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@antifascistirl
afaireland
2 years
Anti-Fascists in Ireland have released the following statement to a number of political groups for circulation. ‘Last Sunday (13th November) a confrontation took place at a luxury hotel in Fermanagh which was hosting a conference of the openly fascist National Party.
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meeting; they have questions to answer. In Ireland, hate speech and fascist politics have always provoked a swift response from militant Anti-Fascists. This will not change. There is no hiding place for fascists. (Statement Ends)
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afaireland
3 years
Dublin, Easter 2021. “Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living.”
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afaireland
1 year
The blatant and undeniable evidence of British loyalists and fascists mentoring the Irish far right on strategies tells us a lot about why recent fascist activity here has been targeted not against the parties of government but against republicans and the left.
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doors. Minor damage to the door occurred. The NP later claimed 5 members were hospitalised. On Tuesday, an Anti-Fascist activist appeared in court in Omagh on a number of charges. We ask all Anti-Fascists and political groups to stand together to defend this man. A fund-raising
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2 years
Anti-Fascist and Socialist Republicans had gathered for a legitimate protest against the event. Witnesses report that the violence occurred after NP security directly attacked female protestors, causing some injuries. The NP members fled into the conference room and locked the
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afaireland
2 years
In the past year, the National Party has also suffered a debilitating and bitter split, further weakening the failing party. The Lough Erne golf resort has tried to gloss over the fact that they facilitated a meeting of an openly homophobic, anti-immigrant, misogynist, fascist
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campaign for his defence will be announced. It has to be asked how a tiny party, which is regularly humiliated in elections and with no elected reps anywhere, can afford a showpiece ‘ard fheis’ in a fancy suite at a five star golf resort.
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afaireland
1 year
Statement from Irish Republican Political ex-Prisoners We, the undersigned men and women, served terms of imprisonment in jails in Ireland, England and Europe during the conflict for Irish republican activity.
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A group of hate-peddlers from the National Party made a swift exit from the mean streets of Phibsboro in North Dublin this evening (Tuesday April 3rd). The area is home to many people of progressive political views, and a base with many supporters of tenants rights groups such as
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afaireland
1 year
Irish Republicanism is Anti-Fascist. Always has been. Always will be.
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afaireland
3 years
Anti-fascists in Dublin remember the lessons of the Spanish Republic. ¡Viva La República! ¡La Lucha Continúa!
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afaireland
2 months
*Fascist Chased in Derry* Anti-Fascist activists in Derry caught a member of ‘Republicans Against Antifa’ destroying anti-fascist material in the Bogside. He cowered in a chapel during a mass and refused to leave.
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afaireland
4 months
1/This is the man charged with two counts of arson on a Luas tram, two counts of violent disorder, and obstructing traffic during the Dublin riots on 23rd November 2023.
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afaireland
2 years
Dublin’s East Wall makes a stand against attempts by racist National Party to spread poison in their community.
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afaireland
1 year
The reactionary views of fascists have always been directly opposed to our beliefs, but now fascists pose as 'patriots' and 'community defenders'. The leaders of these groups played no part in decades of struggle in Ireland.
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afaireland
1 year
We are signing this statement to make it clear to communities, and especially young people, that Irish Republicanism has no affinity with the crude 'nationalist' hatred recently being peddled by racist and fascist groups stirring up anti-immigrant feeling.
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afaireland
4 years
Dublin’s anti-fascists today showed the Justin Barrett nazis that they are not welcome here. They hid behind the cops and barricades until they got escorted home. We marched the streets of OUR CITY proudly! NO PASARAN!
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afaireland
1 year
Fighting fascism is not a crime! Solidarity from Dublin! #freelina
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afaireland
3 years
Fascism and imperialism go hand in hand. Remember 1916, Fight Fascism!
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afaireland
2 years
NP ‘nationalists’ resetting course to the nearest Garda station.
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afaireland
3 years
We offer our deepest condolences to the family of Manus O’Riordan who sadly passed away last night. A historian and the son of International Brigader Michael O’Riordan, Manus was a staunch anti-fascist, a firm supporter of Traveller’s rights, and a true Internationalist.
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Irish Republicanism grew from the three principles of 'liberty', 'equality' and 'fraternity' in the French Revolution. In the centuries since these ideas have informed our politics, which has always been Internationalist and Democratic in outlook.
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1 year
It is incumbent on all of us to continue this tradition and resist any attempts by Irish fascist organisers to claim the mantle of Irish republicanism for themselves.
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afaireland
1 year
Our movement is secular and rejects religious sectarianism. Many Republicans align themselves with progressive liberation struggles worldwide.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
On Wednesday 23rd June 2021, AFA Ireland coordinated a large leaflet drop in Ringsend and Irishtown to target far-right parties who have parachuted into the area to run in the Dublin Bay South by-election. Dublin is Anti-Fascist. #DublinBaySouth #DBS21
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afaireland
1 year
National Party leader Justin Barrett recently shared photos of himself at a torch bearing nazi rally in Estonia, having previously used Hitler quotes to address NP members. Don't let the fascist National Party get a foothold in your community!
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afaireland
2 years
The NP group walked at speed to the nearest police station for ‘protection’ and waited outside to be rescued.This humiliation comes just two weeks after a similar NP venture into the East Wall area also met with a hostile response from locals.
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1 year
These groups are directly influenced by loyalists and British neo-nazis and other far-right elements. We call on all Irish republicans of all ages, groups and traditions to become active in your community, workplace and the streets “to try and stem the rising fascist tide”.
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afaireland
1 year
1/3 Far right agitators who travelled to Sandwith Street were quick to jump online last night to boast about whipping up local youths to burn down a temporary homeless migrant camp, forcing the cancellation of homeless outreach services in the process.
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Streetlink Homeless Support, Dublin-Ireland.
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Outreach services are cancelled tonight as our vehicle is currently be blocked by racist thugs on Sandwith Street. Car is presently struck by missles. @rodericogorman @DarraghOBrienTD
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Feel like pure shit. Just want the 1950’s back.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
2 years
CATU. Some half dozen NP, leafleting door to door with material inciting racial hatred, were confronted by local residents in the Great Western Square area. The anti-racists stopped the leafleting event and escorted the disorientated NP out of the area.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
4 months
2/As you can see he is a key Dublin-based activist with the neo-Nazi National Party and is distributing their material in this publicity photo. If you are considering voting for any of the anti-immigrant candidates in the upcoming elections this is what you are voting for.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
1 year since this football legend and working class anti-fascist left us. RIP Jack Charlton.
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afaireland
4 months
Malachy Steenson introduced special guest speaker Jim Ferguson at the Custom House demo yesterday - Scottish loyalist, conspiracy peddler, grifter and Farage reject. We wonder just how much of Ireland Jim thinks belongs to the Irish. Take it down from the mast, Irish traitors.
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afaireland
3 years
One week on from the Dublin Bay South by-election results where the best laid plans of the far-right were exposed. Despite all their spending on leaflets and posters and hours spent on the doors, they were decimated. AFA thanks all supporters and local residents who turned out
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afaireland
3 years
NP leadership survey the scene of the disaster! Final tallies from the #dublinbaysouthbyeelection show little twerp Justin Barrett, ‘ceannaire’ of the National Party, achieved a less than spectacular 176 votes (0.67%).
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
2 years
AFA Ireland and community activists leafleting in Phibsboro, Dublin 7 tonight. In contrast to the National Party members who slinked in and out of our community during the week, AFA members have a proven track record of fighting for housing and community facilities in the area.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
1 year
A prime example - Here is Keith Woods (O’Brien) promoting his conversation with English neo-Nazi leader Mark Collett.
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afaireland
1 year
Whatever lessons Irish fascists have to learn from their loyalist brethren, Irish republicans and anti-fascists have not been found wanting in educating this cohort in the past, and exposing their politics as those of mudguard for the Establishment and maintaining the status quo.
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1 year
And here’s the same Mark Collett discussing his heroes Johnny Adair and Billy Wright, UDA and LVF leaders who murdered random innocent Catholics in order to terrorise the Irish community in the north.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
This is the leaflet we’ve been distributing lately. NP and their ilk don’t give a damn about working class communities. They’ve never stood with us before, only raising their heads now to stir hate and endanger workers with their lies. We don’t need them, we don’t want them.
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afaireland
2 years
In light of the recent squeamishness of the NP leadership, it’s worth reminding our newer followers of the track record of violence against women perpetrated in the recent past by NP associates and fellow travellers.
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afaireland
2 years
A working class hero, an anti-fascist fighter, a singer, a writer, a proud miner, a socialist, a football fan, an internationalist, a father - all made up the unique Upstart that was Mensi. Rest easy Mensi. RIP.
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afaireland
1 year
Recently Limerick-based fascist James Collins (real name Karl Cohalan) organised an online conversation with Collett. This follows both Gearóid Murphy and Philip Dwyer doing a livestream with Collett and other members of his English fash group.
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@antifascistirl
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4 months
3/The far right use the slogan "House the Irish", ironic considering that as well as burning public transport they are also instigating the burning of properties across the country, including those earmarked for homeless accommodation.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Attempts to divide the working class by the far right will not be tolerated. The response from locals was overwhelmingly positive. Full report at
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afaireland
2 years
Great responses to AFA Ireland leaflet today from residents in Castlecurragh and Warrenstown in Dublin 15 who don't want to see the NP stirring up racial hatred in the area.
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afaireland
3 years
Anti-fascists were in Pearse St and Crumlin/Kimmage this week exposing the real agenda of the far-right in this election. Worth remembering that the chancers leading the NP outfit left Fine Gael because they weren’t Fine Gael enough! Not what #DublinBaySouth wants or needs.
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afaireland
1 year
Blighe the dullard kept them at home in their droves in Fermoy again last night. It appears his tired mantra is somehow failing to inspire. Blighe (right) retains his record as the biggest bore witnessed in Cork since the construction of the Jack Lynch Tunnel.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
10 months
The Leprechaun has lost his Gold! Barrett left without pot to piss in! Is this the end of the NP?
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
4 months
5/The NP were present at the far right election rally on Monday. At the rally chaired by anti immigrant 'führer' Malachy Steenson all the Irish fascist parties were represented as were Ulster Loyalist racists and ‘Irish’ representatives of right-wing British Nationalist parties.
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afaireland
3 years
On Saturday 19th June 2021, AFA Ireland coordinated a large leaflet drop in Dublin 15 following a callout from our members and supporters in West Dublin. Upwards of 50 people, including local residents, distributed thousands of leaflets to houses in Dublin 15,
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
4 years
We note that the usual dregs are using the Centenary of Kevin Barry’s execution to further their own toxic agenda. Here is what Kevin himself had to say.
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afaireland
4 months
4/The NP have been in attendance at violent demonstrations and another member has been convicted of a violent assault on a woman outside Leinster House.
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1 year
All of this info is online. Murphy has had sustained contact with English Patriotic Alternative (PA) member James Owen. Owen ran an anonymous neo-Nazi YouTube channel until anti-fascist research crew Red Flare uncovered who he was and The Times followed up on that work.
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In fact, Murphy and Woods have a long term relationship with the neo-Nazi whose heroes ran a breakaway loyalist group opposed to peace. Without any irony, Woods and Murphy invited Mark Collett to a ‘Paddy’s Day Stream’ on the 17th of March 2020.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Barrett = Always Wrong! Voters in Dublin Bay South are unfortunate to have Barrett of the Nazi Party as a candidate in the by-election. He’s standing under the slogan “Right so far”, a laughable claim for someone who has been consistently wrong in his political career.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
1 year
Mason still makes music but it’s quite niche. He makes music for Patriotic Alternative - calling himself a nationalist, while soundtracking a hate group that thinks fondly of the murderous deeds of the LVF.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Eddie O’Neill, tireless and passionate campaigner to preserve the legacy of the anti-fascist struggle of the International Brigaders in Spain. We extend our deepest condolences to Eddie’s family, friends and colleagues. La Lucia continua
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afaireland
1 year
Mark didn’t speak about his fondness for Billy Wright that day.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
2 months
1/ We are saddened to announce the death this morning of Rose Dugdale. While widely known for her activity in support of the Republican struggle in Ireland, it is less recognised that she was a dedicated anti-racist and anti-fascist.
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afaireland
1 year
While prominent far-right activists continue to attract and promote vetted drug dealers to their ranks, the question community-based anti-fascist activists ask: what positive contribution have drug dealers ever made to our communities?
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
1 year
Well done #Fermoy
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A group at the Refugees are Welcome rally in Fermoy sing “Cheerio” to anti-immigration activist Derek Blighe after he turned up at their demo today
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
A little video from our outing in Dublin 15 over the weekend. Great response from the community.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Paint 50c Cable ties €1 NP supplying the corriboard… Priceless
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
6 years
We are not giving out free stickers on Twitter. We do not ask people to DM for stickers. We have an official shop account set up for that purpose. There exists a fake account set up to try and get addresses of antifascists. Do not engage with it, block it and report it.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
The deafening silence from the the National Party and their ilk on the publication of the #motherandbabyhomes Report serves as a reminder that for them the demise of the old Catholic Order is to be lamented. In fascist terms, this is what ‘looking after our own’ looks like.
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afaireland
1 year
Mason was a musician with an Irish band called ‘Jemson Green’. But he has long since lost ambition and long hair, swapping stage performances for being a performing music monkey for English loyalists.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
2 years
What goes up…anti-fascist litter patrol in Athlone earlier today cleaning up after the plastic patriots.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
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Every time key fash activists from Dublin are asked when they travel to Drogheda and elsewhere why they don’t stay in and fight for their own communities. We know why they never have and never will stand with their communities against the dealers.
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afaireland
1 year
For years Murphy and another Irish bigot, Shane Mason, live-streamed with Owen in videos littered with antisemitism, racism and misogyny. In one video, a clearly intoxicated Mason described his descent into hate politics after the death of a friend.
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Home grown fascists’ hostility to Irish republicanism increasingly being boosted by their English and Scottish loyalist/fascist comrades recently as illustrated in this piece in Phoenix magazine. Patriots indeed.
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Mason goes by the moniker ‘Bleeding Hologram’ for his music and zionyde on Twitter. Here’s PA’s James Owen telling followers that Mason was ‘a natural’. Mason lapped up the compliment as both spewed white supremacist bile for Owen’s English audience.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Use you vote wisely in #DublinBaySouth tomorrow- Don’t Vote for Woman Beaters! If you know anybody who is thinking of voting for the Nazi Party in #DBS21 by election, show them these photos. Recently a prominent member of the National Party pleaded guilty to this vicious assault
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2 years
A plaque is to be unveiled today in Dublin in memory of Violet Gibson, the Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini almost 100 years ago.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
For mental health, don’t be fooled by the peddlers of hate.
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afaireland
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3/3 The legacy of decades of FF and FG rule is the cause of the housing and homeless crises, not vulnerable homeless migrants. Don’t let the foot soldiers of the Establishment hoodwink and divide our class.
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Tommy Robinson has a long history of visiting these shores in his capacity as a ‘consultant’ to Irish fascist grifters. Gearóid Murphy here has been busy recently travelling the country and inserting himself in protests outside direct provision centres.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
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Anti Fascist Action Statement Monageer, 7th September 2019 AFA wishes to thank the Peter Daly Society for their kind invitation to address this gathering today, and also for their invitations to our members and supporters to participate in every commemoration held here in
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Great news that Dublin City Council has voted unanimously to support a plaque to honour Irishwoman Violet Gibson who attempted an assassination of Mussolini. May we honour her memory in words and action.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
Local activists were out in Dublin 15 yesterday helping to keep the community clean of racist graffiti. Good work comrades!
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afaireland
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The disgraceful scenes of intimidation against women and children asylum seekers in Roscrea today must be condemned. Those locals claiming to be concerned about resources for their town must know now that they have been used by actors with a warped far right and racist ideology.
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afaireland
3 years
Pathetic attempt by the far-right organisers of tomorrow’s anti-lockdown events in Dublin to promote an AFA counter protest. To be clear, AFA has not called any counter event as we know that, organisers apart, the majority of attendees tomorrow will not be persons of interest.
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@antifascistirl
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Not one but two speakers from Saturday's 'Ireland First' demo have a documented history of creepy one-on-one live streams with kids they didn't know. Derek Blighe (Sept 2022) and Eifrita Eihentale (Feb 2023). Third image is them together at the demo in Cork on Saturday.
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2/3 The same services that help the homeless that the fascists would have you believe they care about. Only last February, one of the most prominent agitators present last night was publicly reminiscing about the political stability of the 1990s with Fianna Fáil in power.
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@antifascistirl
afaireland
3 years
when the genuine lone fruit-loop anti-immigration campaigner Aine Ni Chonaill got almost 1,000 votes! A wee bit humiliating for the NP given the effort they put in. The resounding message is clear. We don’t want their fascism here. All together now, ‘cheerio, cheerio, cheerio’!
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As Justin Barrett and the NP tries to manipulate and divide our class, this further reveals Barrett and co’s true class allegiances. A vault of gold bullion. Just as when that other chancer and mé féiner Padraic Flynn tried to tell us how hard he had it: “Try it sometime”. #clown
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The Irish Times
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Gardaí recover gold valued at €400,000 after National Party complaint
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AFA Ireland would like to congratulate the 250 militant anti-fascists who heeded the call to reclaim the GPO in Dublin yesterday from the far right. There was a very encouraging mix of Irish republicans from many organisations, socialists, anarchists, communists, football fans,
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3 years
The National Party don’t give a damn about working class communities. They’ve never stood with us before. Racism, homophobia and hate have no place in our communities. Don’t vote for fascist fools! #dbsbyelection #DublinBaySouth #DBS21
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1 year
Philip Dwyer racking up the public order court appearances for knocking round crèches and schools. For the children. Very strange.
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afaireland
3 years
The toxic politics of division and hate offers nothing to the working class in #DublinBaySouth Reject the National Party! Pro-Community + Pro-Worker = Anti/Fascist #dbsbyelection #DBS21
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afaireland
3 years
Barrett = Always Wrong! Voters in Dublin Bay South are unfortunate to have Barrett of the Nazi Party as a candidate in the by-election. He’s standing under the slogan “Right so far”, a laughable claim for someone who has been consistently wrong in his political career.
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4 years
“More significantly the NP’s new found love for the police (perhaps problematic for the drug dealers and house breakers in their ranks, but needs must) is championed as part of a newer more respectable strategy”
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