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Report: 18th of March demonstrations in Dublin
dublin |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report
Friday March 24, 2006 09:50 by Workers Power Ireland wpireland at revolution dot se
A critical report Last Saturday the third anniversary of the US-led imperialist invasion of Iraq was marked in Dublin by a demonstration and march of up to 1000 people through the city centre. This turnout was a major disappointment and highlighted the inertia which has affected the antiwar movement since the highpoint of February 2003 when over 100,000 people took to the streets of the nation’s capital. Here you can read the report and find out how to download the flyer from Workers Power. Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died to date as a result of the imperialist occupation and while the Iraqi people continue to suffer, it seems as if the Irish public are now more concerned with celebrating a long dead catholic saint than standing up to tyranny and the collusion of our government in the continuing rape and plunder of a once-proud nation. While the bourgeois-reformist speakers Michael D Higgins (TD for the Labour Party) and David Norris (Independent Senator) made repeated calls for justice and against the “illegality” of the war, the fact of the matter is that the United Nations, the body representing international capitalist law, stood idly by while the US led coalition forces were given a free hand to invade in 2003. Not only that, but in 1991 this great upholder of international “justice” imposed brutal sanctions on Iraq under Saddam Hussein, resulting in the deaths of up to 800,000 children over subsequent years. Unsurprisingly, these facts were not mentioned in the calls to international law and justice to be upheld. The antiwar movement has been consistently stymied by it’s willingness to pander to these reformist illusions and while Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party did make the point that the only way to overthrow the occupation was to build a mass workers party in Iraq, there was no mention from anyone on the platform of support for the Iraqi resistance or of the need to win the Iraqi workers and youth to a “revolutionary” socialist programme which could lead the way to victory and real democracy for all Iraqi citizens. Brid Smith of the SWP parroted the reformist’s criticisms of the Irish government’s collusion with the US military over Shannon airport and we were left with a list of “demands” read out by Richard Boyd Barrett of the Irish Antiwar Movement/SWP. All that these demands amounted to were pleas to the Irish government to denounce the US occupation and to deny the US the use of Shannon airport. It’s pretty obvious why many people stayed at home or went shopping rather than listen to the same old lifeless rhetoric being trotted out here. The irony of this all taking place outside the GPO, the site of the 1916 rising, was not lost on this observer for one. |
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