Monday, 30 June 2014
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Foyle Gay Pride 2014
It's been announced this week that Foyle Gay
Pride 2014 parade takes place on Saturday the 23rd of August. Anyone
interested in having a float in the parade, all you have to do is get in
touch with festival organisers at sha@foylepridefestival.com
Foyle Pride Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/foylepride?fref=ts
Foyle Pride Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/foylepride?fref=ts
Monday, 9 June 2014
Hands Off Our Homes!

Once the Housing Executive is privatised what will this mean for us and our home. .....increase of rent, your new landlord will have borrowed money from a financial Institution. This of course will have to be paid back and also cover their increasing overheads therefore a surge in rent, sometimes as much as 35 percent.
Withdrawal of local services. ...it is more cost effective to remove local offices and points of contact replacing them with call centres and online services.
Public meeting on Tuesday 10th June at 7pm in St Joseph's Parish Centre, Galliagh, Derry.
Public meeting Wednesday 11th June at 7pm
Please come along to find out about the changes to social housing and what it will mean for us all.
You are the major stakeholder and you must demand your right to vote!
Thousands take part in Anti Racist March
Saturday saw a successful Anti Racist March in
Belfast with thousands taking to the streets. Workers Solidarity
Movement members from Derry, Dublin and Belfast took part in what was of
the largest anarchist contingents in Belfast for some years. The
Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
estimated as many as 7,000 people took part.
More photographs at the Derry Anarchists page.
More photographs at the Derry Anarchists page.
Sunday, 8 June 2014
Racism and the Class struggle
Racial oppression remains a defining feature of the modern capitalist
world. It is manifest most spectacularly in violent attacks on
immigrants and minorities by fascist gangs. More important to the fate
of these communities has been the systematic and increasing
discrimination by capitalist states, manifest in attacks on the rights
of immigrants, cuts in welfare services, and racist Police and Court Systems.
By racism is meant either an attitude denying the equality of all human beings, or economic, political and social discrimination against racial groups.
Article continues here: Racism and the Class struggle
How can racism be defeated?
An answer to this question requires an examination of the forces which gave rise to, and continue to reproduce, racism. It also requires a careful analysis of which social forces benefit from racial oppression.By racism is meant either an attitude denying the equality of all human beings, or economic, political and social discrimination against racial groups.
The roots of racism
Capitalism developed as a world system based on the exploitation of workers, slaves and peasants - black, brown, yellow, and white. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the young capitalist system centred mainly on western Europe and the Americas. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Africa and Asia were brought increasingly into the ambit of capitalist power.Article continues here: Racism and the Class struggle
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Bigotry at the heart of Stormont
The recent racist attacks in Six Counties against migrant workers are an indictment of the status-quo which
thrives on blaming minorities for the problems inherent in capitalism. It is
the political class and sections of the tabloid press who constantly provide
the ammunition for racist attacks.
The Islamophobic outburst by Peter Robinson
the first minister of Northern Ireland needs to be seen in a context from a
rise in the far right across Europe to western military occupations abroad to a
local administration riddled with everything from sectarian bigots, xenophobes,
and homophobes to sexists to those who believe everything stems from Adam and
Eve.
Peter Robinson’s public defence of Pastor
James Connell who described Islam as ‘satanic’ and ‘heathen’ going on to say he
would not trust Muslims involved in violence or devotees of Sharia law; but
would trust Muslims ‘to go to the shops’ provides a green light and convenient justification
for the ongoing racist ethnic cleansing of newly arrived migrants by loyalist
paramilitaries in mainly working class communities across the North.
His public comments are another echo from
the distant past whenever shades of unionism including his former master Ian Paisley frequently
engaged in sectarian outbursts against Catholics and homosexuals helping to sow
a climate of conflict and fear for decades and like his forefather this needs
to confronted root and branch.
Peter Robinson’s half arsed private apology
to so-called ‘Muslim leaders’ and token concern from their junior partners in
Sinn Fein is another example of the entire system being rotten to the core
built on sectarian bigotry.
While last Saturday’s rallies organised
across the North are an important first step, we need to be building
firm foundations in communities and workplaces’ where these racist attacks are
continuing and not pandering to the reactionary ideology of loyalism which does
not represent ‘protestant working class communities.’ The contradictions of
this message was clear on Saturday whenever a platform was provided to a PUP
(Progressive Unionist Party) representative yet according to the PSNI its armed
militia the UVF are involved in most of the attacks in South and East Belfast. (1)
In recent years we have witnessed
governments utilise racist sediment from scaremongering over ‘asylum seekers’
to a ‘roma invasion’ none of which has come to fruition. This is the deliberate whipping up of fear and
division to divert our anger away from the real causes of their problems.
Problems such as poverty, housing shortages, and unemployment have all been
blamed on immigrants - rather than those really responsible such as landlords,
property developers-capitalism.
Anarchists believe in equality between all
people regardless of where their ancestors may be from, what colour their skin
is, or where they were born. We all have an immigrant history in one way or the
other. We want a world with no borders, where people are free to travel the
world and settle where they wish – this is not a freedom that should be only be
available to the rich and imperialism.

We
need to expose and attack the institutions which are legitimising racism in our
society; we need to stand up against racist bullies and fascists carrying out
attacks on migrant workers. Central to this is the need to physically and
ideologically confront fascism and racist gangs wherever it raises its ugly
head and the building of opposition to the system of wage slavery and
exploitation which promotes racist scapegoating and the criminalisation of
immigration.
Racism is motivated and perpetuated by
greed, promoted by those in power. It festers in ignorance and misplaced fear.
Our alternative is social equality and freedom for all.
1) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-26871331
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Unite Against Racism March: 7th June
Anarchists from across the North will be
gathering in Belfast next Saturday, 7th June, in solidarity with Amnesty
Int. & Trade Union backed anti-racist March and Rally, which begins in Writers Square at
2pm. Full details on the link below. Please attend and share this link.
Stand up Against Racism!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1613024922255339/
Stand up Against Racism!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1613024922255339/
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