Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity 78 online

national | anti-capitalism | press release Friday November 07, 2003 13:00 by WSM

The latest issue of the Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is now online. The articles are listed below. You can download a PDF version from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/78.html or read it on the web at http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2003

Front cover

1 (no) law for the rich
The last months in Dublin have seen the jailing of ordinary working class people for protesting against the bin tax. A tax whose introduction was not only opposed by most people but which tens of thousands are refusing to pay.

Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement
The ISM has had a good deal of success in helping out in some of the day to day situations faced by ordinary Palestinians

Thinking about anarchism - Unequal power, unequal pay
During the year a spate of reports have 'discovered' what a lot of workers already know - that equal pay for equal work just doesn't exist.

Robert Emmet and the rising of 1803
A review of the book by Ruan O' Donnell on the 1803 rising

Debate on Iraq war
An (Iraqi) Kurd living in Ireland replies to us on democracy and the war in Iraq. This is a longer version of his letter than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions

The Social Forums: Abandon or Contaminate?
The social forums can be stage-managed election and recruitment platforms for authoritarians and reformists. At the same time the social forums have attracted hundreds of thousands of people seeking a way to change the world we live in

Bin Tax - what has been going on
The campaign against the bin-tax in Dublin has seen an upsurge of community resistance to the government

Chile: 30 years of 9-11 protests
Throughout the country Chileans commemorate September 11th 1973, the day of Pinochets bloody (US facilitated) coup. This is a longer version of the article than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions

"Direct Action" and "A Day Mournful and Overcast"
We review two Anarchist History Pamphlets from the Kate Sharpley Library

HASC meetings in Cork
About fifty people gathered in Mayfield GAA club in the first of a series of meetings re launching the campaign against the refuse charges in Cork city. This is a longer version of the article than the one that appears in the printed/PDF editions

That's Capitalism
From schools to napalm capitalism makes a mess of the world

David Begg: Bertie's new partner
ICTU general secretary David Begg condemned the anti-bin tax campaign. He did this at the same time that the state was jailing protesters and refusing to collect rubbish from thousands of households in Dublin.

You can download a PDF version from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/78.html or read it on the web at http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2003