Workers Solidarity Movement

Content by or about The Workers’ Solidarity Movement (WSM) an anarchist organisation established in Ireland in 1984. It took active roles in several campaigns, notably for abortion rights and against water charges in the 1990s. It published the paper Workers Solidarity and the magazine Irish Anarchist Review. In December 2021, the WSM announced it was disbanding.

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Workers Solidarity Movement closing statement

This is the promised detailed analysis of the end of the WSM following on from our very brief announcement of December 7th, 2021 titled 'WSM has…

Barricade Bulletin 16 - Dec/Jan/Feb 2021-2022

Issue 16 of Barricade Bulletin, with articles on migrant solidarity, strike action, Ryan Roberts and the Bristol Kill the Bill cases, prison…

A Reply to Syndicalism: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

A response from Tom Wetzel of the Workers Solidarity Alliance to Alan MacSimóin's article on syndicalism.

Platformist groups in the year 2000

An overview of the platformist tradition from the year 2000.

The Platform: What's in it?

A guide to 'The Organisational Platform of the libertarian communists'.

Italian Anarchism...get back to where you once belonged

Italy is one of the historical strongholds of the anarchist movement. In this article from 1998,…

Winning The Water War: Defeating the Water Tax in Dublin in the 1990s

In 1997, the Irish domestic water charge was abolished. In 'Winning The Water War', Dermot Sreenan, an activist in the Federation of Dublin Anti Water Charges Campaigns examines the campaign and the demonstration of people power that brought about the downfall of this charge.

Direct Action Movement becomes Solidarity Federation

An article from 1994 responding to the Direct Action Movement's change of name to the Solidarity Federation, published in the Workers Solidarity Movement magazine Red and Black Revolution.

Syndicalism: Its strengths & weaknesses

The main organisational form in libertarian politics in 1994 was syndicalism. Alan MacSimon, a delegate to Dublin Council of Trade Unions who has also attended a European gathering of revolutionary unions looked at the potential, and limits, of syndicalism.

The Usefulness of Faceless Resistance

An article that looks primarily at the work of Kämpa Tillsammans, who developed the core ideas of Faceless Resistance, and also situates these…

Irish Anarchist Review

An archive of the Irish Anarchist Review, a magazine published by the Workers Solidarity Movement from 2010-2015. The Irish Anarchist Review…

Anarchism, insurrections and insurrectionalism

An article from the Workers Solidarity Movement examining the relation of anarchism to insurrection.