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IAWM Bulletin
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news report
 Thursday November 27, 2003 10:34 by IAWM activist
26 November 2003
Latest IAWM bulletin Well done to the hundreds of thousands of British anti-war protestors and those from Ireland who joined them! George W. and Tony Bliar are were well and truly BUSHED-OFF !
What a brilliant week in England George Bush was unable to move freely around London. He was confined to shuttling between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street. The state procession was cancelled, there was no address to parliament, and he was not even able to drive down Sedgefield High Street for his £1 million pub lunch. Although the protestors were denied the route of the march initially, the Stop the War Coalition forced the police to back down. It was a victory for civil liberties that they were able to take to the streets and march where they wanted and when they wanted.
The toppling of Bush’s statue in Trafalgar Square was the high point of the march and was front-page news around the world. No one can be in any doubt that he met mass opposition in Britain or that millions in Britain still oppose the war and the continuing occupation. There were also tens of thousands marching outside London on the Wednesday, including large protests in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle.
We had a small but very vocal demonstration outside the US embassy in Dublin in solidarity with the protestors in Dublin.
Internal Exile for Shannon Protestor! Meanwhile in Shannon, the case of most of the protestors charged with blockading the road at the demonstration at Shannon on 21 June was adjourned. However, one defendant, a resident of Shannon town was fined €200 and ordered to absent himself from his home and Shannon Town whenever the Gardai inform him that a protest is happening at Shannon Airport. Is this Justice? Is it constitutional? Does the judiciary make up the rules as it goes along? The Stalinist tactic of internal exile is obviously finding more and more appeal with the Co. Clare judges.
Buses to Shannon: Advance booking is essential!! – otherwise you could be left behind, if there is no room!!
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Contact
Contact details
Departs at/from
Dublin
Aoife
087 795 5013
9 am Aston Quay (Virgin Megastore)
Cork
John
086 300 4573
10.30 am Opera House
Waterford
Roy
086-327 4015
West Cork
Dominic
clonakiltyagainstthewar@eircom.net
Book early!! Numbers limited!!
Fundraising: Get your fundraiser organised now! Send details to info@irishantiwar.org and we will ensure that your event is highlighted in this bulletin and on the website.
Up-coming IAWM events
Wed, 26 November Public Meeting
“Future of Shannon,a U.S. military airbase?”
8 pm Smyths Pub, Fairview, Dublin hosted by Fairview Against War
Link to item in IAWM website
Fri, 28 November Picket
NO WARLORD IN BELFAST
6.30 pm Students Union, Queen’s University Belfast
Iraq War British Commander in Belfast. Col. Tim ‘Wipe them out’ Collins will appear at QUB. Join the protest called by Belfast Anti War Movement supported by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign amongst others.
Link to item in IAWM website
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Sat, 6 December U.S. TROOPS OUT OF SHANNON!
Blockade the Warport
Assemble at 2 pm at Lidl Carpark in Shannon Town. More details on IAWM website
Buses will be organised from Dublin (contact Aoife at 087 795 5013), Cork ( for more details contact John at
086 300 4573), Galway (details later),
All Anti War groups are requested to hold public meetings, if possible in the weeks coming up to this protest. The public meeting should be used to build for as large a protest at Shannon as possible. Posters and leaflets are available. Call Colm at 087 194 7100
Other up-coming events
Fri-Sun, 28-30 Nov. Marxism 2003
TCD, Dublin, Organised by SWP and TCD SWSS
Marxism 03 is one of the foremost events for discussion and debate on the Irish left. It brings together speakers from the Irish and international movements against war and neo-liberalism.
International speakers include Mike Davis (US author of City of Quartz); Alex Callinicos (Prof. of Politics at York), plus socialist speakers from the Middle East and Africa. Other speakers include Eamonn McCann (Author and Journalist), Ivana Bacik (Reid Prf. Of Law, TCD), Patricia McKenna (MEP, Green Party), Richard Boyd Barett (Chair IAWM), Nuria Mustafa (Iraqi exile), Ronit Lenotin (Campaign against Deportations), Andy Storey (AfrI) and many more.
Anti-War Meetings include:
Fri, 8pm Another World is possible: The New Resistance to Global Capital and War
Middle East socialist, Alex Callinicos, Brid Smith, Mike Davis
Sat, 11:45 am Blood and Oil: The real history of the Middle East
Dave Lordan
Sat, 7 pm Can we defeat the US Empire?
Richard Boyd Barrett, Middle East socialist
Sun, 11.45 am Global permanent war: A new era of Imperialism?
Donal Mac Fhearraigh
Sun, 11.45 am Radical Islam and the fight for justice in the Middle East
Nuria Mustafa, Richard Boyd Barrett
Tickets: €20 waged, €10 unwaged
Phone 01-872 2682 or send a cheque or postal order to Marxism 03 c/o P.O. Box 1648, Dublin 8 Link to item on IAWM website
International anti-war events
30 November Colin Powell visit to Maastricht
Colin Powell will be present at the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) summit in Maastricht on the 1st and 2nd of December 2003. The main agenda during this summit is the «War on Terrorism» as the threat to stability and security in the 21st century. Representatives from 55 nations in Europe, Central Asia, and North America will be participating, including the US secretary of foreign affairs, Colin Powell.
The platform Enmasse has organized a demonstration on Sunday 30th of November in Maastricht starting at 13.30h. We will gather at the «Koningsplein», and go on foot to «de Griend». For more information see www.enmasse.tk
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21Yet again an IAWM bulletin is used to advertise SWP events.
Unbelievable. "Upcoming Events", 1 day before Fintan Lane is imprisoned for 60 days, fails to mention his situation and the need for the IAWM to campaign on his behalf (though the SWP's Marxism is covered at length). This is nothing short of a disgrace. Also, where is the report from the last Steering Committee (last Saturday)? The IAWM had better cop itself on.
That is a complete fucking disgrace! The IAWM is not the SWP - why the hell is it being used to advertise the SWP annual recruitfest? What a joke - and then they wonder why people on the left consider them sectarian opportunists!
And what about Fintan, in Limerick prison for 2 months? I guess building the SWP is more of a priority for the anti-war movement than the imprisonment of a member?
Shameful
folks should take this up with the steering commitee at shannon on the 6th,
are they going to be there?will rbb be in shannon or at the anti bin charges conference?
RBB claimed that he 'forgot' about the Shannon demo when agreeing to the date of December 6th for the bin tax conference. Methinks that he was lying and wanted to both keep SWP people away from Shannon and also keep pesky anarchos away from the Bin tax conference so that the trots can get on with the serious business of selecting official candidates.
If he wasn't lying, then he is in dereliction of his duties as chairman of the campaign. I suppose that it's understandable since he is wearing so many hats at the moment in the run up to the local elections. Chair of DL baths campaign, chair of IAWM, chair of DL anti-bin tax, SWP election candidate,...
to find out the iawm was always a front and recruitment drive for the swp? Well you're obviously new to the left, its been going on for many years. Happened with GR as well and ANL, so far the Socialist Party seem to be the only ones to have learnt the lesson. Or they're just sectarian. you decide.
Lads and lassies the way things are going there is more likely to be a riot at Lidl than at the intended point for the blockade.
Grassroots Gathering are organising a bus down to Shannon, all are welcome. Tickets are only 10 euros, contact 086 177 0439 for more information.
Dont forget the fundraiser tonight - click on the link below for more info.
Good old irish faction fighting: I mean that's what this is all about really - factions fighting for their corner of percieved influence - over bin taxes - over shannon protests - even scoring points about the salonika hunger strikers - at least the SWP are smart in that they refrain 'regally' from pointscoring or any other form of interaction with 'splitters' of various kinds and get on with the nasty business of fighting with lodown and dirty tactics - meanwhile the biggest all out assault on the underpriviliged (travellers/lone-parent families/those relying on subsidised private rented accommodation/Communities dependent on employment schemes for provision of services) in years in Ireland is coming down the tracks like a steamroller and no-one has anything to say about it on here. It's enough to convince me to join Sinn Fein.
Coz you've got so cynical that you assume that everybody is equally cynical. Complaining about sectarian behaviour is not equivalent to sectarian behaviour.
Doesn't it occur to you that many of the complaints might be coming from people who actually want a democratic and effective movement which NOBODY uses as a tool for advancing their own sectarian control? Cause that's where I think the vast majority of complaints go - sure most of the complainers in the IAWM aren't even in any organisation that they could be seeking factional advantage for.
I meant political groups involved in Anti- Shannon stuff
The criticism within the IAWM largely come from independents who are not affiliated to any political group and who seem to be motivated by genuine democratic impulses.
Outside the IAWM, the criticisms are mainly from people involved in the GG. This is hardly a political group, more of a network of independent activists and small groups and the idea that it is scheming to gain control of anything is very far fetched if you know anything about the gathering. The political groups involved in anti-Shannon stuff like the SP, GP, LP are in fact the only ones who have not been critical of SWP scheming, probably because, like you, they just assume that this is how politics is carried on.
The criticism within the IAWM largely come from independents who are not affiliated to any political group and who seem to be motivated by genuine democratic impulses.
> Not talking about 'within' anything - I'm responding to LIDL comment about riot before blocade - I'm talking about the overall demoralised divided state of the anti war constituency in Ireland
Outside the IAWM, the criticisms are mainly from people involved in the GG. This is hardly a political group, more of a network of independent activists and small groups and the idea that it is scheming to gain control of anything is very far fetched if you know anything about the gathering.
>I didnt say a word about scheming to get control of anything. I said 'fighting for a share of percieved influence' - I didn't say 'in the IAWM'. There is precious little left to fight for control over at this stage and I'll be surprised if the numbers at shannon make it to 200.
The political groups involved in anti-Shannon stuff like the SP, GP, LP are in fact the only ones who have not been critical of SWP scheming, probably because, like you, they just assume that this is how politics is carried on.
> I discount the involvement of the above in all of this - they are not interested now that the 'masses' of potential voters are not there. I am just as pissed by SWP scheming as anyone else but there is no coherent strategy for dealing with this - and the overall divisions this is creating in those concerned and active on the issue of shannon - coming from anyone inside or outside the IAWM.
>I'd personally like to see the IAWM disbanded from within for the clearly stated reason that it is being hijacked on an ongoing basis by small group of professional political activists who see themselves as awnserable to no-one bar the steering committe which - through a combination of schemeing and geography - they have the majority on on any given (satur)day.
So should this happen and how could it happen?
I'd also question to an extent the GG line of cheering on one side of the split in the IAWM from a comforting 'more lovely than thou' ideologically correct but marginal position.
What exactly is the nature of your "question to an extent the GG line of cheering on one side of the split in the IAWM from a comforting 'more lovely than thou' ideologically correct but marginal position"?
The GG would like to see the IAWM as an effective force of opposition to Ireland's participation in current wars. The GG was also set up as a network of individuals and groups who organise or are interested in organising in a non-hierarchical, open and transparent manner.
Thus it is natural for elements within the GG (the GG, being a network rather than a specific body does not have a position on this) to support those in the IAWM who they think are going to be most effective in stopping our participation in conflict and also those they see as being more consultative, open and transparent.
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I personally would be in favour of GG nodes joining a broad and democratic national co-ordinating body comprising all of the anti-war forces in Ireland, from the NGOs to the black bloc. The IAWM certainly isn't this at the moment. Maybe the IAWM may become this, but I doubt it. At present, it seems that the role of local anti-war groups is to carry out the instructions of the steering committee, without any input whatsoever into the decisions. The ludicrous spectacle of some guy called Colm Stephens, who nobody in the anti-war movement has ever heard of before, issuing orders to the movement telling them that a small group of people in a room in Dublin have decided exactly the tactics and everybody else will have to obey, is testament to how farcical it has become. The SWP are in control and are in the process of destroying it rather than let any chance of democracy emerge. Given the fact that its future is in the hands of the SWP, I don't really think there is much that other people can do, in the absence of a fresh influx of new blood into the organised anti-war movement.
They seem to be determined to turn it into the shell that GR has become. I agree with you that it should be dissolved from the inside and activists should strive to set up something afresh that is not controlled by any one group and has space for a real diversity of tactics and approaches.
To those complaining earlier in this posting....
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62440
unless I am very mistaken, the IAWM press release re Fintan Lane has just been removed for editorial reasons?
Indeed and it was removed for editorial reasons.
The reason being that it was posted twice. It is already as a comment at the following link:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62419
No other motive!
We in Derry Anti War Coalition are well used to SWP antics. They have destroyed what was one of the most vibrant and active anti war groups in the country. After trying to hijack the entire membership of DAWC for McCann's election campaign, they seem to be copying RBB's amnesia about Shannon and are not organising a bus to go down.
Sorry I see your point. Thanks.