Monday 15th August at 9am a group of 12 people went down to Shell's compound in Aughoose to stop work. Eventually Shell's private security (IRMS) and the Gardaí began working together to police the roads and protect deliveries of equipment to the compound. read full story / add a comment

Over the past week at Giuseppe Conlon CW House in Harringey London, we have recieived calls of concern, and requests for explanations, following the rioting and looting over the weekend that started in our borough of Harringey and extended across London and then to regional towns in England.

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The Republican Network for Unity will be holding a protest on the 3rd and again (on the 13th of September, to be confirmed) at 1pm in Dublin to highlight the ongoing situation in Magheberry Gaol. read full story / add a comment

August 19 - 20th Outside Old City Arts Building, 23-25 Moss Street, Dublin 2

This two day event will look at issues surrounding education, the property crisis, and how to fight back against the narrow economic imperatives dominating both of these fields today.

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28 acts take to the stage in Sweeney’s for Love Music Hate Racism’sElectric Picnic Fundraiser this Friday 19th August. The event is splitinto two parts with the early show being Love Music Hate Racism’sfirst underage show featuring 7 teenage bands, kicking off at 2pmupstairs on the 1st floor.The underage gig was organised by JordenBukspan , a young student at Stratford college who approached LMHRwanting to get involved.

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Irish Anti-War Movement Public Meeting: 2001-2011, 10 YEARS of the 'war on terror'

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There will be an acoustic gig at Seomra Spraoi on August 20th at 8pm. Ryan Harvey of the riot Folk Collective and Chelsea Carnes from the Florida folk-punk band Dirty Fist will be playing.  Entry by donation, €5 for unwaged €10 for waged. 

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The police killing of Mark Duggan resulted in four nights of rioting across England. The immediate trigger was the killing itself, and the disrespect shown by the police to Mark’s family and friends. But the riots rapidly broadened to expressions of a more general anger and alienation; an anger that was all too often unfocused and striking out at the nearest target of opportunity. This resulted in widespread destruction of resources in already deprived neighborhoods and some anti-social attacks on bystanders. Despite this, the roots of the riots lie in the economic and political conditions of these districts, and not in ‘poor parenting’ or ‘mindless criminality’. These conditions were created by the very politicians and business elite who now call for a return to normality and repression.

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