Occupy 'x' arrives in Ireland with Occupy Dame street
The 'Occupy X' movement arrived in Ireland over the weekend when a core group of around 50 people set up camp at the Central Bank Plaza on Dame street. Numbers grew to a few hundred at times over the...
View ArticleOccupy & Democratic decision making - consensus v majority - SWP v ODS
Like I suspect many other Anarchist Writers readers I've been playing a part in the Occupy X movement. I've visited the camps in Cork & London (and published photos of both, see end of this post...
View ArticleGetting beyond Dame Street - DCTU and Occupy v SWP from farce to tragedy
What do you do when the people making the right arguments are manipulative idiots who have so alienated people that opening their mouths amounts to emptying a full magazine into their feet? I started...
View ArticleOccupy - the assembly process is the revolution
As we prepare to enter the 3rd month of the Occupy movement a commonly heard criticism targets both the lack of clear demands and the related complex and often drawn out decision making processes being...
View ArticleOccupy Dame Street - the DCTU debate, when does a block become a veto?
Monday night saw the final in a series of Occupy Dame Street's GA's that focused on the proposal that ODS link up with the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Unfortunately both proposals for some form of...
View ArticleA fork in the road for Occupy Dame Street?
The last 3 General Assemblies at Occupy Dame Street have seen greatly reduced numbers in comparison with those leading up to the controversial vetoing of common work with DCTU. I've been at all three...
View ArticlePhotos from Occupy London
I visited the site of Occupy London when I was in London at the end of October for the London anarchist bookfair and took the photos that in the flickr slideshow below. These are a selection of over...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street’s Next Steps – Part 1
“Direct Action is a method by which we ordinary people achieve specific political and economic goals, without having to rely on so-called experts – be they polread more
View ArticleDisappointing turnout for DCTU anti-cuts demonstration
In the region of 2,500 people took part in Saturday's Dublin Council of Trade Unions demonstration in Dublin. Although this made it the biggest anti-austerity demonstration in the city since the...
View ArticleChristy Moore visits Occupy Dame Street and sings Ride On
Singer songwriter Christy Moore dropped into Occupy Dame Street in Dublin last night to sing and send grettings to all the Occupy camps in the major cities of Ireland, at Cork, Limerick, Belfast,...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Streets Next Steps – Part 2 – How to Win a Fight with the 1%
Over the past month, Occupy Wall Street has chalked up a large number of bold actions against both government and private authorities; it has led an attempted general strike, raucous marches,...
View ArticleThe eviction of the Occupy Dame Street camp
A large force of Garda and council workers were deployed at 3.30am today, International Women's Day, to clear Occupy Dame Street (ODS) camp. The camp was completely demolished in the course of the...
View ArticleScuffles on Pearse street as Garda attack Occupy Dame St march in Dublin
Over 150 people gathered at the Central Bank last night in the aftermath of the eviction of Occupy Dame Street (ODS). They then marched to Pearse street Garda station to demand the return of...
View ArticleAn anarchist critique of horizontalism
Horizontalism is an emerging term used to describe the key common characteristics of the waves of rebellion of the last decade. Occupy in 2011 was the peak to date but the term Horizontalism itself...
View ArticleAudio - Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street - talk by...
I recorded this 30 minute talk by Mark Bray, author of Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street followed by an hour of discussion. Translating Anarchy tells the story of the...
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