IRSP May Day 2008 Statement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 May 2008 Irish Republican Socialist Party May Day 2008 Statement The Irish Republican Socialist Party wishes to extend heartfelt solidarity with all peoples struggling for socialism across the globe on International Workers' Day. Today we reach out to each other to gain momentum in order to struggle on against capitalist exploitation and its savage imperialist adventurism. We particularly thank our comrades in the IRSCNA for tirelessly working to raise awareness of the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland, the struggle for national liberation and socialism. Across the globe advances have been made in the last twelve months. The Nepalese people have elected a Maoist government who are promising to press ahead with progressive governance. In Venezuela, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela is forging its progress towards a socialist society, consolidating the economy with more nationalisation of key industries. Cuba remains steadfast in face of contrary media speculation with the aid and cooperation of Venezuela. There are bright lights burning still for the cause of workers' power and human freedom. The scourge of capitalism and imperialism still scar the world however. The Iraqi resistance struggles on against the storm troopers of Western imperialism. Israel still acts as the jackboot on the face of the occupied Palestinian people who bravely continue to struggle on in the face of impossible odds. Yet despite the needless bloodshed witnessed in the Middle East, the US and its Israeli deputy still sabre-rattle against Iran and Syria. The people of the world must prepare to react if today's imperialist superpower, the United States, draws more blood in the Middle East in its quest for hegemony in the oil-rich region. Global capitalism still squats on the lives of many millions of people across the world, making misery of lives in the pursuit of profit. Millions of children die needlessly of starvation or treatable illnesses. Millions of children continue to be exploited by Western multinationals making dispensable fashion trinkets for rich Western children. We ask all Western children to make this their frontline in the battle against child exploitation in the third world turn their back on exploitive companies such as Nike by boycotting them and telling their friends why they are boycotting them. In Ireland, we still suffer under imperialism. Moreover we are having salt being rubbed into our wounds with a new MI5 supercentre being opened outside of Belfast and tracts of Irish countryside being used to train imperialist troops for their murderous campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The working class of Ireland remains divided, North and South. Sectarianism continues and will continue as long as partition remains hence dividing the Northern working class from uniting to push for our new Socialist Republic out of the sphere of control and influence of Imperialist Britain, the US and EU. Our youth continue to grow up in a society defined along sectarian lines, sectarian lines designed by the imperialist dominator to keep the people of this island apart. Division of the Irish working class is a British tactic designed for their needs. Loyalty to Britain was rewarded in the past to a section of the Northern working class with privileged access to industrial jobs and a monopoly on political power. This could never last and when global capitalism took heavy industrial labour to cheaper markets, the Protestant working class have been left with nothing but blind loyalty. It is now in their interests to reject the exploitation of Britain and to begin exploring avenues to our Socialist Republic. Do not allow another generation of children to grow up exploited by the scourge of sectarianism. Do not allow another generation of children to grow up under the dark shadow of capitalism. Capitalism will continue to keep a sizable percentage of children growing up in poverty, exposing them to dangers of crime, drug and alcohol abuse and violence. When the child is old enough, the imperialist government will hand him or her a rifle to go off on an imperialist adventure to kill or be killed. If today's children are to one day bear a rifle, let it be for the Socialist Republic. We in the Irish Republican Socialist Movement will certainly do our part in organising and struggling for the Workers' Republic here in Ireland. We will continue to struggle against imperialist occupation in the North and corrupt capitalist exploitation in the South. Bertie Ahern is merely the latest in what will be more self-serving leaders of an increasingly inhumane system. Radical organisation in the South is becoming harder with draconian laws and oppression being meted out against the IRSM in the last 12 months. All of which supported by a cheerleader media of the bourgeois. Blackening the name of the IRSM and other radical groups in the South is commonplace but these lies were exposed when a senior Gardai detective revealed that there was no evidence of any links between the Irish National Liberation Army and drug dealing gangs. We will carry on our struggle regardless of media smear campaigns and state oppression. We in the IRSM salute all others in the world who struggle under similar and worse conditions. To our comrades in Palestine, the Philippines, Cataluna, Euskal Herria, Lebanon, Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and many other countries struggling for justice and freedom, our deep felt solidarity. Beidh ár lá linn (we shall have our day). # # # Irish Republican Socialist Party 392B Falls Road Belfast BT12 6DH Ireland http://www.irsm.org/irsp/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 May 2008 Irish Republican Socialist Party May Day 2008 Statement The Irish Republican Socialist Party wishes to extend heartfelt solidarity with all peoples struggling for socialism across the globe on International Workers' Day. Today we reach out to each other to gain momentum in order to struggle on against capitalist exploitation and its savage imperialist adventurism. We particularly thank our comrades in the IRSCNA for tirelessly working to raise awareness of the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland, the struggle for national liberation and socialism. Across the globe advances have been made in the last twelve months. The Nepalese people have elected a Maoist government who are promising to press ahead with progressive governance. In Venezuela, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela is forging its progress towards a socialist society, consolidating the economy with more nationalisation of key industries. Cuba remains steadfast in face of contrary media speculation with the aid and cooperation of Venezuela. There are bright lights burning still for the cause of workers' power and human freedom. The scourge of capitalism and imperialism still scar the world however. The Iraqi resistance struggles on against the storm troopers of Western imperialism. Israel still acts as the jackboot on the face of the occupied Palestinian people who bravely continue to struggle on in the face of impossible odds. Yet despite the needless bloodshed witnessed in the Middle East, the US and its Israeli deputy still sabre-rattle against Iran and Syria. The people of the world must prepare to react if today's imperialist superpower, the United States, draws more blood in the Middle East in its quest for hegemony in the oil-rich region. Global capitalism still squats on the lives of many millions of people across the world, making misery of lives in the pursuit of profit. Millions of children die needlessly of starvation or treatable illnesses. Millions of children continue to be exploited by Western multinationals making dispensable fashion trinkets for rich Western children. We ask all Western children to make this their frontline in the battle against child exploitation in the third world turn their back on exploitive companies such as Nike by boycotting them and telling their friends why they are boycotting them. In Ireland, we still suffer under imperialism. Moreover we are having salt being rubbed into our wounds with a new MI5 supercentre being opened outside of Belfast and tracts of Irish countryside being used to train imperialist troops for their murderous campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The working class of Ireland remains divided, North and South. Sectarianism continues and will continue as long as partition remains hence dividing the Northern working class from uniting to push for our new Socialist Republic out of the sphere of control and influence of Imperialist Britain, the US and EU. Our youth continue to grow up in a society defined along sectarian lines, sectarian lines designed by the imperialist dominator to keep the people of this island apart. Division of the Irish working class is a British tactic designed for their needs. Loyalty to Britain was rewarded in the past to a section of the Northern working class with privileged access to industrial jobs and a monopoly on political power. This could never last and when global capitalism took heavy industrial labour to cheaper markets, the Protestant working class have been left with nothing but blind loyalty. It is now in their interests to reject the exploitation of Britain and to begin exploring avenues to our Socialist Republic. Do not allow another generation of children to grow up exploited by the scourge of sectarianism. Do not allow another generation of children to grow up under the dark shadow of capitalism. Capitalism will continue to keep a sizable percentage of children growing up in poverty, exposing them to dangers of crime, drug and alcohol abuse and violence. When the child is old enough, the imperialist government will hand him or her a rifle to go off on an imperialist adventure to kill or be killed. If today's children are to one day bear a rifle, let it be for the Socialist Republic. We in the Irish Republican Socialist Movement will certainly do our part in organising and struggling for the Workers' Republic here in Ireland. We will continue to struggle against imperialist occupation in the North and corrupt capitalist exploitation in the South. Bertie Ahern is merely the latest in what will be more self-serving leaders of an increasingly inhumane system. Radical organisation in the South is becoming harder with draconian laws and oppression being meted out against the IRSM in the last 12 months. All of which supported by a cheerleader media of the bourgeois. Blackening the name of the IRSM and other radical groups in the South is commonplace but these lies were exposed when a senior Gardai detective revealed that there was no evidence of any links between the Irish National Liberation Army and drug dealing gangs. We will carry on our struggle regardless of media smear campaigns and state oppression. We in the IRSM salute all others in the world who struggle under similar and worse conditions. To our comrades in Palestine, the Philippines, Cataluna, Euskal Herria, Lebanon, Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and many other countries struggling for justice and freedom, our deep felt solidarity. Beidh ár lá linn (we shall have our day). # # # Irish Republican Socialist Party 392B Falls Road Belfast BT12 6DH Ireland http://www.irsm.org/irsp/