PR: The second Dublin anarchist bookfair

dublin | anti-capitalism | 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.

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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