Irish Anti-Imperialist Forum 2013

The Irish Republican Alternative to the G8 
 

Republican Sinn Féin will be holding an Irish Anti-Imperialist Forum as a counter to the G8 Summit in June. The Anti-Imperialist Forum/Republican Alternative to the G8 will take place in Belfast on June 14 and 15. The forum will discuss all aspects of imperialism both in terms of British imperialism in Ireland as well as the new imperialism of the EU, ECB and IMF as experienced by the people of the 26 Counties. Delegates from international anti-imperialist organisations will provide a world perspective.

It is intended as a forum for political and community activists from throughout Ireland and abroad to discuss the various political, social and economic aspects of imperialism from both an Irish as well as an international perspective. Such a debate can be used to chart a way forward towards building an Irish and international alternative to the neo-liberal political and economic policies of the G8 and other trans global imperialist organisations.

More details of the Anti-Imperialist forum will be released over the coming weeks.

The website of the Irish Anti-imperialist Forum 2013 is: www.iaf2013.rsf.ie

Republican prisoner protest held in Naas

Kildare Republican Sinn Féin held a picket at the Town Hall in Naas, Co Kildare on Saturday February 23 to highlight the ongoing internment without trial of veteran Republican Martin Corey by the British Government as well as the ongoing struggle for political status being waged by the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison in Co Antrim.

Speaking at the picket the Athy based national President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton said that the struggle of the Republican prisoners was part of the fight for a New Ireland: “It is part of the same fight as that against austerity and the troika of the EU,ECB and IMF that is holding this part of Ireland to ransom, it is part of the same fight against the sacrifice of this and future generation to bailout the EU’s banking system. Ireland is being assailed by two imperialisms, the new imperialism of the troika in the 26 Counties and the old imperialism of British occupation in the Six Counties, they are both two side of the same coin. The internment without trial of Martin Corey as well as the continued imprisonment of Marian Price gives the lie to those who would pretend that the Six-County State is a normal democratic state where civil and political rights are protected, their imprisonment expose it for the undemocratic and sectarian entity that it is. We call for their immediate and unconditional release.” Des Dalton said.