Dublin -The Platform: What relevance, if any, does it have to the anarchist movement today?

by dunk Sun Sep 04, 2005 18:06

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/redmunst.html
Published in Workers Solidarity no. 13, December 1985

includes:

the Limerick Soviet...1918

Countess Markievicz warned of the imminence of social revolution

Wave of Occupations:
Io 1921 and 1922 similar Soviet occupations occurred at mills and creameries in at least 15 other locations, at Cork Harbour, North Cork railways, the quarry and the fishing boats at Castleconnell, a coach builders in Tipperary as well as the local gas works, a clothing factory in Dublin's Rathmines, sawmills in Killarney and Ballinacourtie, the Drogheda Iron Foundry, Waterford Gas, mines at Arigna and Ballingarry. Undoubtedly there were others.

an Ireland free not only of the British army but also free of native bosses

The missing factor was a revolutionary anarchist organisation that could have built links between the different groups of workers who were in struggle, put forward the ideas of anarchism and developed a strategy for linking the anti-imperialist and class struggles to bring about a truly free Ireland run by the working class through their own democratic councils

by dunk Sun Sep 04, 2005 17:50 fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

editor of resurgence magazine, Satish Kumar, in his autobiography tells of his time spent with Vinoba, he puts the figure of land given freely to the poor at 4 million acres
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At the age of nine, Satish Kumar renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Leaving the monkhood when eighteen, he joined Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision into reality. He undertook an 8,000 mile pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow.

http://www.resurgence.org/sales/books.htm?tp=CONTINUE+SHOPPING#intimate

Anarchism and Non-Violence:
http://www.practicalanarchy.org/fnb_crass.html
After Gandhi was assassinated, the person who was known as "Gandhi's spiritual heir", Vinoba Bhave led several major campaigns to reclaim land for the poor. In 1951 Bhave and the many workers from Sarva Seva Sangh (Society for the Service of All), started the Bhoodon (land gift) movement. Many felt that Bhave was a saint in the Hindu tradition, and so when he began walking across the country asking for acres of land from landowners, he received land gifts, which were then given to the poor. One and one third million acres, according to Shepard, were actual reclaimed by the poor (far more than had been managed by the land reform programs of India's government). Bhave was involved with other projects and campaigns to bring about the "non-violent revolution". Bhave was an anarchist

Gandhism, Optimism and the gandhians
http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/gandhism.html

nehru described gandhi as a spiritual anarchist

Anarchism, Religion and Nature
http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/ern/Clark--Anarchism.pdf

another non violent revolutionary is patch adams, the clown doctor who created a free hospital in the states in reaction to the, as he sees it, misdirected medical profession
“We cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, and the world.”
Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

see his interesting library
heres section on social change
http://www.patchadams.org/patch/library/social_change.html

by dunk Sun Sep 04, 2005 16:45

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71793&author_name=Robbie%20Sinnott
is link
robbiesin@gmail.com is responsible for audio work

29 minute mp3 32kbs

An interview with Robyn Banks, an anarchist from San Francisco Ca., and Nestor McNab - an anarchist with the WSM in Dublin who spent many years in Italy.

To listen immediately, click
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.8.20banks___mcnab32m.mp3

can anyone tell us about what anarchist work was going on in ireland in the 1920's

by Joe Sun Aug 14, 2005 21:48

For those who aren't familar with it the debate between Makhno and Malatesta on the Platform is useful background reading. Unfortuantely Makhnos last reply is not yet in English. [When reading it remember that Malatesta was physically isolated at the time as he was under arrest in fascist Italy).