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Hundreds of people took part in an anti water charges rally at the Irish Water HQ in Talbot street Dublin Nov 29th.
It was clear that many protesters are deeply suspicious of the Irish Water company, and who can blame them. Quite apart from their arrogance and eagerness to get our PPS numbers a principal motivating factor behind the imposition of the water charge is to line the water service up for privatisation.
"Sit down my arse" – the opening words of a Garda inspector at a Drogheda water charges protest. A mob of Gardai went on to single out one young man and strip him out of his clothes as they drag him along the ground before arresting him.
Okay, first things first. I’ve written up and posted my talk at this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair: Kropotkin Class Warrior.
At the water charges rally at Irish Water HQ in Dublin Nov 29 the crowd lead by AAA Cllr Brian Leech sings a modified version of The Old Triangle.
Over 200 women demonstrated tonight (mid Nov ) outside of Coolock Garda station against the wave of Garda violence at water meter installation protests.
The water meter installation company GMC Sierra obtained court injunctions that basically banned water charge campaigners from coming within 20m of an installation. The Edenmore 9 were initally brought to court with this injunction, the case againt 4 of them is detailed below.
Yesterday, in a cynical ploy, the UK parliamentary committee on intelligence affairs released a report which tried to lay the blame for Fusilier Lee Rigby’s murder on Facebook. This piece explains why that accusation is not only baseless but an attack on all of us.
The Irish Times ( 24 Nov ) has added its weight to the voices from the establishment demanding that anarchist access to social media be limited. The article is hidden away in the business pages under the headline "Social media causes grave damage and must become regulated" and ends with a call for internet companies to avoid "confrontation with authority" by censoring before ordered to do so by the government.
“Property is Theft!… is in many ways quite successful… the critical work of the 1840s [is] presented with a depth that is unfamiliar, refreshing and enlightening… this is a work designed to introduce Proudhon to an anarchist mainstream that has largely written off his particular form of anarchism… It is a powerful corrective to the second-hand Proudhon we have inherited from Marx… it is an important contribution. ” (Shawn P. Wilbur, Black Flag, no. 236)
The government are in full panic mode as the media scare stories they pushed so hard about ‘dissidents’, ‘sinister fringes’ and ‘violent’ sit down protesters have failed to divide the movement. Neither has the increased level of Garda violence frightened people off the streets.