Workers Solidarity No 72 is online

national | miscellaneous | news report

Wednesday September 18, 2002 12:13

by Workers Solidarity Movement

wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com

Irish anarchist paper

The latest issue of Workers Solidarity is now online at http://struggle.ws/ws/2002.html You can print out (and if you wish distribute) a PDF version of WS72 from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/72.html

The contents of this issue include

A bosses Europe or an anarchist Europe?
The Nice treaty offers us a bosses Europe, we want an anarchist Europe

Reclaiming the planet - building a movement in Ireland
The libertarian movement in Ireland is growing, the Belfast Grassroots Gathering gives us a chance to meet up

'Libertarians against Nice' launched
LAN is a network of groups and individuals across Ireland campaigning against the Nice treaty from a libertarian perspective

Lindsay Tribunal : The Cuts That Killed
A deliberate decision was made that it was acceptable to risk killing patients in order to save a few bob. Properly screened blood products were more expensive. So, the BTSB didn't recall products which they know to be potentially deadly.

"Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards"
In 1927, two Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were judicially murdered by the State of Massachusetts in the USA, having been framed for two murders they didn't commit.

Getting involved
What we have been doing and what is coming up

Nice and Nationalism
We desire a global world where national boundaries are of as little relevance as parish boundaries today. We oppose all forms of nationalism that try and set the people of one country above the people of another.

The anti-bin tax battles
According to the council's own figures less then 50% of people paid any part of their bill last year. With the growing success of non-payment only around 20% have paid something so far this year

That's capitalism
Shorts that reveal just how bad capitalism is from Ireland to Africa

Factory worker takes on SIPTU top brass
A radical shopfloor worker has put himself forward in the election for general secretary of Ireland's biggest union, SIPTU. Des Derwin, an assembly operative at the Mouldpro plastics factory in Dublin, is a long-time union activist and independent socialist

Dunboyne Sacking - Union Failed To Act
This dismissal raises many questions for teachers about the role of religion in Irish primary education. Even further it raises serious issues for INTO members about the failure of the union to defend its members from bullying and intimidation by the unaccountable 'owners' of the schools in which we work

Why does the US want war with Iraq?
Like most other wars, this is about control of resources.Wars are also good for the economy, and the US economy certainly could need some help at the moment.

Review: Cuban Anarchism - The History of a Movement
Frank Fernández first gives a detailed and well documented account of how libertarian ideas first took hold in Cuba.

Read the articles online at http://struggle.ws/ws/2002.html

Print out (and distribute) a PDF version of WS72 from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/72.html