Ireland

Labour Party and union leaders play race card against migrant workers

Following the Irish Ferries dispute Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte and union leader Jack O’Connor have decided to place the blame for driving down wages in Ireland on the migrant workers themselves and not on the bosses.

Both called for work permits to regulate migrant workers in Ireland .

Alan MacSimoin, of the Workers Solidarity Movement, disagreed:

Charge of the New Red Brigade - The Independent on Red Action

Article from The Independent on Sunday about socialist group Red Action, anti-fascism, the IRA and the bombings of Harrods and a Network Southeast train in 1993.

By Matt Seaton, The Independent on Sunday, January 1995

By global standards, 20th Century Britain has been remarkably free from political violence. Red Action hope to change all that. Angry, ruthless and close to the IRA, they preach socialism through terror.

Struggle continues against Shell in the west of Ireland

A report on the libertarian camp and direct action campaign against a hazardous Shell refinery and pipeline development project

Rossport Solidarity Camp is due to re-open on the 25th of February, in a hitherto remote and little heard of corner of county Mayo in the West of Ireland.

Irish travellers scapegoated

Its power for the course for the mainstream media, politicians and their lackeys to make a career out of criminalisation and scapegoating of minorities.

In Ireland if a scapegoat is needed all too often Travellers are made to fit the bill.

Irish Ferries - Thousands of workers say no to slavery on the high seas

An estimated 150,000 took part in the day of action in solidarity with Irish Ferries workers across Ireland.

In the south’s biggest working class mobilisation since the seventies between 50,000 and 100,000 marched through Dublin, 10,000 to 15,000 Limerick, 15,000 in Waterford, thousands marched in Cork, over 1,000 marched in Galway, while thousands more marched in Sligo, Athlone, and Rosslare.

An anarchist look at the world of the charity mugger

21st century indulgences, chugging and corporate ch ch-ing - one worker's account and analysis of working as a street fundraiser.

Looking into it, chugging is a world with many nebulous traditions clashing. For the major charities it's simple. The donations they receive on an ongoing basis through direct debit allow for clean, efficient and long term budgeting as we had it drilled into our heads in training.