‘The Cause of Labour is the Cause of Ireland, the Cause of Ireland is the Cause of Labour. They cannot be
dissevered.’- James Connolly
On International Workers Day 2025 Anti Imperialist Action Ireland extends our
solidarity to the Irish Working Class and to revolutionary workers around the world engaged in the class struggle against capitalism and imperialism.
The Irish Working Class today find ourselves exploited and oppressed by a domestic bureaucratic capitalism administered by a garrison class whose representatives sit in Leinster House and Stormont, and by Foreign Imperialism, namely British, European and North American Imperialism. The position of the Irish Working class is made worse by the ongoing partition and occupation of our Country by Britain and NATO. It is from the partition and occupation of Ireland that all the ills faced by the Irish Working Class stem, and it is only through the successful tackling of the Occupation and Partition of our country that such issues can be addressed. To fail to do so, or to ignore this fundamental truth, as is the case for many so-called ‘Socialists’, is to continue to condemn the Irish working Class to Exploitation and Oppression.
As Revolutionary Irish Socialist Republicans, Anti Imperialist Action believes that the class struggle is one of the key engines in the struggle for Irish National Liberation and the establishment of a 32 County, All Ireland Socialist Republic. It is through linking the everyday struggles of the workers and communities against capitalism and exploitation to the Republican struggle against Imperialism in Ireland, that our fight will be successful.
Alongside resisting
the Occupation and Partition of our Country, key fights of the working class in Ireland today include housing, the presence of foreign multinational corporations, the fight for wages and conditions, the ownership of key industries and our national resources, control of our communities and ultimately who holds power in our country, issues that must be taken up and advanced by the Revolutionary Republican Movement in order to give genuine and effective leadership to our class in the fight for Freedom and Socialism.
Today in Ireland, the working class are largely unorganised and as a result subjected to more and more exploitation. Long abandoned by the Trade Unions of Social Partnership, the Irish Working Class need new fighting organisations to
organise workers and communities and raise the Revolutionary class consciousness across the country and mobilise Irish Workers into the struggle for National Liberation and Socialist Revolution. Such organisations must also fight the cause of workers on a day to day basis. This is no easy task, but their creation will greatly strengthen the Revolutionary and Anti Imperialist Struggle in Ireland.
Today, the enemies of the Irish Working Class attempt to keep us divided use by stoking artificial divisions of Religion, Race and Colour. We again urge the Irish Working Class not to fall for these divisions but instead to keep the focus on our real enemies, the boss class, the criminals in Leinster House and Stormont and Foreign Imperialism. These are the targets that working class anger should be raged against and by uniting to do so, our class can win victories.
On International workers Day, Anti Imperialist Action Ireland is calling on the Irish Working Class to recommit to the struggle for National Liberation, and to take your place in the class struggle against the garrison class, against foreign Imperialism for a 32 County, All Ireland Socialist Republic.
In the words of Commandant General James Connolly of the Irish Citizen Army, ‘TheIrish Working Class Will only be free when we own everything from the plough to the stars’, ‘The Fight must go on’!