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Title: For starters (WS42) Author: Workers Solidarity Movement Date: 1994 Language: en Topics: Workers Solidarity Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws94/ws42_start.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 42 — Summer 1994.
THE CHANGE from a magazine to newspaper format reflects the increased
readership Workers Solidarity is building up. It will take a few issues
before we iron out all problems involved in changing our printing
process but we hope you will bear with us. None of us is a professional
journalist or designer. This issue was produced by a gardener, a couple
of office workers, a teacher, a researcher, three unemployed people and
a student.
If you like what we are saying, we would like your help. We need your
reports. Tell us what is happening on your job, in your neighbourhood.
Write a report, or a letter. This paper will only improve if more of you
write for it, sell it, show a copy to your friends.
As we go to press final plans are being made for ‘Revolution’, a day of
public meetings and debates in Dublin about libertarian socialism. With
the collapse of both the Eastern Bloc and social democracy’s radical
pretensions it becomes increasingly important to explain that the ideals
of socialism are not dead, that there is a libertarian alternative. The
Workers Solidarity Movement is co-operating with Organise! (an
anarcho-syndicalist group based in the Belfast/Bangor area), Red Action
and the Class War Federation in this venture. We hope that it will be
but the first such event where libertarian socialists of various
traditions can discuss and debate turning our ideas into reality.
In Cork we have been working with ‘Justice Now’, which is campaigning
against the 1,600 worth of fines imposed on members of the Socialist
Alliance for putting up Troops Out posters and ones with an abortion
information telephone number. We also helped in the campaign to stop big
business and hoteliers preventing the building of a new Simon Community
hostel for the homeless.
In Dublin the WSM has started a series of anarchist discussion meetings
for readers. With the rise of far- right movements throughout Europe,
and the disturbingly high vote achieved by the MSI/National Alliance in
the Italian general election, it was appropriate that one of these was
about fascism and how to beat it. Another marked the 75^(th) anniversary
of the Limerick ‘Soviet’, when that city was taken over by the workers
as part of their fight against British militarism.
In March we published a pamphlet about the fascist threat in Europe,
which was sold in cinema queues where Schlinder’s List was showing. We
also participated in the Anti-Nazi League demonstration, which brought
about 500 onto the streets to make it clear that while there are few
fascists in Ireland we intend to keep it that way.