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The Omagh Bomb Reconsidered

On this day in 1998, a car bomb exploded in Omagh, County Tyrone, resulting in a devastating loss of life. The bomb was part of a campaign, then being waged by the RIRA against the British Occupation of Ireland, and a coded warning had been issued in advance of the explosion. Despite the precautions taken […]

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Keep Liam Home- Stop the Extradition of Irish Republicans

Moves by the Free State to extradite the Irish Republican Liam Campbell from Ireland to Lithuania at the behest of Brit Imperialism must be opposed by all who believe in Human Rights. Liam Campbell has never set foot in Lithuania. The European Arrest warrant issued by Lithuania has been done on the orders of British […]

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1914 Gun Running Remembered in Howth

On Saturday July 24, Irish Socialist Republicans gathered in Howth to mark the 107th anniversary of the Howth Gun Running, an event of key importance in the run up to the 1916 Rising. Led by a section of the Socialist Republican Colour Party, Dublin Socialist Republicans made their way down the East Pier, to the […]

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Remembering Vol. Martin O’Leary

50 years ago this month, IRA Volunteer Martin O’Leary gave his life for a Socialist Republic, when he was killed on active service, by a premature explosion, while engaged in Military Action in support of striking workers at Mogul Mines in Tipperary. Vol. Martin O’Leary came from Connolly Road, Ballyphehane in Cork, and would grow […]

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Canada, Catholicism and Colonial Monuments

In the past few weeks, indigenous and progressive forces in Canada have mobilised in response to further revelations about a mass genocide carried out against indigenous children. 215 unmarked graves of children were discovered in Kamloops Indian Residential School in May of this year These callous murders were committed by the Catholic Church, in collusion […]

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ANTI IMPERIALIST ACTION PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN DUBLIN

On Saturday July 10, members of Anti Imperialist Action Ireland staged a direct action against the presence of British Imperialists and the British Military at Island Bridge in Dublin. Despite the security at the event organized by the British Legion, the Revolutionary Socialist Republicans managed to get inside the security cordon and into the Imperialist […]

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Food Sovereignty, Monocrop Imperialism and Indigenous Resistance with Max Ajl

Max Ajl is a Marxist and a food systems researcher. He has recently published a book “A People’s Green New Deal”. We spoke with Max about Palestine, the Imperial “food” system which is killing the Earth, and some solutions we can work towards. This is a vitally important topic which Republicans and Socialists in Ireland […]

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Wolfe Tone Commemoration, Bodenstown 2021

On Saturday June 26, Socialist Republicans from across Ireland gathered in Bodenstown, for the Annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration organized by the Seamus Costello Memorial Committee. Led by a lone piper and a section of the Socialist Republican Colour Party, the parade made its way from the crossroads to the cemetery. The Large crowd in attendance […]

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We are out for Ireland for the Irish. But who are the Irish?

“…Not the rack-renting, slum-owning landlord; not the sweating, profit-grinding capitalist; not the sleek and oily lawyer; not the prostitute pressman – the hired liars of the enemy. Not these are the Irish upon whom the future depends. Not these, but the Irish working class, the only secure foundation upon which a free nation can be […]

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The history of fascism and anti-fascism in Yugoslavia and Ukraine

We interviewed historian Barry Lituchy about the legacy and context of fascism in two European nations infamous for it: Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Barry Lituchy helps to run a historical research institute focused on the Croatian death camp Jasenovac and is a historian and professor as well as being of Ukrainian & Yugoslav heritage. jasenovac.org/ As […]

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Interview with ‘the Black Internationalist’

‘The Black Internationalist’ is an excellent YouTube channel with excellent original video essays as well as theoretical readings and a great visual style.  We spoke with the creator of this channel about YouTube propaganda and politics, about the effects of capitalism on our health and mentality, and we got their assessment of the situation in […]

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Remember the Day of Heroism!

This weekend, communists and revolutionaries across the world commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Day of Heroism, 19th June 1986, marking the massacre of two hundred and fifty revolutionaries as part of the Peruvian state’s campaign against the revolution and the people’s war. Imperialism is, by nature, genocidal. In the long span of the last […]

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Loyalists are the stormtroopers of British imperialism in Ireland

Since the beginning of the 20th century Loyalism has attempted to disrupt and stop any vestige of Irish national independence. In more recent times Ulster Loyalism has been organised, trained, armed and ran by British Imperialism in order to terrorise the Irish people and keep them divided on sectarian lines. This month as Irish Republicans […]

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Why are RTÉ Producing Unionist Propaganda?

The following article was submitted by a Socialist Republican reviewing the recent RTE programme Partition 1921. RTÉ’s latest piece of pro-British propaganda, ‘Partition 1921’, sees a former Tory minister, Michael Portillo, try his very best to legitimise the continued British domination of the six counties by presenting a narrow, one-sided view of our history. The […]