The heroin menace
Dublin is experiencing a heroin epidemic similar to the in the late
1970s. That epidemic left hundreds of young people hooked on heroin
and dozens of them have since died of AIDS and AIDS related diseases.
Some big criminals made fortunes out of it
Bans or legalisation?
SINCE THE DAYS of Concerned Parents Against Drugs (CPAD), the growth
of the heroin problem in inner-city Dublin has largely gone without
comment. In the last few months, two factors have pushed it back into
the spotlight - the government's declaration of a 'War on Drugs', and
the emergence of the city-wide campaign against heroin which has been
set up by Inner City Organisations Network.
Direct Action Against Drugs: Murder
& Thuggery
}MEN SHOT DEAD, many more beaten up. Attacks in Armagh, Belfast,
Derry, Dublin, Dundalk and Kerry. In most cases the reason given was
that the people being punished were ecstasy dealers. The murders in
the six counties were claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs.
Drug Crisis: Dublin Communities
Organise
The heroin epidemic in Dublin is causing major problems for addicts
and for the communities where they live. Oddly enough you would not
get any inkling of this crisis from the bourgeois press. That is
because the epidemic and its effects are confined to the inner city
and the working class suburbs like Ballymun, Tallaght, Clondalkin and
Blanchardstown.
Communities stand up to the heroin
barons
Dublin is experiencing a very serious heroin epidemic with an
estimated 8,000-9,000 heroin addicts. Heroin addiction is closely
related to disadvantage and poverty. The anti-heroin movement has
brought thousands of people to meetings and onto the streets in
Dublin's working class communities
The Drugs Debate
We continue the discussion about the heroin crisis, this time with
two readers' letters. Your views are welcome.
Pushers Out: Poverty Out
too
The Heroin crisis continues in Dublin, we examine how it is rooted in
poverty
Crime and community
policing
The term 'community policing' has been much abused in recent times,
most particularly in the North of Ireland where it has become
shorthand for vicious punishment beatings and shootings. In this
article Gregor Kerr takes a look at the issue of community policing -
what it is and more importantly what it isn't. The question of what
levels of real community policing would actually be possible or
allowed under capitalism is looked at, and the debate about crime,
anti-social behaviour and reactions to it in an anarchist society is
touched on.
Pushers Out! - The inside story of
Dublin's anti-drugs movement
Pushers Out tells the story of how people living in the North Inner
City and the South Inner City organised to save their communities
from heroin. Not relying on the state to solve their problems, they
started to organise themselves. One such working class organisation
is Coalition of Communities Against Drugs (COCAD) A review of the
book by by Andre Lyder
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Crime, Criminals, Punishment an
anarchist view
Kropotkin came up with three types of crime. Property related crime,
government related crime and crimes against the person. In Britain it
has been estimated that 94% of crime is committed against property.
However what isn't recorded are those crimes committed for property.
Incorporation...the spoonful of
sugar
Why is it that many single issue campaigns and community groups which
start out with a radical program soon end up as little more than
service groups? Conor Mc Loughlin, an activist of the now
defunct Portobello Unemployed Action Group investigates.
