On Saturday September 24, more then 50 people attended a Revolutionary Bloc on against the rising cost of living, in Dublin City.
Beginning at the James Connolly Memorial Statue, the event was chaired by a member of AIA who introduced speakers from the Revolutionary Housing League, Saoradh and an independent Socialist and Anti Imperialist.
The speakers all detailed how electoral politics, or marches to empty parliaments will not address the rising cost of living, what was needed was Revolutionary Action.
The march then made its way from the Connolly Monument chanting High Rents, High Bills stand up fight back and One solution- Revolution before arriving at Blackwater asset management on John Rogersons Quay, where following a short speech outlining the involvement of Blackwater targeting homeless people and RHL activists at Ionad Seán Heuston, before the crowd demonstrated their anger by firing paint at the building that houses the offices of Blackwater.
Before the march moved off a warning was given, that any other security form that got involved in evictions would be met with resistance.
The march then moved along Pearse St, to Poolbeg street where the Revolutionary Bloc chanted slogans calling for Revolutionary Action as the other cost of living march in passed by.
The Revolutionary Bloc is a welcome development and demonstrates that a movement that is willing to take direct action is growing, and brining people together in a broad front against capitalism.