IrishWorker
25th June 2009, 13:38
No Celebrations For British War Criminals In Ireland
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Statement on behalf of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement on hearing a decision by the British army to impose ''British armed forces day'' throughout the north of Ireland, call on all Republican and Socialist organizations and groupings to oppose this demonstration by the British imperialist army.
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement sees this demonstration as another tactic in insuring normalization of British imperialism in the six counties, by the fact that they are trying to impose celebrations of their war criminals throughout an occupied state. We believe this is a tactic in creating the mind set that the north of Ireland is a normal society. There are walls and barriers dividing communities because of increasing sectarian tension, sectarian assaults and killings on a weekly basis, nationalists youths attacking the imperialist police force on a daily basis. This in fact states that the north of Ireland is not a normal society.
Throughout the past 800 years the British government has murdered, raped, robbed and divided the Irish people in their quest to occupy Ireland and to crush any who oppose it. These strategies are also in command today in Iraq and Afghanistan. British illegal occupations of many nations has been opposed from all corners of this earth and it will continue, we in the Republican Socialist Youth Movement will show resistance when the British army on the 27th of June are erecting their flag above Belfast city hall, the Republican Socialist Youth Movement will stand tall and dignified in protest along with Republicans and Socialists, to send a message to ten downing street that resistance to their occupation in Ireland is alive and very well.
The British imperialist army in its criminal cause in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan have recognized its lowering support for its criminal war and have essentially went to dire straits in organizing demonstrations throughout the occupied six counties of Ireland to drain support from working class communities. We in the Republican Socialist Youth Movement say to the working classes of the occupied six counties do not be fooled by the British romantics of war, killing innocent men, woman and children in Iraq and Afghanistan for oil product and money doesn't make you a hero, it makes you a criminal.
A Republican Socialist Youth Movement spokesperson Ian McLoughlin addressed this issue by saying
''On the 27th of June 2009 we are called to remember the British Armed Forces, Surely this in itself staggers belief, to honor an imperial force that has jackbooted across the globe murdering, raping and pillaging as it goes. This is an army that continuously attempts to instill some form of moral integrity in its actions, as it does today, when its continuous presence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ireland are anything but. It was the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus who said that "in war truth is the first casualty,'' and how right that still is. The first volley in every war is the battle for hearts and minds and was that not evident in the invasion of Iraq?, Then we were told of the phantom ''weapons of mass destruction" and yet none were forth coming on arrival. All this army needs is pretence, pretence of some form of moral integrity before it occupies a country and the rest as they say is history.
When the British Army launched Operation Banner in August 1969 it was under the moral pretence of protecting the nationalist community from sectarian pogroms. When in reality Operation Banner was really an attack against the forces who served to smash the Sectarian statelet of the north of Ireland and help maintain the sectarian status quo. The British army is, but a tool of the British Empire to occupy and pacify the native population so that the British Empires capitalists and speculators can extract all the mineral wealth and capital so it can bestow on itself. This is the reality of the British army, this is the reality of all Imperial armies. Republicans and Socialists on the 27th of June will stand together to demonstrate and speak the truth and to smash this revisionist interpretation of one of the worlds most repugnant murder machines.’ The British army is a stain on the world's conscience.''
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Statement on behalf of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement on hearing a decision by the British army to impose ''British armed forces day'' throughout the north of Ireland, call on all Republican and Socialist organizations and groupings to oppose this demonstration by the British imperialist army.
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement sees this demonstration as another tactic in insuring normalization of British imperialism in the six counties, by the fact that they are trying to impose celebrations of their war criminals throughout an occupied state. We believe this is a tactic in creating the mind set that the north of Ireland is a normal society. There are walls and barriers dividing communities because of increasing sectarian tension, sectarian assaults and killings on a weekly basis, nationalists youths attacking the imperialist police force on a daily basis. This in fact states that the north of Ireland is not a normal society.
Throughout the past 800 years the British government has murdered, raped, robbed and divided the Irish people in their quest to occupy Ireland and to crush any who oppose it. These strategies are also in command today in Iraq and Afghanistan. British illegal occupations of many nations has been opposed from all corners of this earth and it will continue, we in the Republican Socialist Youth Movement will show resistance when the British army on the 27th of June are erecting their flag above Belfast city hall, the Republican Socialist Youth Movement will stand tall and dignified in protest along with Republicans and Socialists, to send a message to ten downing street that resistance to their occupation in Ireland is alive and very well.
The British imperialist army in its criminal cause in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan have recognized its lowering support for its criminal war and have essentially went to dire straits in organizing demonstrations throughout the occupied six counties of Ireland to drain support from working class communities. We in the Republican Socialist Youth Movement say to the working classes of the occupied six counties do not be fooled by the British romantics of war, killing innocent men, woman and children in Iraq and Afghanistan for oil product and money doesn't make you a hero, it makes you a criminal.
A Republican Socialist Youth Movement spokesperson Ian McLoughlin addressed this issue by saying
''On the 27th of June 2009 we are called to remember the British Armed Forces, Surely this in itself staggers belief, to honor an imperial force that has jackbooted across the globe murdering, raping and pillaging as it goes. This is an army that continuously attempts to instill some form of moral integrity in its actions, as it does today, when its continuous presence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ireland are anything but. It was the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus who said that "in war truth is the first casualty,'' and how right that still is. The first volley in every war is the battle for hearts and minds and was that not evident in the invasion of Iraq?, Then we were told of the phantom ''weapons of mass destruction" and yet none were forth coming on arrival. All this army needs is pretence, pretence of some form of moral integrity before it occupies a country and the rest as they say is history.
When the British Army launched Operation Banner in August 1969 it was under the moral pretence of protecting the nationalist community from sectarian pogroms. When in reality Operation Banner was really an attack against the forces who served to smash the Sectarian statelet of the north of Ireland and help maintain the sectarian status quo. The British army is, but a tool of the British Empire to occupy and pacify the native population so that the British Empires capitalists and speculators can extract all the mineral wealth and capital so it can bestow on itself. This is the reality of the British army, this is the reality of all Imperial armies. Republicans and Socialists on the 27th of June will stand together to demonstrate and speak the truth and to smash this revisionist interpretation of one of the worlds most repugnant murder machines.’ The British army is a stain on the world's conscience.''
Statement Ends
Copied from the IRSP forum.http://rsmforum.proboards.com/index.cgi