Index of 1997 issues of Workers Solidarity
Irish Anarchist Paper
Newspaper of the Workers Soldiarity
movement an anarchist group active in Ireland. We cover news of union
and community struggles alongside analysis of politics in Ireland and
articles explaining anarchist history and theory.
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Workers Solidarity No 52
Autumn 1997
- Slam the door on racists
- Pushers Out: Poverty Out too
- Who ever you voted for the government won
- Unionist MP supports anti-Catholic threats
- Socialist arrested by gardai
- Thousands of rebels from all
over the world meet
- Mexicans refuse to pay
electricity charges
- South Africa : Students are
still struggling
- Review: Anarchism, greens and
all that
- Looking back at Red
October
- Class war is over: Long live
the Class War
- Buenaventura Durruti
- Would Pat Buchanan take a
cheque from Satan
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Workers Solidarity No 51
Summer 1997
- If voting changed anything...it
would be illegal
- Gerry Adams..A man you can do
business with
- Anarchist ex-Black Panther to
speak in Ireland
- The fight against
fascism.
- Church sells off The Secret Garden
- When the Red Flag flew in
Munster
- Girl Power? what a shower!
- Ireland's media...
- The Liverpool dockers fight on
- Disney & McDonalds linked to $0.06 per hour
- Training or Education
- Which western country never abolished slavery?
- Review: Trade unionism's dark soul
- The unemployed are on the march
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Workers Solidarity No 50
Spring 1997
- Water Charges Victory
- Communities stand up to the heroin barons
- Employment Equality Bill
- The Anti-D scandal
- For Humanity and against neoliberalism
- Interview with the SAC
- Irish nationalism is not for us
- Catholic & Protestant or rich and poor
- Education The murder machine continued?
- Self-management/Russian revolution
- Captain Jack Whyte
- Review: Chomsky's Politics
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These issues are from 1997, you can also read the
1996 issues
Workers Solidarity No 52
Autumn 1997
Recently the WSM organised a speaking tour
by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin in Ireland. After Ireland Lorenzo went to
Australia where he was arrested by the racist Australian
government.
Some of the latest ripoffs and oddities of
capitalism
*** News from Ireland & WSM
***
An increase in the number of refugees arriving in Ireland has led
to a media fueled upsurge in racism. Put the fight back against this
racism has already started
The Heroin crisis continues in Dublin, we examine how it is rooted
in poverty
A look at the 26 counties general election results and what they
mean for the Irish left
SWP election candidate was arrested by Gardai while making an
election address in Rathmines, Dublin
Rank and file opposition continues in SIPTU
*** International News ***
Interview with a WSM member who attended the
2nd encounter for Humanity and against neoliberalism in Spain this
summer
An interview with two women from the Civil
Resistance in Chiapas
Nearly twice as many children are working full time in developing
countries as previously thought, according to the International
Labour Organization.
*** History and Theory ***
A review of the Anarchist Communist
Federations pamphlet, Where there's brass there's muck
80 years on the Russian revolution is still
a source of inspiration to many
The British Class War Federation has
dissolved itself and published a final issue of its paper. We look at
why they took this decision.
A short biography of the anarchist militant
killed in the first months of the Spanish revolution.
A review of Michael Moore's 'Downsize
this!'
Workers Solidarity No 51
Summer 1997
Some recent WSM activity
Some of the latest ripoffs and oddities of
capitalism
*** News from Ireland & WSM
***
June 6 saw a general election. Over the
centuries, thousands of people have fought and died for the right to
vote in free elections. So why, after winning such an important
right, do anarchists say we should not vote in elections?
The latest meeting between the Confederation of British Industry
(CBI) and the Sinn Féin leadership took place on March 25th.
Whatever the Sinn Féin leadership and
the CBI are constructing together it's not part of a path which leads
to a united socialist Ireland.
British army officers let the cat out of the
bag.
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin speaking tour, US political prisoner and
ex-Black Panther was speaking in Ireland in May of 1997. This article
explains who he is.
There has been a Community Training Workshop in the grounds of All
Hallows College for the past fifteen years. The workshop takes most
of its trainees from the prisons and the probation service. Their
landlord (the Catholic Church) has sold the land the workshop is on
to a private housing developer
We catch out PD Mary Harney telling a lie!
We continue the discussion about the heroin crisis, this time with
two readers' letters. Your views are welcome.
TONY O'REILLY is Ireland's media giant, owner of Independent
Newspapers. This year O'Reilly's earnings add up to £160,000 A
DAY! We should not be surprised when the struggles of working class
people don't get fair coverage in the Indo, Herald, Star, Sunday
World or any of his provincial papers.
The trade union movement has two souls. The first derives from the
activities of members to improve their lot and control their unions.
The second is the dark soul consisting of the activities of leaders
whose only concern is to maintain industrial peace and harmony, often
at the expense of 'their' members.
A European March against Unemployment, Job Insecurity and
Exclusion has been called by a wide coalition of unions, unemployed
and political groups. Eleven separate legs of the march will arrive
in the centre of Amsterdam on the afternoon of June 14th, to coincide
with a European Union Inter-governmental Conference
*** International News ***
On February 15th, the 'Plume Noire' anarchist bookstore was
plastered with fascist stickers. At around 5am the bookshop was
completely destroyed in an obviously well orchestrated incendiary
attack.
After over 18 months the Liverpool dockers are still fighting for
their jobs, January 20 saw an international day of action in support
of them
SLAVERY IS STILL LEGAL in the USA. Contrary to what we may learn
in school, the American Civil War did not see the complete abolition
of slavery in 1865.
*** History and Theory ***
FARM LABOURERS STRIKES, occupations of creameries, red flags
flying and 'soviets' being declared. Not usually the sort of thing
associated with the years 1919-1923, the years of the War of
Independence and the Civil War. This article covers the events of
these years they 'forgot' to tell you about in school.
Alice Nutter of Chumbawamba on the Spice Girls 'Girl Power'
Our schools are just glorified production lines - children go in
one end, workers come out the other. There is little room for the
idea that knowledge might be a good thing in itself, that there is
more to education than making round pegs for round holes.
Workers Solidarity No 50
Spring 1997
News of the activities of the WSM in the Winter of 1997; in the
unions opposing Partnership 2000 and marching in the Bloody Sunday
Commemoration in Derry. Things are looking optimistic with national
and international victories and we're getting the anarchist message
to more and more people
Facts and figures detailing the latest abuses of capitalism,
including prison labour and the oppression of women
*** News from Ireland & WSM ***
Gregor Kerr, Secretary of the Federation of Dublin Anti-Water
Charge Campaigns reports on the defeat of the state by a mass
non-payment campaign which stood up to bribes, threats and
intimidation
Dublin is experiencing a very serious heroin epidemic with an
estimated 8,000-9,000 heroin addicts. Heroin addiction is closely
related to disadvantage and poverty. The anti-heroin movement has
brought thousands of people to meetings and onto the streets in
Dublin's working class communities
The Employment Equality Bill effectively gives schools and
hospitals which are controlled by either of the churches the right to
discriminate on the basis of marital status, family/parental status,
sexual orientation, race, religion or membership of the Traveller
Community
Due to contaminated Anti-D about a thousand women have contracted
Hepatitis C. We look at why the contamination happened and why the
government tried to cover it up
Two short illustrations of the sectarian nature of the state in
northern Ireland
An Irish fascist has turned up as editor of Right Now!, an
ultra-right magazine within the British Conservative Party. Among the
MPs who have spoken at its meetings are Deputy DUP leader Peter
Robinson and Orange Grand Master Martin Smyth
Adam Hughes died recently at just 18 years old. Adam gave a great
deal to the anarchist movement in his two or so years of membership
*** International News ***
In August of 1996 3,000 people from all over the world gathered in
jungle camps as guests of the EZLN to discuss building a global fight
against neo-liberal capitalism
Kevin Doyle of the Workers Solidarity Movement interview's Lars
Hammarberg, an organiser with the Swedish syndicalist union the
Central Organisation of Swedish Workers (SAC)
Australia's powerful Maritime Trade Union launched rolling bans on
Indonesian shipping to protest against the arrest of Indonesian trade
union activists
The UN revealed that the world's 358 wealthiest people have assets
equal to the combined income of 2.3 billion people
Robert Lynn died recently. His death is a great blow for the
Scottish anarchist movement which has lost one of its oldest
activists
*** History and Theory ***
Anarchists are for the defeat of British imperialism. But we want
more, we stand for the creation of a new society in the interests of
the working class. This is very different from the politics of
nationalism, of Sinn Fein
Some republicans seem to be genuinely surprised that the 'peace
process' collapsed. How can anything be expected from the British
state which was responsible for Bloody Sunday, for smashing the
miners strike, for running down the NHS
What should education be about?" If your answer is that education
should be about the development of the full potential of every
student and that the role of a teacher/educator should be to
facilitate that development, then you will soon realise that much of
what passes for education in the current system is nothing of the
sort
Workers self-management in the
Russian revolution
Factory Committees began to appear in Russia from March 1917
onwards. At first they struggled to limit the control of the bosses
and they took up issues such as the eight hour day. The committees
soon began to become more adventurous and began to speak of actively
running of the factories
Captain Jack Whyte fought in the British army during the Boer war,
organised the first workers militia in Ireland during the 1913
lockout and went on to become an anarchist and fight alongside the
CNT in Spain
Chomsky has written extensively on the evils of American foreign
policy, media censorship, and the complex issues of power and its
manipulation by politicians and capitalists of all kinds, and about
what constitutes real democracy
