The leadership of Irish Socialist Republicans extends Revolutionary Greetings to our members and supporters across Ireland and abroad.
We salute the work of our mass organisations and their growing membership base over the previous 12 months, particularly Anti Imperialist Action Ireland and its youth wing Óige Réabhlóideach-Anti Imperialist Youth. We thank all our activists for your time, dedication and commitment.
We also recognise the important work carried out in 2023 by organisations such as the Revolutionary Housing League and over the last few months, Saoirse Don Phalaistín who have shown again and again that direct action is the method through which the Working Class achieve results. We renew our commitment to supporting your work in the coming year.
Palestine
Today, the struggle for National Liberation in Palestine is inspiring Revolutionaries around the world. We extend our fraternal solidarity to our comrades in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and their fighters in the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. We extend our full solidarity and support to the Palestinian People and the Palestinian Resistance in their heroic fight against Imperialism and its puppet, Zionist settler colonialism. We call for the release of Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Abadallah, Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinian Political Prisoners.
The war in Palestine is a war of the whole people for National Liberation. The Palestinian Resistance has demonstrated what is possible when a broad front resistance movement is established to give leadership to the struggle and have shown oppressed people around the world that resistance is the only path to victory. Despite the genocidal campaign of Zionism and international Imperialism, the resistance and the Palestinian People stand strong and cannot be defeated. We will continue to do all we can to support the Palestinian Resistance in 2024 and believe there is much that the Revolutionary Movement in Ireland can learn from the United Palestinian National Resistance.
We also extend our solidarity to those forces who have acted in solidarity with Palestine. We salute the fighters of Hezbollah, Ansar Allah and the Iraqi Resistance who have entered the war and demonstrated that Palestinian will never stand alone. We call on all those who support Palestine to extend solidarity to these movements and be ready to defend them from imperialist attack. We salute all those in Ireland and around the world who have taken to the streets. In our millions the people of the world have spoken with one voice to stand for Palestine and to resist the actions of Zionist Settler Colonialism and Imperialism.
Administrations in the west, NATO and the EU have all demonstrated that they will continue to stand with Zionism, terrified to lose imperialism’s puppet colony in the Middle East. In 2024 it is up to the people ourselves to take action to further isolate Zionism at the International level. Mass campaigns of direct action will be needed to expel the Zionist terrorist Ambassadors from countries around the world and close the embassies for good. Boycott’s of Zionist Goods and services must be developed in all communities and a blockade of Zionist Goods entering countries must be built.
Ireland
At the dawn of 2024, the Revolutionary Socialist Republican Movement extends our greetings to all other Irish Republican organisations and independents, who like us, remain committed to the struggle for National Liberation. We extend our solidarity to the Irish Republican POWs across Ireland being held in gaol by Britain and the Free State and to all Republican Activists who have received harassment by state forces over the past 12 months.
Today, Ireland remains illegally occupied and partitioned, both a colony and a semi-colony of British, European and North American Imperialism. 6 Irish Counties are under direct British military occupation while the 26 counties are under the economic control of Britain, the EU and US corporations. Our country is firmly in the sights of NATO as part of their ongoing imperialist expansion and who now maintain an almost permanent presence at Shannon Airport, while the British Navy occupy our waters and the British Airforce occupy our skies.
Our people across the 32 counties are suffering as a result of an unrelenting class war which keeps the working class divided by forcing them to compete for the crumbs off the table of capitalism and imperialism. The supply of Housing, outside of limited social housing, Our Natural Resources, industry and wealth production are in the hands of imperialists while education, healthcare transport and working conditions are under attack. None of the above can be changed through bourgeois elections or British border polls, but only through the disciplined actions of Revolutionary Republicans and the Working Class. In short, they can only be addressed by Revolution. Ireland today is in as much need of a strong and United Anti Imperialist Movement as it was in 1916.
As we enter 2024 the most pressing task facing Republicans is to rebuild the National Unity of the Movement and strengthen the Republican Resistance. No one group can lead our struggle to victory nor can a divided or competing Republican family.
The Revolutionary Socialist Republican Movement believes that the way forward for the fight for National Liberation and Socialism in Ireland is through the development of an Anti Imperialist Broad Front. However, we also believe that words are not enough and action is needed to make such a Front a reality.
Over the past 12 months we have engaged with Republicans across Ireland on the need to develop a Broad Front that would work for the unity of Irish Revolutionaries around common Republican principles. Through our extensive engagement with groups and independents around the country it is clear that there is a strong desire at the grassroots for a front that could unite all Revolutionary Republicans, while at the same time being unafraid to maintain the autonomy and independence of groups and recognise differences in a comradely way.
We propose that all genuine Republicans commit that 2024 will be the year that we act together to strengthen our resistance movement by building the Broad Front. We propose that all groups and independents now enter a period of comradely discussion and debate on the form that front should take and the principles that should guide it. We propose that a Broad Front Congress should be organised before the end of this year at which all Republican groups and independents are invited and welcome and can come to the table with proposals about how we take our struggle forward together. Disunity only serves our enemies and unity will be our strength. We urge all Republicans interested in working to develop this process and the organising of a Broad Front Congress to contact us and let us together turn the demand of the Republican base into action.
In the coming year the Revolutionary Socialist Republican Movement will continue to work to deepen our base in Working Class communities across the country. Our people are demanding a change to the power relations in Ireland and Socialist Republicanism must be the engine for that change.
The weakness of the liberal ‘left’, now almost completely divorced from the working class, has played a major role to a rise in racist sentiment in Working Class communities. Such false division can only be combatted on the ground by engaging in our communities, with our Friends, neighbours and work colleagues to ensure our class enemies are clearly identified and that the focus of anger is on the forces of Capitalism and Imperialism in Ireland. Irish Republicanism is of, and rooted in the Working Class. It is a key role of Republican Community Activists to combat racist and reactionary sentiment and win our communities to support the progressive and revolutionary position of Republicansim. This takes hard work, it takes listening and engaging with our youth and communities, instead of writing them off and it means demonstrating, through direct action particularly on housing, that we have the answers to the issues our Class and communities are concerned about.
To date the small number of foreign funded, fascist and far right agitators have failed to gain a foothold in our communities and have been rejected by the Working Class. These spokespeople for the controlled opposition are closely linked to British Imperialism, Loyalist Fascism and are led by known MI5 agents. The funding for the ‘Irish’ fascists comes from the British and North American Far right. These agents operate by peddling lies, misinformation and fear to whip up anti migrant and refugee sentiment to divide the working class and they engage in actions that are designed to allow the state bring in draconian legislation that can be used against Revolutionaries. The actions of the far right, facilitated at each turn by the state, have led to the proposed introduction of facial recognition technology, new limits on protests and hate speech legislation that will be used against Revolutionaries and opponents of the state. It is clear to see that the far right annd fascists offer nothing to working class communities demanding change, as they are the tools of the reactionary state.
While fascism has no base outside of Loyalism, real effort must be made by Republicans and other genuine revolutionaries to combat the lies told by the far right and to prevent fascist organisations ever gaining a foothold. The most successful way to do this is for Republicans to be active in and to the fore inn defending our communities from all who who mean them harm and to take action to nip any expression of fascism in the bud. 2024 gives a real opportunity to turn the tide on racism, fascism and the far right and Republicans will not be found wanting.
As the New Year begins, the leadership of the Revolution Socialist Republican Movement are confident in the growing trend of Revolution internationally to which our fight for National Liberation is inextricably linked and we salute all those Revolutionary Anti Imperialists and the International Communist Movement around the world, who continue their own fight for National Liberation and Socialist Revolution. With the correct strategy, campaigns and alliances we are confident that our struggle can continue to go from strength to strength and that the Republican Resistance will inevitably achieve victory by any means necessary.
Beir Bua- Tiocfaidh Ár Lá
An Lár Choiste
Irish Socialist Republicans
One reply on “Irish Socialist Republican New Year Statement 2024”
Throughout 2023 the organisations mentioned in the statement have made significant contributions to the advance of working people in Ireland to socialism, national liberation and unity.
I support the call for unity of progressive forces but am not so sure about whether formal discussions are helpful at this point. If organisations and individual activists cannot come together in joint actions I doubt very much that formal discussions will be a solid base upon to build united action at a later date. However, when people and organisations do take part in joint action then that does provide a promising base upon which to build longer-term formal broad front unity.