This afternoon, Anti Imperialist Action Ireland held a solidarity Vigil in support of #GrupYorum, the ongoing Turkish Hungerstrike and Palestinian Political Prisoners.
The plan had been to hold the event at the Turkish and Zionist Embassy’s in Ballsbridge, However the Free State demonstrated their support for Turkish Fascism and Zionism Placing a ring of steel around the location.
In an attempt to prevent the solidarity action at the behest of the NATO Powers, Free State Police closed Raglan Road in Dublin 4 to the public, establishing checkpoints at both ends while the Political police stoped and harassed Socialist Republicans in an attempt to order them to leave the area.
The ring of steel at the Turkish Embassy and the harassment encountered by Socialist Republican Activists, should be contrasted to the Free State’s facilitation of Fascist demonstrations organised by Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters. It should not be lost on people that both Turkey and the Zionist Enity are Fascist.
With no access to Raglan Road, a delegation of Socialist Republicans regrouped undeterred at the James Connolly Statue at Beresford Place, the historic location of the establishment of the Irish Citizen Army in 1913 and fitting as Connolly was a Proletarian Internationalist and held the solidarity vigil without interference and with support from passing motorists.
Solidarity was extended to #GrupYorum and with those who remain on Hungerstrike in Turkey as well as to All Palestinian Political Prisoners, as part of the international fallout by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoners Network.
Attempts by the Free State, Zionism and Turkish Fascism to prevent this action failed. The response of the state however demonstrated the Free States fear of a vibrant and growing Socialist Republicanism.
Anti Imperialist Action will continue to organise in support of our international comrades while at the same time continuing to combat and resist Free State Counter Revolution and Foreign Imperialism in Ireland.