Reports from Ireland
We publish some recent actions which were carried out in Ireland:
Footage of the local Republican Youth in Creggan, Derry resisting an incursion into their community by the British Army and their colonial militia, the RUC.
On Sunday July 7, the Annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration organised by the Revolutionary Socialist Republican Movement saw Republicans from across Ireland assemble in Bodenstown Cemetery Outside Sallins in County Kildare.
Led by the Socialist Republican Colour Party, representing the Four Provinces of Ireland and the continuity of the Republican struggle from the days of Wolfe Tone down to today, the Parade marched to the graveside of the father of Irish Republicans carrying banners that included the message ‘Britain/NATO Out of Ireland’ and ‘Republicans against NATO’.
At the graveside, the event was chaired by a Wicklow Republican, who welcomed those inn attendance and commented on the growth of the movement in recent years which was evident from the crowd in attendance before sending solidarity to the Republican Pows and the Basque and Palestinian Resistance Movements.
To begin the event a haunting rendition of Bodenstown Chuchyard written by the Young Irelander Thomas Davis was sang to the crowd, before a young Republican Activist from County Meath was called forward to read the 1916 Proclamation and reassert the allegiance of the Revolutionary Socialist Republican Movement to the All Ireland Republic, Proclaimed in Arms in 1916.
The chair then called for a minutes silence for the men and women of every generation who gave their lives for National Liberation, as the colour party lowered their flags in honour of the Patriot Dead. Veteran Republican, Tony Byrne from Wicklow then laid a wreath on the grave of Wolfe Tone on behalf of the Revolutionary Socialist Republican movement.
The chair then called for the main oration of the day, which was delivered by a Republican from Dublin.
Following the main Oration, the chair brought the event to a close by calling for the singing of the National Anthem, Amhrain na bhFiain.
If anyone doubted that the state views Irish Socialist Republicanism as a threat, it would quickly have been done away with by the presence of 6 carloads of the Special Branch present at the event, who filmed proceedings throughout in a pointless attempt to intimidate the Republicans in attendance. Since the Days of Tone and the United Irishmen one version of Political Police or another have been used to attempt to stop Republicans from pursuing our legitimate objectives, but such tactics have and will always fail and only serves to make the movement and its membership even more determined.
A few days later, Activists from AIA in South Wexford were told by members of the public that Wexford Fox and Hare hunters had erected a Union Jack in the locality to welcome British Imperialist hunters to Wexford County. The Anti-Imperialist activists located the symbol of British oppression then moved to rip down and burn the butchers apron:
