On Sunday afternoon, members of Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland along with members of Saoirse Don Phalaistín, carried out a direct action against a British warship in Dublin port.
The protest was called to highlight the ongoing British Occupation of Ireland and to make clear the complicity of British Imperialism in the ongoing Zionist Occupation and Genocide in Palestine. The protest made clear the links between the National Liberation Struggles in Ireland and Palestine.
In a militant protest, the activists, chanted ‘From Ireland to Palestine, occupation is crime’ and ,Britain Out of Ireland and Palestine.’
During the course of the protest, the Republican Activists present confronted Armed British soldiers who appeared on the deck of the ship and a stand off ensued on the gangway.
Over a dozen members of the Free State police then arrived to protect their British Imperialist masters and forcibly removed the activists. 3 Republicans were arrested and held for twenty-four hours before being charged with trespass and released from court on bail.
The ‘HMS Penzance’ has actively enforced British imperialism’s continued interests in the Middle East, the defence of England’s creation “Israel” being chief among those interests. With the intensification of the genocide in Palestine direct action of this type is the kind of solidarity that is most effective.
British War Ships have no place in any part of Ireland or our waters. For so long as the illegal British Occupation of our Country continues, AIA remains committed to confronting and resisting British Imperialism in Ireland and to standing in genuine solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world and their fights for National Liberation.
End the occupation! End the genocide!
Free Palestine!
Free Ireland!