Andrew Flood on Anarchism in Ireland

March 7th, 7:30 PM at Red Emmas (800 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland)

A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media. This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in.

Andrew is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been working as a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.

He has been editor of the anarchist publications Workers Solidarity, Red & Black Revolution, Against War and Terror and Linchpin. He was on the editorial group of the first anarchist site to use the internet, Spunk Press, which predated the invention of the web (it used gopher). He has or is also on the editorial groups of A-Infos, Anarkismo.net, WSM.ie and Struggle.ws. He is currently involved in the launch of the new anarchist discussion site AnarchistBlackCat.org.

A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews and translations can be found at http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html

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