The attack on workers at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin had highlighted the greed and bullying in the hotel business. A similar case to that at the Davenport has come to light here in Cork. But so far fear has ruled the day. The Clarion describes itself as one of “Cork’s premier 4 Star City Centre Hotels”. Although it’s well able to charge for its rooms it cannot find its way to granting its workers a 29 cents per hour pay rise. read full story / add a comment

In what is clearly a concerted effort to smash their union organisation, over 170 Aer Lingus cabin crew have been ‘removed from the payroll’ by management in a dispute about rostering arrangements in the Irish airline. read full story / add a comment

The January - February 2011 Edition of Ireland's anarchist paper, the Workers Solidarity freesheet is now online to read or to download as a PDF file. read full story / add a comment

Η απεργία για 40 Ώρες υπό την ηγεσία της Επιτροπής Εργαζομένων του Κλάιντ ήταν η πιο ριζοσπαστική απεργία που έχει δει το Clydeside τόσο στις τακτικές όσο και στα αιτήματά της. read full story / add a comment

The Workers Solidarity Movement is very pleased to announce the second issue of The Irish Anarchist Review. This magazine is dedicated to understanding the contemporary political, economic and social situation that confronts us, and finding ways to advance alternatives. read full story / add a comment

Recently, the UK has seen the rise of a mass student movement in opposition to huge increases in course fees across British universities, combined with cuts to research and other aspects of the tertiary education system. Below is an interview with Dan, a former member of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement who is now living in the UK, and was involved in a 2 day long occupation at his own university in London. read full story / add a comment

Last Thursday the European Court of Human Rights found that the Irish government had violated the rights of a woman living in Ireland who was forced to travel to Britain for an abortion. Abortion continues to be unavailable in Ireland and the court ruling was based on the failure of Irish governments to legislate for abortion under the 'X case' an infamous case from 1992 when a 14 year old rape victim X was prevented leaving the country to get an abortion in England. The WSM was centrally involved in the mobilizations that forced the courts to back down and allow X to travel and has continued to be involved in the pro-choice movement since that time. Below is the coverage we provided on Thursday on WSM.IE as the ABC result was revealed. read full story / add a comment

Την Τρίτη 7 Δεκεμβρίου, η ιρλανδική κυβέρνηση οχυρώθηκε στο κοινοβούλιο στο Δουβλίνο, βρισκόμενη εκεί για να ψηφίσει τον προϋπολογισμό με τον οποίο θα εφαρμόζονταν οι περικοπές και τα μέτρα λιτότητας που απαιτούνται από το ΔΝΤ και την Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα (ΕΚΤ). Ο προϋπολογισμός αυτός έρχεται σε μια περίοδο περαιτέρω εμβάθυνσης της κρίσης, καθώς το χρέος της κάποτε ταχύτερα αναπτυσσόμενης οικονομίας της Ευρώπης βρίσκεται πλέον εκτός ελέγχου. Η προφανής ερώτηση με την οποία έρχεται κάποιος αντιμέτωπος είναι “Τι πήγε στραβά; Τι συνέβη σε αυτό το οικονομικό θαύμα;” read full story / add a comment

Entrevista realizada por Mike Harris, de la Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA), a Kevin Doyle, militante comunista libertario irlandés, acerca de la actual crisis económica y sobre la resistencia popular a ella. [English] read full story / add a comment

Martedì 7 dicembre, il governo irlandese si è barricato nel parlamento per votare la legge finanziaria che contiene i tagli e le misure di austerità richieste dal FMI e dalla BCE. La finanziaria giunge alla fine di un anno di crisi profonda, dopo che è andata fuori controllo la spirale del debito di quello che era il paese europeo dalla crescita economica più veloce. L'ovvia domanda che ci si pone è "Cosa è andato storto? Cosa è successo al miracolo economico irlandese?" [English] read full story / add a comment

On Tuesday the 7th of December, the Irish government were barricaded inside the parliament in Dublin. They were there to vote on a Budget implementing the cutbacks and austerity measures demanded of them by the IMF and ECB. The budget comes in a year of ever deepening crisis, as the debt of what was once Europe's fastest growing economy, spiralled out of control. The obvious question one is faced with is “What went wrong? What happened to this economic miracle?” [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Durante le proteste contro la finanziaria davanti a Dáil Éireann [camera dei deputati] il 7 dicembre 2010, Gregor Kerr ha pronunciato il seguente discorso a nome del Workers Solidarity Movement. Ricordando la necessità di contestare questa finanziaria, Kerr aggiunge che bisogna guardare oltre e sottolineare il fatto che il capitalismo in quanto modo di organizzare la società è moralmente e politicamente bancarotta. Se vogliamo assicurarci che questa crisi finanziaria, e la miseria economica che ha portato a milioni di lavoratori e lavoratrici in tutto il mondo, sia l'ultima allora occorre organizzarci, non per cambiare gli amministratori del capitalismo bensì per rovesciare il sistema capitalista e sostituirlo con un sistema che mette i bisogni dei molti al di sopra dell'avidità dei pochi. read full story / add a comment

Η ομιλία του αναρχοκομμουνιστή τράνσμαν Jamrat Mason στο Hackney Pride 2010. read full story / add a comment

Firefighters and ambulance crews are abandoning SIPTU and signing up with the Psychiatric Nurses Association to form a new union. read full story / add a comment

Interview with Kevin D. of the Cork Branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement.
Kevin answers questions about the current Irish financial melt-down and the ppopular resistance. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Donal Ó Fallúin, militante del Workers Solidarity Movement e dell'organizzazione studentesca di base Free Education for Everyone (FEE), scrive sulla necessità di contestare la prossima Finanziaria, che si annuncia severissima. read full story / add a comment

[...] De esta forma, la transfobia tiene sus orígenes en el sexismo. Algunas personas creen que las mujeres trans no tienen la posibilidad de saber lo que es ser una mujer porque no han vivido el sexismo. Pero la transfobia que reciben las mujeres trans ES sexismo, ¡multiplicado por cien!

Algunas personas dicen que los hombres tans están meramente intentando escapar del sexismo al volverse hombres. Déjenme decirles que cuando eres transexual no escapas de él, sino que eres empujado directo a un enorme pantano de sexismo. Cuando vives ambas caras e incluso más, comienzas a ver el sexismo, te das cuenta de él cuando otras personas no lo hacen. Cuando juegas con el género, eres testigo del flujo de poder.

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¿Qué es lo que queremos con nuestras Marchas de Orgullo y nuestro activismo?

¿La libertad de caminar por la calle vestido como quieras, besando a quien te guste, emparejado por los sectores caros del centro y oeste de Londres? ¿Qué hay de besarse en Clapton, Stratford, East Ham? ¿Qué hay acerca de ser libres en nuestras comunidades de clase obrera, en donde de hecho vivimos? ¿Cuándo seremos libres de expresar nuestro amor, nuestro género, nuestros cuerpos sin el miedo de ser apaleados por bandas de adolescentes? ¿Y qué hay acerca de esos adolescentes, nuestros vecinos? ¿Cuándo ese adolescente se sentirá libre de mamársela a su amigo, o de usar un vestido, sin el miedo de ser completamente rechazado o sin pensar que eso lo hará ser una persona totalmente distinta? read full story / add a comment

Despite freezing temperatures, an estimated one hundred thousand people were on the streets of Dublin today to take part in the ICTU demonstration against the draconian four year plan, which is raising taxes on low paid workers, slashing wages, social services and cutting social welfare.  The WSM took part in the demonstration with the 1% Network, highlighting the wealthy 1% of the population who own 34% of the wealth, and pointing out that only a general strike can force them to back down from making us pay the full costs of the crisis. read full story / add a comment

Community organisation has be a staple of socialist activity for centuries, however, unlike workplace activism, community organising has been subject to less attention in terms of theory and strategising. This article will argue that the ideology and practice of workplace syndicalism has many concepts that apply equally to community organisation, and can provide a useful framework in which to operate. read full story / add a comment

26 novembre, WSM.ie // Le WSM accueille la déclaration par le Chef Super intendant, Michael O'Sullivan, à propos de groupes et d’individus souhaitant profiter du fait que des milliers de personnes seront dans la rue demain pour s’en servir pour leurs propres fins. --- read full story / add a comment