This week, Irish Socialist Republicans relaunched the Campaign Against Colonialism with a number of Direct Actions in Dún Laoghaire.
Yesterday evening Anti Imperialist Action and Macradh activists staged a number of direct actions against the symbols of English Colonialism.
For the first action, the Socialist Republicans unveiled a large banner on the ‘Victoria Fountain ’ at Dún Laoghaire Harbour, that reads ‘Tear Down the Genocide Queen’.
A short time later local republicans rebranded ‘Victoria Road’ in Killiney as ‘Famine Queen Road’ painting over the old road sign and writing the roads new name in large red lettering.
Victoria, the English monarch, presided over the Irish Genocide of the 1840s and the execution of the Fenian Prisoners. It is shameful to have a monument and a road named after a tyrant who oppressed Ireland and can only be seen as glorifying English Imperialism.
Torn down by local Republicans in the 1980s, the monument was shamefully rebuilt by a pro imperialist Fine Gael council in the early 2000s.
Irish Socialist Republicans believe it’s long past time that the monument and all symbols of British Colonialism are torn down.
In the coming weeks and months the campaign against colonialism will continue to be built.
Britain Get Out of Ireland Now!