✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 Tomorrow, as EU leaders meet in Dublin, people will take to the streets to call for a Europe that works for the masses rather than warmongers. Bígí linn at these two demonstrations in Dublin tomorrow.
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Connolly was right then and Connolly is right now. No to NATO and no to an EU Army.
The Workers’ Party condemns the gross overreaction of An Garda Síochána in pepper-spraying and using batons on students in Trinity College Dublin who were engaged in a legitimate protest against former United States president and genocide enabler Joe Biden.
Biden is a legitimate target of protest. During his presidency, he armed Israeli forces during their genocide in Gaza. Both his actions — and inactions — have led to the physical destruction of the entire territory of Gaza, the displacement of over two million people from their homes, and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, including almost 20,000 children. Clearly, both the Irish state and college authorities were well aware of the revulsion of the Irish people at Biden’s role in this ongoing genocide, which is why the event was kept so low-key in the first place. In our view, he should never have been invited.
The overreaction of Gardaí — evidenced by their use of pepper spray and batons — is part of a disturbing pattern of curbing the right to protest and dissent which has been ramping up steadily, especially since the start of Ireland’s EU presidency.
The right to public protest is a basic but hard-won right. From the brutality committed against those seeking basic civil rights in Derry in October 1968 and January 1970, to the brutalisation of protestors who stood against the giveaway of our natural resources and the threatened destruction of a local community in Rossport, Co. Mayo, we can see that the states both north and south had to be pushed into allowing citizens the right to public protest.
The actions by Gardaí in Trinity College Dublin are part of an ongoing process designed by the authorities to curtail public protest, which includes the abuse of the Public Order Act in an effort to hide the level of opposition in Ireland to many aspects of government, EU, and US policy, particularly in relation to the creation of an EU army, and the ongoing complicity in and facilitation of Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Biden is a legitimate target of protest. During his presidency, he armed Israeli forces during their genocide in Gaza. Both his actions — and inactions — have led to the physical destruction of the entire territory of Gaza, the displacement of over two million people from their homes, and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, including almost 20,000 children. Clearly, both the Irish state and college authorities were well aware of the revulsion of the Irish people at Biden’s role in this ongoing genocide, which is why the event was kept so low-key in the first place. In our view, he should never have been invited.
The overreaction of Gardaí — evidenced by their use of pepper spray and batons — is part of a disturbing pattern of curbing the right to protest and dissent which has been ramping up steadily, especially since the start of Ireland’s EU presidency.
The right to public protest is a basic but hard-won right. From the brutality committed against those seeking basic civil rights in Derry in October 1968 and January 1970, to the brutalisation of protestors who stood against the giveaway of our natural resources and the threatened destruction of a local community in Rossport, Co. Mayo, we can see that the states both north and south had to be pushed into allowing citizens the right to public protest.
The actions by Gardaí in Trinity College Dublin are part of an ongoing process designed by the authorities to curtail public protest, which includes the abuse of the Public Order Act in an effort to hide the level of opposition in Ireland to many aspects of government, EU, and US policy, particularly in relation to the creation of an EU army, and the ongoing complicity in and facilitation of Israeli genocide in Gaza.
✊🏻🚩 A public sector pay deal should not only beat future inflation, but also catch-up on past inflation, in order to have any hope of combatting the ongoing cost-of-living pressures being felt by working people.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stand prepared to put manners on the government by going ahead with strike action on Thursday – the same day as a massive European Political Community summit is set to take place in Dublin. Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets in rallies around the country.
Workers have the power to force change that serves our interests. It’s long overdue that the government recognises that.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stand prepared to put manners on the government by going ahead with strike action on Thursday – the same day as a massive European Political Community summit is set to take place in Dublin. Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets in rallies around the country.
Workers have the power to force change that serves our interests. It’s long overdue that the government recognises that.
✊🏻🚩 On a heavy and chill night, 109 years ago, the workers and peasants of Russia — under the leadership of the Bolsheviks — overthrew the Provisional Government and built the world's first socialist republic. First Tsardom, then liberalism, were swept aside.
This socialist state, the USSR, would go on to abolish class and emancipate workers from the woes of capitalism.
The October Revolution and the legacy of the USSR continue to be an inspiration to working people around the world.
"In spite of Revolution, all Russia plunging dizzily into the unknown and terrible future, joy swept the city with the coming of the snow... Even the sun came out, pale and watery, at noon. The life of the city grew gay, and the very Revolution ran swifter."
– John Reed.
This socialist state, the USSR, would go on to abolish class and emancipate workers from the woes of capitalism.
The October Revolution and the legacy of the USSR continue to be an inspiration to working people around the world.
"In spite of Revolution, all Russia plunging dizzily into the unknown and terrible future, joy swept the city with the coming of the snow... Even the sun came out, pale and watery, at noon. The life of the city grew gay, and the very Revolution ran swifter."
– John Reed.
