IRSP May Day 2008 Statement -- Stormont Watch

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Date Posted: Thu, May 01 2008, 21:13:11 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: 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 �r l� linn (we shall have our day).

# # #

Irish Republican Socialist Party
392B Falls Road
Belfast BT12 6DH
Ireland
http://www.irsm.org/irsp/

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