ELECTIONS WILL NOT BRING WOMEN’S LIBERATION!

The Free State establishment and the parties across its political spectrum this year celebrate a record number of women running for election. While this is taken as a great “victory”, in reality the state remains an enemy of working class Irishwomen no matter who is at its head.

Founded on a counter-revolution against the Republic which secured equal rights for Irishwomen and Irishmen, this state is reactionary by nature. While it has been made budge by mass pressure on particular issues, that legacy remains intact today. The “double domestic toil” described over a century ago by Connolly remains. The state turns a blind eye to domestic and sexual violence. It delays and denies essential healthcare, even falsifying results in the cervical check scandal. On top of this, fascists who want to roll back what limited democratic rights have been won by Irishwomen are clearly being protected and facilitated.

Representation in capitalist elections means nothing; only national liberation and socialist revolution can defeat the patriarchal ideology of the Free State. This is demonstrated by the fact that its constituent parties will stand side by side in the name of bourgeois feminism, under whatever dressing.

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“Commission of Misery” — Ursula von der Leyen is slammed by MP Manon Aubry in a European Parliament session. Aubry criticized von der Leyen’s second commission for its collaboration with the far-right, austerity measures, and complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

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A British Marxist has resigned from the revisionist Young Communist League and makes points which will be familiar to many in the imperial core nations about the state of the "official" communist parties.

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Election 2024- A Victory to the Boycott!

As the dust on the current electoral circus begins to settle, the Free State is emerging as the key loser of its own electoral campaign.

More then 40 percent of registered voters rejected the partitionist parliament of Leinster House and demonstrated their opposition to the Free State establishment by refusing to vote.

The turnout of just 59.7 percent of registered voters is the lowest turnout in a general electIon in the Free State since 1923 and demonstrates clearly that the working class have rejected the rule of the native capitalists and their foregin imperialist masters.

Despite the spin of the media that this election was a contest between 3 very similar Free State parties in the a fight for who would lead the next semi-colonial administration, in reality the fight was between those who endorse the Free State and those who believe in an alternative and demonstrated that belief through the Boycott, with the Boycott emerging as the clear winner of that fight.

This result is a clear expression of the class struggle in Ireland and one where the working class openly rebelled against their exploitation by rejecting elections.

Working Class participation in Free State Elections has been on a significant decline for more than a generation. The Free State has one of the lowest electoral turnouts in Europe as the Irish working class repeatedly demonstrate that they see through the illusion of ‘Bourgeois Democracy’.

Over the past number of weeks Republican activists across Ireland have been actively campaigning for the Boycott of this election, through leafleting, posters and stickering, stalls, door knocking and direct actions. This campaign resonated with working class communities across the State and several of the communities targeted in the campaign returned the lowest turn out figures, demonstrating the importance and the relevance of the Republican Boycott Campaign.

While the Electoral Boycott is a passive demonstration of anti establishment sentiment it is undeniably growing across the state and the it is duty of Republicans is to harness that sentiment into active resistance.

When the figures actively Boycotting Free State Elections are added to the figures of working class people who are not even registered to vote, it constitutes a mass base for the Revolutionary Alternative in Ireland. That Alternative is the Republic of 1916.

That the Boycott is a deliberate and conscious act by the working class can be understood clearer from the fact that perceived anti establishment candidates across the state polled poorly and the majority of them failed to win a seat. This further highlights that no change is going to come through Leinster House or Free State elections, but only through the collective and revolutionary activity of the working class.

It is not enough for Revolutionary Republicans to welcome this victory for the Boycott campaign and sit back for the next 5 years.

The onus now is on Republicans to do the work in our communities to collectively organise the working class into alternative community based Republican structures that can tackle any issues faced by the working class. In this way Republicans can be the engine for turning the passive boycott of the Free State into the active resistance of the working class against imperialism and partition in Ireland to rebuild the Republic of 1916 under the democratic control of the working class.

This work can begin through the development of local Resistance Committees, the linking of local committees into centres of Resistance and then the establishment of Revolutionary People’s Councils as the Republican Alternative, outside the auspices of the Free State and British Imperialism in Ireland.

The Boycott has clearly won this campaign.

❗️ "In Poland, fans hang swastikas, make Nazi gestures and use nationalist symbols. We do not accept lessons in history and democracy from the Poles" - this is how fans of the Cypriot "Omonia" responded to criticism of the Polish "Legia"

The Poles complained to UEFA about a banner at the stadium during the 4th round match of the Conference League with the words "17.01.1945, the Red Army liberated Warsaw" , which was placed by fans of the Cyprus national team.

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The EU's newly appointed foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, and European Council President Antonio Costa visit Kiev within hours of assuming office.

Setting priorities straight...

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Comrades of a certain age in the Irish republican community will recognise this policing approach: terror tactics unleashed on unsuspecting family members by 'anti-terror' forces.

This poor woman was kidnapped from her Swansea home and kept incommunicado from family for five days. She was interrogated, traumatised and then released in prison scrubs on a Berkshire high street without any of her clothes or belongings and with no way of getting home.

All because her daughter is suspected of taking part in a Palestine Action protest against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit in Bristol.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/02/swansea-mother-traumatised-by-arrest-under-terrorism-act

Norway to open new Arctic warfare base

Oslo plans to establish a new NATO Arctic and amphibious warfare center where US, British, and Dutch marines will be trained amid heightened tensions with Russia, the Defense Ministry announced on Friday.

The new hub will be created in the municipality of Sorreisa north of Lofoten in Norway's Arctic, some several hundred kilometers, as the crow flies, from Russia's strategic port of Murmansk, which is a key military and naval base. 

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Delhi gridlock: Farmer protests bring city to a standstill

The Indian capital braces for massive traffic jams as thousands of farmers took to the streets, demanding the reallocation of 10% of developed plots for agriculture workers displaced by land acquisition.

Supported by local industry unions, the farmers also ask for new legal benefits, including revised rules for farmer welfare.

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