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Photos: Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin, Gay Community News, Miss Freda Wallace
By Ian Ó Dálaigh
On Nov. 15, 2014, a spontaneous protest took place in Jobstown, Tallaght, an overwhelmingly working-class area in southwest Dublin. Labour Party leader Joan Burton, who at the time was also tánaiste [26-county deputy prime minister], was delayed in a car for just over two hours by a sit-down protest.
The protest was directed against the vicious austerity measures of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition [government]. These measures included cuts to social welfare benefits, disability benefits, and pensions, and attempts to impose a water tax. As both minister of social protection and tánaiste, Burton played a key role in these attacks.
Nineteen of the protesters (18 adults and one teenager), including our own Scott Masterson, were arrested and charged with false imprisonment in the wake of this. The teenager has already been convicted.
The trial ran for just over eight weeks, culminating on June 29, 2017, when the jury gave a unanimous “not guilty” verdict for the Jobstown 7. The Jobstown Not Guilty campaign is now calling for the immediate dropping of all charges against the other 11 accused, as well as the quashing of the conviction of the 17-year-old in relation to the protest.
Dublin, Ireland: Solidarity picket with Socialist Korea on the 65th anniversary of the Korean War, June 25, 2015.
Photos: Korean Friendship Association Ireland
Dublin, Ireland: No to a second Korean War! U.S. imperialists out of Korea!
Sunday, March 15 - 15:00
South Korean Embassy, 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge
Called by Korean Friendship Association - Ireland
International Women’s Day: Constance Markiewicz
I did what I thought was right and I stand by it. – Constance Markiewicz
Revolutionary socialist was not an obvious vocational choice for Constance Markiewicz. The eldest daughter of Arctic explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, an Anglo-Irish protestant landlord, and Lady Georgina Gore Booth, Constance was born into relative privilege.
She was a talented artist and studied at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris, where she met her future husband, Count Kazimierz Markiewicz, a Polish nobleman.
Yet, within this affluent upbringing, there lay confronting experiences that began to shape Constance’s political outlook:
And, as is claimed in folklore, Constance rented a small cottage in the countryside outside Dublin. The previous tenant, poet Padraic Colum, left behind copies of revolutionary journals such as The Peasant and Sinn Fein, which promoted Irish freedom from British imperialism.
These experiences inspired a transformation from a life of privilege to a commitment to economic, political and social equality for all.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland: Protest against Ukraine’s war on Donbass people’s republics, February 15, 2015.
‘Today in Dublin, Ireland, people of all ages, all nationalities gathered together to protest against Ukrainian regime aggression against people of Donbass. Irish, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Moldovans, Italians, Spaniards, Ukrainians, Russians, Georgians, Belorussian, Polish people come together to let the world know about events in Ukraine and to show support to the people of Novorossia.
'People brought with them posters with slogans like: “Ukrainian regime – terrorists”, and “Save Donbass people”. Also people brought photos with atrocities committed by Kiev regime. This horrible pictures show civilians and children slaughtered brutally by Ukrainian army with bombs, rockets, and cluster munitions.
'We have no right to allow Kiev regime to get away with crimes like this. Only by official data provided by OSCE over 5000 people was murdered by Ukrainian regime and over 50 children. But this numbers is disputed by the data of German secret service. Germans put number of people killed over 50 thousands. One cannot understand how USA can support regime who committed such atrocities. We, the people of the world must do everything we can to bring the government of Ukraine to ICC.
'Together we will win.
'Demonstration was organized by Humanitarian Battalion Ireland, p.o.Mobius and Anti-Imperialist Alliance.’
Via Antiimperialistische Aktion
10,000 march for Gaza in Dublin, Ireland, August 9, 2014.
Dublin, Ireland: Stop the U.S.-funded bloodbath in Donbass!
Saturday, August 16 - 1pm
U.S. Embassy in Dublin
The US is facilitating a bloodbath in Novorossiya.
Already they have funded the Kiev junta $5,000,000,000 to push through the policies of the IMF, and bomb into oblivion the Union of People’s Republics for resisting against fascism and the imperialist interests of the West.
Already over 1000 innocent lives have been lost to the fascist junta - so we ask you to please JOIN US as we tell the US to STOP the Bloodbath in Novorossiya!