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ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Wednesday February 03, 2010 23:20 by Dermo
Members of WSM and Organise gathered on a bright afternoon light of a cold Janaury day, in the leafy surburbs of Booterstown, Dublin, outside the German Embassy to protest recent Berlin District Court Decision to stop the Free Workers Union (FAU - Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union) from being able to call itself a Union. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / imperialism / war / press release Wednesday February 03, 2010 22:45 by WSM PRO
Public meetings to be held in Cork and Dublin this week will pose the question of how the legacy of U.S. imperialism has impacted on the catastrophe visited on Haiti in the recent earthquake. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / anarchist movement / news report Monday December 21, 2009 23:13 by Cork WSM
A new, alternative meeting space and bookshop has just opened on Douglas Street, Cork in Ireland. This is early days but we want to get the word out that this new initiative needs you and your support! read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / link to audio Monday December 14, 2009 23:55 by Dara (interviewer) Andrew (editor)
This audio consists of 10 brief interviews with public sector strikers made during the national strike in Ireland on 24th November. Picketers at various locations across Dublin talk of what the strike is about, the effects of the cuts and how their unions organised for the strike. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / feature Monday December 07, 2009 22:26 by Andrew
The cancellation of the December 3rd strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / environment / opinion / analysis Monday December 07, 2009 05:56 by Kevin Doyle
The Raybestos Manhattan Corporation moved to Ireland in the mid-70s. A campaign opposing their operations began almost immediatly. It was a long and protracted struggle that eventually ended in victory. This article examines the campaign against the mulitnational and the lessons that can be learned from it today. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / the left / anarchist communist event Wednesday December 02, 2009 18:41 by Andrew
The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 21:42 by Andrew
On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened in Ireland. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Friday November 27, 2009 22:49 by various WSM members
On 24 November 2009 250,000 public sector workers in Ireland took part in a national strike against planned pay cuts. Many WSM members who work in the public sector played a direct part in the organisation of the strike and student members helped organise solidarity actions at the universities where strikes were happening. They also toured other picket lines to send in reports and photos. Here we present these reports and the reports sent in by members on strike who had access to smart phones with which they sent live news on the day to the WSM twitter feed read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / press release Friday November 27, 2009 17:29 by PRO
Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has congratulated public sector workers who took part in today’s 24-hour work stoppage and called for further stoppages “in order to force a change of direction from the government”. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / anarchist movement / link to pdf Monday November 23, 2009 22:55 by Workers Solidarity
The November - December 2009 Edition of the Workers Solidarity freesheet is now online. This is the 112th issue of Ireland's anarchist paper for you to read online, download a PDF of or distribute. 10,000 copies of the print edition are produced. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / the left / press release Tuesday November 10, 2009 18:28 by SSN
The Social Solidarity Network "is a grouping of people who have come together to provide a forum for workers and communities to unite to resist the attacks and to build links across the many struggles which will break out over the coming months" that Workers Solidarity Movement members are involved in. Some 7000 copies of this SSN text were distributed on the Nov 6th ICTU demonstration against cuts in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / anarchist movement / link to audio Tuesday November 10, 2009 17:22 by Conversation - various; editing Andrew
During Noam Chomsky's recent visit to Ireland five members of the Workers Solidarity Movement met him over breakfast to talk over a range of issues from Palestine to the capitalist crisis to social partnership to Iran to Obama and the US Labour Movement. Notes on the discussion are below followed by the audio recording itself. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / workplace struggles / news report Monday November 09, 2009 19:20 by Andrew & Kevin
Tens of thousands of workers marched in Ireland on Friday 6 November as part of union organised demonstrations in nine cities protests against the Irish governments attempts to make workers pay for the crisis. In the region of 20,000 workers march through Cork City centre to oppose Government cuts and the ongoing attacks on wages and conditions. Cork anarchists from the WSM handed out 2000 leaflets at the march. Workers from a wide section of the union movement were present – SIPTU, TEEU, Unite, INO, INTO, ASTI, CWU, IWU, TUI, PNA. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / economy / opinion / analysis Wednesday November 04, 2009 03:19 by Gregor Kerr
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ ‘Get Up Stand Up’ protest on Friday 6th November is of huge importance. The government have made it clear that they intend to make ordinary workers pay for the financial crisis. Friday can be the start of us finally standing up and saying that we are not going to accept this. read full story / add a comment
irlanda / gran bretaña / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Tuesday November 03, 2009 05:12 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Artículo sobre la aprobación, en un segundo referéndum, del Tratado de Lisboa por el electorado irlandés en su versión completa. Este artículo apareció originalmente editado, por razones de espacio, en la Revista Diagonal, Lunes 19 de octubre de 2009. Número 111. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / community struggles / press release Friday September 18, 2009 06:05 by jimbob
With the full backing of the Glasgow chapter of Liberty and Solidarity and local community newspaper 'The Burgh Angel' , Hamiltonhill Action Group will be holding a demonstration with the Scottish Tenants Organisation on Thursday 24th September, against the Glasgow Housing Association's (GHA) refusal to invest money in their community. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / economy / opinion / analysis Thursday September 17, 2009 00:01 by Gregor Kerr
NAMA is nothing short of straight class robbery – robbery from ordinary workers in order to shore up the property developers and big bankers who got us into this mess in the first place. It can be described as unfair, it can be described as immoral but in reality it’s naked capitalism at work. read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / economy / news report Wednesday September 16, 2009 23:56 by WSM
The economic crisis we face in Ireland is that huge amounts of money have been lost with the collapse of the property bubble. The question is, who will pay? Will it be the crooked bankers and dodgy developers responsible for this mess, or us, the ordinary working people? read full story / add a comment
Ιρλανδία / Μεγάλη Βρετανία / Αναρχική Ιστορία / Συνέντευξη Wednesday September 16, 2009 20:56 by "Workers Solidarity" Νο 111 ((WSM)
O βετεράνος Ισπανός αναρχικός Roma Marquez Santoμιλά για την επανάσταση και τον πόλεμο read full story / add a comment |
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