IRSP – On London Bombings!

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Friday July 15, 2005 22:46

by IRSP - Irish Republican Socialist Party

johnmartinps at eircom dot net

IRSP PO Box 10081, Dublin 1, Ireland

028 90 330786

In a statement issued by the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Political Secretary John Martin in condemning the attacks on ‘soft targets’ and hit out at Al-Quida for such attacks on ‘ordinary working people’.

IRSP – London Bombings!

The Political Secretary said “The IRSP totally condemns the London bombings. Ordinary working people going about their daily routines were blown to smithereens by young suicide bombers presumably influenced by religious fanaticism. These were not legitimate targets. There was no military or political objectives in the bombing, just slaughter

“Al –Quida are not a liberation movement but a fundamentalist loose grouping of organisations would impose a reactionary and backward philosophy on all who they would control. Some may justify the attacks by pointing out the USA led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the continuing Imperialist aggression all around the world. While we support the struggle for national liberation in Iraq and believe that armed struggle there is justified we do not believe that individual acts of terror such as the London suicide bombings are the way to liberation.

“The victims were soft targets for al-Qaida, mostly working class people on their way to work. The victims bore no responsibility for the actions of the British ruling class or the British government in Iraq. The people of London like the people of Iraq didn't deserve to be punished for the crimes of the British or Iraqi ruling class.

“We recognise that none of this would have happened without the imperial ambitions of the US and Britain in the Middle East. They using the state of Israel have nurtured the emergence of groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas and after all it was the CIA that taught Bin Laden his terrorist skills.

“The London bombs have now given the British ruling classes the opportunities to introduce even more reactionary security laws and have unleashed a wave of anti-Muslim racist feelings. The way to resist that is not by young Muslims in Britain or Ireland seeking refugee in fundamentalism but in joining together with other young working people to campaign against the war in Iraq. Clear political action is the best way forward for all who despise Imperialism. There is an alternative to Imperialism and it is not called fundamentalism. It is called socialism. "

Statement Ends

Irish Republican Socialist Party
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IRELAND
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