Additions to Struggle in 2003
This page is an archive of items added to Struggle in 2003 from the
'What's New on Struggle' page which covers
the last three months. There is also an
index for 1998,
1999, 2000,
2001 and 2002
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
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
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
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
March 2003
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
- 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.
- 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:
- 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
This page is an archive of items added to Revolt before those that
appear on the 'What's New on Struggle' page
which covers the last three months. This is the index for 2003, there
is also an index for 1998,
1999, 2000,
2001 and 2002