Contrary to the lies of Free State Nationalists and Fascists in Ireland, Irish Republicanism has a long and proud history of internationalism

Pictured below Cork Republicans protesting an American warship in July 1967, when the imperialist war against Vietnam was at it's height

Debating the Treaty in 1922, Liam Mellows said:

"We are going into the British Empire now....to participate in the shame and the crucifixion of India and the degradation of Egypt. Is that what the Irish people fought for freedom for?

"In every enemy of Tyranny we recognise a brother, wherever be his birthplace; in every enemy of Freedom we also recognise our enemy, though he were as Irish as our hills."

James Connolly

"I regard our struggle in Ireland, the struggle of the Basque people, the struggle in Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa, in Southern America —anywhere in the world —as one struggle. Our victory will be their victory. "

Seán Mac Stíofáin, IRA Chief of Staff

While Free State Fascist Counter-Revolutionaries like Eoin O'Duffy fought for Franco in Spain, Socialist Republicans like Peadar O'Donnell, Frank Ryan were fighting to defend the Spanish Republic as part of the Connolly Column of the XV International Brigade

"The struggle of the Irish working class for National Liberation and Socialism cannot be seen in isolation from the struggles of oppressed peoples throughout the world. For this reason we extend our support to all peoples who are actively engaged in struggle against imperialism"

While this shower of Free Staters and Fascists often spout pro-Zionist rhetoric, Irish Republicans and the Irish people as a whole have long expressed their solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, and Palestinian groups have supported Irish struggles materially

"we intend no war against the people of England – our war is against the aristocratic locusts, whether English or Irish, who have eaten the verdure of our fields – against the aristocratic leeches who drain alike our fields and theirs."

Fenian Proclamation of 1867

Patrick Pearse on the remorseless colonial logic and brutality of British Imperialism, and how it affected Ireland, India and Egypt alike

Copy of an Irish Anti-Recruitment poster from Enniscorthy, Wexford in 1909.

"Go to India, to murder women and children and shoot down men who are fighting for liberty."

(Source: Liam Hogan)

#Internationalism #EndImperialism

"If Ireland were to win freedom by helping directly or indirectly to crush another people she would earn the execration she has herself poured out on tyranny for ages." - Terence MacSwiney, Principles of Freedom

"We must continually return to reflecting on the common origin of the human race, on the beauty of the world that is the heritage of all, our common hopes and fears, and in the greatest sense the mutual interests of the peoples of the earth." - Terence MacSwiney

June 1st 1980, the ANC guerillas bombed the Sasol Oil Refineries, a key part of the South African Apartheid regime's economy, a major blow propaganda wise also. The IRA provided the technical training and support to make the operation possible

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ira-aided-anti-apartheid-bombing-claimed-asmal-1.609314

In April 1985, the Irish National Liberation Army detonated an incendiary bomb in Dunnes Stores on Henry Street, Dublin, to protest their continuing sale of Apartheid South African goods.

For decades Irish Republicans have been expressing solidarity with the struggle of the Basque people for national liberation

This year Irish republican prisoners in Port Laoise and Maghaberry held a 72 hour solidarity fast in solidarity with hungerstriking Basque POWs.