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Oct 2002 Turnout 49.47% - Yes 62.89% - No 37.11%
June 2001 Turnout 34.79% ( Electorate: 2,867,960 - Total Poll: 997,826) - Yes ( 453,461) No ( 529,478) Spoilt (14,887)
National Declaration by
Ireland relating to traditional policy of military neutrality
The relevant parts of the Seville EU council minutes on the Irish
governments declaration that it hopes will help get the Nice treaty
passed the second time around
PDF file of the
Nice treaty
Full text of the treaty from the EU web site
PDF
file of treaty on European Union
This is the text Nice modifies. Consolidated version incorporating
the changes made by the Treaty of Amsterdam, signed on 2 October 1997
 LAN Nice poster against Fortress Europe and Nice |
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Sweatshops,
unions and Fortress Europe
The EU is continuing the exploitation of the people of North Africa
through creating a special trade zone of some of the North African
countries similar to the free trades zones North America has created
in Mexico.
The media and the anti
capitalist globalisation movement - Learning from Nice
You may remember back in early December the news being dominated for
several nights by coverage of the European Summit in Nice.
Restructuring and resistance:
Diverse voices of struggle in western Europe
Thise is an inspired book that succeeds in explaining why many people
in western Europe are opposing capitalist globalisation. It does this
by doing what the mainstream media will not, giving them a voice.
TRIPS and the WTO - killing
millions for massive profits
The World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was created to allow
multinational corporations to demand that
their 'ownership' of intellectual patents be respected in all
countries.
The Euro: the root of all
evil?
It makes no sense for us to oppose the EU on the basis of some sort
of return to national sovereignty. Rather we must look for ways to
create our globalisation agenda out of the process. The protests at
the European Summits are proving one way of doing this
The WTO and GATS
According to the WTO, the GATS agreements cover 160 services' sector.
What few people realised when the deal was first done is that the
GATS also includes healthcare, education, housing, water, waste
management and other basic services usually run by government
agencies.
French Workers Take on their
bosses [1996]
The strike wave that rocked France in the closing month of 1995 is
yet another example of the great fighting spirit of the French
working class. Yet when we look at the causes of the strike and the
relative weakness of French workplace organisation the question that
emerges is 'if they can do it, why can't we'?
The unemployed are on the
march [1997]
A European March against Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Exclusion
has been called by a wide coalition of unions, unemployed and
political groups. Eleven separate legs of the march will arrive in
the centre of Amsterdam on the afternoon of June 14th, to coincide
with a European Union Inter-governmental Conference
Libertarian call to
Sevilla 2002
The European Union, the War Machine against Social Rights an
international anarchist statement for Seville
Shannon demonstration
against refuelling of US war planes [with photos]
Between September 2001 and July 2002 a total of 535 US warplanes have
refuelled at the airport
Seville 2002 Europan Summit protests
The Seville 2002 EU summit
protests [with photos]
An Irish anarchist reports from the European Summit protests in
Seville
Libertarian
call to Sevilla 2002
The European Union, the War Machine against Social Rights an
international anarchist statement for Seville
From Barcelona to
Seville
Time was when an EU summit was every leader's wet dream. But not any
more. The EU summit in Barcelona over the 9 to the 16 of March saw
between 250,000 and 600,000 people take to the streets!
Irish anarchists
and the Seville protest
The protests in Seville on the weekend of June 20th against the
European summit are liable to be the largest globalisation protests
to date. Anarchists from Ireland will be at the protests and in
Dublin (and maybe elsewhere) we are arranging solidarity activity
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'Libertarians against Nice'
launched
LAN is a network of groups and individuals across Ireland campaigning
against the Nice treaty from a libertarian perspective
Anarchists are campaigning for a No vote in the Nice referendum in Dublin, Cork, Kildare and Sligo. We are producing over 15,000 leaflets and 500 posters which will be distributed door to door and at shopping centres over the next couple of weeks. If want to work with the campaign in these areas please email wsm_ireland@yahoo.com
If you are elsewhere in the country contact us for leaflets or posters and to be put in touch with others in your area.
Nice, anarchists and globalisation
Why Irish anarchists think its worth campaigning for a No vote in the
Nice referendum
Neutrality, Leprechauns and
Moving Statues
What is the Rapid Reaction Force and what is its real role?
"Plan Columbia":
A Case Study in the European Union's Common Foreign and Security
Policy.
Against nationalism, against
Nice
Why we disagree with the National Platform
Print out and distribute leaflets and poster
If you have Adobe Reader on you computer you can print out perfect copies of these leaflets and posters to distribute locally. If you don't have it you can get it download it from the Adobe site. [or click here for a faster text only page]. If you use these posters/leaflets please email us at wsm_ireland@yahoo.com telling us how many you are thinking of using and where you will distribute them.
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International anarchist
statement for the counter-summit in Nice
signed by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) and groups from the
Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Brazil,
Italia, USA, Canada and the Czech Republic [ In
French][In
Italian][In
Spanish] [In
Turkish]
The media and the anti
capitalist globalisation movement - Learning from Nice
You may remember back in early December the news being dominated for
several nights by coverage of the European Summit in Nice. An endless
stream of politicians and political experts offered us their opinions
on what new voting arrangements might be introduced. You might even
be aware that there was some opposition on the streets of Nice to the
summit, on December 7th most TV news items started with brief footage
of a bank being set on fire
December 7th - Battle starts
outside European summit in Nice
Mainstream press sites and the wire services are carrying reports
that battles have broken out between the protesters in Nice and the
riot police guarding the European Summit.
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