall" meeting in Germany? Because the Germans refused to script it like the ones in America.
• The Retreat from Liberty
  Why we should oppose the new terror laws in the UK.
• Target Iran?
  Is Bush really insane enough to invade Iran?
• Into the Memory Hole...
  Iraq was not invaded to bring democracy to Iraqis so the war cannot be retroactively defended because of the recent (flawed) election.
• The new Mercantilism
  Why inflation is a code word for class struggle and how capitalism needs state action to survive.
• Economising with reality
  Why editorials in the Economist are ideologically driven, its support for Bush's plan to privatise social security being just one example.
• If it's good enough for them...
  Various short articles on the maddness which is our current system.
• Told you so...
  What is Bush up to?

Feb

• Tricky Taoiseach Turn Pink
  The madness of the 'socialist' beloved leader is there for all too see. Dear leader, socialism means more than letting the commoners into the parks. and the Botanic Gardens.
• War and Peace
  Let Them Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
• Shannon Activists Trial
  The State Persecutes the Ploughshares People
• Zapatistas: An Inspirational Decade On
  The importance of their rebellion is not in the brief military struggle that took place 11 years ago but in the society they have built in the years since.
• Working in a Music Store
  Who'd Have Thought Exploitation Could Be So Hip?
• Social Space is the Place
  Seomra Spraoi Initiative Aims to Create Radical Social Space
• that's capitalism
  Tax fraud and hospital beds
• Devolution Ain't No Revolution
  For almost a month in late November/early December we were treated to nightly reports from RTE journalists and others - delivered in bated breath - on the possibility of a return to "devolved government" and "power-sharing" in the North
• Anarchism in 2004
  Last year the Workers Solidarity Movement celebrated its 20th Birthday. It was also a year of firsts.
• Communist anarchism
  Anarchists have a rounded conception of freedom; it is not merely the absence of tyranny, but the meaningful opportunity to shape one's own life. As well as being free from, one ought to be free to do.

• Anti-Bin Charges March in Cork
  About 300 people marched on Saturday afternoon in protest at the ongoing stand-off over the bin tax and the non-collection of domestic rubbish in Cork City.
•  Mara Salvatrucha, Social War and the Decline of the Revolutionary Movements in Central America (Dec 2004)
  Once this was a place of great hope. Today it is a region convulsed by massive delinquency and chronic state corruption whose economies are surviving tenuously on remittance money sent by migrants.
• Days of Crime and Nights of Horror
  Reviewing Days of War, Nights of Love: CrimethInc for Beginners (CrimethInc Workers' Collective, 2001) and Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983).
• Zapatistas in the Light of the New Era (2001)
  Surreal and unimaginable events taking place in Mexico as Zapatistas arrive in Mexico city

January

• Total banker
  Next Sunday, the 30th of January the president of the World Bank is due to visit Dublin. The President Mr. James Wolfensohn is here to talk to the World Council of Churches
  
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• Don't Mention the Reality
  How Bush's coronation speech has nothing in common with reality or freedom.
• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
  A review of Colin Ward's good, but not prefect, new introduction to anarchism.
• Meet the new boss, same as the old one
  How Lula's government confirms the anarchist case against radicals using elections.
• 1905
  An analysis of how the 1905 Russian Revolution vindiated anarchism, not Marxism -- as well as combating a few Marxist myths about anarchism along the way..
• The Weekly Worker, Anarchism and the 1905 Russian Revolution
  A letter to the Weekly Worker explaining the real facts about anarchism and the general strike (among other things).
• Leninists and anarchist history
  An example of how Leninists rewrite history to exclude anarchists or references to anarchists
• W stands for Wanker
  Bush's reponse to the disaster in East Asia shows his real personality -- and the priorities of capitalism.
• What a bunch of Muppets
  Iraq is getting worse, so exposing the Bush Junta's incompetence (and ulteria motives).
• The Salvador Option
  The US is thinking about using death squads in Iraq. Obviously killing tens of thousands in Central America is considered a success.
• Bush: Al Qaeda's best recruiter
  The Bush Junta choice of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General shows (as usual) it is busy strengthening Al Qaeda.
• Freedom, Iraqi style
  How the use plan to turn Fallujah into a police state, with the aid of slave labour.
• Fallujah: Liberation at work
  On the civilian deaths in Fallujah.
• It's official (again), no WMD in Iraq
  No Iraqi WMD. Not to worry, as Bush would do it again knowing what he knows now. Remember 9/11 and don't think!
• A few bad apples?
  The AUCL gets a FBI memo which shows Bush approved the use of torture in Iraq (and elsewhere). The Bush Junta are the real "bad apples" responsible.
• Taxing times
  A series of shorts on the maddness of capitalism.=
• Wall Street, altruism personified
  It wants to lobby for privatising Social Security in the US and it won't make any money out of it! How generous!
• What really happened in Spain?
  This is a summary of the debate between anarchists and James Donald on what happened during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and 1937. Contained in this file is a summary of James Donald's many postings on the subject during that debate.
• Education, anarchism and education struggles
  An index of anarchist articles about education and about the struggles of students and those who work in education
• Making a killing on your property
  Children are not property and should not be used to further the agenda of chemical companies.
• This is what democracy looks like?
  On the US assault on Fallujah. Saddam would be proud.
• Sick, sick, sick
  A few short articles on the madness of capitalism
• Bush-whacked
  The reports of voting irregularies are increasing as job growth falls. Welcome to Bush's America.
• Polls Apart
  Comparing the response to the US and Ukrainian elections.
  The irony of the Bush Junta using exit polls to attack the results in the former. If you are going to steal an election, use the Bush way -- the invisible hand of the market!

December

• After the Dust Settles - Lessons from the Summit Protests
  Despite the very real problems associated with the idea of 'summit hopping' and spectacular protest these manifestations have provided a public face of anarchism and at least as importantly have given anarchists an opportunity to work together
• Summit protests and networks
  The major advantage of the network form of organisation is that it allowed the rapid development and growth of a movement of tens of thousands from a tiny base without significant resources But no single form of organisation, unless it is one that involves the majority of workers, will ever be able to take it on in a straight fight
• Media Mayhem - Anarchists and the Mass Media
  This article examines the mainstream media and looks at the various factors which ensure that it effectively works as a propaganda tool for the powerful. It looks at ways in which anarchists can deal with this situation, by creating our own media, but also by challenging the hostility that they habitually encounter from the mainstream. It is mostly based on the experience of the 2004 Mayday protests in Dublin.
• Playing the Media Game
  Perhaps the two biggest problems in dealing with the media are firstly that the media can, through the questions they ask and the pressures they bring, begin to set the political agenda of the group. Secondly servicing the media machine can take up all a group's time and energy (to the detriment of the other activity).
• The ideas of James Connolly
  James Connolly is probably the single most important figure in the history of the Irish left. He was an organiser in the IWW in the USA but in Ireland is best known for his role in building the syndicalist phase of Irish union movement and for involving the armed defence body of that union, the Irish Citizens' Army in the 1916 nationalist insurrection. This left a legacy claimed at one time or another not only by all the Irish left parties but also by the nationalists of Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein.
• Workers Without Bosses - Workers' Self-Management in Argentina
  The original battle cry of Argentinean people "Que se vayan todos" - We want all of them out - that expressed the will to break with the corrupt bureaucracies, with the political class, turned out with all of them staying in the end. These experiences also highlight many of the problems anarchists elsewhere face in the wake of popular risings and they show us that the building of a libertarian society is not a matter of repeating clichés and slogans.
• Review: No Global - The People of Ireland Versus the multinationals
  No Global appears at a vital time. Anyone who wants to see how the bigger picture has unfolded to date can read in detail about the numerous struggles. But No Global is less clear and less persuasive when it comes to dissecting the political ideas within the environmental movement and the problems these caused

 

• His Master's Voice
  Government scapegoating of immigrants encourages racist thugs
• Up Against the Wall
  An Eyewitness Report from Palestine
• Bleeding Education Dry
  OECD Report Advocates Increased Fees, More Inequality
• Deported to be Mutilated?
  Make Female Genital Mutilation Grounds for Asylum
• Thats capitalism
  Work-Free Day 'Partnership' Bare Breasts War Does Pay
• Dublin Bus Drivers Suspended for Union Organising
  Are You or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Independent Workers Union
• Join a Union, Why Bother?
  It is not surprising that many people no longer see the relevance of joining a trade union, and that a lot of workers see those 'leading' the trade union movement as part of the problem rather than the solution
• Justice in a corrupt society
  Why is it that there is no expensive tribunals set up to 'establish the truth' about joyriding in Darndale
• The Business of Brutality
  Weapons Conference in Dublin - Less Lethal, More Repressive
• Internet Review urban75.com
  Urban75 is a great example of how the net has facilitated the creation of new communities of interest and culture
• Free Education!
  Reviews of A Primer of Libertarian Education

November

• The Speed of Dreams
  If the false arguments that the war against Iraq was a war "against terrorism" have collapsed, the real reasons are now emerging, more than a year after Hussein's statue was pulled down, aided by the tanks of the US war, and a euphoric Bush erected another one to himself declaring an end to the war
• Help for Zapatista villages in Montes Azules
  The EZLN has therefore agreed, with the express consent of their residents, to reconcentrate some of the zapatista villages in that region, so that they can thus be taken in by the Good Government Junta of the selva border region.
• Never mind the ballots
  A few comments on the US 2004 election. The real alternative is to be found in the streets and workplaces, not the ballot box.
• 100,000 plus dead. Mission Accomplished?
  The latest figures of possible dead civilians in Iraq due to the war is shocking. With the so-called moral case for war on its last legs, why did it happen? The short answer, imperialism.
• The Anarchist Media: Use it or Lose it
  Lack of participation is, I fear, a common problem with anarchist journals and papers. While many people are happy to consume a product (in the shape of a paper or journal) and complain about what it does or does not carry, fewer seem to be willing to get involved in actually producing them
• No shit, Sherlock!
  So it is now official. Saddam had no WMD. So we went to war based on (effectively) Saddam's letter to Santa. Some ideas on how the anarchist media in the UK should develop. Plus a call for people to help out with Black Flag magazine.
• Fantasy Politics
  Is Bush back on the drink and drugs? How else can you explain his apparent new abode in fantasy island when it comes to Iraq? And Blair's almost as bad. From September 2004.
• Gene Genie
  GM grass spread a greater distance than had been found in previous studies. Not good. From September 2004.
• What really happened in Spain?
  A reply to "anarcho"-capitalist James Donald's lies about the Spanish Revolution and the role of Anarchists within it. From the mid-1990s, when I had the misfortunate to get into a discussion with the barefaced liar.
• Serfdom in Catalonia?
  James Donald attempts to show how the CNT "enserfed" the peasants in Catalonia
• Reign of Error
  The continuing debate between anarchists and James A. Donald on what happened during the Spanish Civil War
• Objectivity and Right-Libertarian Scholarship
  Another reply to right-libertarian distortions on Spanish anarchism. While less in-your-face in terms of lies than Donald's work, it is still riddled with distortions and inaccuracies. Written in 1997 and subsequently revised.

September

• Campus anarchist
  New index of material related to campuses in Ireland

No Masters issue 1

• Education and control
  Education is not accessible to all in society. The reasons for this inequality are abundant. The main reasons are predominantly due to broader social and economic inequalities created and maintained by the present government.
• What Type Of Student Politics?
  Basically the future of education is up for grabs this year. There are frightening prospects at stake here: Privatisation, reintroduction of fees and basic notions of democracy are on table and the student movement could very easily lose
• Listen 'Student.'
  For the rest of my life I will have to work for somebody else, selling them my ability to work, selling them my energy, so as they make a profit out of me, and so as that I can live. I say live with reservation, can I really call the life ahead of me 'living'?
• Housing For Profit
  Its that time of year again, when a vast majority of students realise one simple thing: we are being ripped off by our landlords. You've probably couch surfed for weeks, or ran around trying to open accounts in what ever bank it is that will extend an immediate over draft.

• Saddam-lite
  On the new regime in Iraq and why Iraq is not "liberated" or "free." And how the US has taken over Saddam's role as the crusher of Shia revolts.
• Beating about the Bush
  On the lies, smears and distortions of the Republican National Convention in New York. How imperialism abroad is distracting from class at home. Bush as "girlie-man" and the Republican love of the leader principle.
• Another letter on GM crops
  More on GM and why it is not like a machine and why the evidence suggests a rethink on it.
• Final letter to Freedom on GM crops
  Explaining (yet again) why there is no sound scientific reason to assume GM crops are safe.

• The Folly of Racism
  Citizenship Referendum:Politicians played the race card and most workers were fooled
• Surviving on the Minimum Wage in Dublin
  The amount of money you earn is one of the most important factors that influence your quality of life.
• SIPTU's Dirty Deal
  SIPTU has signed its first ever no-strike deal with Connex, who run Dublin's LUAS trams
• Slaughter and Lies
  Over the past decade Chechnya has been torn apart by a vicious and brutal war between Russia and Chechen separatists.
• Squatting in Dublin
  One Squatter's Story: On August 8th of last year, a group of us moved into an abandoned and run down house on Leeson St and proceeded to make it our home
• The Joy of Reclaiming Streets
  The first feeling at any Reclaim The Streets is a strange one for someone accustomed to the plodding, predictability of your usual lefty "protest".
• Review of Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
  Understanding Power is a collection of edited interviews, presentations and discussions that Noam Chomsky has had with activists and community groups over the ten year period from 1989-99
• That's capitalism
  The rich in Ireland and the state of the health service
• The Role of the Gardai
  The primary role of the police is to preserve the status quo in society. In other words, the first task of the police force, of any police force, is to ensure the rule of the State and the rich elite
• Thinking about Anarchism - Crime
  Whatever nice theories about crime anarchists might come up with we can be sure that any community subjected to a murder or a rape will want something done about it.
• About Workers Solidarity
  We don't believe that being able to choose between a bunch of gangsters, grafters and gombeen men every few years adds up to democracy
• Midwest USA: An anarchist view
  It was my first time in the USA. I came with all the baggage. I had lived near a tourist town and had experienced thousands of grey haired, green clad, overweight, camera wielding yanks. The Mid West was an eye-opener.

• What sort of anti-racism do we need?
  Dublin day school, see PDF file of program
• Resistance Pays ... Cork Anti-Bins
  Figures released by Cork City Council confirm that the non-payment of bin charges remains very high despite the Council's bullying tactics
• Mayday Court Appearances - The Word from no. 46 - the Security Cut
  One of the mayday defendants informed me that the state was going to introduce 52 x 3hr video tapes as evidence against him

August

• The Clash of the Two Europes
  According to the press, on Mayday there was going to happen a huge clash between the "forces of order" -riot police- and the "forces of evil" -sinister anarchists coming down from London to gas to death innocent Dubliners
• A Message from Marcos - August 2004
  Marcos breaks the silence with new communiques detailing what the Zapatistas have been up to
  • Two Flaws - August 2004
    There are two mistakes which seem to have persisted in Zapatista political work: the place of women, on the one hand, and, on the other, the relationship between the political-military structure and the autonomous governments.
  • Three Shoulders August 2004
    So we rose up in arms one first day of January in the year of 1994Éin order to seek another shoulder which would help us walk, that is, to exist. Includes the accounts of the five Good Government Juntas
  • Four Fallacies about the Good Government Juntas - August 2004
    These were brandished by intellectuals of the right, judges, legislators and officials in order to oppose the San Andrés Accords, and the putting into practice of those accords with the creation of the caracoles and the Good Government Juntas
  • Five Decisions of Good Government (Zapatistas)
    Marcos details the first year of the Good Government Juntas in which some internal accords were formalized and new decisions were defined
  • Six Advances - August
    This is what the zapatista peoples are doing. They're not waiting for the government to give them charity and speeches. They are working to improve their living conditions, and they are achieving that.
  • Seven Days in Zapatista Territory - August
    A snapshot of what is happening on the ground
  • Enter Durito - August
    And so, when no one is expecting it (including me), a beetle appears on the screen (or on the paper) with the following speech:
• Arms Dealers to Converge on Dublin for Weapons Conference
  Sunday Tribune announces international arms fair in Dublin with title 'less lethal weapons in peace and war"
• Aug 22 - Old Head of Kinsale Walked Again
  At todays peoples picnic on the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork protestors climbed the walls and crossed the razor wire to again walk to the lighthouse.
• About anarchism in China
  New index of articles on Chinese anarchism
  • Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism: An Interview with Arif Dirlik
    Arif Dirlik is among the few historians writing in English to treat the Chinese anarchist movement, which he has chronicled and analyzed in several works, most notably his Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution.
• The Partition of Ireland
  New position paper from the Workers Solidarity Movement as agreed at their July 2004 conference
• The Student Movement
  A guide to activity for stundent members
• Our Perspectives
  How we see the times ahead
• The Trade Unions
  With a new short term perspectives section
• Our publications
  Details how publications are produced
• Capitalist Globalisation and Imperialism
  with very minor changes
• Kate Bamidele: Don't let them send her to her death
  If the Irish government sends her back to Nigeria, she faces the prospect of being stoned to death
• Review - Red Barcelona:Social Protest & Labor Mobilisation in the 20th Century
  A rather sectarian attempt to draw lessons from the growth of the CNT for activists today

July

• Wanker of Mass Destruction
  The Butler report (surprise!) let Blair of the hook, in spite of the evidence that the case for war was a lie. However, Blair is not the cause, the system is.
• Tear down the Wall!
  The International Court of Justice has rightly ruled against Israel and has been ignored. As anti-imperialists, anarchists must call for the dismantling of the wall and the right of self-determination for the Palestinians. However, only a "no state" solution can ensure lastingpeace and self-determination for all.
• The show trial begins
  A few comments on the charges against Saddam, noting the hypocrisy and complicity of the west on almost every charge.
• What's Iraqi for Newspeak?
  On the farce of the transfer of "sovereignty" in Iraq.
• The Moore the merrier
  A short comment on the backlash against Michael Moore. If only people had been as concerned about fact-checking Bush and Blair!
• Marxism 2004: The beginning of the end for the SWP?
  A few thoughts after leafeting Marxism 2004. Is the SWP on the decline? Let's hope so!
• Respect: The folly will continue
  A quick analysis of Respect's by-election respects. Don't expect the SWP's shift to the right to end any time soon...
• Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy
  Review of Israel Getzler's excellent book on red Kronstadt. Essential reading for anyone interested in combating Bolshevik myths about the uprising of 1921.
• Rising Inequality in the UK
  And what we can do to stop it rising, like unionise and fight for your rights.
• Defend the right to choose
  The state should not force a woman to have a child. And a feminism which ignores class will not stop attacks on women's rights.
• A Modest Proposal: Railways to the rail workers!
  Neither privatisation nor nationalisation. For workers' self-management as the only real and effective alternative to both.
• Traveller and Settled Solidarity picket court hearing
  in support of a traveller woman Mrs Harty who was summonsed by the Gardai under the Trespass Act for failing to obey their instruction to vacate an empty site at Brocklesby Courton Seminary Road on Corks northside
• Anarchism in New Zealand
  Index of anarchist web sites and mailing lists in New Zealand/ Aotearoa
• Anarchist FAQ
  I'm mirroring the anarchist FAQ, the most detailed modern explanation of anarchism online
• Additions to Struggle in 2003
  All the pages added to the struggle site last year
• Anarchy or Chaos? [PDF version]
  General introduction to Anarchism (written with a comrade). Originally done for Marxism 2004
• And they all come tumbling down...
  How the 911 commission has exposed yet another Bush Junta lie about Iraq, as has a recent opinion poll of Iraqis.
• Ronald Reagan: Dead at Last!
  On the political Alzheimer's which accompanied the death of Reagan. His real legacy exposed.
• Free at last?
  Iraq will not be free on June 30th. The UN has simply rewarded US imperialist aggression.
• The Bolshevik Revolution: A legacy better rejected
  This year marked the 80th anniversary of the death of Lenin. Time to dump Leninism as a deeply flawed theory.
• One step forward...
  The Law Lords said that a gay couple has the same legal rights as a married couple due to the Human Rights Act. Yet heterosexual couples who reject marriage as an institution still have unequal rights.
• Fire Brigades Union severs link with Labour
  And about time. Yet many trade unionists still see the need for a new political party rather than union independence as the way forward...
• The Spirit of May Day
  The Origins of May Day
  Reclaiming the Labour Movement
• [Download and print out the PDF version]

June

• Civilisation, Primitivism and anarchism
  Over the last decade a generalized critique of civilization has been made by a number of authors. Facing this challenge anarchists need to first look to see if primitivism offers any sort of realistic alternative to the world as it is. [PDF file]
• Dublin Grassroots Network
  Dublin Grassroots Network is a network of activists and groups who come together to fight for a better future, based on the Grassroots principles.
  • What is the Dublin Grassroots Network?
    A brief look at the who, what, why and how of the DGN
  • Contacting Dublin Grassroots
    Contact details and details of DGN email lists
  • DGN News
    Latest News from Dublin Grassroots
  • Anti-war tour of Dublin
    Starting at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, 2.30 pm, on June 19th
  • Bikes Against Bush
    Leaving Dublin on the 19th after the Anti-war tour, stopping at towns along the trail to Shannon
  • Shannon Peace Camp
    Peace Camp in Shannon until Saturday June 26th
  • Reclaim the Skies
    Assembling 7pm Shannon Town Centre. Ambush supporting Anti-War Ireland protest at Shannon Airport
  • Bush Off and Don't Come Back!
    Assemble 12pm, Bunratty Castle. Ambush protest to Shannon airport
  • Dublin Grassroots AmBush Posters and Stencils to Download
    Help build the protests by downloading and displaying prosters etc
• Why capitalism needs illegal labour
  The real purpose of racist immigrations controls in the USA and Europe is not to prevent the entry of migrants. It is to create a situation where those who get in live in constant fear of deportation. This makes them an ideal labour force that fulfills capitalism need for cheap labour
• Vote No: Send a Message to McDowell on June 11th
  If we vote 'Yes' on June 11th, children who were born in Ireland, and have never set foot outside of Ireland, will have no rights as Irish citizens. They will be liable to be kicked out of their own country.
• PDF file of Vote No: Send ...
  For you to download, print out and distribute
• Struggle talk
  Struggle talk is a high volume discussion list for people interested in the sort of stuff published on struggle.

May

• Join the Campaign Against the Racist Referendum march
  The Campaign Against the Racist Referendum (CARR) has been set up by a broad range of organisations and individuals with the aim of strengthening opposition to the June 11th Citizenship Referendum.
• End the Occupation!
  The pictures of US torture of Iraqi prisoners is yet more evidence that the occupation must end. And it's not a "few bad apples", it is systemic.
• Mirror, Mirror
  After the sacking of the Mirror editor, why not start sacking the lying politicians who invaded Iraq?
• You vote, they rule...
  How the Indian election proves anarchist theory on how capital controls the state, not the population.
• Wildcat fire strikes
  Why the recent firefighters strikes should be supported by anarchists
• It makes you sick
  What Tesco's attack on the sickie says about capitalism.
• The economics of freedom
  A review of a recent SolFed pamphlet on the anarcho-syndicalist alternative to capitalism.
• Letter to Socialist Resistance (2)
  Replying to their reply on anarchism. Available as pdf file.
• Letter to Anarchy (2)
  Reply to comments made in Anarchy magazine in response to my first letter.
• PDF file of Workers Solidarity 81
  For you to download, print out and distribute
  • Democracy Where Are You?
    When the EU circus leaves, we start concentrating on the visit of the world's no. 1 terrorist, George W. Bush. Let's all make sure he knows how we feel about him when the leader of the 'free' world lands.
  • Vote NO to Racist Referendum
    The government is trying to create a smokescreen to cover up their own failures by rushing through a referendum to attack Irish children's rights.
  • That's capitalism
    The hundred richest Irish people to deporting McDowell
  • Haiti and US Terrorism
    Haiti has long suffered from Uncle Sam's interventions. Born through slaves' revolts against their French masters, Haiti was the first black republic in the world -1804 - and for that has paid a high price.
  • Ireland's 'Traditional' Racism Remains
    An interview with Mrs Ellen Mongan, a Traveller with seven children. It's 2004 and close to 1,000 Traveller famlies are still living on the roadside without access to basic facilities-water, sanitation or electricity
  • Review: We Are Everywhere
    We Are Everywhere is a collection of articles, photos and interviews about the past decade of global anti-capitalist resistance. What marks this book out is that all the contributors are activists
  • We Don't Want Your Vote
    Most, if not all, of the left wing political parties in Ireland are standing candidates in the up-coming local elections. Members of the Workers Solidarity Movement will not be joining them
  • Building the Anti-War Movement from Below
    The question now is what sort of broad anti-war movement can be built that is genuinely inclusive and democratic?
  • State Terrorism
    If we examine history and look at current events in the world we are confronted by a multitude of examples of state terrorism.
  • The Pay-Rise is in the Post
    Dishonest newsroom bosses told us about the "strike" in An Post. There was no strike by workers, but there were hundreds of workers suspended in what was effectively a lock-out by management.
  • Abortion Rights Still Denied
    In 1861, abortion was made a criminal offence in Ireland. One hundred and forty three years later the Irish government continues to deny women their right to choice.
• Property is theft
  Why the theft of over £4 million by a PA from the bank accounts of three financial high-flyers exposes the con at heart of capitalist economics.
• Destroying Iraq in order to save it
  On the US attacks on Fallujah, the logic of occupation and how we can end it.
• The Revolutionary Ideas of Bakunin
  An introduction to Bakunin's ideas to mark the 190th anniversary of his birth. Find out why he is still worth reading today.
• Review of "Hurrah for anarchy!" - Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis by Albert R. Parsons
  Review of the book by one of the Haymarkets Matyrs
• May 1st - The long march on Farmleigh
  In terms of the development of a libertarian movement in Ireland the march on the EU summit at Farmleigh will probably be seen as a turning point. For the first time the movement mobilized large number of people from outside its own ranks, in a demonstration that was in direct defiance of the Irish governments attempt to ban such demonstrations.
•  Archive of DGN press releases
  Dublin Grassroots Network press releases for the EU summit protests
  • The real Mayday street party is still on
    The Government may have cancelled its 'Beautiful Night' concert in O'Connell Street, but the real Mayday weekend street party is going ahead.
  • Dublin Grassroots Network seeks clarification on Mayday powers for police and army
    Huge disruption is to be caused to Dublin by the EU ministers' Dublin Castle photocall, which entails the closing of Dame Street, and the Farmleigh banquet, for which Europe's largest public park is to be sealed off by a rumoured seven miles of razor-wire, water-cannons, soldiers and armed gardai.
  • Will gardai be allowed to shoot protestors?
    Mayday protest organisers have called for clarification on police and army powers for the Mayday weekend
  • Mayday organisers reject GRA allegations
    The Dublin Grassroots Network, who are organising a weekend of events this May Day to highlight "Fortress Europe", have sharply criticised recent statements from Garda Representative Association (GRA) general secretary, PJ Stone, as heightening tensions and criminalising the right to protest.
  • Royston backs down over May Day protests
    Dublin's Lord Mayor Royston Brady has been forced to admit that the May Day protests planned in Dublin are legitimate and that "every citizen has a right to make a peaceful protest".
  • Mayday protests will not be cancelled - organisers
    Mayday protests events in Dublin will go ahead, organisers insisted today (Thursday). They were responding to a garda decision to ban protests on the weekend when Ireland hosts the EU summit.
  • Grassroots Network invites Dubliners to join May Day events
    Dublin Grassroots Network has called for the people of Dublin to join in May Day parties and protests and make their voice heard in the face of Garda attempts to prevent the events and unfounded scare stories.
  • Bertie, gardai have lost the plot, say protestors
    Gardai and politicians have lost the plot completely and are saying the first thing that comes into their heads
  • Government 'putting gun back into Irish politics'
    The Government is "putting the gun back into Irish politics" by deploying armed gardai and soldiers to deal with May Day protests, according to protest organisers.
  • May Day Protest Dress Rehearsal
    Come and see what is really planned for May Day in Dublin this weekend.
  • Demonstrators challenge anonymous smear campaign against right to protest 
    One of the main groups organising protests against Dublin's EU summit in May has criticised an anonymous smear campaign aimed at undermining the right to protest.
  • "All Aboard For May Day Mobilisation in Dublin"
    Cork activists of the Grassroots Network are on their way to Dublin for the major mobilisation in the capital this weekend.
  • Arrests confirm pattern of garda harassment
    The arrests of three protestors in Dublin last night (Tuesday night) have been branded by protest organisers as simply the latest in a campaign of garda harassment in the run-up to next weekend's protests.
  • May Day organisers condemn Polish represssion
    Dublin Grassroots Network, which is organising a Mayday weekend of events for an alternative Europe, today condemned the repression of activists campaigning against the World Economic Forum in Warsaw.
  • Dublin Grassroots: Saturday march not cancelled - April 30
    Dublin Grassroots Network reject in the strongest possible terms allegations made in recent television news that our Saturday "Bring the Noise" march has been "cancelled".
  • Organisers condemn banning of May Day march
    Dublin Grassroots Network, the group organising the "Bring the Noise" march to Farmleigh House at 6 pm on Saturday evening, has condemned Garda measures announced yesterday evening which amount to the banning of the march
  • Banned march went ahead2
    We have shown that it is not so easy to take away democratic freedoms. You can break people's bones. You can throw them in jail. But they will still assemble. And they will not give up the right to protest so easily.
  • Injured protesters were denied access to hospital
    The Dublin Grassroots Network has expressed concern at the non-reporting of injures caused by the Garda attack on demonstrators on the Navan road on Saturday evening.
  •  Attempt to criminalise protest overturned
    Spokespeople for the Dublin Grassroots Network welcomed this afternoon's High Court decision, which overturned the District Court's refusal to grant bail to May Day protestors
  • Civil liberties were suspended for "security operation"
    Dublin Grassroots Network, the organisers of many of the May Day protest events, today condemned the effective suspension of civil liberties for the weekend.
  • Fortress Dublin? The criminalisation of protest and the demonisation of dissent
    This dossier is a very brief list of events, all of which can be readily documented from obvious sources (media archives, Indymedia).It consists of two parts: firstly a chronicle of recent events giving rise to concern from the moment of the banning of the Farmleigh march; secondly a dossier of "dirty tricks" which we prepared before the banning of the march and released on Friday, April 30th.
  • May day spokespeople resign en masse - May 13
    We volunteered to do a particular job. Now that job is done, our mandates are over
• Archive of DGN documents
  Information other than press releases
  • No Borders, No Nations - March 4
    The consolidation of the EU's immigration policy has led in one direction: Fortress Europe. This is the policy of a Europe that cares only about profit and economic expansion, at the detriment of human life.
  • Protect the right to protest: Dublin Grassroots Network this Sunday - April 3
    Please come to the next Dublin Grassroots Network meeting and lend a hand. Even if you are unable or feel too intimidated to come out on May Day, you can help us with publicity, media work, finance or legal support.
  • No Borders camp details
    On Sunday May 2nd the Dublin Grassroots Network will be opening a temporary No Borders camp to welcome asylum seekers and refugees to Ireland.
  • Open letter to Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice (and his reply)
    In the wake of media scare stories surrounding security plans for Mayday, the Dublin Grassroots Network once again seeks clarification
  • Dossier of "dirty tricks"
    May Day organisers: government "inciting a riot"

April

• PDF file of What's wrong with the EU
  12 page PDF pamphlet
• What's wrong with the European Union?
  The EU is one of the motors of capitalist globalisation, the rule that all decisions should be made on the basis of profitability alone.
• The neoliberal agenda at the heart of the EU
  EU decisions are driven not by the needs of the people of Europe but by the wishes of the European based corporations. These corporations produce drafts that are later turned into EU policy
• Fortress Europe
  Increased integration of EU asylum and immigration policy. One of the first steps towards the creation of Fortress Europe was the Schengen Agreement which was originally signed in 1985 by five EU states
• The EU, militarism and Ireland
  The story of the European Union and militarism goes back as far as 1955 when the Western European Union (WEU) was formed. This was the main avenue for joint European security efforts and was closely tied to NATO
• The libertarian alternative to the bosses Europe
  For us, the libertarians, these struggles are not a means to conquer the power of others. For us, these struggles are a means to radically change society. Instead of power, we want freedom; instead of privilege, we want justice.
• Gardai harassment of Mayday protest leafleting continues
  Over the last week the Gardai have repeatedly turned up on occasions where the Dublin Grassroots Network has been attempting ton inform the public about the Mayday protests.
• No to Fortress Europe
  Mirror site for the DGN Mayday EU summit protests
  • WHY PROTEST?
  • WHAT WE ARE DOING?
  • WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
  • NEWS, EVENTS & MEDIA GROUP
  • INFO FOR THOSE TRAVELLING TO DUBLIN
  • LEGAL & OTHER PROTEST INFO
• Red Emma and the Reds
  A lengthy reply to an American Leninist and his lies and distortions about Emma Goldman's politics and life. For my daughter, Sophie Emma.
• Iraq: the war continues
  On the Shia revolt in Iraq. It must have put a damper any plans the US may have had to the mark the fall of Baghdad.
• Lies, actually
  Summarising some of the more obvious lies to justify the war which have been exposed recently.
• Help wanted...
  While the US finds it hard to get someone to be ambassador for Iraq, it is finding work for Saddam's old secret police -- in the new secret police!
• GM refused?
  The end of GM in the UK? Perhaps. Or the end of any pretence of safety testing.
• Say no to ID cards
  The new excuses for introducing IDs are nonsense. Blair government is spinning the Madrid bombings to justify their authoritarianism.
• Letter to Freedom on the last Wildfire Bulletin
  A few comments on the last ever Wildfire Bulletin. On the poverty of primitivism.
• Letter on anti-GM article
  Defending my anti-GM article against a reader of Freedom.
• Emma Goldman
  Index of writing by and about the famous anarchist
• How safe is Nigeria
  Online documents on what forces cause people to flee Nigeria
• Workers Solidarity No 80 is online
  Individual articles can be accessed below
• PDF file of Workers Solidarity 80
  For you to print out and distribute locally
  • Mayday Mayday
    EU leaders in the castle - we'll take the streets. On Saturday, the first of May, anarchists and other activists from the Dublin Grassroots Network are calling for a day of action and protest against the EU.
  • Thats capitalism
    Racist attacks, Fianna Fail bribes and housing shortages in Ireland
  • Deporting our neighbours - Government plays race card to divide and rule
    It suits the Irish elite to scapegoat refugees for all the problems that their mismanagement of society causes. The ruling class wants to set Irish workers against immigrant workers so as to prevent the workers from seeing that their interests are the same regardless of nationality
  • Quebec 1, Global Elite 0
    When the summit circus came to Quebec and lost. The Summit of the Americas, a meeting of 34 head of state to advance the agenda of neo-liberal capitalism, was held in Québec in 2001.
  • On the frontlines of the health crisis
    An interview with Dr. Ciara McMeel, a GP working in West Tallaght
  • Book Review - Palestine by Joe Sacco
    In the book '1984', Winston Smith is told what the future is going to be like. He is told to imagine a boot grinding a face into the ground over and over again.
  • Thinking about Anarchism - Immigration
    The flip side to the world of freedom of movement for the wealthy and their commodities is that there are massive restrictions on the freedom of movement for those seeking to escape the poverty of the third world.
  • Hijab: lifting the veil
    Standing up to religious oppression or state racism? Ultimately we believe that people should have the freedom to dress whatever way they like. This means freedom from state interference and freedom from religious interference in how one should dress.
  • International Women's Day
    International Women's Day is an expressly political day. In 1907 women sweatshop workers marched in New York and thus the first International Women's day was born.
  • Transport privatisation: working conditions under attack
    Reduce wage costs, increase fares, cut back on less used routes. That's the plan for the bus service. Airport workers are also looking at worsening conditions with the threatened break up of Aer Rianta
• Tough on Blair. Tough on the causes of Blair
  On why Blair's justifications for war are nonsense and why the focusing on Blair by some parts of the anti-war movement is wrong. We need to change the system, not politicians.
• No to all forms of Terrorism!
  On the Madrid bombings. Written the day after the event and correctly doubts whether ETA was responsible.
• Union busting, Iraqi style
  Labour unions in "liberated" Iraq? You should know better!
• Money talks...
  Some light is shed on Blair's meetings with big business. A truly listening government.
• What is Anarchism?
  A review of Alexander Berkman's classic introduction to Communist-Anarchism. A highly recommended book.
• EUfortress
  say no to Fortress Europe, come to Dublin for the Mayday No Borders weekend 2004
  • Mayday Flyer PDF or DOC
    Flyers for Mayday 2004 in Dublin
• SIPTU section supports Columbian Coca-Cola
  SIPTU members in Trinity College have called for no investment in Coca-Cola by the Trinity College pension fund
•  The attacks on the USA, September 11 2001
  Index of useful articles and anarchist statements on the attacks.
• Anarchist anti-war PDF files
  Collection of leaflets, posters and booklets for you to print out and distribute
• The US war on Iraq, analysis and resistance
  Archives articles up to the fall of Baghdad
• Israel/Palestine, an anarchist analysis of the conflict
  Articles from an anarchist perspective
• Islam and the 'war on terror'
  Articles on Islam and links to information sources

March

• CNT Madrid declares its rejection to the terrorist outrages on the11th March
  It seems unreal that, nowadays, fully installed in the 21st century, we still have to keep reminding to people that workers are exactly the same here in Madrid than in Cordoba, Barakaldo, La Bisbal, Kandahar or Bagdad.
• Review of The Many Headed Hydra
  by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker - Sailors, slaves, commoners and the hidden history of the Atlantic
• Letter to "Socialist Resistance"
  A reply to another crap Marxist article on anarchism. Will these people ever read an anarchist book?
• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
  Review of the excellent book by Greg Palast. This is what journalism should be like!
• General Franco made me a 'Terrorist'
  Review of volume 2 of Stuart Christie's excellent autobiography.
• Gullible Morons or Getting Militant?
  Blair's government has, unsurprisingly, decided to allow GM crops to be grown. The only sensible thing to do is to oppose GM.
• New Labour: Power Junkies
  Blair's support for random drugs tests in schools shows that this should be done to his government. They are power junkies, seeking more and more power regardless of the costs.
• Is the real reason for really an official secret?
  Jay Garner, the former interim administrator of occupied Iraq shows that the real reason for the invasion is not so secret after all
• Opps, they did it again...
  The independents on Globalise Resistance have resigned over the way the SWP works. The only surprise is that they took so long to do so...
• Sidney Solomon
  a long-time anarchist and painter who lived in New York,. Member of Vanguard Group, the New Trends Group and the Libertarian Book Club
• Housing, space and squatting in Ireland
  Index of articles conerned with housing, social spaces and squatting
  • March 9 - Attempted eviction of Dublin squat fails
    On Tuesday morning the second best kept secret of the Dublin libertarian scene came to an end when the council turned up to evict 16 Leeson street

February

• Eoin Rice in High Court
  Judge Mangan tried to change his bail conditions (5 Euro bond) to include a ban from the entire of Co. Clare. Eoin refused to accept these conditions and has been in Limerick prison since, where he is on hunger strike.
• An anarchist response to Ireland on Sunday
  Feb 8th, Ireland on Sunday published a scare story about anarchism and the forthcoming EU protests. Below is a reply
• Information for Irish women about abortion services in the UK and Europe
  This website has been set up by pro-choice activists to provide Irish women information about abortion services in the UK and Europe
• Looking like a right tit
  What Janet Jackson's breast tells us about the Bush White House. And why anyone believing the nonsense of the Bush Junta suffers from a massive failure of intelligence...
• A Whiter shade of White
  An article on the whitewash called the Hutton Report. Did not predict the extent of the backlash as it was written the day after it came out.
• Building the new world...
  On why anarchists should support co-operatives as a practical alternative to privitisation and nationalisation.
• There is power in a union!
  A few comments on anarchism and the labour movement, with some suggestions of what we should be doing to spread anarchist ideas in it.
• After the New Economy
  A review of Doug Henwood's excellent new book on the US bubble of the 1990's. Highly recommended.
• "How Revolutions must not be made" -- and the alternative
  A review of two recent reprints of anarchist classics: Emma Goldman's "My Disillusionment in Russia" and a collection of Peter Kropotkin essays called "Anarchism." Both are essential reading for anarchists today.
• The question of how we get to a primitivist utopia
  Primitivists don't want to go back to the Stone Age, they just imply they do. They also consider peasant life a "return to a life of drudgery," but also "argue for" it.
• Diary on Irish racism
  This is an unofficial account of some events, political decisions, and actions related to the rise in racism in Ireland from 1997 to 2000.
• Nigeria's police: The horrifying truth
  Article was written by Ede Ahmed an asylum seeker based in Ireland.with the intention of highlighting the reasons why the Minister of Justive is not justified in colluding with the corrupt Nigerian police
• Tunde Adekiyesi
  Arrested at Dublin Airport for apparently having no ID,, charged under the Illegal Aliens Act, 1935. He works at Dublin Airport packing in-flight meals,
• 30 days in prison for wanting to see his child
  Steve Oladeja was a policeman in Nigeria. He had moral objections to enforcing the murderous policies of the then government, and was imprisoned in horrific conditions after voicing his objections, and refusing orders
• Ike Vincent
  Jailed for committing the 'impossible crime'
• Anarchism and the European Union
  An index of articles and links on the European Union and opposition to the construction of a bosses Europe. Includes details of forthcoming protests in Ireland.

January

• Index of Workers Solidarity for 2004
  Including the latest issue
• PDF file of Workers Solidarity no 79
  For you to print out
  • A busy year for the anarchist bogeyman
    On virtually every occasion that anarchists were mentioned in the media in 2003, it was in the context of a scare story about threatened violence. The reality of anarchist activity was far, far different. While we were arrested, fined, injuncted and jailed in significant numbers for taking part in peaceful protests, we did not thrown a blow at a single person. Never once were we given a chance to give our side of the story.
  • Anarchism on the Move
    Kieron Barry reviews 2003, a busy year for Irish Anarchists. A small but growing number of anarchists are building opposition to the status quo based on the politics of freedom and equality
  • Thats capitalism
    Health, education, housing, employers and MEP's
  • Bertie's European Act
    Over the next six months you will be hearing a lot about the European Union (EU). Part of the reason for this is that Ireland is taking over 'The Presidency' of the EU, but the other part is that in June elections will be held for the European 'parliament' in Brussels.
  • The final victory will be the people's
    An interview with Farzad, an Iranian Dissident in Exile in Ireland.
  • Restlesness in the Andes
    The Bolivian people suffer from one of the most blatant and shameless exploitations in the world by both their local and foreign rulers. They have a long tradition of organisation and direct action.
  • Book Review - Do or Die - vol 10
    Voices from the Ecological Resistance
  • Anarcha-Feminism
    An important principle of anarchism and one that more than any other differentiates it from other types of socialism is its emphasis on freedom and non-hierarchical social relations. Central to anarchism is the rejection of any power hierarchy between men and women.
  • The Fight for a Free Iraq
    What is life like for the Iraqi workers caught under the occupation and all too often in the cross-fire? The US/UK occupying force is not too happy that Iraqi workers are organizing themselves rather then obeying the puppet Iraqi Governing Council
  • Wages Up 23%!
    (of course not - only the bin-tax jumps up like that) The anti-bin tax campaign fought a long, hard struggle in 2003 involving pickets, blockades in estates and outside depots.
• Glossary of terms used on this web site
  The start of what should expand into a detailed glossary of terms used on this site of particular use to those outside of Ireland
• We were right all along
  An overview of what has happened in Iraq, indicating that anarchist analysis and predictions have, sadly, been confirmed.
• Kilroy-Silk is an idiot
  A few comments on Kilroy-Silk's racist article on Arabs and why freedom of speech must be defended while combating bigotry.
• Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia...
  On Rumsfeld revising history in September 2003 to deny he ever said the Iraqi's would welcome the US invasion with open arms.
• Out by 20 years...
  An analysis of Bush's 2004 "State of the Union" address. Exposes its hypocrisy and suggests it is even more Orwellean that we have come to expect from him.
• Something to really swear about!
  A few comments on the insulting and illogical "oath" the Blairites want to make immigrants swear.
• Letter to Anarchy (1)
  Replying to distortions by one of the then two editors of the UK's "Green Anarchist" magazine on the Scottish Anarchists. Then a discussion why the unabomber is not an anarchist and why "primitivism" is flawed. From 2000 (I think)
• Letter to Anarchy (2)
  Replying to the pretty crap responses of Bob Black and the editor of "Green Anarchist" to my first letter. Discussing the authoritarian and down-right sick ideas of "Green Anarchist." Again, from 2000.
• Letter to Anarchy (3)
  Replying to (the just as bad as the first one) response of Black and the (then) other editor of "Green Anarchist"). Indicating that even their attempts to distance themselves from their original ideas fails. Again, from 2000.
• Making history or just repeating it?
  A plea for Marxists to stop repeating the mistakes of history and for them to reject parliamentarianism. The alternative is community and workplace organisation and struggle.
• Fight Fibs! Fight Inventions!
  A short article pointing out the lies of the UK based Revolutionary Communist Group and the fact they did not print my letter refuting them.
• Free Trade benefits all?
  A short article from 1999 looking at growth in Brasil to see the effects of "globalisation"
• Clinton, workers' rights and reality
  A short article written after the Seattle protests showing how direct action, not discussing "Labour standards" at the WTO, was the only way to improve workers' rights.
• Italian Syndicalism and Fascism
  Article refuting Bob Black's claims that the "Italian syndicalists mostly went over to Fascism." In fact, they fought fascism tooth and nail. Printed in Black Flag 217
• Reply to Bob Black
  Letter in reply to Black's comments on the article "Italian Syndicalism and Fascism." From Black Flag 219
• N30 in London
  My experiences at the N30 demo in London. From 1999.
• Reaping the profits
  On the Bush Junta's barring non-Coalition based companies from contracts in Iraq.
• What a surprise!
  A short piece on why lack of WMD protection of UK troops shows that either Blair is a liar or his is really evil.
• What a surprise! (long version!)
  On how the recent announcement that British troops invaded Iraq without WMD shows that Blair lies. Plus the Bush Junta's announcement that it would bar companies from non-Coalition states from tendering for Iraqi reconstruction contracts shows that plunder was the real reason.
• Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
  In spite of the lack of WMD in Iraq, corporations are making money out of the search for them.
• The return of Mini-Me...
  On how the US has replaced Saddam's dictatorship by its own.
• Doing our job for us...
  An article on how New Labour has confirmed the anarchist case against the state. What better advertisement for libertarian ideas can there be than Blair?
• 1 in 5
  More 1 person in 5 are live in poverty in the UK. 1 in 5 workers have suffered a pay cut in the last 10 years. Strong unions stop this. Time to organise!
• 1 in 5 (longer version)
  More of the same, plus more on social perspectives under new Labour and the self-defeating nature of "individualism"
• Capitalism is losing its Barings?
  Old article (early 1990s) on globalisation and what it means for social change.
• Anarchist Organisation and the Organisation of Anarchists
  An article from the early 1990s on ideas how the Glasgow Anarchist Group should organise itself.
• Bakunin and the Invisible Legions, revisited
  Lengthy article on Bakunin's "invisible dictatorship." How Marxists quote out of context to smear his ideas and anarchism in general.
• Lula's "Tropical Blairism" in Brazil
  On Lula's continual right-wing fall into opportunism. Anarchism vindicated yet again.
• WHY MAYDAY?
  Text of a leaflet explaining the anarchist origins of May Day.
• Wildfire reply (sent)
  Reply to the primitivist Wildfire collective's letters on my critiques of their Bulletins. Concentrates on the 9key issues why primitivism is pants. Sent to Freedom.
• Wildfire reply (Unsent)
  Long reply to the primitivist Wildfire collective's letters on my critiques of their Bulletins. Not sent as replying in kind to their insults hide the real issues.
• One people! One planet! One struggle!
  Text of an anti-fascist leaflet handed out in Glasgow
• Draft SFA aims and principles, including preamble.
  I was involved in drafting these Aims and Principles for an anarchist federation in Scotland in the early 1990s.
• Nevermind the Ballots!
  Short anti-election leaflet from 1997. New Labour got in and proved it right!

December

• Wishes of pregnant girl must come first says pro-choice group
  The pro-choice group 'Alliance for Choice' today said that the case of the pregnant 14 year old girl in the care of the Midland Health Board again shows how the ban on abortion in Ireland creates huge problems for women with crisis pregnancies, and for those responsible for the care of girls with crisis pregnancies.
• Small bin tax victory in Dun Laoghaire
  Every Wednesday morning I arise at 7 am. Our mission to make sure that every bin on the Granville Road, Doonsalla, Watsons road is lifted whether they have paid some, all or no bin tax.
•  Red and Black Revolution
  Indes of all issues of this Irish anarchist magazine
• Red and Black Revolution No 7
• PDF file of Red And Black Revolution 7
  • Has the Black Block tactic reached the end of its usefulness? by Severino (Barricada Collective)
    As class struggle anarchists who recognize the importance of a diversity of tactics in order to attack Capital, the State, and oppression in an effective manner, we see the black bloc as an important tool of struggle. Only one tool among many, but an important one nonetheless.
  • Where to Now? Anti-capitalist protest - global and local by Gregor Kerr
    It is certainly hard to avoid the conclusion that anti-globalisation protests that avoid direct action will kill off the movement, or at least greatly reduce participation in it.
  • Repressing Abortion in Ireland by Mary Favier (Doctors For Choice)
    The Republic of Ireland has one of the most draconian abortion laws in the world. At present abortion may only be performed where continuation of pregnancy poses a 'real and substantial' risk to a pregnant woman's life - about 5 cases per year of 50,000 pregnancies
  • Direct Action against the war in Ireland by Andrew Flood
    In every country after February 15th the anti-war movement was thus faced with the question of what to do next. In Ireland almost all of the direct action protests were targeted on Shannon airport. More than half dozen successful actions took place, ranging from a large scale breach of the fence in October, to physical attacks on planes as the build up to war escalated.
  • The IAWM's dismal leadership" A critique of the politics of Trotskyism by Dec McCarthy
    After months of regularly attending the Irish Anti-War Movement's marches and particularly after months of listening to the speeches of the leading lights of the IAWM my head is buzzing with cant and rhetoric and I have that dejected feeling you get when you know you have just lost a chance that won't be coming around again for a long time.
  • Industrial Collectivisation during the Spanish Revolution by Deirdre Hogan
    Within hours of the start of the Spanish revolution workers had seized control of 3000 enterprises. This included all public transportation services, shipping, electric and power companies, gas and water works, engineering and automobile assembly plants, mines, cement works, textile mills and paper factories, electrical and chemical concerns, glass bottle factories and perfumeries, food processing plants and breweries.
  • If you want to create Socialism - it must be based on Freedom by James O'Brien
    Anarchists also seek to create communism. But for us freedom plays a central role, not only in the future society, but in how we try to get there. That is why, when we talk of communism, we talk of libertarian communism
  • Open Borders: The case against immigration controls reviewed by Conor McGloughlin
    Most mainstream groups eventually come down clearly in favour of immigration controls and deportations, though arguing for "generosity." This book takes a position that so far has only won over a small but growing minority and argues for the immediate ending of all border controls.
  • The trouble with Islam by Andrew Flood
    The September 11 attacks, the Afghan war that followed from it and the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine have once again raised the issue of Islam in the minds of many anarchists in Ireland and Britain. Not just because of the role Islam has in shaping those conflicts but also because militant Islam has become a far more noticeable presence on solidarity demonstrations.
• Dec 6 2003 - Blockade of Shannon warport (with photos)
  December 6th saw the largest anti-war demonstration at Shannon airport since Aprilof last year. Some 400 people took part in what the Irish Anti War Movement (IAWM) had advertised as a blockade of the airport.
• Marxism or Anarchism?
  A talk given as part of a debate organised by the Trotskyist party "Alliance for Workers' Liberty." A basic introduction to why anarchism is better than Leninism.
• The integrity of protest, the hypocrisy of power
  A few comments on the rhetoric used by Bush and Blair before the latter's state visit to London in November. Why the protestors were right, in other words.
• Fawkes pas...
  The irony of the Scottish Socialist Party's attempts to appropriate libertarian rhetoric in the run up to Guy Fawkes night.
• A second letter to FRFI on the Makhnovists
  Correcting why more Leninist lies about the Makhnovists, this time by the UK based RCG.
• Letter to Weekly Worker (4)
  Yet more on the Russian Revolution and whether paraphrasing Bakunin means breaking with "consistent anti-statism"
• Letter to Weekly Worker (5)
  Replying to disgraceful revising of history by a Marxist about the Makhnovists as well as clarifying why a free federation of workers' councils can never be a state.
• Critique of Green and Black Bulletin no. 1
  Letter to Freedom critiquing the first primitivist bproudhon2.htmlulletin published in its papers. Discusses why primitivism is silly.
• Critique of Green and Black Bulletin no. 2
  Letter to Freedom replying to a primitivist article on why "mass society" must be destroyed. Exposing its contradictions as well as its impracticality.
• Letter to Freedom on class struggle (1)
  Old letter on why class and class struggle are key ideas in anarchism.
• Letter to Freedom on class struggle (2)
  Another old letter on why class and class struggle are key ideas in anarchism.
• Letter on Property and Anarchist Communism (1)
  An old letter from 1999 defending anarchist ideas about private property from attacks by a mutualist-anarchist (who later rejected anarchism to become an "anarcho"-capitalist)
• Letter on Property and Anarchist Communism (2)
  More clarification from 1999 on the anarchist position on private property, showing that to call two different things as possession and private property the same name is a bad idea...
• Letter on Property and Anarchist Communism (3)
  More from 1999. Correcting an obvious distortion of Proudhon's ideas by his mutualist "defender" as well as repeating the anarchist case against private property and for possession. And why anarchists should be (libertarian) communists.
• Letter on Property and Anarchist Communism (4)
  Yet more from 1999. Refuting the claims that Proudhon wanted private property (as opposed to possession) in land. A discussion on resource use in communist-anarchism and why private property and anarchism do not go together.
• Letter on why "property is despotism"
  Another old letter to freedom on why "anarcho"-capitalist denial of "group issues" generates despotism, not freedom. Shows why capitalism and anarchism do not go together. Also shows that Somalia is hardly the capitalist system "anarcho"-capitalists like to say it is.
• Letter on "Capitalist Acts" in anarchy
  Yet another old letter to Freedom on why an anarchist society need not fear "capitalist acts" between people. Also on how capitalism bans "capitalist acts" between people every day, not to mention socialist acts, on private property. Plus how capitalism was, in fact, the product of state violence.

November

• Big Black Coffin laying on the steps of Greek house
  Report on Dublin solidarity protest with Thessaloniki 7
• [The anarchists are coming]
  PDF file on bin tax including the articles below
  • Sunday Independent claims anarchists are 'infiltrating' bin tax campaign
    The mouthpiece of millionaire Tony O'Reilly, the Sunday Independent, got terribly excited when it 'discovered' there were anarchists involved in the bin tax campaign
  • Service Charges Taking from the poor to give to the rich
    One of the main reasons that we are fighting against the bin tax is because it is another attempt to transfer wealth from workers to the rich
  • Government announces new 'turd tax'
    Minister for the environment Martin Cullen today announced a new tax on visits to the toilet, which has already been dubbed the 'turd tax'.
  • Anarchists, the bin tax & direct action
    There are many political groups and individuals involved in the campaign against the bin tax. Many of them see the campaign as little more than a way of getting votes in the local elections of June 2004.
  • The Bin Tax & Privatisation
    It is no secret that the government wants to privatise the bin service in Dublin. The service has already been privatised in thirty-seven Local Authorities around the country
  • Cork Against the Bin Tax
    The campaign in Cork and contact detials for anarchists active in the campaign in Dublin\
  • Class, Ecology and the bin tax
    As long as we live in a world ruled by a small elite that not only has the wealth to escape from environmental degradation but actually makes a bigger profit by not doing anything about it the 'environmental problem' will never be solve
  • Ballyphehane organises against the service charges
    About 30 people gathered in the Ballyphehane Community centre in Cork on Monday night to discuss opposition to the latest threat by the city council to begin non-collection of refuse.
• Workers Solidarity 78 
• PDF file of WS78
  • 1 (no) law for the rich
    The last months in Dublin have seen the jailing of ordinary working class people for protesting against the bin tax. A tax whose introduction was not only opposed by most people but which tens of thousands are refusing to pay.
  • Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement
    The ISM has had a good deal of success in helping out in some of the day to day situations faced by ordinary Palestinians
  • Thinking about anarchism - Unequal power, unequal pay
    During the year a spate of reports have 'discovered' what a lot of workers already know - that equal pay for equal work just doesn't exist.
  • Robert Emmet and the rising of 1803
    A review of the book by Ruan O' Donnell on the 1803 rising
  • Debate on Iraq war
    An (Iraqi) Kurd living in Ireland replies to us on democracy and the war in Iraq. This is a longer version of his letter than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions
  • The Social Forums: Abandon or Contaminate?
    The social forums can be stage-managed election and recruitment platforms for authoritarians and reformists. At the same time the social forums have attracted hundreds of thousands of people seeking a way to change the world we live in
  • Bin Tax - what has been going on
    The campaign against the bin-tax in Dublin has seen an upsurge of community resistance to the government
  • Chile: 30 years of 9-11 protests
    Throughout the country Chileans commemorate September 11th 1973, the day of Pinochets bloody (US facilitated) coup. This is a longer version of the article than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions
  • "Direct Action" and "A Day Mournful and Overcast"
    We review two Anarchist History Pamphlets from the Kate Sharpley Library-
  • HASC meetings in Cork
    About fifty people gathered in Mayfield GAA club in the first of a series of meetings re launching the campaign against the refuse charges in Cork city. This is a longer version of the article than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions
  • That's Capitalism
    From schools to napalm capitalism makes a mess of the world
  • David Begg: Bertie's new partner
    ICTU general secretary David Begg condemned the anti-bin tax campaign. He did this at the same time that the state was jailing protesters and refusing to collect rubbish from thousands of households in Dublin.

October

• Anti-bin tax meetings in Cork
  About fifty people gathered in Mayfield GAA club in the first of a series of meetings re launching the campaign against the refuse charges in Cork city. The meeting was addressed by Paddy Mulcahy and Ted Tynan both jailed in 1991 for non-payment
• Why does he hate America?
  Find out which unelected head of state urged terrorists to attack American troops.
• Anarchism and War
  A short article on the anarchist position on capitalist wars.
• The return of the wildcat
  Workers at British Airways went on wildcat strike. This discusses the response of the "liberal" press to the action.
• Babylon's Burning
  The dossier is a side issue. The real issue is that the government lied to justify an illegal, immoral and imperialist war and that (most of) the media went along with the lies (as usual).
• The "More Oil" Case for War
  Text of a leaflet handed out on the September 2003 anti-occupation demos in London and Edinburgh.
• Dodgy dossiers, dodgier decisions
  On the all-party foreign affairs committee deciding that Blair did not lie. Plus a few comments of the state of the UK anti-war and anarchist movements.
• Democracy in action!
  On the hypocrisy of Blair lecturing Chinese students on democracy.
• Paging Mr. Kettle...
  Blair (killer of thousands of Iraqis) on the death of Saddam's sons (killers of thousands of Iraqis).
• Labour Pains
  On the 2003 Labour Conference, on Blair's "reverse gear" and what the alternative to Labour really is.
• Something to really swear about!
  A few comments on the insulting and illogical "oath" the Blairites want to make immigrants swear.
• Phoney Blair
  Blair's backtracking after the war, from WMD to "WMD programmes."
• Sale of the Century!
  Live, from Iraq... On US plans for selling Iraq off to US corporations.
• The lie of the land
  On the Bush Junta's backtracking over Saddam's WMD. No lie is too extreme for these guys!
• Letter to Weekly Worker (1)
  On the differences between anarchism and Marxism, specifically on the question of centralism. They printed half of the letter.
• Letter to Weekly Worker (2)
  I resent the bit that was chopped, plus a new comment on Spain 1936 to do with the Popular Front. Not printed as made redundant by the next letter.
• Letter to Weekly Worker (3)
  Correcting Marxist distortions on anarchist opinions on trade unions, plus more on the Russian Revolution and how anarchists think the revolution will be defended. Printed, more or less, as it is here.
• Letter to Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism - Letter to Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism (short version)
  A letter in reply to a disgraceful "review" of an anarchist pamphlet in the paper of the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG). Corrects many lies, including some against the Makhnovists.
• Cabra marches on Mountjoy
  Over 500 people assembled in Cabra outside the Bingo hall and marched down the New Cabra Road towards Mountjoy prison where there is still ten brave anti-bin tax protesters incarcerated.
• Day of action brings bin trucks to a halt
  This morning saw a day of action across Dublin against the bin tax. At depot after depot activists from the campaign turned up in the early hours of the morning to stop the bin trucks leaving. This act of defiance is our answer to the continued jailing of activists by the high court.
• Another bin tax march on Mountjoy jail
  Saturday saw the second major march on Mountjoy jail of the bin tax protests. As many as 3,000 took part in this one, most marching out from Parnell square with a couple of hundred marching down from Cabra to meet them at the jail
• 10 jailed, hundreds protest at Mountjoy
  Last night at very short notice over 300 people protested outside Mountjoy jail. On Saturday a Dublin Council of Trade Unions march will leave Parnell Square around midday to march on Mountjoy jail.
• Blockades and lobbies of Dublin city bin truck depots
  There were blockades on two of the four Dublin city depots this morning and a lobby of the Rathmines depot. This is to mark the High Court case this morning when 24 protesters from the city are being dragged into the courts for breaking the councils injunction against blockading trucks.

September

• Grange Gorman blockade successful
  Last nights blockade of the Grange Gorman bin truck depot was a success with no truck managing to leave during the three-hour blockade. These were the trucks that were to do the rubbish pick-up in the shopping areas of the city centre.
• Dail protest, blockades and the bin tax campaign
  The opening of the Dail on Tuesday 30 September after the long, long holidays the TD's get saw a somewhat disappointing bin tax protest on the streets outside
• Bin tax and Reclaim the Streets protests link up in Dublin [with pics]
  Monday evening in Dublin saw a Reclaim the Streets demonstration joining up with an anti-bin tax march demanding the release of two imprisoned activists
• Second successful solidarity blockade in Stoneybatter
  A crowd of about 25 people had assembled by 8:30, ready to take part in the blockade. We moved off into Drumalee to await the truck and our numbers grew as several residents came out to join us.
• Monster meeting in Ballybrack + report from Dundrum
  There was an excellent turn out for the meeting last night at Ballybrack workmans club &endash; 100-120 people
• Report from High court bin tax hearing
  Judge refuses city council's application for blanket injunction
• Do We Tolerate This?
  Corks Home Helps, members of the Independent Workers Union, took to the streets on Saturday in a march against the health cuts.This is the text of a leaflet distributed by Cork WSM members on the march
• Workers Solidarity no 77
  Read online
  Download and print out PDF file
  • The service charge con
    Taking from workers to give to the rich
  • Review: Rudolf Rocker: Nationalism and Culture
    For Rocker, nationalism was the foremost ideology - or mythology - which the ruling classes were using to bind the working class to them in an ever tighter form of voluntary submission.
  • Liberia: The myth of humanitarian intervention
    Every so often the newspapers fill with stories of a crisis in some third world country. We see pictures on our screens of gunmen, starvation and suffering; inevitably we hear calls for humanitarian intervention.
  • Review: NEFAC web site
    Overall, an excellent, well laid out, up to date site from NEFAC and a fine addition to anarchism on the "inter-web".
  • Mutual Aid
    Mutual Aid is the fuel an anarchist society will run on. It is also what keeps capitalist society going in spite of all the hardship, greed, and exploitation that exists.
  • Red & Black Revolution 7
    In this issue of our magazine, we continue our tradition of dealing with the pressing issues of the day for anarchists and libertarians
  • That's Capitalism
    Inequality in Britain
  • Why all the fuss about Aer Rianta?
    The state company which runs Cork, Dublin and Shannon airports is to be broken up if the government get their way.
  • Blockade the trucks - Don't fall for council scams
    As we go to print, the bin charges battle has started in earnest in Dublin with Fingal Council's attempt not to collect non-payer's bins.
  • Organising for Change
    Just as combining against the bin tax or against the war makes us stronger so too does combining in political organisations.
  • Water tax in Northern Ireland
    Northern Irish homes are to be subjected to a tax on water, unless enough of us get together to stop the government's plan.
  • Fight for a women's right to choose
    Belfast High Court refuses to say when abortion is legal
    Dublin - Alliance for Choice launched
  • Bin tax - the WAR has begun
    After being beaten on every front and with non-payment still remaining very high, Fingal council became the first one to try and implement their new tactic of non-collection of the rubbish. This morning there are eight different trucks which are blockaded into various estates in the north Dublin area known as Fingal
• Successful first bin truck blockade in Stoneybatter [with pics]
  The anti-bin tax campaign in Stoneybatter took its first action today when it blockaded a bin truck just off the Oxmantown road. The truck was blockaded for one hour as a solidarity gesture with the campaign in Fingal.
• Report on Bin charges meeting Kingstown Hotel Dun Laoghaire
  Numbers and caution disappointing &endash; hopefully more resolve at local meetings
• Cabra activists blockade bin truck [with pics]
  All bins are still being collected in Cabra (and the Dublin city area) but we felt it was important to send a message of solidarity to Fingal activists and also send a warning to the council that we were prepared for them.
• Massive anti-bin tax meeting in Cabra
  The decision to flex the muscle of the campaign by this action was taken on Monday night at a meeting in Cabra. The massive meeting of between 500 to 600 people took place in St. Finbarr's GAA Club.
• Bin tax protesters lobby at depots
  Yesterday Fingal council attempted to start refusing to collect the bins of those who not paying the bin tax. This morning the campaign in the Dublin city area swung into action. Our first move was a lobby of the depots that the trucks leave from each morning
• Anti bin tax protest in Ringsend
  Friday morning the council announced that they would begin implementing non-collection of bins in the Ringsend area of the city. Anti-bin tax activists mobilised to blockade the trucks to force them to collect all the bins.
• Bin tax protesters in Cabra blockade two trucks [with pics]
  As Fingal council took a High Court case against bin tax protesters this morning bin tax campaigners in Cabra blockaded two trucks in solidarity with Fingal campaigners. Our intention is to hold onto at least one of these two trucks all day.
•  The Alliance for Choice
  Web site for pro-choice group
  • 20 years on - time to scrap the 8th Amendment
    The Alliance for Choice publicly launch a collection of short articles by people who were active in the 1983 Referendum campaign, or who have been active in pro-choice politics since then
  • Pro-choice group condemns bully-boys
    8 men and 2 women associated with Youth Defence now the Mother and Child Campaign today attempted to break up the successful press conference of the Alliance for Choice in the Shelbourne Hotel.
• Five years after the last Class War
  Five years since the Class War Federation tried to encourage new developments in the anarchist movement by winding itself up M.H., who was involved in Class War at the time, asks what problems still remain for us and why.
• Class War - still going five years on
  In 1997, some members of the Class War Federation tried to wind the organisation up. They intended issue 73 of Class War to be the last. Not all members agreed with this in 1997 (the federation and paper still exist in 2003). Here, Paul Marsh of London Class War gives an altogether different account.

August 2003

• PDF file of State or Revolution
• The State or Revolution
  An anarchist answer to Lenin, written for Marxism 2003
• The SWP versus Anarchism
  Here are a few quotes from Pat Stack's Socialist Review article "Anarchy in the UK?" which formed the basis of his talk at Marxism 2001. Ask yourself why the SWP leadership systematically lies about anarchism.
•  Lenin, History's "Hidden Democrat," speaks!
  Stright form the horses mouth
• Anarcho-Quiz on the SWP
  Test your knowledge
• What is Anarchism?
  There is an alternative to Leninism's state capitalism and party power. It is called anarchism, a socialism which places freedom and working class management of society at the core of its vision of struggle, revolution and socialism.
• Another world is possible?
  Under capitalism, 8 people make life and death decisions for millions. Under Bolshevism, 19 people made them

July 2003

• Workers Soldarity 76
  The latest issue of this Irish anarchist paper is now online
  PDF file of WS76
  You can print out and distribute your own copies
  • Bosses want to privatise buses and trains
    The FF/PD coalition are pushing ahead with plans to privatise buses and trains. Should we worry, does it matter who the boss is?
  • The consequences of transport privatisation
    More cars on the road means more road building, more road repairs, more traffic jams and more air pollution.
  • What is Imperialism
    Imperialism is the process whereby powerful groups try to extend their power and increase their wealth by bringing ever more of the world under their domination. Although the word comes to us from Roman times, imperialism has been around for a lot longer?
  •  Iraq war aftermath - Slaughtering democracy
    The US/UK war against Iraq, trumpeted as a war for 'democracy', illustrates what this 'democracy' means in practice.
  • New history of anarchist organisation
    Review of Alexandre Skirdas: Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968.
  • Direct Action is next step for the Anti-Bin Tax campaign
    We must send out the message that we intend for every truck to pick up all the rubbish on their bin run. The Council must understand this, and the government must understand it. If non-collection is attempted, trucks will be blockaded into our estates until everyone's bin is emptied.
  • Anti-Bin Tax = tax dodger?
    The politicians the big farmers and the bosses don't hold back when it comes to defending their interests. We should do the same, and no better way to start than by telling them to stuff their bin tax.
  • Coca Cola Boycotted for (complicity in) Murder
    Members of the Latin America Solidarity Centre and other individuals are working to promote the boycott and to raise awareness of this issue in Ireland
  • Argentina- a living laboratory of struggle
    The popular movement in Argentina has not been defeated. The newly elected president will go on the offensive with all the powers at his disposal. However the assemblies, occupied factories and Piquettes will resist and may even experience a new growth.
  • Grassroots Gathering 5 - the birth of a movement
    We came out of this weekend stronger and will hopefully go on from here so that the growth of the Grassroots movement continues. The next GG goes West, Galway in the Autumn
  • That's Capitalism
    Money markets, Guantnamo Bay and Mary Harney
  • Disco Disco - occupied and evicted
    Activists of Autonomous Community Spaces (ACS) entered 42 Parnell Square in central Dublin, a building which had been vacant for 11 years. They were violently evicted the following day.
  • About this paper
    Get involved in the production and distribution of Workers Solidarity
• Old Head Protest Taking In the Sun!
  A loud, stroppy 80 strong gathering of picnickers and protesters made it to the Old Head of Kinsale yesterday to continue the stand-off with the millionaire O'Connor brothers and their loyal servants (!) The Gardai.
• Report from Dublin Busworkers Anti privatisation Public Forum
  This is one of a series of meetings where the workers are out to try and explain their side of the story with the upcoming threat of privatisation being faced by them.
• What is the World Economic Forum?
  The WEF has been described as the first "'true International of capital". It's widely credited with being the organizing force behind capitalist globalisation
• Announcing a series of changes
  Subcommadante Marcos of the EZLN informs us that he is about to accounce an important series of changes in the way they work and communicate.
• Chiapas: The Thirteenth Stele
  The zapatistas are very otherly and so they imagine things before those things exist, and they think that, by naming them, those things will begin to have life, to walk
  • Zapatista Army of National Liberation decided on the death of the so-called "Aguascalientes"
    The fiesta will be in Oventik, and all of you are invited who, over these ten years, have supported the rebel communities, whether with projects, or with peace camps, or with caravans, or with an attentive ear, or with the compañera word, whatever it may be, as long as it not with pity and charity.
  • Each caracol now had a name assigned
    The "Caracoles" will be like doors for going into the communities and for the communities to leave. Like windows for seeing us and for us to look out. Like speakers for taking our word far, and for listening to what is far away.
  • We are Mexicans....but we are also indigenous
    In response to the "Plan Puebla Panama" in particular, and against all global plans for the fragmentation of the Mexican Nation in general, the EZLN is now launching the...."Plan La Realidad-Tijuana"
  • The history of the rebel zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
    Today, the exercise of indigenous autonomy is a reality in zapatista lands, and we are proud to say that it has been led by the communities themselves. The EZLN has been engaged in this process only in order to accompany, and to intervene when there have been conflicts or deviations
  • A Good Government
    In order to see to it that, in rebel zapatista lands, governing, governing obeying, the "Good Government Juntas" will be formed on August 9, 2003.
  • The Thirteenth Stele : A Postscript
    You are formally invited to the celebration of the death of the "Aguascalientes," and to the fiesta for naming the "Caracoles" and the beginning of the "Juntas of Good Government."
• Weapons of Mass Disappearance
  Why the lack of concern about finding Iraq's WMD by the US is the best evidence they did not exist.
• Nice weather, shame about the demo
  A report from the "offical" (trade union) 2003 May Day march.
• From the memory hole
  Why attempts to downplay Iraq's WMD as the reason for war are rewriting history.
• The power of morality
  On the hypocrisy of the "moral" case for war.
• From the mouths of morons
  A short discussion of the stupidity of Bush's attempt to blame African hunger on European opposition to GMOs.
• Meet the new boss...
  On the obvious fact that being subject to an occupying power does not equate to freedom. Particularly one which bans elections, censors the press and shots protestors.
• Once more, with feeling...
  A review of the nonsense on WMD used to justify the invasion of Iraq, and the post-Saddam rewriting of history.
• A rose by any other name...
  More on Iraq, exposing some of the "telling evidence" Bush and Blair inflicted on the world as a warning of the quality of what we can expect in future.
• Back to the Future
  Short article on the 2003 Scottish elections and why the Scottish Socialist Party is just repeating past (socialist) mistakes.
• And US Justice for all!
  Short note on the hypocrisy of Bush's claim that he will bring those who kill Americans to justice. Unless the American is a peace protestor and the killers a US client state, of course.
• The Anarchism of Jean Grave
  A review of a disappointing book about the French Anarchist Jean Grave.
• Instant Karma
  Why this year's Eurovision result implies the necessity for anarchist revolution.
• Even better than the real thing...
  Britain under Blair has become even more unequal than under Thatcher. What a surprise!
• George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
  A review of BBC2's innovative documentary about Orwell's life and work.
• Democracy in action?
  A short discussion on US plans for Iraq, how it violates Bush's claims on aiming for Iraqi freedom and why statism harms real freedom and the diversity it needs and creates.
• Who are the appeasers?
  Did Bush invade Iraq in part to appease Bin Laden?

June 2003

• PDF file of The revolutionary message of the Friends of Durruti
  20 pages booklet on the Spanish anarchist group with introduction by Daniel Guerin
• Iraq - the war continues; Shannon - the refuelling continues
  As US forces continue to intern and kill in Iraq there is to be more demonstrations in Shannon this Saturday
• Workplace struggles and trade unions
  Anarchist articles on the unions
• Pages added to this site in 2002
  A complete listing of the pages added to the site in 2002
• Greek translations on the Struggle site
  Articles on this site translated into Greek
  • Greek translation of the Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists
    The 1st translation into Greek of this anarchist classic
• Polish translation of Anarchist Platform statement
  A translation of the international statement of common purpose into Polish
• Space Aliens horrified by Earth Poster
  PDF poster, the aliens are horrified by Earths inequality
• Is Bill Gaters worth 14 million people
  PDF poster - he earns as much as 14 million
• A bosses Europe or an anarchist Europe?`
  How our vision of unity differs
• Millonaries go to war
  PDF poster - Expect worlds workers to do the fighting for them
• Our Globalisation - fighting global capitalism
  Why we fight capitalism
• PDF file of Irish anarchist stickers
  16 sticker designs for you to print out and display

May 2003

• Proposal for a better organised and united anarchist 'federation' in Ireland
  Proposal from a long time Belfast anarchist who was a member of Organise and the ASF for a new anarchist federation. The proposal was circulated to the Irish Anarchism list.
• Sit Down Protest Disrupts 'Business As Usual' at exclusive golf course [with pictures]
  A large force of Gardai defended the exclusive Old Head of Kinsale Golf club from a gathering of walkers and protestors
• Report on Cork anti-war marches [with photos]
  Reports and photos from two demonstrations in Cork during the Iraq war
• Cork WSM to Irish Examiner on Old Head of Kinsale
  The article on the picnic protest at the Old Head of Kinsale Golf Course was incorrect.
• Zapatistas say No to War
  We know that today demonstrations are being held throughout the world in order to say "No" to Bush's war against the people of Iraq.
• The attack on Iraq is just one page in the script of terror
  The EZLN welcomes all the mobilizations which have been carried out in order to repudiate the death and destruction in the Middle East.
• Mobilizations are being held today in repudiation of the Iraq war
  EZLN - Our idea is not one single organization, but a movement with many organizations, with one basic accord, resistance, and with a common flag, that of rebellion
• Zapatistas sign 'We Are Working For Peace and Justice' manifesto
  Note that the statement does not make a clear differentiation between the North American government and the people of the United States of America. Bearing in mind that many people in the American Union have mobilized and have promoted acts of civil disobedience in response to this war
• Durito and One About False Options
  Marcos - the Power offers no liberty other than that of choosing among multiple options of death
• Durito on trains and pedestrians
  Marcos - not only do everyday people not want to drive the train, but that sometimes they question the destination of the journey
• Guanajuato the 7th stele
  In order to confront that rebellion, a "zero tolerance" program was implemented in the state in 2002, which brought together 9 police forces
• The State of Mexico, the Ninth Stele
  The only solution is to organize ourselves. We can't remain passive. We have to defend our way of life, our land, our culture.
• Guerrero the 10th stele
  the establishment of an autonomous government in the important municipality of Suljaa'
• The 11th stele:Morelos
  An old history is repeated: the idiotic right-wing and corruption give orders in the government, while an intelligent rebellion walks in the people
• The Federal District, the Twelfth stella
  The rebel resistance of the inhabitants of this land led, in 1529, to the Royal Court recognizing their communal property and their right to elect their leaders
• PDF file of Spanish revolution poster
  A4 poster for you to print out
• The irresistible correctness of anarchism
  A lengthy review of the SWP's "The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini," exposing its distortions of history (particularly about anarchism during this period) and indicating the flaws in their anti-fascist front, the Anti-Nazi League.
• A letter to Anarchy
  A discussion of the flaws of Anarchy's magazine's recent issue attacking Platformism
• New York, Black Blocs and the truth...
  An article about the SWP's distortions about the Black Bloc at the New York anti-capitalist demos early in 2002.
• Basic Bakunin
  A short review of the Anarchist Federation's excellent pamphlet on Bakunin.
• PDF file of Reclaim our Streets
  A collection of articles on RTS
• What people say about this website
  A listing of comments received via the PDF printout forms in recent weeks
• The complete trial speeches of the Haymarket martyrs
  Contains addresses by August Spies, Michel Schwab, Oscar Neebe, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, George Engel, Samuel Fielden, and Albert R. Parsons
• NEFAC interviews the Workers Solidarity Movement
  An interview with the WSM from late 2002
• Producing an anarchist publication
  Lets start by looking at some different types of publication
• Reclaim the Streets
  Index of articles on Reclaim the Streets in Ireland and the politics of transport and space

April 2003

• Shannon - at the end of a long road
  Although for many it must have seemed that the US/Iraq war was almost over Saturday 12th April saw another anti-war demonstration at Shannon airport in Ireland
• Anarchy in Iraq?
  A discussion on why media claims that the chaos in post-Saddam Iraq meant it was "anarchy" are incorrect.
• Stopping the "coalition of the killing"
  An article on why fighting capitalism at home is the basis for fighting imperialism abroad.
• This is a war for liberty, so do want you are told!
  On why "following orders" is no defence for Bush's troops either
• Anarchy is not just for May Day!
  A short introduction to the history of May Day, an analysis of the failings of the anti-war movement and a suggested solution.
• Double-plus ungood
  A short article on the British government's complaints about the media during the Iraqi war.
• From the Memory Hole, part two
  On Blair's lying and revising of history to justify war on Iraq.
• Meet the new boss...
  On what the pro-war lobby wants us to forget.
• A tale of two statues
  A discussion on the real symbolism of the US troops toppling of Saddam's statue.
• Watch this space
  Is Syria next? Jack Straw says no. But then Blair said no to Iraq to, as this article reminds us.
• Voting, Voices and Verification
  A short article on how Blair's actions during the run-up to the Iraq war proves the anarchist case that votes are not power.
• What now?
  Why real freedom in Iraq is unlikely.
• Beating about the Bush
  An analysis of Bush's talk at the American Enterprise Institute at the end of February outlining his plans for post-war Iraq.
• War is Terrorism with a bigger budget
  Why the excuses used to justify this war are false.
• The war in Afghanistan
  Archive of articles and links on the Afghan war
• What they say about Struggle
  A collection of comments I have been emailed about the site

March 2003

• Mothers day on the long road to Shannon Warport
  The long dead corpse of Irish neutrality is laid to rest at Shannon
• Workers Solidarity no 75
  Irish anarchist paper, also available as a PDF file
  • Act to stop their war!
    The leaders of the UK, USA, and Ireland aren't listening. It's time to make it impossible for them to continue to ignore us.
  • Money is the king at the Old Head of Kinsale
    As in the past we need to defy the ban on walking on the Old Head. Most important of all we need to start building now for a 'mass trespass'. This summer will see a new round in this important battle
  • Bin Tax Battle Enters New Phase
    The campaign against the bin tax is set to enter a new phase before the summer as the government brings forward new legislation to give the Councils the power to refuse to collect the bins of non-payers
  • Thats capitalism
    Inequality in the world today
  • Support those facing charges for Direct Action at Shannon
    At least 19 people are currently facing prosecution out of the October and March direct actions at Shannon airport.
  • What is violence and who says so?
    Any violence necessary to defend an anarchist society would be tiny and marginal compared to the violence routinely meted out every day by capitalism.
  • International anarchist statement against the war
    Anti-war statement from anarchist groups all over the globe
  • Direct Action - your questions answered
    Your questions on Direct Action answered in the context of the sometimes hysterical debate about the Grassroots Network Against War (GNAW) action at Shannon on March 1^s
  • Grassroots Gathering &endash; A sun kissed weekend in Limerick
    The fourth Grassroots Gathering happened at University of Limerick on the St. Patrick's bank holiday weekend.
  • A year of CAZ
    The Cork Autonomous Zone has bee functioning for over a year now. The shared space has become an irreplaceable part of the agitational infrastructure of anti-capitalism in Cork city
  • The March 1st action at Shannon
    If you were anywhere in Ireland in the last week of February you can't have missed the hype ahead of the March 1^st direct action called at Shannon by the Grassroots Network Against the War (GNAW)
  • Global actions against the war
    Action speaks louder than words in the run up to this war!
  • Review of Malatesta: Life & Ideas
    Most of the book is taken up with short extracts from Malatesta's writings on various subjects, for example 'Ends and Means'; 'Anarchism & Violence'; 'Reformism'; 'Trade Unions' and many more.
  • A rabid neo-liberal wages war on the poor in the USA
    Social spending is plumetting in the USA, leading to some strange things happening
  • Review of infoshop.org
    There are a large number of anarchist news services on the internet - one of the best ones covering North America is the news section of infoshop.org.
• Penny Royal
  New feminist web site
• Can we stop the bombers at Shannon? YES WE CAN CAN !
  Detailed report on Shannon protests
• To the next time [with pics]
  Another report on Saturdays Direct Action (GNAW) protest at Shannon
• GNAW plans for Shannon direct action
  Grassroots Network Against War has called a direct action demonstration against the refuelling of US war planes at Shannon airport on March 1st
• If not now, when
  Why now is the time for mass direct action at Shannon
• Beating about the Bush
  An analysis of Bush's speach at the American Enterprise Institute, bringing back a few facts from the Memory Hole.
• From the Memory Hole
  A blast from the past. Blair dismissing war on Iraq back when Arab support for bombing Afghanistan was on the agenda
• Democracy is undemocratic
  An reply to Trotskyist assertions that self-management is "undemocratic," exposing the flaws in the arguments and the actual undemocratic nature of Trotskyism.
•  Hypocrisy a go-go!
  A discussion of Tony Blair's attempts to explain his "moral case" for bombing the Iraqi people.
• You cannot make this stuff up!
  Various short pieces provoked by comments by politician's and the media on the current Gulf crisis
• A missed opportunity
  A discussion of what Paxman should have said to Blair! Has useful links to webpages debunking the "evidence" used to support the US/UK imperialist war.
• The warm glow of liberty...
  Comments on how sayng that the British state would use nuclear weapons against Saddam totally undermines Blair's "moral case" for war
• Anarchy: A Graphic Guide
• A short review of Clifford Harper's excellent introduction to anarchism
• My Granny Made me an Anarchist
  A review of volume one of Stuart Christie's autobiography
• Incredible turnout at Dublin anti-war march - but what do we do now? [with photos]
  Saturday 15 February saw the largest demonstration in Dublin in two decades and by far the largest anti-war demonstration in Ireland ever
• PDF File: Download, print out and display the Direct Action at Shannon poster

Feb 2003

• I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet (reply to ETA)
  Subcommadante Marcos of the EZLN replies to criticisms from the armed Basque group ETA
• La Esmeralda ranch:buffoonery run rampant
  Two US Citizens "Spreading Lies" That We Are Invading Their Ranch, Respond Indigenous
• Another Calendar: That of Resistance
  Let us not forget that they present the calendars of those who held power in those times, and those calendars did not envisage the date in which the rebellion from below would bring down that world
• Puebla, the second stele (resistance and another church, the errant ones)
  The land where the so-called Plan Puebla-Panama went broke" history will say
• March: Veracruz, the third stele
  Veracruz no longer produces coffee, food, cattle. The primary export product of this state (like many others in the Mexican Republic) is now persons
• Tlaxcala, the Fourth Stele (The rebels of always)
  62% of the population of the state is working and living in areas where maquilas are located.
• Hidalgo, the fifth stele (The Mexico of Below)
  73% of its residents in extreme poverty, almost indigent, and 29% of them are moderately poor
• Marcos - Queretaro: The Sixth Stele
  It is necessary to stand up to the high level of repression and impunity being demonstrated by different officials and police forces
• Workers Solidarity
  New index for this Irish anarchist paper
• Articles from Workers Solidarity in 2003
  Starting off with issue no 74
• PDF file of WS74
  • War: who is it good for?
    As war looms in the Gulf again we can be sure that, whatever the outcome, hundreds of thousands of lives will be destroyed by the conflict.
  • War is the health of the state
    War is always in their sights. Six days after the Trade Centre strikes in New York the Bush Administration had already initiated plans to take Iraq out
  • US anarchists against the war
    One of the favourite arguments of the pro-war crowd in Ireland is that anyone who opposes the war is 'anti-American'.
  • International Direct Actions against the war
    Listing of international actions against the war
  • Direct Action and fighting to win
    Anarchists are not particularly interested in protesting against the evils of the world - we would prefer to abolish them!
  • Colombia 3 - wrong people in the dock
    The trial of the Colombia 3 has produced a frenzy of speculation in the Irish media about whether they are guilty or not, and how this might effect the 'peace process'.
  • The Anti-Bin Tax - keep connecting with the punches
    Despite the fact that the Dublin City Council effectively has it's hands tied they could not let the Christmas pass without trying to frighten people into paying their precious double-tax.
  • 'Justice' and 'Equality' in action
    Just in case you had any illusions about the fairness or impartiality of the Irish 'justice' system
  • That's capitalism
    Bullets in the USA and tax in Ireland
  • 'Partnership' deals
    Mating Season in the Industrial Relations Jungle!
  • Michael Moore's censored America
    Review of Bowling for Columbine, and book, Stupid White Men
  • Couriers organising
    The militant couriers decided to act collectively when agitating for the pay rise as one to one bargaining with an employer always leaves the worker negotiating from a position of weakness
  • Report of EU summit Copenhagen protests
    In December protests were held at the EU summit in Copenhagen
  • Pamphlets on anarchism
    In short supply have been the cheap pamphlets that allow you to check out anarchist ideas
• Direct Action at Shannon shows the way
  If we turn our disgust at this war into action against it then their war machine will grind to a halt.

January 2003

• Argentina, one year on
  Article written for the anniversary of the Argentine revolt (appeared in Freedom).
• Divided by time, united by hope
  A review of Naomi Klein's new book "Fences and Windows" and "Three Strikes," a collection of three articles on the US labour movement.
•  A Carnival of Dreams and the Brazilian Left
  Brazil and the Landless Movement, a Zapatista gathering in the Amazon, 1999
• Breakthrough in Chiapas Peace Process? (2000)
  Written at the time of Fox's inauguration
• Mayday in Berlin
  A description of the annual  mobilizations from an Anarchist perspective
• Mass demonstration at Shannon Warport (with pictures)
  Some 2 to 3,000 people demonstrated at the airport against the refuelling of US military planes
• Articles by Ramor Ryan
  Articles from this Irish anarchist mostly in connection with Chiapas and the Zapatistas
  • The Writer as Freedom Fighter, The Freedom Fighter as Writer [late 2002]
    If our real desire is to destroy global capitalism, when is the time to propagate the word and when is the time to act? Is there a time when the word becomes mute and actions speak louder? And when is the time that action should once more be subsumed by the word? Such strategic and tactical questions of praxis underlie the life work of the subjects of these two books
• Anarchism in Chile
  An index of English language Chilean anarchist resources and contacts on the internet.
  • Chile: Anarcho-Communist Organization & the Needs of the Present
    We cannot continue to appear as a series of separate organizations without a clearly identifiable face. We must overcome the reluctance to unite in greater tasks, and this can only come about through a shared practical trajectory (2002)
  • Chronology of the Chilean workers' movement
    The major events from 1909 to 1956
  • Ten Years After: The Re-emergence of Anarchism in Chile
    In 1979, a new federation of various anarchist tendencies 'Socialist ideas and Action (PAS)' was founded. This article from 1983 reports on its activity.
  • Strange Defeat: The Chilean Revolution, 1973
    Situationist analysis of Chile 1973, Allende and the Pinochet coup
  • Dictatorship On Shaky Ground
    Repression is always exerted on the poorest sectors, the marginals, and the representatives of independent unions. Political parties are not serious rivals to Pinochet's dictatorship.
• Zapatistas Renew Struggle with Anger and Fire
  9th Anniversary of Armed Uprising Marked by Biggest Mobilization So Far
• Speeches by the Commandancia of the EZLN on the ninth anniversary of the uprising
  Text of the speeches made by Zapatista commanders at San Cristo'bal anniversary protests
• The Basque Country: Paths
  Five letters from Marcos to various individuals and organisations in the Spanish state and the Basque country suggesting an encuntro with ETA
• The zapatistas can, and should, speak only about the indigenous question?
  Marcos on the reactions to his comments on the Basques and on the crisis in Montes Azules
• EZLN sends greetings to the Madrid Aguascalientes
  Long communique from Marcos detailing the invasion of Europe, his opinion of the Basques and how to deal with the Chair of Power.
• Plan Puebla-Panama in a Nutshell
  a vast infrastructure construction project, designed to please big business, that covers 9 states in south-southeast Mexico and the 7 Central American republics.
• Grassroots shut down Shannon warport demonstration
  Around 400 people took part in the Grassroots Gathering demonstration against refuellin of US war planes at Shannon airport. After the last demonstration when a section of the fence was torn down and around 150 entered the airfield we discovered that the fence had been greatly re-enforced.
• Kinsale Garda Fiasco
  At a sitting of the District Court in Kinsale town yesterday (Dec 5th), local Gardai [Irish police - Ed.] made a laughing stock of themselves
• Primitivist and post-left 'anarchism'
  an index of articles which go under the label of 'post-left' or 'primitivist' I'm collecting in order to critque this tendency.
• Anarchism and Freedom
  Talk given at the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement 2001 day school "Ideas and Action"
• Another World is Possible: Anarchist Alternatives to capitalism
  Talk given at Scottish Anarchist Federation day school on November 9th, 2002
• Anarchism and Marxism
  Full version of a talk given the Scottish Anarchist Federation day school on November 9th, 2002 on the real differences between Anarchism and mainstream Marxism.
• Politics and Industrial Relations in the Media: A Guide for the Perplexed
  A dictionary to help understand media bullshit. Inspired by the current firefighters strike in Britain.
• Making history or just repeating it?
  PDF file of Making history or just repeating it?
• A leaflet discussing why socialism and electioneering do not go together. Available in pdf format and in four parts:
  • Making history or just repeating it?
  • Socialism or Social Democracy?
  • Ideas to change the world or just the bosses?
  • For a socialism that liberates!
• Health, Wealth and Inequality
  An article on inequality in the UK and the effects of inequality on health.
• Blast from the Past, and Back to the Future
  Overview of the claims of right-wing guru Hayek on unions and the reality of Thatcherism
• The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War by Robert Alexander
  Review of the two volume work on the role of the anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
• City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy
  Review of Piercy's great novel set in the French Revolution
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  Lengthy review of an excellent exposure of the nature and effects of the fast food industry
• How we shall bring about the revolution by Emile Pataud and Emile Pouget
  Review of the French syndicalist revolutionary utopian novel.
• Evolution and Environment by Peter Kropotkin
  Review of volume 11 of The Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin, which includes his classic "Modern Science and Anarchism."
• Freedom Fighters by Joao Freire
  Review of a book on the role of Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's History
• We are in silence - and the silence is not being broken
  This letter from subcommadante Marcos gives some hints as to why the Zapatista CCRI has remained silent so long.
• Account of the Events
  A brief letter and poem from subcommadante Marcos for a Zapatista history museum written in July
• They killed our companero, Jose' Lo'pez Santiz, through treachery
  Seven autonomous municaplities near Altamirano in Chiapas release two joint statements on the killing of a companero
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