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The Workers Solidarity Movement are
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holding a conference in Dublin on Saturday
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December 3rd 1994 to look at the lessons
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of our involvement in struggle over the
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last ten years. We are asking people
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who we feel have a commitment to
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fighting for change to join us in
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exploring ideas on how to move forwards.
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Part of the purpose is of course to try
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and interest people in anarchism and the
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WSM. But we also want a genuine
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exchange of ideas, something we also
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hope to gain out of.
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11:30
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Introduction: Our experience of the last
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decade
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A brief introductory talk about our
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involvement in struggle & some of the
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mistakes we have made that will
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hopefully draw out some lessons for the
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future.
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12:00.
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The left: what went wrong?
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The effects of the collapse of the left
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are visible all around us. But why did
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that collapse occur, was it merely due
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to a set of bad decisions (& characters)
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or are their deeper flaws in the basic
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ideas and operation of the left.
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1:00
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Lunch break
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2:00.
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D.A.I.C. & T.U.F., Revolutionary
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politics and 'single' issues.
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In recent years we have been involved in
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two areas that showed limited success,
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but although they came to involve large
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numbers of people they then dropped
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back. Is this an inevitable feature of
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such single-issue campaigns. We
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obviously believe in the need for a
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revolutionary organisation, but what is
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the role of such an organisation in
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campaigns. Is it worthwhile for
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activists to be involved in a small
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revolutionary group.
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3:00
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Video: Revolution and counter revolution
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in the Spanish Civil War
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Many people see no alternative to
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capitalism, or after the USSR see the
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cure as being worse than the disease.
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We take a break here to remind ourselves
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of a time when workers demonstrated
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briefly an alternative to capitalism,
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not just in terms of economics but also
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in the structure of decision making.
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4:00
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How do we go forward from here
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We have spent a lot of time developing
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the general ideas and methods of
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anarchism to todays situations. This
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has been done not just from theoretical
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examination but also from our experience
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of applying anarchists idea and strategy
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to campaigns we have been involved with.
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>From this we have the start of an idea
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of how the left should be re-
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constructed. Here we want your opinions
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of the conclusions we have come to.
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Andrew Flood
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anflood@macollamh.ucd.ie
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Phone: 706(2389)
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