2nd Dublin anarchist bookfair

by Joe Wed Jan 03, 2007 15:10

Doors will probably open around 12.00

Details of last years bookfair can be found at http://anarchistbookfair2006.blogspot.com/

Note its a new venue this year as we ran out of room at the last venue for both stalls and meeting

This indymedia thread http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74661 contains photos and reports of last years bookfair, there is also another report by a SP member at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74706

X marks the spot

by Joe Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:00

These are details of some of the meetings that will be happening, others will be added as confirmed, so far we only have confirmation of the more historical ones.

"What sort of Ireland do we want?"
Speakers from WSM, ISN (http://irishsocialist.net) and éirígí (http://www.eirigi.org/)

History of Anarchism in Ireland
WSM speakers, should include a slideshow

Syndicalism and Ireland
Emmet O'Connor, author of 'Syndicalism in Ireland, 1917-1923'

William Thompsons contribution to the development of socialism
Paul Bowman

The final timetable is not yet ready so there are no times for these as yet.

by Joe Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:04

This is the provisional list of stalls that will be at the bookfair - for questions, suggestions etc you the 'contact us' form on the WSM web site. This years most of teh anarchist organisations in Britain are sending members over to do stalls.

Introduction and Welcome to the bookfair stall

WSM Bookservice
Barracka Books (Cork)
Just Books (Belfast)

Workers Solidarity Movement
eirigi
ISN
Organise
Revolutionary Anarcho-Feminist Group
Polish anarchists in Ireland

Residents against Racism
Latin American Solidarity Campaign
Rossport Solidarity Camp
Dublin Shell to Sea
Revolt Video

Solidarity Federation (Britian)
Anarchist Federation (Britian)
Class War (Britian)
LibCom.org (Britian)

by @n@rchist Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:32

any new yet of the other meetings?

by Joe Sun Jan 28, 2007 18:15

We are finalising the list at the moment so I think they should be posted here early next week

by Ois Wed Jan 31, 2007 01:30

Just to say who Paul Bowman is. He's an ex-member of the Class War Federation. Is from an Irish family and lives in Leeds and is currently finishing work a book on William Thompson.

William Thompson (1775 Cork City, - March 28, 1833 Rosscarbery, Co. Cork) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners and merchants of Cork society, his attempt to will his estate the cooperative movement after his death sparked the longest court case in Irish legal history as other branches of his family fought to have the will annulled. Beatrice and Sidney Webb would characterise Marx as "the illustrious disciple" of Thompson and Hodskin. Sentiments also echoed by the likes of Harold Laski and other British historians of socialism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thompson_%28Cork%29

Connolly called him Ireland's first socialist and dedicated a chapter of Labour in Irish History to discussing him.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1910/lih/chap1...0.htm

Despite that little has been written on Thompson and his work is generally considered to be forgotten classics.

Personally I'm looking forward to this meeting in particular.

by ois Thu Feb 01, 2007 21:18

Syndicalism emerged in the 1880s, in response to what was seen as the failure of existing forms of socialism. The syndicalists believed that the place to fight was at the point of production, through strikes, sabotage, and sympathetic action.
Between 1917 and 1923, syndicalism had a huge impact on Irish labour. These ‘red flag times’ were an age of general strikes and soviets, of building the One Big Union and the Workers’ Republic.
Connolly was dead, and Larkin was in America. So why did labour become so militant and so radical in their absence?

This talk will be given by Emmet O'Connor who is Senior Lecturer in History at Magee College, University of Ulster.

His published books include 'James Larkin (Radical Irish Lives)', 'Loyalism and Labour in Belfast: The Autobiography of Robert McElborough 1884-1952 (Irish Narritives)', 'Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43', 'A Labour History of Ireland, 1824-1960' and of course the work 'Syndicalism in Ireland 1917-1923'

by Joe Sun Feb 04, 2007 15:06

OK sorry for delay in this but this is a fairly complete list of meetings. Note in some cases the title as may change as with groups that haven't given us an exact title as yet we've inserted a general one to use for the moment

12:30PM - 2:30pm
What Sort of Ireland Do We Want?
Speakers from Workers Solidarity Movement, Irish Socialist Network and Eirigi discuss the questions
#How to get to a revolution?
#What do we mean by a revolution?
#What do we want after the revolution?

2:45pm – 3:45pm
Death By Cops
Laurence Wheelock talks about his family’s fight for justice for his brother Terence, a twenty year old man from Dublin’s north inner city who went into a coma after sustaining injuries in garda custody in June 2005 and subsequently died in September of that year.

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Rossport: In Defiance of the State
John Monaghan from Rossport speaks about the ongoing battle in North Mayo as a community fights to protect itself against Shell, a multinational with a track record for maltreating communities which they operate in.

5:15pm – 6:15pm
Anarchist women
A speaker from RAG (Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group)

ROOM TWO
12:15pm – 1:15pm

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Polish anarchists in Ireland
A meeting for Polish anarchists

2:45pm – 3:45pm
The rise of the left in South America
Three South American speakers about recent political developments in South America

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Syndicalism and Ireland
Labour historian Emmet O’Connor, author of ‘Syndicalism in Ireland’

5:15pm – 6:15pm
William Thompson’s contribution to the development of socialism
Paul Bowman on the ideas of the man that James Connolly described as ‘the first Irish socialist’

ROOM THREE
12:15pm – 1:15pm

1:30pm – 2:30pm
ID Cards in Britain and elsewhere - an attack on the working class?
A speaker from a British anarchist organisation, Anarchist Federation on the battle against Big Brother

2:45pm – 3:45pm
The History of Anarchism in Ireland
WSM members Aileen O’Carroll and Alan Mac Simoin look back at the development of anarchism and anarchist ideas in Ireland

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Anti-War meeting

5:15pm – 6:15pm
Anarchism in Belfast
A speaker from Organise

by WSM Yoof Thu Feb 08, 2007 16:38

Lovely looking posters...

by Joe Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:49

Four new stalls for the bookfair

Red Banner
Anarchist Prisoner Support
Streen Seen
AFA

by Joe Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:20

As explained above some of the meeting titles were general provisional ones until we heard back from the groups holding them. The final titles for two are below

5.15-6.15 Class, Feminism and Revolution
A speaker from RAG (Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group)

Organise!- what we're at
A speaker from Organise

by unlabelled, unaffiliated Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:31

some interesting things on the line up, is it open to all?

by WSM-bot Wed Feb 21, 2007 15:04

Of course, it's a public event. All welcome, entry is free.

by Joe Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:18

The bookfair is being advertised in Polish on the Poloish Central Anarchist Information page at
http://cia.bzzz.net/wspolpraca_polskich_i_irlandzkich_a...istow

by date watcher Mon Feb 26, 2007 17:26

see that the events are all for saturday the3rd,
if so then why is sunday the 4th on the flyer?

by G Mon Feb 26, 2007 17:31

4th isn't actually mentioned on the flyer. Fri 2nd is though - there's a couple of films being shown in Seomra Spraoi. I'll check the full details and post them up later

by J.Carax - WSM Thu Mar 01, 2007 19:56

Come one, come all!

by Joe Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:56

Issue 12 of the Northeastern Anarchist , the English-language magazine of the US and Canadian Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) has just arrived in time for the bookfair and will be on the WSM stall.

This issue's contents:

"Solidarity and the 6 Nation struggle for the land" by Jeff Shantz
"A Tribute To Murray Bookchin [January 14, 1921- July 30, 2006]" by Lady
"Precarious & Pissed Off: Lessons from the Montpelier Downtown Workers’ Union" by Sean West
"Zanon: Building Class Consciousness Through Self-Management" by Marie Trigona
"This is our Land: Resistance in Pyeongtaek" by The Daechuri International Solidarity Collective
"Anarchists and the Popular Front in France" by Guillaume Davranche
"Workers, Management, and Worker-management"
"Where License Reigns With All Impunity: An Anarchist Study of the Iroquois Polity" by Stephen Arthur

BOOK REVIEWS

50 Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader reviewed by Isaac Pirie
The Black Power Movement Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era reviewed by J. Hons
Breaking Ranks Resistance from Within the Military reviewed by By Agent Automatic

by ('',) Sat Mar 03, 2007 08:48

Anarchist Bookfair today.