#Irish resistance

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 11, 2024 - Republican youth in Northern Ireland’s city of Derry clashed with police, hurling Molotovs, fireworks, and stones at the security forces. Police accompanied by a phalanx of armored vehicles entered the Republican community of Creggan to conduct multiple raids following the discovery of a “suspicious device,” which the police declared to be an “elaborate hoax” designed to cause unrest. Residents of the Republican stronghold however dismissed the claim that an “elaborate hoax” was behind the police incursion given the frequency at which police raid the community. They accuse the police of provoking trouble in Creggan as local children were visibly goaded into a response, resulting in the clashes. [video]

[arctic-hands]

I get why potatoes are popularly associated with Ireland and to a lesser extent other parts of Europe, but it's a bit messed up that most people will think potatoes were originally cultivated in Ireland and not ancient Peru and Bolivia like they actually are

[cavalierzee]

Resisting Injustice Is A Duty!

“When injustice becomes a law , resistance becomes a duty.”

Anywhere in the world!

Irlandarra

[news4dzhozhar]

[kamsspice]

remember how creator of the hit tv show andor tony gilroy said the protest in the final episode of season one was inspired by multiple resistances including the palestinian resistance to israeli oppression

[vyorei]

Fantastic. Fuck the IOF.

[asmiraofsheba]

I love how in the Bartimaeus universe, even though magicians have committed countless crimes against djinn by enslaving, torturing, and killing them... the djinn are maligned and demonised for resisting and killing their magician captors if they get the opportunity.

It's like a subtle nod to how, throughout history, oppressed peoples have been dehumanised or villianised when they fight or resist their oppressors

[dailyanarchistposts]

Aftermath — Protest and criminalisation

Of the twenty-eight people arrested after the disturbances at Ashtown Gate twelve were held in custody without bail after a special sitting of the courts. Just as with the English anarchists charged with trespass in the run up to May Day the courts acted with perhaps unprecedented severity treating very minor charges with great seriousness. Many of the May Day cases are still waiting to be heard but it has become clear from some of the cases that have come before the courts that the judiciary and the cops are continuing to deal with May Day defendants with great zeal and unusual severity. The intention behind this is twofold: it retrospectively justifies the absurdly large police mobilisation on May Day and it sends out a message to anyone thinking of questioning the status quo in the future. The charges against the English anarchists were summarily dismissed when, six months later, the court finally heard their case. The judge really had no option but to do this as the police case against them was almost amusingly shoddy. Nonetheless, the state got their pound of flesh; due to punitive bail conditions they had to put their lives on hold for nearly six months living away from home separated from friends, family and comrades.

The criminalisation of protest is a European wide phenomenon, and intimidation of this sort is to be expected even in response to mildly confrontational protest. Nevertheless, such consequences demand a sober and dry-eyed assessment of what was really achieved by May Day.

[creatrixcymraes]

Amazing when you think of it, that by oppressing local languages everywhere and insisting on using the English language, those bastards gave us the lingua franca that we're now using to connect, learn, and resist collectively to dismantle colonialism

[greencarnation]

Did you know that during the 1937 Palestinian uprising the British would tie Palestinian prisoners to the front of armored cars and locomotives to prevent rebel attacks? They also used this tactic to crush Irish resistance during their war of independence in 1919. Remember this when they talk about "human shields". The methods of the colonizer have never changed

[daydreaming-in-letters]

What I wanted:

What I got:

Well, at least it’s also warm, sweet and Irish…

[bromcommie]

the way I would kill for an M-rated howling commandos oneshot. she could’ve saved the mcu and this is 100% the hill I will die on

[finemaleactors]

Domhnall Gleeson

[victusinveritas]

RIP Shane MacGowan, a true antifascist and great artist.