AIA-Robert Emmet Coiste

28/10/2026

Today, Anti Imperialist Action Ireland proudly remembers the veteran Republican Leader Vol Máire Drumm who was killed on this day in 1976 by British agents. Ireland lost a leader that has never been replaced

28/10/2026

28/10/2026

Proudly remembering Vol. George and Mary McAnaspie 💚🇮🇪

26/10/2026

Over 10,000 people have been arrested since the protests in France began, yet hundreds of thousands are still taking to the streets in recent protests. Join the picket at the French embassy this Wednesday at 17:30 to show solidarity with the French youth uprising! 66 Merrion Square, D02 WY11

22/10/2026

The funeral of Vol. George McAnaspie, (Sallynoggin and Wexford) will take place on Saturday October 24 at 11am at Patrick O’Donavan and Son Funeral Home in Sallynoggin.

George was an active Republican from the 1960s, a close comrade of Vol. Seamus Costello, Vol. Patsy O’Hara Vol. Ronnie Bunting and Miriam Daly, founding member of the IRSP and INLA in December 1974 and more recently a founding member of Anti Imperialist Action Ireland and a member of the leadership of the Revolutionary Irish Socialist Republican Movement.

George’s wife and life long comrade, Vol. Mary McAnaspie who passed away in 2019 will also be honoured at the event.

Join us as we honour two great unrepentant Fenians and proud Irish Socialist Republican Soldiers.

21/10/2026

Tonight the partitionist parties of Leinster House took another giant step toward binding the 26 Counties to the imperialist war machine. Seventy-nine Free State TDs, led by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, voted to scrap the Triple Lock, clearing the way for Irish youth to be thrown into the wars of the EU, NATO and US imperialism.

Rest assured, this has nothing to do with so-called “peacekeeping”. The Free State has abandoned any pretence of neutrality for a long time. Shannon has been a US military forward base for over twenty years, with millions of armed imperialist troops funnelled through it to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq, to name but a few. PESCO, NATO’s “partnership for peace”, the European Defence Fund and the creeping militarisation of the EU have all been signed up to without the consent of the Irish people. The Triple Lock was one of the last obstacles in their way, and tonight they have removed it.

Martin and McEntee hide behind Russia and the UN Security Council. But the truth is that the Free State political class has always been servile to imperialism, first to London and now to Washington and Brussels. The same establishment that promised the Triple Lock to win the Nice and Lisbon referendums now tears it up against the will of the Irish people.

There can be no real neutrality while Ireland remains partitioned. In the Six Counties, British imperialism continues its illegal occupation of our country, with British state forces and the infrastructure of a NATO power planted on Irish soil at Aldergrove, Holywood, Lisburn and Ballykinlar. The Free State, which has long since made its peace with partition, now seeks to march in step with the very powers that keep Ireland divided. Collaboration at home and militarism abroad are but two sides of the same coin.

AIA stands with the anti-war and anti-imperialist tradition of the Irish working class, from the defeat of conscription in 1918 to the masses who marched against the Iraq war and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Neutrality was never the property of Leinster House to give away. It belongs to the Irish people.

20/10/2026

Yesterday, members of AIA and the RHL attended a community led protest outside of An Coimisiún Pleanála who were there to voice concern over yet another hotel being approved in this city. This Aparthotel would be located on Thomas Street, with 80 units at a maximum of a 2-month stay. Residents had desired new green space and a community center at this location instead but DCC and the Coimisiún instead commisioned what will be yet another unaffordable spot for working class residents and locals. In an area with much dereliction and in need of true public space and housing, we are seeing yet another attempt at gentrification. The representatives of Bridgefoot Street Residents Association did meet with the chair of the Coimisiún during this protest, but he simply passed the buck, saying that they would have to lobby city councilors to change the City Development Plan to no longer have this hotel. AIA will continue to support the working class community in the Liberties ✊🏻🇮🇪

20/10/2026

AIA’s Coiste Molly O’Reilly extends our support to residents of Rendu Apartments on William St. North, who have been given weeks to leave the premises, before it is closed due to fire safety concerns. According to DePaul, the owners of the building, the decision to close was reached, after they were unable to gain funding, through the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, to carry out the necessary repairs to make the building safe.
The past year has seen the capacity of Dublin's homeless accommodation shrink, as facilities are taken out of service due to fire safety and pest control issues. In April, fire safety concerns led to the closure of the Peter McVerry Trust hostel on Aungier St. Dublin City Council have announced that around 50 beds are currently out of service, pending remediation works which will be completed in January at the earliest. This means that, as we head into the winter months, Dublin's homeless accommodation service is operating below the minimum threshold of emergency beds.
The underfunding and closure of homeless accommodation at a time of sky-rocketing homelessness is deeply concerning under any circumstances. In the case of the Rendu apartments on William St., this concern and outrage is heightened by the fact that the building provided sheltered accommodation for children and people with health conditions. Residents fear that they will be relocated to places that are not child-friendly or can not accommodate their health conditions.
Underfunded homeless services are collapsing, as people are priced out of basic accommodation by profiteering landlords and vulture funds. You would expect housing to be at the top of the agenda of any political figure with a conscience in Ireland. However, that is not the case for the Free State administration in the 26 counties. Today, they are pushing for a vote to abolish the Triple Lock, dismantling the last vestiges of Irish neutrality to appease British and EU powers. This will most certainly mean an increase in military spending, on top of the over €1.6 billion already allocated this year.
In the Free State, the most vulnerable members of society routinely bear the cost of an administration beholden to imperialist powers and multinationals.

18/10/2026

Anti Imperialist Action Ireland proudly remembers Vol. Máirtín Ó'Cadhain 🇮🇪

Cuimhníonn AIA inniu ar an t-Óglach Máirtín Ó Cadhain a bhásaigh ar an lá seo i 1970.

Rugadh an Cadhnach sa gCnocán Glas, i nGaeltacht Chonamara. D’fhás sé aníos i bpobal a raibh curtha faoin chois go han-mhór, pobal a raibh an-bocht. Déarfaidh sé níos déanaí ina shaol gurb é an fonn a mhuintir a fhuascailt óna leithid an cúis ar tháinig sé isteach sa ngluaiseacht Poblachtach. Tháinig sé chuig an Poblachtachas ó An Phoblacht á léamh agus é ag traenáil le bheith ina mhúinteoir thuais i mBleá Cliath, agus nuair a bhog sé abhaile go Conamara bhí sé thar a bheith gníomhach in Óglaigh na hÉireann.

I 1936 chaill sé a phoist mar mhúinteoir sa gCarn Mór de réir a chuid polataíochta. Théis é seo, bhog sé ar ais go mBleá Cliath, agus bhí ról lárnach aige san t-IRA, tofa ar Chomhairle na heagraíochta. Faraor, bheadh sé curtha faoi ghlais sa gCurrach le linn an Dara Cogadh Domhanda.

Chreid sé go gcaithfidh gluaiseacht na Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta a bheadh fite fuaite leis an streachailt ar son saoirse náisiúnta agus leis an cath aicme. Mar a scríobh sé san aiste cáiliúla Gluaiseacht na Gaeilge, Gluaiseacht Ar Strae: “Sé dualgas lucht na Gaeilge a bheith ina sóisialaigh […] Ní féidir an slánú seo a dhéanamh ach le Athghabháil na hÉireann – seilbh na hÉireann agus a cuid maoine uilig a thabhairt ar ais do mhuintir na hÉireann.”

Ina chuid gníomhaíochta agus scríbhneoireachta, chuir sé an meon polataíochta Poblachtach-Sóisialach seo chun cinn. Bhí sé mar bhall de Mhuintir na Gaeltachta sna 1930adaí agus níos déanaí bhí sé mar chuid den eagraíocht radacach Gaeilge Misneach chomh maith le tacaíocht a thabhairt don Ghluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta Gaeltachta roimh deireadh a shaol. Thuig sé tábhacht an gnímh díreach agus eagrú pobail chun ceartas a bhaint amach.

Le linn na 1960adaí, tacaigh an Cadhnach leis an réimse nua den streachailt ar son saoirse náisiúnta. Anseo, thóg sé an líne réabhlóideach; chonaic sé go raibh gá leis an cath armtha agus deir sé gur cóir don chaipitleachas imeacht leis an teorainn.

Is cuimhinn linn é le bród,
Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis 🇮🇪

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Today, AIA remembers Vol. Máirtín Ó Cadhain who died on this day in 1970.

Ó Cadhain was born in An Cnocán Glas, in the Conamara Gaeltacht. He was born in a community which was incredibly poor and oppressed. He would say later in his life that it was the desire to liberate his people from this that brought him into the Republican movement. He came to Republicanism from reading An Phoblacht while training to be a teacher up in Dublin, and when he moved back home he became very active in the IRA.

In 1936 however he would lose his job as a teacher in Carnmore for his politics. After this, he moved back to Dublin and had a central role in the IRA there, even elected on the Army Council. However, he would be imprisoned during WW2.

He strongly believed that the movement for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht must be intertwined with the struggle for national liberation and with the class struggle. As he wrote in his famous essay The Irish Language Movement, A Movement Astray: “It is the duty of Gaelic revivalists to be socialists […] This [revival] is not possible without the reconquest of Ireland—Ireland and its
productive resources to be taken back into the control of the people.”

In all his activism and writing, he advanced this Socialist Republican politics. He was a member of Muintir na Gaeltachta in the 1930s agus later a part of the radical Irish language organisation Misneach as well as giving support to the Gaeltacht civil rights movement towards the end of his life. He understand the importance of direct action and community organising to attain our rights.

In the 1960s, he was supportive of the new phase of the national liberation struggle. Here he took the revolutionary line; he saw that there was a necessity for the armed struggle and said that capitalism should leave with the border.

16/10/2026

British Imperialism no longer relies on force alone to uphold its colonial interests in Ireland. It relies on consent manufactured through funding schemes, titles and “regeneration” packages that stamp British claim onto Irish communities.

The ‘UK Town of Culture’ bid for Strabane, County Tyrone is part of that project, aimed at further normalising partition and embedding the six-county settlement as a permanent one. Strabane is a town that has buried many of its own at the hands of British state forces. Its people continue to be brutalised, harassed and blacklisted for opposing British occupation today. Many families still live with the consequences of British occupation, and many still wait for truth and justice, abandoned by those who now seek favour from the same state.

Since partition itself, Strabane has been deliberately neglected by the unworkable six county statelet. Now that same state apparatus offers a £3 million ‘prize’ and expects gratitude. A British title cannot wash away its blood soaked history. To afford Strabane the first ‘UK Town of Culture’ would be a grave insult to every family who suffered at the hands of the British state, and a stain on the town’s proud history. The culture of Strabane, as with the wider West Tyrone area - was forged in a proud history of resistance to British rule, not in Whitehall. It is a proud identity that is not for sale.