on the Web
Issue 60 of the Irish Anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is now on the web at http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws2000.html
The article titles and short descriptions are below. For the first time with Ws60 we are also making it available as a PDF file (fully laid out with graphics etc) which you can print out and distribute locally. For the PDF file and instructions on how to do this see http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm/pdf.html
WS60 - Contents
Our globalisation -
Fighting Global Capitalism The world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth equal to the combined annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorest people.
Bin the Bin Tax!! Double taxation has returned to the Dublin area, with a £150 refuse charge introduced by Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council and talk among councillors on Dublin Corporation of the introduction of a charge there too.
Drowned, suffocated and beaten to death
- 'Fortress Europe' - legalised murder These are the victims of 'Fortress Europe' - the human cost of a policy which places the needs of capital over the rights of people. In fact over 2063 people have died in and around the European Union since 1993 as a result of the anti-refugee policies of governments across Europe.
Aldi strike The strike at the Aldi supermarket on Dublin's Parnell Street came to an end on Friday August 18th. It marked the end of a bitter three month struggle for union recognition
From the Czech Republic:
Why we organise against the IMF The Czech anarchist organisation Solidarita/Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists is working as part of INPEG, the Czech alliance organising the protests in Prague this September. Vadim Barek, Solidarita's international secretary explains what the IMF means to workers in the Czech republic and why they are organising against the summit.
The World Bank and its actions.... Right now across the world, the lives of millions of people are in the hands of two of the most powerful financial institutions ever created - the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB)
The housing crisis After six years of massive house price increases it is now almost impossible for the average worker to buy a house in Ireland. Average house prices in Ireland rose from 11.3 times the average income in 1989 to 18.2 times income in 1999. We name the Greedy Bastards
The housing crisis: Finding a scapegoat The real cause of the housing crisis is neither the tens of thousands of returning Irish born migrants nor the 15,000 or so asylum seekers. The reason housing is in short supply and expensive is because of the hoarding of land and super profits of a handful of speculators
Your class needs you What anarchism is and how you can get involved in building it in Ireland
Beyond the
'Days of action against global capital' For decades, the organisations that manage capitalism have met to divvy up the world among themselves. For the first time, their role as dealers of poverty and misery has been exposed by thousands of angry protesters.
That's Capitalism More examples of the cruelty, greed and stupidity of the capitalist system
The United Bigots When the 'Northern Ireland Assembly' discussed the issue of abortion in June, the prospect of denying rights to women united politicians right across the so-called 'religious divide'.
Review: Fight Club - out on video Fight Club is an anarchist inspiration to some, fascist propaganda to others, and it's easy to see why opinions are divided. It's an attack on the emptiness of consumerism, the way society robs us of real choice, the void at the heart of capitalism. But the solution it portrays is just as bad
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