Belfast ABC is temporarily inactive.  In the meantime, this site will remain as an archive.

For up to date info on Irish anarchism please visit the website of the Workers Solidarity Movement.

www.wsm.ie

Anarchist prisoner Harold passed away on the 11th November 2008 after suffering a heart attack. he was an inspiration to all of us who knew him and this web site will remain as a monument to his spirit and the many people he helped in his fight for liberation

Rest in peace Harold, a great friend and comrade. You are sorely missed.

http://www.haroldhthompson.uwclub.net/

The Belfast Branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement and Anarchist Black Cross will be holding an emergency picket outside Belfast City Hall at 5.30 tomorrow (2nd September) in support of Spanish anarchist prisoner Amadeu who has been on hungerstrike for more than 70 days

Release Amadeu Casellas Now!

All Welcome!

Please click on the following link for up-to date info regarding his situation.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88915

Report from the event

http://www.wsm.ie/news_viewer/4393

Another protest will also take place at the same place and time on Monday 8th September

The 2nd Belfast Anarchist Bookfair will be taking place on Saturday 6th of September at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre (beside the John Hewitt) on Lower Donegal Street.

Last years bookfair was a resounding success with over 150 people passing through. We hope to build on last years success and invite you along to a day of discussion, browsing, socialising and organising.

For more details visit http://belfastanarchistbookfair2008.blogspot.com/

If you would like a stall at this event send an email to organiseireland@yahoo.ie

All welcome

Sick of lying politicians, greedy landlords and high prices and the blight of sectarianism, constantly being told tighten our belts while the rich get richer? The war maybe over, but there has been no ceasefire in the class war against us in the so-called 'new era' through forthcoming water charges, cut-backs and 'privatisation' of our public services...

Anarchism is about building a society with maximum freedom and maximum equality.
Anarchist ideas link a vision of a new society with the practical methods of getting there - through direct action and solidarity.
Come along to the talk and what we can do to improve our workplaces and communities. All very welcome!

When: 2pm, Saturday 24th May
Where: 185 Donegall Street, Belfast city centre. BT1 2FJ
(beside Irish News offices and opposite Front Page)

Speakers from the WSM plus film showing 'Sacco & Vanzetti'

Venue:
Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre
41-43 Lower Donegall Street
Side Entrance, Top Floor

A fine piece of polemical cinema, Ken Loach's Bread and Roses tells the story of the successful "Justice for Janitors" campaign, which helped establish improved pay and working conditions for the largely Latin American unskilled workforce in Los Angeles. Pilar Padilla plays Maya, who, following a traumatic crossing of the Mexican border, manages to find her older sister Rosa and eventually find work as a janitor. There, she runs into labour organiser Sam (Adrien Brody) when he evades security guards in a comical, Keystone cop-chase through an office building. He persuades her to join his campaign and a tentative romance blossoms.

Bread and Roses is a "Hollywood" movie with a difference, filmed in and around corporate LA but homing in on the lives of the ignored army of grotesquely underpaid, often illegal immigrants who give the area its sheen. At times, the semi-documentary footage of meetings and demos slackens the dramatic pace and it's interesting that the film's strongest scene is when the sceptical Rosa cuts through her sister's pro-union spiel with a devastating speech about the realities of her own life (she had to work as a prostitute). While this an imperfect movie, its political point hits home hard. Brody as Sam in particular brings a streak of fun to the movie.

National Union of Journalists ADM 2008 Fringe Meeting

Politics without parties - The future of trade unionism
When: 7pm to 10pm, Thursday, 3 April
Where: Ulster People’s College,
1 Lower Crescent, Belfast
(just a short walk from the ADM venue)

Speakers include:

Donnacha DeLong, NEC New Media rep

Jason Brannigan, Organise!

Chekov Feeney, Workers Solidarity Movement

Who was Rudolf Rocker and what was his impact on trade unionism in the UK? What is anarcho-syndicalism and what does anarchism have to do with trade unionism in the workplace? How does the media cover anarchism?

Come along to the ADM fringe meeting, organised in association with Organise! and Workers Solidarity Movement, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Rudolf Rocker’s death in 1958 and join the discussion about these issues and more