Annual Book Drive for Republican Socialist Prisoners of War
The comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network are once again nearing the time that we will be packaging books to send into Republican Socialist Prisoners of War in the prisons of the six and 26 county statelets of Ireland. Each year the IRSN sends an assortment of books (chiefly works on socialist or anarchist theory, history, social justice, biography, but with some select fiction works added in) to all of the POWs of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, to enable the jails to serve as the "universities of revolution."
In recent years the IRSN has also sent books to POWs and political prisoners from the struggles for national liberation and socialism in Puerto Rico, Catalonia, Brittany, and the Basque Lands and will do so again this year to a number of prisoners from these struggles.
We focus on sending used books, in good condition, so that we can maximize the quantity sent while keeping the effort affordable. If anyone would like to assist this effort, please send your donations to:
IRSN
804 Guerrero Street
San Francisco, CA 94114 USA
Especially useful are works by, or about, Marx, Engles, and Connolly; works on Irish history; books in Irish; biographies of figures from the history of the struggle for socialism in Ireland; as well as books about other struggles for national liberation and socialism; socialist movements in other nations; women's liberation and lesbian/gay liberation; other theoretical works from socialist, communist, syndicalist, or anarchist writers; books on environmental and community organising issues; works of economic critique and social analysis; and similar subjects.
These shipments are sent so as to arrive around the holiday season and, because we sometimes need to ship by surface mail, this sometimes begins in early November. So, please send any donations you would like to make so that they arrive in San Francisco not later than November 13th.
In recent years the IRSN has also sent books to POWs and political prisoners from the struggles for national liberation and socialism in Puerto Rico, Catalonia, Brittany, and the Basque Lands and will do so again this year to a number of prisoners from these struggles.
We focus on sending used books, in good condition, so that we can maximize the quantity sent while keeping the effort affordable. If anyone would like to assist this effort, please send your donations to:
IRSN
804 Guerrero Street
San Francisco, CA 94114 USA
Especially useful are works by, or about, Marx, Engles, and Connolly; works on Irish history; books in Irish; biographies of figures from the history of the struggle for socialism in Ireland; as well as books about other struggles for national liberation and socialism; socialist movements in other nations; women's liberation and lesbian/gay liberation; other theoretical works from socialist, communist, syndicalist, or anarchist writers; books on environmental and community organising issues; works of economic critique and social analysis; and similar subjects.
These shipments are sent so as to arrive around the holiday season and, because we sometimes need to ship by surface mail, this sometimes begins in early November. So, please send any donations you would like to make so that they arrive in San Francisco not later than November 13th.