Anarchists and the trade unions - Be active - be involved
Trade Unions are important organs of the working-class. Gregor Kerr - a member of the Irish National Teachers Organisation who has been involved in campaigns against "social partnership" and in many...
View ArticleAn anarchist introduction to trade unions
TRADE UNIONS were founded to defend the interests of workers, but today have become more and more dominated by an unaccountable, and often unelected, bureaucracy. Trade unions - or at least their...
View ArticleThe Nomad, the Displaced and the Settler: Work in the 21st century
In many countries there has been a debate as to the nature of the changes in western workplaces; in Britain they talk about increased casualisation of the workforce, in the US they talk about...
View ArticlePrecarity: An Introduction to a Word
Precarity is a term synonymous with precariousness. It is perhaps best conceived as chronic insecurity. In recent times with the dismantling of the welfare state, the destruction of social security,...
View ArticleThoughts on the crash and the alternatives
Our government has become more and more open about their plans for us. Cowen wants to drive down our living standards 12% and has already cut all our wages through the tax levy and slashed the wages of...
View Article120,000 workers march through Dublin - National strike now!
On Saturday 120,000 workers marched through Dublin demanding the the public sector pay cut ('pension levy') be withdrawn, that jobs cuts be opposed and that all the other attacks on the working class...
View ArticleWhy are the ICTU leaders refusing to fight the cuts - It's Time to Strike Back
Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put...
View ArticleWSM reports from the pickets lines of the Nov 24th national strike
On 24 November 2009 250,000 public sector workers in Ireland took part in a national strike against planned pay cuts. Many WSM members who work in the public sector played a direct part in the...
View ArticleCapitalist crisis and union resistance in Ireland
Late 2008 saw the Irish capitalist class wage a major ideological struggle against the Irish working class. They called for workers to bear the brunt of the capitalist crisis. Print media, TV and radio...
View ArticleThe trade unions
The Workers Solidarity Movement position on the trade unions including an anarchist analysis of the unions and what sort of demands anarchists should put forward in the unions. Last modified at WSM...
View ArticleTrade Unionists betrayed by leadership
On Tuesday 24th November 2009, 250,000 public sector workers took strike action in opposition to the government policy of public service pay cuts. This was a potentially massive show of defiance and...
View ArticleThe Croke Park Agreement – the very antithesis of Larkin’s trade unionism
Next year, 2013, will mark the 100th anniversary of what many see as the most significant industrial dispute ever to have taken place in Ireland - the Dublin Lockout. The employers of Dublin, led by...
View ArticleTake Back The Power! - Our message to ICTU's anti-debt marches 9th Feb '13
It is time for every one of us to take responsibility for trying to turn things around. We have to stop referring to ‘the union’ as something outside of ourselves and begin to see that our unions are...
View ArticleAfter Croke Park: Defeating austerity - prepare to Strike to Win
Public service workers proved in the Croke Park vote that we are capable of getting organised to defeat the careful plans of the government to make us swallow yet another round of cuts. This despite...
View ArticleWhy we said No to Croke Park Two
Vote NO to Further deterioration of the public services we all use A freeze in pay & increments A huge increase in hours for many workers & the subsequent loss of jobs The loss of 6 days...
View ArticleGeneral strike - Protest or process?
On Merrion square, an evacuation is in progress. Thousands of people scatter in all directions; panic is etched across their faces. To the casual observer, this is a life or death situation. There is...
View Article120,000 workers march through Dublin - National strike now!
On Saturday 120,000 workers marched through Dublin demanding the the public sector pay cut ('pension levy') be withdrawn, that jobs cuts be opposed and that all the other attacks on the working class...
View ArticleSex Work as Work - Dr. Laura Agustín at the Dublin anarchist book fair
Dr. Laura Agustín (author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry) talked at the 2013 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair about why she believes sex work should be treated as...
View ArticleThe British Miners strike of 1984-85 -Video & Audio from DABF 2014
At this session at the Dublin anarchist bookfair Dave Douglass talked about his experiences of 1984 - the year the British mines almost defeated Thatcher. "That fight in 84-85 involved the whole...
View ArticleTurnips, hammers & the square - why workplace occupations have faded.
What if we build it and they don’t come? That was the experience of the left during the crisis - decades had been spent building organisations and a model of how crisis would create revolution, but...
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