Pobail
'...a people who for centuries have never heard a shot fired in anger upon their shores, yet who encourage their government in its campaign of robbery and murder against an unoffending nation; a people, who, secure in their own homes, permit their rulers to carry devastation and death into the homes of another people, assuredly deserve little respect no matter how loudly they may boast of their liberty-loving spirit.'
A quote that could easily be directed at the American people today, yet was written in 1899 by James Connolly in the Workers' Republic about the English people and their attitudes to the imperialism of their governments.
The English people's attitude to their countries imperialism has changed over the years, but only after many bullets has been fired upon their shores by Irish Republicans.
The Anglo-American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their proxy wars against Lebanon and Palestine via Israel shows that imperialism has not ended, and Ógra's ARISE campaign is as relevant to people today as any anti imperialist campaign has been in the past. While the visible face of imperialism may have changed in that it now wears the mask of 'democracy', but the aims of imperialism remain the same.
People must continue to oppose imperialism in all its forms, wherever it may be.
1 comment:
Bush is the biggest ROCKET!
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