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Workers Solidarity No 51

Summer 1997

For starters

Some recent WSM activity

That's Capitalism

Some of the latest ripoffs and oddities of capitalism

*** News from Ireland & WSM ***

If voting changed anything...it would be illegal

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?

Gerry Adams..A man you can do business with

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.

What's another (Irish) life?

British army officers let the cat out of the bag.

Anarchist ex-Black Panther to speak in Ireland

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.

Church sells off The Secret Garden

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

Liar, Liar

We catch out PD Mary Harney telling a lie!

The Drugs Debate

We continue the discussion about the heroin crisis, this time with two readers' letters. Your views are welcome.

Northern Ireland tops list of scrooge bosses

Ireland's media...

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.

Review: Trade unionism's dark soul

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.

The unemployed are on the march

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 ***

The fight against fascism...yesterday and tomorrow

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.

The Liverpool dockers fight on

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

Disney & McDonalds linked to $0.06 per hour sweatshop in Vietnam

Which western country never fully abolished slavery?

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 ***

When the Red Flag flew in Munster

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.

Girl Power? what a shower!

Alice Nutter of Chumbawamba on the Spice Girls 'Girl Power'

Training or Education

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.

 


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