Workers Solidarity

Issues from 1988 to 1989

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Workers Solidarity No. 28 - Summer 1988

• For starters
  It is almost a year since the last issue of Workers Solidarity and you want to know what happened.
• Defying the Hamilton Injunction
  The "Defend the Clinics Campaign" is running out of steam. The recent Information Picket on Dublin's O'Connell Bridge attracted only 20 people. Trying to turn this tide is a mammoth task.
• Interview with "Lofty" of Eastenders
• The first Mayday
• The Anarchist idea
• Getting to grips with Sinn Féin's socialism
• Is Sinn Féin swinging to the left? It is as clear as day that there have been huge changes in the Republican Movement since the 1981 Hunger strike. What do these changes add up to
• Remembering France 1968
• Review: The Russian Tragedy
  This book is a must for anyone who is confused as to why the Russian Revolution went wrong, for anyone who feels that to explain the aberrations and atrocities perpetrated by the Bolsheviks as necessitated by imperialist blockades or 'objective circumstances'
• 'Abolish the state'

Workers Solidarity No. 29 - Autumn 1988

• American cheap labour plan comes to Ireland
• Privatisation of the shipyard
• Death of an anarchist
  Daniel Guerin was one of France's best revolutionary activists and thinkers, he was best known in Ireland as the author of books such as Fascism and Big Business, 100 Years of Labour in the USA and Anarchism.
  • Towards a libertarian communism
• Workers fight for useful jobs
  Jobs are under threat all over the place. It is not just ones that are useful to us; that are chopped. There are also workers in plants producing weapons, nuclear power, and so on whose futures are far from secure
  • What the Lucas plan proposed
• 75 years since the Dublin lock-out
  The formation of the syndicalist ITGWU and the lock out of 1913 that followed it.
• Review: Anarchism for beginners
• Freedom

Workers Solidarity No. 30 - Spring 1989

• The sacking of John Mitchell
• Birmingham Six interview
• Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement
  The Northern State was unwilling and unable to implement a series of widespread and meaningful reforms. It had been built on the basis of a sectarian division, nurtured by bigotry and defended by thuggery
• Interview with Noam Chomsky
• Big gains for anarchist union
• Review: In place of compromise
• The Dail or Direct Action