This was the first leaflet from the Dublin Anarchist Group, and below
is a sneering and very inaccurate report from a Stalinist journal of
the time.
The DAG only lasted for a year or so before it had a friendly split.
The minority got together with some likeminded people from the Belfast Anarchist Collective and formed the Anarchist Workers Alliance. That can be seen as a forerunner of the Workers Solidarity Movement (formed in 1984).
The majority, who favoured a looser and less politically defined
group, went on to establish the ABC bookshop in Marlborough Street and
published two issues of a magazine called Resistance.
Proving that Dublin is a small place, they shared that building with the
Socialist Labour Party and the 32 County Feminist Federation.
The DAG’s membership included Jackie Crawford, Hugh McPartlin,
Patricia McCarthy, Joan Stephenson, Alan MacSimoin, Don Bennett and
Valerie McCarthy
This snippet comes from superSPI, the often humourous magazine of the Socialist Party of Ireland.
This had no connection to today’s party of the same name. It was a
small hardline Stalinist split from from the Official Republican
Movement in 1971, which sought to win the Moscow franchise away from the
Communist Party. Over its 11 years of life it never spread beyond
Dublin and the remnants ended up in the Labour Party.
Getting three things wrong in just two sentences wasn’t bad going!
The leaflet was not distributed in Trinity College but on that year’s
Dublin May Day march. The Dublin Anarchist Group didn’t have an office
in Rathmines, and not having an office it couldn’t have been courtesy of
the Student Christian Movement.
The real story was far less interesting. The Dublin Anarchist Group
had been formed a couple of months previously. The Student Christian
Movement allowed a multitude of campaign groups to use their address for
mail, and the DAG asked if they could also use it for a few weeks until
they sorted out their own.
I don’t think there were any Trinity students involved (though I
could be wrong), though there was a WUI shop steward from Trinity. There
were a couple of students from UCD but a good few of the 25 or so
members of the group were ex-republicans (both provo and sticky) or
union activists. I can remember people from the CIE works in Inchicore,
Dublin County Council, and Ardmore Film Studios.
And whilst talking of ‘interesting’ things, the SPI who covered
Ballymun and Tallaght with anti-Provo “Isolate the Gunmen’ posters, had
originally funded themselves by an armed raid on Ballymun post office.
**superSPI is available for download at the excellent Left Archive of
the Cedar Lounge Revolution blog:
cedarlounge.wordpress.com/category/irish-left-online-document-archive/socialist-party-of-ireland-spi
source http://irishanarchisthistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/dublin-anarchist-group-may-day-1978/
Monday, April 30, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
75th Anniversary of the bombing in Gernika
Tomorrow, Friday 27th of May - Solidarity books will bave a stall at the Gernika commemoration in the Teachers club, 36 Parnell square.
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event notice
Location:
Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Monday, April 23, 2012
Belfast Anarchist Bookfair to take place Saturday 28th
The 4thBelfast Anarchist Bookfair will take this
Saturday at 12pm in the Warzone centre, Little Victoria Street in the
city centre. Hosted by Organise!/Just Books Collective there will be
also a WSM stall including the latest Workers Solidarity and Irish
Anarchist Review.
There will also be two talks/discussions taking place. The first at 12.30pm on radical co-operatives, collectives and ‘free space’ will be lead off by a panel of people involved in a range of co-operatives, occupations and collectives.
The second talk, at 2pm, on a woman’s right to choose. Entrance is free and a range of stalls present including the Independent Workers Union, Anarchist Federation and Anarchist Studies Network offering a wide range on new and second hand books on Irish politics and history, labour history, feminism, socialism, anarchism, gender, fiction etc.
The events of the day will be followed by a social/gig in the centre from 7pm with Runnin’ Riot and That Bastard Chapman.
So come down and check out the Bookfair and ideas to fuel a revolution!
source http://www.wsm.ie/c/belfast-anarchist-bookfair-2012-saturday
There will also be two talks/discussions taking place. The first at 12.30pm on radical co-operatives, collectives and ‘free space’ will be lead off by a panel of people involved in a range of co-operatives, occupations and collectives.
The second talk, at 2pm, on a woman’s right to choose. Entrance is free and a range of stalls present including the Independent Workers Union, Anarchist Federation and Anarchist Studies Network offering a wide range on new and second hand books on Irish politics and history, labour history, feminism, socialism, anarchism, gender, fiction etc.
The events of the day will be followed by a social/gig in the centre from 7pm with Runnin’ Riot and That Bastard Chapman.
So come down and check out the Bookfair and ideas to fuel a revolution!
source http://www.wsm.ie/c/belfast-anarchist-bookfair-2012-saturday
Labels:
Anarchism,
Anarchy,
event notice
Location:
Belfast, UK
Household tax, WSM leaflet – March 2012
This leaflet from the Workers Solidarity Movement was given out with Rebel Worker in Cork during March 2012. It combines a brief report of the rally against the household tax in the National Boxing Stadium and an interview with a WSM member active in the Bray campaign, who puts a case for democratic structures and membership participation in decision making. The speaker in the photo on the second page is James McBarron of the Cork WSM.
source http://irishanarchisthistory.wordpress.com/
Rebel Worker no.2 (Cork)
When we posted the first issue of Rebel Worker we noted “This local newsletter was published by the Cork branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement, who announced that Rebel Worker will be appearing bimonthly (when possible) and will be distributed both on its own and as an insert in the WSM’s long-standing free newspaper, Workers Solidarity. However this plan was abandoned and only this one issue was produced.”
Four years later a second issue appeared, giving the notion of “irregular publication” a whole new meaning. This time it concentrates on the campaign against the household tax, along with a short piece about Tony O’Reilly and the Barryroe oil field off West Cork
source http://irishanarchisthistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/rebel-worker-no-2-cork/
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Anarchists - who we are and what we are up to - public meeting in Dublin
A
Workers Solidarity Movement public meeting for everyone interested in
finding out more about anarchism. Speakers will give an audio visual
introduction to the history of anarchism before going on to looks at its
relevance in Ireland today and detailing the various struggles that
anarchists in Ireland are currently involved in. There will be time
after the presentation for for your questions and discussion.
We look forward to seeing you, you can help organised for this meeting by RSVP and inviting your friends on the Facebook event
Wynns Hotel
Lower Abbey Street
19.00 12th April
A bookstall carrying anarchist, socialist and Irish historical
material will be available on the night, turn up early to browse the
titles.Lower Abbey Street
19.00 12th April
We look forward to seeing you, you can help organised for this meeting by RSVP and inviting your friends on the Facebook event
Event date and time:
Thu, 2012-04-12 19:00 - 21:30
- Geography: Dublin
source www.wsm.ie
Labels:
event notice
Location:
Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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