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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link Episode 35 of the Sceptic: Fred de Fossard on Trump?s Tariffs, Sam Bidwell on Muslim Sectarianism an... Fri Apr 11, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 35 of the Sceptic: Fred de Fossard on Trump?s Tariffs and the UK, Sam Bidwell on Muslim sectarianism and Dr Mario Trabucco on why the Elgin Marbles belong in Britain.
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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Sadiq Khan Blocks Accenture From TfL Contracts Over Scrapping DEI Thu Apr 10, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan's Transport for London has blocked Accenture from working on its advertising campaigns due to the consulting giant scrapping its DEI policies, saying the company "no longer meets" its diversity criteria.
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offsite link Greenpeace Pours ?Blood? in US Embassy Pond to Protest Arming Israel, Leading to Arrest of Charity B... Thu Apr 10, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The head of Greenpeace UK, Will McCallum, has been arrested after the group poured blood-red dye into the US embassy?s pond in London in protest against arms sales to Israel.
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offsite link Are White Boys Checking Out of University? Thu Apr 10, 2025 15:00 | Joanna Gray
As girls gear up to go to university this autumn, boys are dragging their feet, says Joanna Gray. With many university courses now filled with women, are boys self-excluding from this female-dominated world?
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The Irish water charges movement

category national | bin tax / household tax / water tax | opinion/analysis author Wednesday January 25, 2017 21:44author by Laurence Cox - MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism Report this post to the editors

Theorising "the social movement in general"

A working paper on the water charges movement now available online for comment and discussion.

This paper uses participant narratives and Marxist social movement theory to analyse resistance to water charges as the driving force of Irish anti-austerity struggles – or “the social movement in general”. It locates this movement within the history of working-class community-based self-organisation in Ireland. Contemporary resistance to metering and refusal to pay are not “spontaneous”, but articulate long-standing local rationalities.

The current situation has seen the crisis of other forms of working-class articulation: union dependence on a Labour Party which enthusiastically embraced austerity in government; the co-optation of community service provision within “social partnership”, under attack from the state since the mid-2000s; and the collapse of far left initiatives for shared parliamentary representation and resistance to household charges. New forms of popular agency are thus developing; community-based direct action has enabled a historic alliance between multiple forms of working-class voice and unleashed a vast process of popular mobilisation and self-education.

Finally, the paper relates the Irish movement to the wider loss of consent for austerity on the European periphery, and asks after the political prospects for effective alliances “within the belly of the beast”.

The paper can be viewed or downloaded at the link below. Activist and researcher comments welcome.

Related Link: https://www.academia.edu/31075937/The_Irish_water_charges_movement_theorising_the_social_movement_in_general
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