PR: The second Dublin anarchist bookfair
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press release 
Wednesday February 21, 2007 12:03
by Joe
wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com
WSM Press Release
Saturday 3rd March will see anarchists from Ireland, Britain and Poland meeting up for planning and socialisng at the 2nd Dublin anarchist bookfair in the Teachers club, 36 Parnell square. Taking part in the discussiosn will be dissident republicans, Shell to Sea campaigners and anti-war activists. Exactly the sort of line-up to give Michael McDowell stomach ulcers.
The second Dublin anarchist bookfair
Teachers club, 36 Parnell square
12.00 Saturday March 3rd
Saturday 3rd March will see anarchists from Ireland, Britain and Poland meeting up for planning and socialisng at the 2nd Dublin anarchist bookfair in the Teachers club, 36 Parnell square. Taking part in the discussiosn will be dissident republicans, Shell to Sea campaigners and anti-war activists. Exactly the sort of line-up to give Michael McDowell stomach ulcers.
Bookfair organiser Oisin Mac Giollamoir said, “The anarchist bookfair is becoming the place for all those interested in radical politics in Ireland to meet up, exchange ideas and plan for the future. Our first bookfair last year saw hundreds of people take part, we hope anyone who thinks we need to fight for freedom on the streets and in the workplaces will come along”.
The bookfair will start at 12.00 and run until just after 6pm. Some 18 organisations will have stalls and there will be a dozen meetings including a debate between anarchists, republicans and marxists on ‘What sort of Ireland do we want”.
Organisations taking part will include
WSM Bookservice
Barracka Books (Cork)
Just Books (Belfast)
Workers Solidarity Movement
eirigi
ISN
Organise
Revolutionary Anarcho-Feminist Group
Polish anarchists in Ireland
Residents against Racism
Latin American Solidarity Campaign
Rossport Solidarity Camp
Dublin Shell to Sea
Revolt Video
Red Banner
Anarchist Prisoner Support
Streen Seen
AFA
Anarchist Federation (Britian)
Class War (Britian)
LibCom.org (Britian)
Timetable of meetings
12:30PM - 2:30pm
What Sort of Ireland Do We Want?
Speakers from Workers Solidarity Movement, Irish Socialist Network and Eirigi discuss the questions
#How to get to a revolution?
#What do we mean by a revolution?
#What do we want after the revolution?
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Death By Cops
Laurence Wheelock talks about his family’s fight for justice for his brother Terence, a twenty year old man from Dublin’s north inner city who went into a coma after sustaining injuries in garda custody in June 2005 and subsequently died in September of that year.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Rossport: In Defiance of the State
John Monaghan from Rossport speaks about the ongoing battle in North Mayo as a community fights to protect itself against Shell, a multinational with a track record for maltreating communities which they operate in.
5:15pm – 6:15pm
Class, Feminism and Revolution
Speakers from RAG (Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group)
ROOM TWO
12:15pm – 1:15pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Polish anarchists in Ireland
A meeting for Polish anarchists
2:45pm – 3:45pm
The rise of the left in South America
Three South American speakers about recent political developments in South America
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Syndicalism and Ireland
Labour historian Emmet O’Connor, author of ‘Syndicalism in Ireland’
5:15pm – 6:15pm
William Thompson’s contribution to the development of socialism
Paul Bowman on the ideas of the man that James Connolly described as ‘the first Irish socialist’
ROOM THREE
12:15pm – 1:15pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
ID Cards in Britain and elsewhere - an attack on the working class?
A speaker from a British anarchist organisation, Anarchist Federation on the battle against Big Brother
2:45pm – 3:45pm
The History of Anarchism in Ireland
WSM members Aileen O’Carroll and Alan Mac Simoin look back at the development of anarchism and anarchist ideas in Ireland
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Anti-War meeting
5:15pm – 6:15pm
Organise!- what we're at
A speaker from Organise
Comments (8 of 8)
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A meeting for Polish anarchists"
Hope to see lots of peeple at this!
That's Revolutionary AnarchA-Feminist Group Joe!
You can't be talking about Eirigi? They hardly count as dissidents. They supported the GFA until very recently.
Yes confused, you are correct. éirígí are not 'dissidents' nor have they ever claimed to be. Where on this thread does it mention that éirígí are dissidents. On a point of order, éirígí has never supported the GFA. éirígí has recently published its paper ‘Imperialism, Ireland and Britain’. In it éirígí's position is very clearly stated.
In relation to political movements which challenge British rule in Ireland and the techniques used by Britain to defeat such movements the paper states that Irish history ‘…is littered with military campaigns, treaties and statutes designed by Britain to neutralise such movements and prolong the occupation.’ This is the context within which the Good Friday and St Andrews Agreements must be viewed which éirígí believes ‘…are considerably more likely to solidify British rule in Ireland than they are to end it.’
I don't recall any previous pronouncements by éirígí on the matter.
The paper can ce accessed at the following link:
http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest230107.html
The article that started this thread states that republican dissidents will be involved in the discussion. I was guessing they meant eirigi.
Funny thing is, you and me agree. I said you weren't dissidents as the author of this thread states. And you back that up.
And to finish, maybe you are more confused then me. Eirigi is made up of people who left Sinn Fein recently. The GFA is nearly ten years old. I think the fact that most of your membership stayed in a party that supported the GFA is proof enough of your support of it.
That does not indicate support for the GFA. Once again, éirígí does not support the GFA, nor has it ever. To suggest that people who were once members of an organisation that holds a particular view on the GFA means that those individuals are bound to the position of that organisation ad infinitum is ludicrous.
Could there be a link between the fact that some members of éirígí were once members of an organisation that, amongst others things, supported the GFA, and the fact that they are now members of a group that, amongst other things, does not support the GFA?
Go figure Sherlock, a phleidhce!!
Watson,
It took Eirígí 10 years to discover they didn't support the GFA? Slow learners or was there some other reason?
They'll probably come out soon and say they supported O Bradaigh's walk out in '86.
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