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About Me

I am an anarcho-socialist who believes we need theory and action together. I am an internationalist who believes in NO WAR BETWEEN NATIONS, NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES. While i like my Irish background, especially the literature and music i dont think anyones culture is superior to any one elses, except i hate american corporate culture which seems to want a Macdonalds, etc on every high street in the world. Obviously, although i identify as celtic and a woman, my main identity and allegience is to the international working class as i have more in common with a working class man in any country in the world than with a rich ceo woman concerned about the glass ceiling or a capitalist born in my homeland. Ireland was england's first 'colony'. Until the 12th century when the norman lords and then king henry 2nd sought to increase their wealth and power by murder, theft, etc, they were living under a system which although it had different social classes like warriors, priests, farmers, etc was more egalitarian than the feudal system in england with its lords and serfs. Women had more respect and status, lands were held in common and kings were not tyrants. Irish society lived under laws which were not mostly just for the benefit of the rich(like england) but instead lived under Brehon laws where communitys or kinship groups bore responsibility for each other and were more about resolution of disagreements than punishment. As James Connolly told the members of the Irish Citizen Army when they joined up with the Irish Republicans before the Easter Uprising, "hold on to your rifles bhoys", meaning that some of the others were just fighting for an end to British imperialism whereas he realised that for a people to be truly free it was no good them getting the brits out for them to becomne a slave to irish capitalists and that the only way to be truly free was to fight capitalism as well as imperialism and to make the socialist movement worldwide.The same applies to all the other people of the world living under opression by other countrys. We need to put pressure on our governments and refuse to fight or otherwise help in these wars and occupations, especially if we are citizens of u.s. and some european countrys and of course Israel where the Zionists kidnap, imprison, torture and kill at will, ignoring all U.N. resolutions while they steal even more land, knowing they are safe from retribution. i believe in justice.As the laws of each epoch represent the interests of the ruling class, justice is inherently biased and is mostly used against the working class. therefore to get justice we need to change production for profit into production for need. As Marx said "from each according to ability, to each according to need"mspmb src="http://www.youtube.com/v/St1-WTc1kow&rel=1&bord er=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"

My Interests

learning, educating about and fighting for an anarchist-socialist international society. justice for the working class which does not seem to be able to be done by courts as nicaragua took u.s.a. to world court and u.n. and were told to pay reparations and withdraw but they didn't, so we need to fight for our own justice. the truth. destroying the new world order. making comrades across all party lines - we have a real enemy to fight.

I'd like to meet:

who i'd like to meet

anyone, anywhere,etc. anarchists, socialists, communists(not state capitalists or anarcho-capitalists pleease!) people who see the system as it crumbles, anti-capitalists, eco-warriors, revolutionarries, people with experience of mental health problems, people who have been incarcerated whether its for so called criminal activity, mental health, immigration, juvenilles on ASBO's but no nonces or informers. anyone with drug use/misuse,trying to get clean people with issues, people interested in not trying to make capitalist nicer-its raison d'etre is making profit, so people and other inhabitants and the planet itself are not as important as the search for profits. The only way forward is to work towards a new moneyless, borderless, co-operative society. people who like reading and discussing books, people who give a fuck, people who just don't give a fuck and those undecided. emma goldman, alexander berkman, marx, kropotkin,Rosa luxemburg, bill hicks, huey p newton and anyone who can tell me what happens next. ..

Music:

Gil Scott-Heron. pogues, the popes any band with shane mcgowan, the wolfe tones.black 47 Eire Og, christy moore, Bik mcfarly, Charlie and the bhoys. hip-hop mostly underground political/social commentary stylee mix tapes, maybe you heard of blade, disposable heroes of hiphoprisy, i admit i do like some good beats with not very "pc" so shoot me--n.w.a., public enemy, tupac,run dmc, dj green lantern(esp his new tune-impeach the president).cypress hill, beastie boys,wu-tang,early eminem, ludacrious RDF, culture shock, artic monkeys, bobdylan, billy bragg and loads more i cant think of at the mo p.s. black flag, nick cave, manic street preachers, tom waits, joy division, red hot chilli peppers, bob marley, black uruhu, greggory issacs, marvin gaye,bob dylan, woody gutherie,faithless, to

Movies:

i like ken loach and mike leigh films-especially life is sweet. i just watched gladiator and green street they were ppretty good. i watched bread and roses again on mayday, thats a pukka film.american history x. the matrix films. lord of the rings.paris, texas.12 monkeys, blade, the corporation, the revolution will not be televised, capitalism and other kids stuff...

Television:

simpsons, family guy, lost, ,star trek esp deep space nine, babylon 5, the bill hicks show for channel 4, brass eye,peep show,bremner,bird and fortune.simpsons,futurama,zena warior princes!!

Books:

the ragged trousered philantropists-robert tressell, gabriel garcia marquez, milan kundera, george orwell-esp, a homage to catalonia, animal farm and 1984, voltaire, camus, chomsky esp his talks on c.d.howard zinn, john pilger, hermann hesse, huey newton, ALEXANDER BERKMAN, and free socialist or lib-com type magazines e.g. socialist standard, freedom, organise, now or never, etc irish books-brendan behan, connolly, sean o casey, wilde, swift, john donne to name but a few but especially roddy doyles a star caleed henry

Heroes:

its taken me a long time to fill in this section as i don't really believe in having heroes and leaders, i'm a bit of an old punk - d.i.y. is where its at. but off the top of my head at this moment in time these are a few of the people who inspire me and i respect a lot.james connolly, costello, chomsky, alexander berkman, huey newton , bill hicks, rosa luxenburg, angela davis, marx, engels, the 10 brave men and all the other people who have fought for freedom in Ireland and around the world. i like to help people opressed by other states, but the only real lasting solution is to be totally free of capitalism and nation states, FIGHT THE CLASS WAR, INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY - all the people who are in this struggle, have ever been in this struggle and those yet to come.My natural anarchist and libertarian-commie tendancys mean i ain't really into heroes - like dylan(bob, not thomas) said- "always remember your better than no-one, and no-one is better than you.I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr

My Blog

it is not undemocratic violence if we are taking back what belongs to us, the majority working class, from the elite who do nothing and take everything. FIGHT BACK NOW

Posted by meech on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:00:00 PST

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton - a short and not very good lol review

Huey P. Newton's autobiography Revolutionary Suicide, published in 1973, is still relevant today as we still have problems of racism, poverty and people's feelings of alienation and despair.Newton tel...
Posted by meech on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:17:00 PST

Peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must

I don't believe in leaders or vanguard parties to lead the revolution. The emancipation of our class must be the work of our class. By not following leaders I mean I don't believe there are people who...
Posted by meech on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:57:00 PST

Squeege your Third Eye

"Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge...
Posted by meech on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:54:00 PST

G8 2007 start mobilising now from permanent revolution

SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY GET INVOLVEDi went to gleneagles and like they say this will be bigger than ever, we, as in heaps of different groups, are mobilising now to make sure the world sees how the rulin...
Posted by meech on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST

boring student essay 2 say class is not permanent necessary or inevitable

This is a pretty long essay that i wrote when i went to college 12 years ago after leaving school at 13. It was the 2nd essay i done and then i dropped out. My comrade found it when i was m...
Posted by meech on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

anarchism and socialism

As a member of the SPGB i am sometimes asked to reply to enquiries when all the intellectuals are busy lol. Also last night in the politics chatroom i was told i could not be an anarchist and a social...
Posted by meech on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:52:00 PST

invasion and occupation even more popular 300 years after locke's quote! where will it all end.

300 years after locke - we are still fighting invasion/occupBody: BET LOCKE WOULD BE WELL DISSAPOINTED TO SEE THAT IN 300 YEARS SO-CALLED 'CIVILIZATION' IS STILL PRETTY BARBARIC.Just looked up this f...
Posted by meech on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST

latin america declares independence by noam chomsky

Latin America Declares IndependenceBy Noam Chomsky10/04/06 "IHT" -- -- Five centuries after the European conquests, Latin America is reasserting its independence.In the southern cone especially, from ...
Posted by meech on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:36:00 PST

25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 a letter by Gerry Ruddy IRSP

On the 25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 Print E-mailBy Gerry Ruddy, Irish Republican Socialist Party Monday, 25 September 2006It has been twenty five years since the hunger stri...
Posted by meech on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:44:00 PST