The Armed Forces of the British state are tipped to attend an upcoming jobs fair in Derry in the coming days. The Foyle Arena event on Tuesday, the 9th of September, will see those forces, world-renowned for their imperialist campaigns in Ireland and elsewhere, attempt to recruit young Irish people into their ranks.
Speaking on the issue, Derry Lasair Dhearg’s Lorcan Ó Duine said, “The presence of the Crown Forces anywhere in Ireland is rubbing salt in the still wide-open wounds of the victims of those same Forces. To host them and make them feel welcome in Derry is utterly shameful.”
“These are the same forces that in broad daylight gunned down unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday, on the very streets that they now seek to recruit from.”
“This is a proud city. Proud of our past, proud of our martyrs and the sacrifices they were forced to make. We take immense pride in those from our communities who, despite years of neglect from Stormont political parties, show up year after year campaigning for justice for those gunned down in brutal fashion. We honour our patriot dead as the ordinary women and men who held the line against the might of an Empire.”
“The British State, its’ proxies and its’ agents couldn’t break Free Derry because those agencies were opposed by the people of Free Derry. To think now, that we are more than 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and that those same forces can openly recruit in the same cities where they massacred unarmed civilians, and go completely unopposed by supposed Republicans in government, is a shocking indictment of that Agreement.”
“We are often condescendingly told by those in power that ‘The Good Friday Agreement got the British Army off the streets’ when clearly that is not the case. Are those that now walk the halls of power content that this generation of Irish people will be recruited into a force responsible for untold massacres the world over, not just in Ireland, only to be used to shore up the dying vestiges of that same empire?”
“Every day that now passes, as the British state continues with its ‘business as usual’ attitude in Ireland, it confirms the absolute failure of the Good Friday Agreement to resolve the root causes of conflict here; occupation and imperialism.”
“Stormont has failed. It cannot deliver. It is high time that we rebuild Revolutionary politics again in Ireland. Only then can we finally remove the British presence from our country, and set about creating a genuine and ‘just’ society for all; a Thirty Two County Socialist Republic.”
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