WS73 - Irish anarchist paper online

Tuesday December 03, 2002 12:12

by Wokers Solidarity

The latest issue of the Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is now on the web and available as a PDF file. The articles in this issue are as below, read it online at http://struggle.ws/ws/2002.html Or get the PDF version to printout out from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/73.html

Articles in WS73

Stop refuelling at Shannon warport
Despite the supposed neutrality of Southern Ireland the Irish government has been involving us more and more in the imperialist adventures of the US military. Shannon airport has become a key refuelling facility for US war planes en route between the US and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Shannon - Direct Action against the War ? Activists on the runway!
Instead of pleading with the government to not allow the US to use Shannon, people had acted directly to show there would be a price to pay and to inspire others to realise that with numbers we could make it impossible for the government to continue this action.

Stopping the war
While a march of 5,000 or even 10,000 in Dublin won't effect government policy, similar numbers tearing down the fence in Shannon and taking over the entire airport would. With those sort of numbers we could physically stop Shannon being used and physically dismantle any war planes we caught on the ground

Review: Refueling Peace http://refuelingpeace.org
A web site with the very specific purpose, to "monitor and stop US military flights refuelling in Ireland".

Clerical rapists and the Irish state
Given all that we now know about the organised cover-up of what happened in Catholic institutions, churches and hospitals it is fair to say that if any other organised group were guilty of the same offences there would be charges brought of "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice".

Become a supporter of this paper
Over the next year we hope that at least a couple of dozen people will become supporters of this paper. In that case we will be able to expand production to 8 issues a year each with a print run of 8,000.

Corruption in politics
The Flood Report will, by itself, change nothing, except, perhaps, to induce more caution to the thicker element of the ruling class, but it does provide one useful service: it makes it clear that the wealthy have a dominant influence in affairs of state

Libertarians Against Nice: Requiem for a Dream
LAN fought the campaign on many fronts. From Limerick to Louth, Kinsale to Kildare, Dundalk to Donegal the battle raged. Even in Dublin we put up a fight. 50,000 (count 'em) leaflets were distributed, hundreds of posters of various types went up.

Workers Self-management in Argentina
Details of the occupied factories and neighbourhood assemblies in Argentina

Review: Berlusconi's Mousetrap
In July 2001 over a quarter of a million people gathered to protest against the G8 in Genoa. The Italian state responded to these demonstrations with violent repression. Eighteen thousand cops were drafted into the city; they beat and gassed thousands of people off the streets, arrested hundreds and shot one young Italian man in the head.

Review: Anarchism and Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
This is one of the most excellent introductions to Anarchism, putting paid to the usual objections to the system, synonymous as it has become, wrongly, with disorganisation and chaos.

SIPTU election changes nothing
The big lesson from this contest is how weak the opposition in SIPTU is. 6.7% is not a good vote! There is no opposition network, simply a number of individuals who are fairly isolated from each other.

Grassroots Gathering Mark III ? Another Great Success
The last weekend in October saw over 120 anarchists and other libertarian activists converge on Belfast for the third Grassroots Gathering.

International News
Short items on envirnomentalist action in the Netherlands and a letter from a Refusenik from the Israeli army

Thats capitalism
Short items on slavery in Brazil and poverty all over the world

read it online at
http://struggle.ws/ws/2002.html

Or get the PDF version to printout out from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/73.html