Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
Would you like to try making tools to teach revolutionary theory? Do you like games, designing and playing them? Do you want to collaborate a chat with comrades from around the world on a fun challenge? We are organising a design jam – a collaborative design session – to make revolutionary political board games together. […]
The following article has been written by as a guest polemic by a supporter of Anti Imperialist Action Ireland ‘For as long as anyone can remember, Protestant fanatics and Catholic fanatics have been blowing each other up for no good reason in Ireland. They do this because they are both obsessively attached to their own […]
Board games have been a tool for us to understand and hone political-military power since ancient times. From Chess and Go to Kreigsspiel in 1870s Prussia to modern “Wargaming Fight Clubs” practiced by Imperialist army officers today, abstracting out the principles of how you apply military force to impose political power has long been an […]
The following analysis of the plight of Fishermen in the Free State and the Philippines has been contributed by an International supporter of Anti Imperialist Action Ireland. AIA continues to stand with the Fishing Communities. “Well, we heard about Ireland wanting to join the EEC as it was called then. I wasn’t sure what it […]
On a bleak new years day in 1957, two brave soldiers of the republic were brutally shot dead by RUC members, in a raid that had gone drastically wrong, the two men are now forever remebered in word, poem and song. Sean Sabhat was born John South on the 8th of February 1928, in 47 […]
The Leadership of Irish Socialist Republicans extends Revolutionary greetings to our members and supporters across Ireland and abroad. In particular we commend the work of our mass organisations Anti Imperialist Action Ireland and Macradh- ISR Youth for their work over the past 12 months and their unfailing commitment to rebuilding the struggle for National Liberation […]
The following statement was first published on the website of the journal Communist International on December 26 2021, as a rallying call on the Birthday of Chairman Mao. It can be read here: https://ci-ic.org/blog/2021/12/26/unite-under-maoism/ Proletarians of all countries, unite! UNITE UNDER MAOISM! Chairman Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, and throughout his life […]
To mark the 132nd anniversary of the Revolutionary Socialist Republican James Fintan Lalor, a young Irish Socialist Republican pays tribute to him with a new biographical article. Early Life and education James Fintan Lalor was born in Tenakill House in Raheen County Laois on March 10th 1807 to Patrick Lalor and Anne Dillon. His father […]
‘Only by achieving national liberation will it be possible for the proletariat and other working people to achieve their own emancipation.’ – Chairman Mao Breithlá Shona Chairman Mao Zedong. Today Socialist Republicans celebrate the birth of the Great Leader of the Chinese Revolution, which defeated imperialism in China and then native Counter Revolutions before embarking […]
• Delivered at the Four Martyrs Commemoration, Castletown Co. Wexford, Saturday, December 11. Liam Mellows was born on May 25, 1895 in Manchester, England to William Joseph Mellows a sargeant in the British army and Sarah Jordan, of Inch, Co. Wexford. His father was transferred, with his family, to Dublin. During Liam’s early years in […]
At 8am on December 8 1922, Commandant General Rory O’Connor, Irish Republican Army was led before a firing squad in Mountjoy Gaol and executed by the Free State Administration, doing the work of British Imperialism to suppress the All Ireland Republic proclaimed in 1916. With this execution the Free State put down one of the […]
‘It is fashionable nowadays to tell Ireland that she must forget. Forget what – her history? Woe to the country or the cause that forgets its history.’ – Liam Mellows, 1918 On this day 99 years ago the socialist-republican most fit to carry on where James Connolly left off was executed by the forces of […]
Born 17th of December 1889 in Ballineen, County Cork too Ellen and Richard Barrett and educated as a teacher in De La Salle College, he devoted himself from early in his life to the promotion of the Irish Language and culture, being a member of the Knockavilla GAA club and even a player for them. […]
Background On the 17th of June 1898 Joseph McKelvey was born in the small town of Stewartstown Co.Tyrone to Patrick McKelvey a member of Britain’s colonial police force at the time the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and Rose O’Neill a post office worker Interest in the GAA and the founding of O’Donovan Rossa CLG As […]