James Connolly House

22/10/2015

State Repression Intensifies Against Irish Republican Socialists

Despite what the Establishment Parties in Ireland would have you believe, political policing has never ceased and has recently been on the rise in both the
occupied six counties and the Free State. The suppression of alternative political beliefs and views has been at the top of the agenda of both the PSNI and An Garda Siochana, at a time when the
never ending and ever increasing flaws of both puppet governments’ on this island has been all too clear for the people of Ireland to see.

in the Free State, where resistance to the anti working class decision of charging people for the use of water, has become stronger and stronger, activists
have been trailed from their homes by the Gardai, brought to court and handed large fines and at times, prison sentences. Solely due to protesting against
the decision of the capitalist Free State Administration to bleed more money out of ordinary people who simply have no more money to give.

RUC AAAAAAAAAA
In the North, the persecution and harassment of anti Good Friday Agreement Republicans has become a daily occurrence. At a time when Stormont flounders from
one petty sectarian argument to the next, and with politicians who serve no-one only their massive ego’s and wallets, the armed wing of the British State in
Ireland (PSNI) and their masters in Mi5, have been to the fore in trying to intimidate Republican activist’s and their families. Dozens of Republican
Socialist Activists homes have been torn apart in the last 2 months. Many stop and searches and Mi5 approaches have been conducted against members of the
IRSP and other Republican groups.
The Establishment Parties at Stormont and Leinster House have remained tight lipped and silent on these serious issues, sadly including many ‘Republicans’ who
were once subjected to the same harassment for their beliefs.

Their silence is deafening!

21/10/2015

Despite what the Establishment Parties in Ireland would have you believe, political policing has never ceased and has recently been on the rise in both the occupied six counties and the Free State....

20/10/2015

A protest held outside a PSNI recruitment event in Derry has passed off peacefully.

20/10/2015

A republican protest outside a PSNI recruitment event in Derry passed off peacefully this afternoon. The event was held at St Columb's Park House. It was originally du...

15/10/2015

14/10/2015

IRSP will be holding a protest outside the psni recruiting event on sat.
All available members are asked to support this protest

11/10/2015

Great to so many republican party's standing in unity in support of the prisoners

09/10/2015

the IRSP in derry are asking members to do their best to try and attend the white line protest at free derry on sat 10th of oct at 2.30 pm see below
irpwa are having a protest tomorrow at half 2 free derry corner . All republican groups welcome with relevant prisoners banners thanks

08/10/2015

06/10/2015

THE IRSP WILL BE HOLDING A PROTEST IN QUEENS ST ON THURSDAY OUT SIDE THE EOS OFFICE TO PROTEST AGAINST THE DRACONIAN STEPS TO WORK SCHEMES AGAINST THE MOST VULNERABLE IN OUR SOCIETY

ALL POLITICAL PARTY S AND ACTIVISTS ARE WELCOME ALONG WITH PARTY BANNERS
ASSEMBLE @ 11 AM IN QUEEN STREET

The Irish Republican Socialist Party is calling for the abolishing of the new Step 2 Success “welfare to work” programme recently officially launched all across the North as the old Steps to Work programme is wrapped up. The old Steps to Work programme was deeply flawed but it contained less punitive measures against the unemployed people forced onto it.
Steps 2 Success will be administered and delivered in the North by English corporations EOS Works Ltd, Staffline Group PLC and Ingeus Limited. “Welfare to work” programmes such as Steps 2 Success has been marred by controversy in England with facilitating contracts worth nearly £100 million being awarded to Tory Party backers.
Spokesperson for Derry City IRSP Danny Morrison continues” Under strict new sanctions Jobseekers will be forced into yearlong contracts with employers after 3 months of signing on. They can potentially have their Jobseekers Allowance and Housing Benefit stopped for up to 26 weeks at a time for not complying with the rules. Only participants who put in more than 30 hours per week will be entitled to the “training bonus” of £15.38p on top of their existing benefits- the equivalent of 51p per hour. “
Mr Morrisoin said “Participants in Steps 2 Success will be forced to work alongside full time employees in the private sector for either no money or a disgraceful 51p per hour. This is essentially a redistribution of public money and resources into the coffers of the private sector corporations with tax payers subsidising their wage bills. All this will lead to a conveyor belt workforce being rolled on and off the Steps 2 Success scheme every 12 months. Studies have shown that the people on Jobseekers are just as likely to find full time employment on their own as to find it in “welfare to work” programmes.”
Mr Morrison finishes “Jobseekers will be made 12 months a slave; they will be degraded and locked into a punitive system that only benefits private industry. Like Job Bridge in the South Steps 2 Success in the North will victimise the unemployed and lead to further exploitation.”

05/10/2015

4/10/2015 commemeration