This was originally posted yesterday on Anarchist Writers. Republished with permission.
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 this blog having just come from an Occupy Dame Street [...]

Originally posted on the 17th of October on The Anti Room. An edited version appeared in the Irish Times. The author wishes to remain anonymous.
I participated in the recent protest in Dublin about cutbacks to Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) in schools, bringing with me half a dozen eggs with the intention of lobbing them [...]

This blog post was originally published today in David’s blog An Arab Spring in My Step, which he has set up while in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring.
Eid al-Adha in Cairo, is a time for family, communal praying, and in 2011- some serious electioneering.
The streets of Cairo run with blood on [...]

It is worth reading this long and very thoughtful post from Andrew Flood at Anarchist Writers on the decision making processes (that should be a plural) involved in the Occupy Movement, but with particular reference to OccupyDameStreet, which Andrew has been active in from time to time, either by speaking at the OccupyUniversity, adding his [...]

The progressive political parties represented in the Dáil, Assembly and Council chambers around the country have been slow to understand the potential opened up by the Occupy movement.
During the recent Presidential election, with all the coverage it was bound to receive, none of the candidates representing progressive politics in Ireland - Higgins, McGuinness and I [...]

Book Review: Words of a Rebel, Peter Kropotkin (1885, this edition published in 1997)

History is interwoven with the plight of our times - a hereditary restriction of the masses which allows the supremacist authority of the rulers. Our disassociation from past struggles has ensured that humanity, subjugated through capitalism, has betrayed the nature of revolution. Capitalism [...]

Last week, the European Union Council agreed on a set of policies for tackling the euro crisis. It was hoped that the new agreement (hereafter referred to as the October Agreement) would be a decisive step toward resolving a slow burning crisis that threatened to derail the euro, plunge the EU itself into a process [...]

Recently the popular Israeli internet news service Ynet published an article by Itamar Eichner called Foreign Ministry beats Israel boycotts (7 October 2011).
The article tells us that ‘Pro-Palestinian groups calling for a cultural boycott against Israel have experienced several failures recently thanks to the Foreign Ministry’s work.’
Note that this ‘work’ is deemed important enough to [...]

With the election of Michael D Higgins to the Presidency and with another TD by virtue of the Dublin West election, the Irish Labour Party has been given a lift from their slippage in recent opinion polls.
But what will they do with this extra ammunition?  Higgins has a track record of support for progressive politics, even [...]

As every Radio, TV and social media outfit in Europe, including here in Ireland,  is talking about Greece, the 50% haircut etc, I thought it would be useful for those of us who read the ILR to revisit the issue from another angle. To take note of some of the comments made, verbatim, by the [...]