John Brady RIP

John Brady RIP
Statement 32 County Sovereignty Movement
6/10/09

On behalf on the 32CSM I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of John Brady who died whilst in police custody.

We echo the concerns of the family and the broad republican movement that answers surrounding the circumstances of John’s death be immediately forthcoming.

The issue of sustained harassment of republicans by British forces cannot be divorced from the search for those answers.

Equally the use of the ‘Release Under Licence’ system as a mechanism to coerce political expression and as a blunt instrument to re-intern republicans on the flimsiest of grounds needs to be fully exposed.

We offer our full support to John’s family in their quest for the truth concerning his death.

Francie Mackey
Chairperson 32CSM

Anti Extradition Protest Belfast 18/09/2009

Anti-Extradition Protest Friday 18th September 9AM Laganside Court Complex Belfast

Anti Extradition Protest Belfast 24/08/2009

Protest Opposing Extradition of Liam Campbell

Terry McCafferty/Liam & Michael Campbell Protest

Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association

Terry McCafferty/Liam & Michael Campbell Protest

Saturday 25^th July, 2 pm North Queen Street RUC/PSNI Barracks, North Belfast.


The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association are urging all Republicans, Socialists and anyone concerned with human rights and civil liberty abuses to attend our protest on Saturday July the 25^th at 2pm outside North Queen Street RUC/PSNI barracks. This protest is in support of Terry McCafferty, interned by the British secretary of state in Ireland despite having served the requisite amount of his prison term.
Liam Campbell who was kidnapped by the RUC/PSNI after crossing into the occupied six counties and is currently being extradited by the British to Lithuania for alleged offences in that country despite him never having set foot there.
Michael Campbell is currently being held in medieval conditions in a Lithuanian prison accused of attempting to procure weapons for Irish Republicans, Michael has been held hostage for a year and a half despite no evidence being brought forward as of yet.

The IRPWA believe it is imperative that the cases of these three men, among others, need to be brought to the public attention and that all Republicans attend the various protests that are being arranged.

All Republicans and all banners are welcome.

32CSM Refute Kelly's Claims

32 County Sovereignty Movement
14/07/2009
32CSM Refute Kelly’s Claims

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement absolutely refute Gerry Kelly’s assertions that members of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, in concert with other republicans, were ‘sent’ into the Ardoyne area to create conflict and we challenge him to produce proof to support this outlandish claim.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement did have members, from Ardoyne, at the protest to observe the overreactions of the British police in Ireland. Kelly’s comments are deliberately phrased to mislead the wider community into believing that the show of resistance by the people of Ardoyne was cynically manipulated by people from outside the area and thus misrepresented the feelings of the people from Ardoyne. The 32CSM reject this and we fully commend the people of Ardoyne, and neighbouring nationalist areas in their efforts to repel the RUC/PSNI from imposing a sectarian hate march in an area where it is clearly not wanted. We do however agree with Minister Kelly on one point, it was people from outside the area who caused this situation, we do not imagine many of the Orangemen or RUC/PSNI personnel were from Ardoyne.

Terry McCafferty and Michael Campbell protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHAV_nxmAFo

Free Terry McCafferty

Terry McCafferty Protest

A chairde,The next protest for Republican hostage Terry Mc Cafferty will be on Saturday 27th June in North Queen St. Belfast at 2.00pm. (A white line picket outside the Barracks) Please make every effort to attend to show support for Terry and his family.

Ardoyne: A Community Abandoned

Ardoyne: A Community Abandoned

There was surprise in the mainstream media earlier this year when Provisional Sinn Fein representatives announced that they were going to be unable to control Ardoyne during this year’s marching season. Ardoyne was one of the most formidable strongholds of the Provisional IRA and the support for PSF there is somewhat of a litmus test for the support trends in hard-line republican areas across the occupied six counties. However the people of Ardoyne are no longer content to accept the unquestioned rule of Sinn Fein and the Provisionals because they have seen no changes or benefits from the GFA in their community. Social deprivation, unemployment, drugs and sectarian attacks have plagued Ardoyne since the ceasefires. Community spirit still endeavours and the pride shown by locals in protecting and maintaining their communities is admirable. They have however been abandoned by the leadership of the provisional movement. Rather than protect and aid the community these people were content to “control” the area. What they failed to realise was that they had always relied on the support of the people of the area to have any influence. Under the GFA this community has been subjected to humiliation, left defenceless to sectarian marching, British harassment and anti social crime. The situation was never going to be tolerated for long by people who had been to the forefront of opposition to British rule. As PSF moved into the constitutional nationalist position and the British parliament in stormont so discontent and disillusionment grew.

The issue of perhaps most contention is the annual Orange march through Ardoyne. This sectarian display is one of many across the six counties. These marches seek to dominate and humiliate nationalist communities. Glorifying sectarian politics and revelling in the perceived superiority of the orange culture. They are akin to white supremacists marching through African American neighbourhoods and are bitterly opposed by nationalist people. Ardoyne as an interface area has suffered more than its fair share of sectarian attacks and these marches merely reinforce the reality that they are facing a sectarian opponent that is backed by the state. How then can a British police force be acceptable to people in communities like Ardoyne? A police force that aside from a cosmetic makeover is the same one that savaged this community on a regular basis for 30 years. The truth is of course that it will never be acceptable, because Republicanism is not a tactic for the people there it is an identity that has defined them and one that they have fought, suffered and died for. It will not be traded for seats in Stormont.

And so the people of Ardoyne turned to those that had stayed the course. The so called “dissidents” are not monsters that seek to cause havoc. They are republicans that are in no way different to those that defended the community for years. They are people who stayed true to the cause that was fought for. It is hardly surprising that they are being welcomed slowly but surely in working class communities across the six counties by beleaguered residents who need help. These were people who were familiar who did what they said they would do. They do not wear Armani or lunch with Brown but they do actually work for the communities. They have been subjected to at various times, ridicule, slander and vile accusations by both former comrades and the mainstream media. But the truth is becoming clear. They are being accepted by Republicans. Ardoyne is one of many communities rejecting the provisional sell out.

The price of this is isolation and harassment. The suits from Sinn Fein will not venture into the area but neither will funding or community support which is tightly controlled by PSF. Likewise the psni/ ruc do not have to worry about their abuse of the community being highlighted by the “nationalist representatives”. the message is clear. If you don’t tow the line you suffer the consequences. The community has refused to bow to this cheap intimidation. The papers have been running lurid and sensational reports about the “dissidents” planning mayhem before this year’s marches. Translated into honest terms this means that the community will not be beaten and subdued by PIRA members this year. Last year youths were pepper sprayed by provisionals who were policing the area for the British who commented that they were more effective than the psni. Not this year it would seem.

Having rejected British authority the people of Ardoyne have rejected the authority of the discredited provisional movement. They will not be subdued nor will they submit to cultural humiliation or degradation. Republicans everywhere should follow their example and stand united against the onslaught sure to come with devolution of policing and justice. In the words of the late, great Brendan Hughes “stay true to yourselves and stand by the republic”

Right To Protest Targetted

32 County Sovereignty Movement
17/05/2009

Political Protest viewed as act of Terrorism by State Forces.

The Stopping and searching of a number of protesters after yesterday’s (Saturday 16th) protest against the continuing internment of Belfast republican Terry McCafferty illustrates perfectly that the British state in Ireland considers all anti state protest as a potential terrorist act and all those who engage in protest as potential terrorists.
Following the protest outside North Queen Street RUC/PSNI barracks, and as the protesters dispersed, the RUC/PSNI pounced on small groups of activists making their way home. In an obviously pre planned action, the RUC/PSNI followed various cars and individuals, waited until they were isolated from other republicans and stopped them under section 44 of the terrorism act. Cars and persons were rigorously searched in the middle of the day close to Belfast city centre in front of hundreds of motorists and shoppers. Members of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, the IRSP, IRPWA and members of the North Belfast community were among those subject to these demeaning and politically motivated police actions.
While the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and indeed the entire republican community are well used to this sort of political policing we would urge the wider nationalist community to open their eyes and take a good look at what is happening around them. The state police in Ireland are acting on behalf of the British states political interests in Ireland, there is no separation of political policing and ‘ordinary’ policing in today’s RUC/PSNI.
The British secretary of state for occupied Ireland interned Terry McCafferty without giving a credible reason to make a political point, when republicans sought to make a political point against that internment we were subjected to intimidating searches and harassment under British terror legislation.
This is the sort of police force and political system republicans and nationalists are being asked to accept as a stepping stone to a 32 County Democratic Socialist Republic.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement ask all republicans and nationalists to reject this political police force, reject this political system and to finally to support Terry McCafferty and his family for while it is an inconvenience to be detained by the state forces for an hour at a roadside what must it be like for the McCafferty’s? Their nightmare continues indefinitely.