Resistance! was produced in 1980 by members of the Dublin Anarchist Group who also ran the ABC bookshop
in Dublin’s Marlborough Street. Much of the magazine is given to
stories about “state repression” (H Block, Mountjoy jail, the Curragh
military prison, Noel & Marie Murray, torture of criminal suspects
in Sundrive Road garda station, and an uncritical short about an arson
attack on a clothing factory which had a contract for Garda and Army
uniforms – with no mention of the people put out of work). Circulation
was about 500 copies.
Other articles of note are one criticising the Sunday World columnist Fr Brian Darcy for “writing lies and misrepresentations” attributing industrial unrest to “sinister anarchist groups”
like the Socialist Workers Party!; and a review of “the right” which
put Trotskyists and Fianna Fail on the same side of the left/right
divide.
Believing in the concept of creating alternative anarchist
organisations (unions, campaign groups, etc.) rather than being active
where people already are and trying to win them over, we see a call for a
new ‘syndicalist’ union and the announcement of a ‘Student Anarchist
Movement’. Nothing more was heard about either. In the anti-nuclear
movement, for which the Contaminated Crow magazine in 1979 listed 46 local groups, they refused to engage with others and instead set up their own Anti-Nuclear Collective. They were also sympathetic to “armed struggle” but there is no suggestion that they actually practiced it.Only two issues of this magazine were published and the group disappeared shortly afterwards, though a couple of members were involved in the formation of the Dublin Anarchist Collective in 1983.
Among those involved were ex-Provos like Billy Jackson and Jackie Crawford, as well as Mike Gilliland (whose father was a former President of the Methodist Church), Doreen McGouran, Steve Woods, Denise Jackson.
source http://irishanarchisthistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/resistance-dublin-no-1-1980/
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