On this day on 20 December 1973, Spanish fascist Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco
who was hand-picked as Franco’s successor was assassinated in Madrid.
#Resistance
#Freedom_for_the_Basque_Country
who was hand-picked as Franco’s successor was assassinated in Madrid.
#Resistance
#Freedom_for_the_Basque_Country
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AIA condemns the latest bout of US imperialist aggression, aimed at Venezuela, in the military blockade encircling the Latin American nation.
This blockade, and the strikes upon Venezuelan oil tankers, is a thinly veiled attempt at piracy, to steal Venezuela’s resources and undermine Maduro’s presidency.
Donald Trump’s claims of Venezuelan oil and land as belonging to the White House is a brazen declaration of imperialist seizure.
Sanctions and blockades have always been effected to hurt the masses, and cause internal disruption. AIA stands in solidarity with the Venezuela and the economic sovereignty of the nation.
We vow to resist, aid, and assist the Venezuelan people in any manner that we can, and call on all Irish people to do the same!
Resist Imperialism, no matter which shores it banks upon!
This blockade, and the strikes upon Venezuelan oil tankers, is a thinly veiled attempt at piracy, to steal Venezuela’s resources and undermine Maduro’s presidency.
Donald Trump’s claims of Venezuelan oil and land as belonging to the White House is a brazen declaration of imperialist seizure.
Sanctions and blockades have always been effected to hurt the masses, and cause internal disruption. AIA stands in solidarity with the Venezuela and the economic sovereignty of the nation.
We vow to resist, aid, and assist the Venezuelan people in any manner that we can, and call on all Irish people to do the same!
Resist Imperialism, no matter which shores it banks upon!
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The recent reports of an armed clash between members of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and the reactionary Peruvian state forces, in the VRAEM region of Peru, in which 3 members of the security forces were injured, will be welcomed by revolutionaries around the world.
The news is the first concrete evidence for some time that the PCP continues to exist and remains at war with the reactionary state, despite the serious difficulties that have been experienced in that revolution since the 1992 capture of Chairman Gonzalo and particularly since they year 2000.
The recent PCP action should inspire all revolutionaries around the world that despite setbacks or defeats for the revolution, remaining committed and ideologically consistent can ensure the fight for socialism continues even during the darkest days.
The same is true for the ongoing People’s War being waged by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) under extremely difficult conditions and in the face of severe repression, where the People’s Liberation Army continues to be able to pull off spectacular operations against the reactionary state.
And nowhere else in the world has proven this truth more then the Palestinian National Resistance who continue the fight against Zionism, US and British Imperialism in Palestine, despite a genocide on levels not witnessed in modern history.
The years ahead will see a return to armed struggle and revolution around the world as imperialism becomes even more stretched. This will break out first at the perhiperies before moving closer to the centre as the crisis deepens. Actions like those in the VRAEM, Palestine and in India this month should serve to remind us, that under Imperialism the conditions for armed struggle always exist and are justified. Each revolution needs to tailor that truth to the conditions in their own struggle.
“Remember this—that somewhere and somehow, and by somebody, a beginning must be made.”- James Fintan Lalor
The news is the first concrete evidence for some time that the PCP continues to exist and remains at war with the reactionary state, despite the serious difficulties that have been experienced in that revolution since the 1992 capture of Chairman Gonzalo and particularly since they year 2000.
The recent PCP action should inspire all revolutionaries around the world that despite setbacks or defeats for the revolution, remaining committed and ideologically consistent can ensure the fight for socialism continues even during the darkest days.
The same is true for the ongoing People’s War being waged by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) under extremely difficult conditions and in the face of severe repression, where the People’s Liberation Army continues to be able to pull off spectacular operations against the reactionary state.
And nowhere else in the world has proven this truth more then the Palestinian National Resistance who continue the fight against Zionism, US and British Imperialism in Palestine, despite a genocide on levels not witnessed in modern history.
The years ahead will see a return to armed struggle and revolution around the world as imperialism becomes even more stretched. This will break out first at the perhiperies before moving closer to the centre as the crisis deepens. Actions like those in the VRAEM, Palestine and in India this month should serve to remind us, that under Imperialism the conditions for armed struggle always exist and are justified. Each revolution needs to tailor that truth to the conditions in their own struggle.
“Remember this—that somewhere and somehow, and by somebody, a beginning must be made.”- James Fintan Lalor
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Anti Imperialist Action Ireland condemn this weeks British Sentencing of two Irish Republican Activists, Dee Duffy and Shea Reynolds in occupied Ireland.
Their show trial, before a special non jury British diplock court highlights that there can be no justice under the British Occupation. The sentences handed down to these men come after years of internment by remand, delayed trials, and trials in the British media, and in reality their imprisonment is internment under a different name, Internment by special non jury court.
AIA extends our solidarity to Dee and Shea, to their families and communities and their comrades in Saoradh and the IRPWA. Their sentencing, less then a week before Christmas should serve to highlight to all that there are still Republican prisoners of war across Ireland, men and women who would never have been in prison but for the illegal, ongoing British occupations and Partition of our country. We take this opportunity to extend our solidarity to all Irish Republican POWs.
As 2025 ends and 2026 dawns all Republicans should commit themselves to supporting the POWs and should put petty differences aside to begin a discussion that aims to establish Republican cooperation i pursuit of the 32 County All Ireland Republic.
Their show trial, before a special non jury British diplock court highlights that there can be no justice under the British Occupation. The sentences handed down to these men come after years of internment by remand, delayed trials, and trials in the British media, and in reality their imprisonment is internment under a different name, Internment by special non jury court.
AIA extends our solidarity to Dee and Shea, to their families and communities and their comrades in Saoradh and the IRPWA. Their sentencing, less then a week before Christmas should serve to highlight to all that there are still Republican prisoners of war across Ireland, men and women who would never have been in prison but for the illegal, ongoing British occupations and Partition of our country. We take this opportunity to extend our solidarity to all Irish Republican POWs.
As 2025 ends and 2026 dawns all Republicans should commit themselves to supporting the POWs and should put petty differences aside to begin a discussion that aims to establish Republican cooperation i pursuit of the 32 County All Ireland Republic.
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Socialist Republicans from #Wicklow with a Christmas message.
Remember All Republican and Palestinian POWs this Xmas.
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#Ireland
#Palestine
Remember All Republican and Palestinian POWs this Xmas.
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#Ireland
#Palestine
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#Wexford Brigade IRA.
Today we remember Irish Republican Hunger Striker Joseph Lacey.
Joe died from complications as a result of his Hunger Strike in the Curragh Hospital on the 24th of December 1923.
Aged 25 years old.
Joe's brother Captain Denis Lacey was killed in action on the 23rd March 1923, while fighting against the Counter Revolutionary Free State forces.
Today we remember Irish Republican Hunger Striker Joseph Lacey.
Joe died from complications as a result of his Hunger Strike in the Curragh Hospital on the 24th of December 1923.
Aged 25 years old.
Joe's brother Captain Denis Lacey was killed in action on the 23rd March 1923, while fighting against the Counter Revolutionary Free State forces.
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‘So we have given the other side a look in this time. This being the blessed Christmas season we do this in order to show our kindly Christmas feelings to our erring brothers. We have been given to understand that some of them do not appreciate our suggestions at their proper value, and even a few, a very few, are a little irritated, and say that we are not playing the game fair.
Well, all we can say is that our allegiance is not to the game, nor to the players of the game, but to Ireland and the cause of Freedom. To some people the Game has become more important than the Cause, and they as the players of the Game more important than either. It is not a new frame of mind in Ireland, witness the incident of Smith O’Brien who made the question of “Insurrection or no Insurrection” turn upon whether an officer had or had not a warrant for his arrest, but there are few who share it. And these few can safely be ignored.
The needs of our time call for a frank recognition of the fact that our Slogan must be
All for the Cause
and
The Cause over All.
Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains?
To all slaves in Revolt we wish A Merry Christmas!’ Commandant General James Connolly, Irish Citizen Army, ‘Notes from the Front’ Christmas Day, 1915.
Well, all we can say is that our allegiance is not to the game, nor to the players of the game, but to Ireland and the cause of Freedom. To some people the Game has become more important than the Cause, and they as the players of the Game more important than either. It is not a new frame of mind in Ireland, witness the incident of Smith O’Brien who made the question of “Insurrection or no Insurrection” turn upon whether an officer had or had not a warrant for his arrest, but there are few who share it. And these few can safely be ignored.
The needs of our time call for a frank recognition of the fact that our Slogan must be
All for the Cause
and
The Cause over All.
Shall we see another year and Ireland patiently bearing her Chains?
To all slaves in Revolt we wish A Merry Christmas!’ Commandant General James Connolly, Irish Citizen Army, ‘Notes from the Front’ Christmas Day, 1915.
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On this day in 1997, the Irish National Liberation Army pulled off a spectacular operation when it executed the sectarian killer and leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, Billy Wright, in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison.
Wright and the LVF had presided over a sectarian murder campaign, cleared at the highest levels of the British Government, to target Catholic Civilians in order to advance Britain’s pacification process in Ireland.
On December 27 1997, Justice was served on Billy Wright.
Wright and the LVF had presided over a sectarian murder campaign, cleared at the highest levels of the British Government, to target Catholic Civilians in order to advance Britain’s pacification process in Ireland.
On December 27 1997, Justice was served on Billy Wright.
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On December 13, members Anti Imperialist Action Ireland in Dublin, took part in an international day of action against NATO alongside comrades from Cumitaturpc in Corsica and the Anti Imperialist League in France.
International coverage of the day of action, particularly in France has been published here
https://redherald.org/2025/12/26/ail-france-a-campaign-against-nato-was-carried-out-in-about-ten-cities/
Resist NATO
Britain/NATO out of Ireland
Saor Éire Anois- An Phoblacht Abú 🔥🇮🇪
International coverage of the day of action, particularly in France has been published here
https://redherald.org/2025/12/26/ail-france-a-campaign-against-nato-was-carried-out-in-about-ten-cities/
Resist NATO
Britain/NATO out of Ireland
Saor Éire Anois- An Phoblacht Abú 🔥🇮🇪
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Today Anti Imperialist Action Ireland remembers the Great Irish Socialist Republican Leader, James Fintan Lalor who died on this day in 1849, from an illness he received while on active service during the Republican guerrilla campaign of 1849.
Lalor was a militant Irish Socialist Leader and theorist who rejected the repeal movement and advocated for the establishment of a People’s Republic. He believed that Armed Struggle was the path to achieve the Irish Republic and based on the conditions of the time, that the Agrarian Revolution and the fight to smash Landlordism was method to mobilise the Irish People into the fight for the Republic.
A Young Irelander, at the time that British Imperialism was carrying out a genocide against the Irish People Lalor advocated the Revolutionary Armed struggle. A master propagandist, after the failure of the 1848 uprising, Lalor was central to the reorganising of the Republican Resistance and used the pages of his newspaper the Irish Felon, to build a then unnamed Republican Organisation that continued to engage in guerrilla warfare throughout 1848 and 1849, including a plot to assassinate the British Queen.
In September 1849, this Republican organisation staged a number of armed actions across Ireland in which Lalor took part. Conditions on the night were very wet, leading Lalor to contracted a severe case of Bronchitis from which he would die from in Dublin on December 27, 1849 remaining as committed as ever that the Revolutionary Armed Struggle was the path to freedom in Ireland.
The unnamed Republican organisation he was key to establishing became the Revolutionary embryo that established the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1858.
“Any man who objects to every plan of armed resistance that is proposed, while he produces none or no better of his own. Or any man who tells you that any act of armed resistance—even if made so soon as tomorrow—even if offered by ten men only—even if offered by ten men armed only with stones—any man who tells you that such an act of resistance would be premature, imprudent, or dangerous—any and every such man should at once be spurned and spat at. For, remark you this and recollect it, that somewhere, somehow, and by somebody, a beginning must be made; and that the first act of resistance is always, and must be ever premature, imprudent, and dangerous.”- James Fintan Lalor
Lalor was a militant Irish Socialist Leader and theorist who rejected the repeal movement and advocated for the establishment of a People’s Republic. He believed that Armed Struggle was the path to achieve the Irish Republic and based on the conditions of the time, that the Agrarian Revolution and the fight to smash Landlordism was method to mobilise the Irish People into the fight for the Republic.
A Young Irelander, at the time that British Imperialism was carrying out a genocide against the Irish People Lalor advocated the Revolutionary Armed struggle. A master propagandist, after the failure of the 1848 uprising, Lalor was central to the reorganising of the Republican Resistance and used the pages of his newspaper the Irish Felon, to build a then unnamed Republican Organisation that continued to engage in guerrilla warfare throughout 1848 and 1849, including a plot to assassinate the British Queen.
In September 1849, this Republican organisation staged a number of armed actions across Ireland in which Lalor took part. Conditions on the night were very wet, leading Lalor to contracted a severe case of Bronchitis from which he would die from in Dublin on December 27, 1849 remaining as committed as ever that the Revolutionary Armed Struggle was the path to freedom in Ireland.
The unnamed Republican organisation he was key to establishing became the Revolutionary embryo that established the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1858.
“Any man who objects to every plan of armed resistance that is proposed, while he produces none or no better of his own. Or any man who tells you that any act of armed resistance—even if made so soon as tomorrow—even if offered by ten men only—even if offered by ten men armed only with stones—any man who tells you that such an act of resistance would be premature, imprudent, or dangerous—any and every such man should at once be spurned and spat at. For, remark you this and recollect it, that somewhere, somehow, and by somebody, a beginning must be made; and that the first act of resistance is always, and must be ever premature, imprudent, and dangerous.”- James Fintan Lalor
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Today Anti Imperialist Action Ireland proudly remembers the Irish Socialist Republican Volunteer Frank Conroy, who was a Member of the IRA and later the Republican Congress and the Irish Citizen Army and a veteran of the fight against the Blueshirts on the streets of Dublin, who on this day in 1936 gave his life fighting fascism in defence of the Spanish Republic.
Frank Ryan wrote of Frank Conroy “who fought like a hero the same day.”
Fuair sé bás ar son Saoirse.
Frank Ryan wrote of Frank Conroy “who fought like a hero the same day.”
Fuair sé bás ar son Saoirse.
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Statement on the 57th Anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines
Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland sends its revolutionary greetings to the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army, and National Democratic Front of the Philippines on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the CPP. Since its re-organisation as part of the First Great Rectification Movement on December 26th, 1968, the CPP has built up and led these forces of the Filipino national democratic revolution and protracted people’s war, placing it at the helm of one of the most advanced revolutionary movements being waged on earth. The cadres of the CPP and their comrades have stood undefeated in the face of intense encirclement and suppression campaigns by the comprador US–Marcos regime, and heavy foreign intervention from imperialist troops such as the American military and the Crown Forces of Britain and Australia.
Multinational companies plundering the Philippines for its natural wealth and cheap labour fear the great achievements of the CPP, its People’s Army, and its mass organisations. They have surmounted the odds in creating a well-oiled engine of struggle to throw imperialism out of their country, resisting capitulation and sharpening themselves through their successive Second and ongoing Third Rectification Movements.
In the landmark 57th anniversary statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, “Conditions are excellent for further advancing the people’s democratic revolution,” the CPP refers to the five International Theoretical Conferences held abroad by the NDFP as part of the ideological and political strengthening of revolutionary groups around the world. Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland had the opportunity to participate in the majority of these conferences. AIA Ireland submitted two contributions which were shared with representatives from a myriad of communist, proletarian, and national liberation organisations. The CPP shows a timely grasp of the changing world situation, the crisis of overproduction, the rise of fascism, and the sharpening of inter-imperialist conflict.
Under its leadership, the Central Committee provides the NPA and the rest of the NDFP with a clear roadmap to victory worked out by painstaking research, self-assessment, education, and decades of experience in the struggle. While the Irish national liberation struggle is in the phase of rebuilding from the setbacks of 1998, the Philippine revolution provides inspiration to the world and shows how it is possible to overcome past errors through hard work and a solid philosophical foundation.
We also share in the Party’s condolences to the martyrs and leaders of the Philippine national democratic revolution, including Founding Chairman of the Central Committee Prof. Jose Maria “Ka Joma” Sison, Chief International Representative and head of the NDFP Peace Panel Luis Gamboa “Ka Louie” Jalandoni, and CPP Central Committee and Politburo member Myrna “Ka Maria Malaya” Sularte.
Ka Joma and Ka Louie forged strong links with the Irish republican movement in the past and with socialist republicans in recent times, taking many visits to our country and constantly expressing the shared struggle between our peoples against semi-colonialism and imperialism. We wish the Communist Party of the Philippines well in their celebrations of the 57th anniversary and are confident in their eventual victory.
Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland sends its revolutionary greetings to the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army, and National Democratic Front of the Philippines on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the CPP. Since its re-organisation as part of the First Great Rectification Movement on December 26th, 1968, the CPP has built up and led these forces of the Filipino national democratic revolution and protracted people’s war, placing it at the helm of one of the most advanced revolutionary movements being waged on earth. The cadres of the CPP and their comrades have stood undefeated in the face of intense encirclement and suppression campaigns by the comprador US–Marcos regime, and heavy foreign intervention from imperialist troops such as the American military and the Crown Forces of Britain and Australia.
Multinational companies plundering the Philippines for its natural wealth and cheap labour fear the great achievements of the CPP, its People’s Army, and its mass organisations. They have surmounted the odds in creating a well-oiled engine of struggle to throw imperialism out of their country, resisting capitulation and sharpening themselves through their successive Second and ongoing Third Rectification Movements.
In the landmark 57th anniversary statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, “Conditions are excellent for further advancing the people’s democratic revolution,” the CPP refers to the five International Theoretical Conferences held abroad by the NDFP as part of the ideological and political strengthening of revolutionary groups around the world. Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland had the opportunity to participate in the majority of these conferences. AIA Ireland submitted two contributions which were shared with representatives from a myriad of communist, proletarian, and national liberation organisations. The CPP shows a timely grasp of the changing world situation, the crisis of overproduction, the rise of fascism, and the sharpening of inter-imperialist conflict.
Under its leadership, the Central Committee provides the NPA and the rest of the NDFP with a clear roadmap to victory worked out by painstaking research, self-assessment, education, and decades of experience in the struggle. While the Irish national liberation struggle is in the phase of rebuilding from the setbacks of 1998, the Philippine revolution provides inspiration to the world and shows how it is possible to overcome past errors through hard work and a solid philosophical foundation.
We also share in the Party’s condolences to the martyrs and leaders of the Philippine national democratic revolution, including Founding Chairman of the Central Committee Prof. Jose Maria “Ka Joma” Sison, Chief International Representative and head of the NDFP Peace Panel Luis Gamboa “Ka Louie” Jalandoni, and CPP Central Committee and Politburo member Myrna “Ka Maria Malaya” Sularte.
Ka Joma and Ka Louie forged strong links with the Irish republican movement in the past and with socialist republicans in recent times, taking many visits to our country and constantly expressing the shared struggle between our peoples against semi-colonialism and imperialism. We wish the Communist Party of the Philippines well in their celebrations of the 57th anniversary and are confident in their eventual victory.
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