32csm International Dept.

As the world watched in surprise as the Taliban seamlessly reoccupied Afghanistan, the US president Joe Biden firmly proclaimed that it was now time for the people of Afghanistan to stand up and fight for their own country. In response, many of those who disagreed with the sudden US withdrawal feigned concern over what would now happen to those who had turned their backs on the Taliban and their strict interpretation of Sharia law. Since the ousting of the Taliban in 2001, many women obtained employment, attended school and had a large degree of personal freedom not seen since the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Men had shaved their beards, enjoyed music and indulged in the various niches within ‘western’ culture. Many women and men had found employment in the government which had been established in the wake of the US invasion. The government, army and police had employed hundreds of thousands of Afghans who would now fall under the suspicion of the Taliba...

On the 153rd Anniversary Representatives from the Gaughan Stagg Cumann (32CSM),  Basque Separatist Movement and 161Crew Manchester came together to commemorate, the Manchester Martyrs William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien. All three men were hanged by the British state, on November 23, 1867 for the execution of a Brett, a police officer in Manchester. Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, were sentenced to death by hanging and cried "God save Ireland" from the dock. Two other men Maguire and O’Meagher Conlon, who had been sentenced to hang were let off almost instantly, leaving  the three to be executed. There was no evidence that any of the men shot Brett, only that they had been present. The men were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary organisation dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland. It is right and fitting that these innocent men are remembered. They were selected and executed on the basis of their political beliefs and r...

 50 had organized a march to commemorate the heroic struggle of the Front de Liberation du Quebec for the 50th anniversary since the October Crisis.  International supporters of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32 CSM) were there to affirm our support. The FLQ has struggled by all means at their disposal to establish a Socialist Republic in Quebec.  As in Ireland, imperialist exploiters want us to believe that this fight is barbaric and futile. But we say loud and clear that it is the imperialists and their system of misery that is barbaric! Let's fight for socialism! Beir Bua.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement send greetings and support to the Wet'suwet'en indigenous peoples who are facing continuing attacks on their sovereignty and way of life by the coastal gas link pipeline project.  The pipeline is planned to run through Wet'suwet'en territory without the consent of the people living there. Just as in Ireland where Dalradian gold has planned to mine the Sperrins, the CGL project will, and already has polluted waterways and lands used to supply the Wet'suwet'en with food and water, essential to their way of life. The 32 County Sovereignty Movement stand with the Wet'suwet'en people and wish them the best of luck with the ongoing fight. The following is an extract from the Gidimt'en Yintah Access site: The Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs represent a governance system that predates colonization and the Indian Act which was created in an attempt to outlaw Indigenous peoples from their lands.  The Wet'suwet'...

Gaughan/Stagg Cumann 32CSM and Antifascists in Manchester joined today, 25 July, to unveil this mural in solidarity with Basque and Irish Freedom fighters in prison. Political dissent is a social duty not a crime.

There are two unfolding events of international importance which have a direct bearing on the politics of Ireland particularly as the world tentatively emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.     Firstly, the election of the Twenty-Six County state to a two-year sitting on the United Nations Security Council brings into sharp focus that State’s role in the affairs of International Law particularly relating to National Sovereignty, occupation and post-colonial practices.     Secondly, the decision by Israel to strategically ‘delay’ its annexation of sovereign Palestinian territory, with the full complicity of the US Administration, calls into question the very concept of International Law and the credibility of the United Nations itself.     The recent dismissal from  the Programme of Government of The Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 bodes ill for any hope that Dublin’s presence on that Council will be marked by a robus...