Joe Biden's visit to Ireland was likely to compensate for the US President's deficiency of global success so far, guaranteeing the Democrats support for influential Irish voters in the United States, and strengthen the trend in Green Island to abandon neutrality policy and join NATO.
And that nothing may spoil the exalted atmosphere feta in honor of ‘The most Irish of American presidents” (as he called Biden taoiseachLeo Varadkar), previously preventatively detained opposition activists from the Anti-Imperialist Action ranks.
Activist search
On April 10, Garda's peculiar units invaded respective housing and premises, conducting long-term searches, confiscating electronic devices and propaganda materials, especially those with anti-NATOVian content. 3 people were detained, of which 1 in 48 hours, but without formal charges. The AIA, in a message issued, pointed to the curious compatibility of the actions of the Republic police and British forces which attacked peaceful pickets in the occupied part of Ireland for the unity of the island organised in Derry by the Republican Left. In both cases, the justification was similar: ‘safety risk” and “Threat of disrupting the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Multi-Friday AgreementIt’s okay. ” In fact, however, it was about removing the picket for peace from Dublin's streets and against bringing the country into American imperialist politics, including the NATO-provoked war in Ukraine. Despite police countermeasures, however, protest actions on the U.S. President's way were organised. In turn, pickets of support for detained activists AIA organized, among others, fellow anti-imperialist organizations with Norway and Netherlands.
Neither the king nor the king KaiserOr Biden!
The question of relinquishing neutrality (a historically memorable slogan) “Neither the king nor Kaiser!) is to be the subject of public government announcements consultation in the form of open meetings organised in June in the main cities of the country. Against both conventional Groups Republican left, headed by Irish Republican Socialist Party, as well as young anti-imperialist formations, specified as Independents 4 Change Euro MPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, active in the joint English and Scottish No2NATO initiatives. In turn, a serious weakening of the peace movement was transition for the positions of the Sinn Fein pro-NATO-wst party, for a long time degenerative towards socialism and “lefticity” brought mainly to the issue transgender.
NATO alternatively of unification
Push from elite Republic "to reword the knowing of Irish neutrality“ makes Ireland’s relation with NATO absolutely crucial for both safety and even interior policy. Alleged support on the part of Joe Biden, according to critics, is simply a poisoned kiss, distracting Irish attention from the question of the unification of the island, considered to be as close as always to the political crisis in the occupied part of the country and the weakness and inconsistency of London's BREXIT policy. On the advice of the US to fight for the Kiev government in Ukraine, the Irish elites can so one more time lose their chance of unity and full union with the northern countrymen.
The AIA and another anti-imperialist organizations announce further protests and further fight for neutral, free and indivisible Ireland.
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