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The nomad, the displaced and
the settler: Work in the 21st Century
A number of issues are being discussed. Firstly has the workplace
changed fundamentally such that people increasingly are in temporary
work rather than permanent work? Secondly is the division between
work time and non-work time dissolving, are we spending more of our
lives 'in work'? Thirdly are the non-work aspects of life becoming
increasingly insecure?
A look at workers in Ireland
Chainworkersmeans the 'workers in malls, shopping centres, hypermarkets, and in the myriad of jobs of logistics and selling in the metropolis'. Brainworkers means the knowledge workers, the programmers, the creatives and the freelancers. How do these categories pan out in the Irish labour market? Originally a box in the article The nomad, the displaced and the settler: Work in the 21st Century
After
Nationalism
An analysis of why many on the left joined Sinn Fein and what their
options are now. I joined Sinn Féin
in the mid eighties with many others on the back of what we saw as a
radical shift to the left and a commitment to build a 32 county
Democartic Socialist Republic. I find myself outside that movement
now, thoroughly disillusioned with it and its shift to a left
nationalist and social democratic electoralist future.
The Ghost of Mayday
Past
Compared to many other European countries May Day
demonstrations have always been small in Ireland. By the mid-1990's,
May Day had become a fairly underwhelming event. So, given this
dismal tradition why were the explicitly libertarian May Day events
in 2004, comparatively speaking, such a success?
Learning from May Day: Anti-Capitalist Strategy direct action, militancy and building the movement
The experience of May Day brings up us back to some of the perennial questions thrown up by counter-summits protests: how do we broaden our movement and what role do direct action and confrontational tactics have in that processLearning from May Day: Organisational Problems
Without a proper convergence centre in which to debate and discuss issues related to the protests many of the international activists. Legal and defendant support work was more piecemeal than it should have been. These problems were not just oversights, they are serious political problems
Book Review: To Live
The 'civil war' within the Civil War that occurred in Spain between
1936-39 is a difficult business to understand. Mick Parkin has
succeeded admirably in his short novel To
Live.
Book Review: Parecon: life after
capitalism
Anarchists, in common with all radical proponents of social change
are continually asked what their vision of a new society/economy
is. The book outlines a
radical vision of social and economic reconstruction whose core
principles and values, Solidarity, Equity, Diversity and
Self-Management, are very familiar to anarchists
Creating Solidarity in the Slums of Santiago
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