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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · May 19

Understanding the ongoing importance of the battle of ideas and inspired by the 1919 Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann, Éirígí has developed and published a modern-day Democratic Programme For The New Republic. #ForANewRepublic

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

And just as has occurred all over the world, no senior British military officer and no senior British political figure will ever have to fear prosecution for their war-crimes.

#JusticeDelayedIsJusticeDenied | #BritainOutOfIreland

Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

Derry’s Bloody Sunday, just like the Ballymurphy and Springhill Massacres in Belfast, was a very deliberate and planned military attack on unarmed and totally defenceless civilians that was approved at highest levels within the British military and political establishments.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

Over fifty years later the British political class is again rallying to support their ‘boys’ and their murderous actions.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

Far from accepting any semblance of responsibility for the actions of its forces in Derry on Bloody Sunday, the British state remains totally committed to defending the indefensible.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

All the while, the voices of those who witnessed the atrocities of Bloody Sunday continue to be silenced and ignored by the British establishment.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

Now, judges are considering dismissing the case due to inconsistencies in the witness account of ANOTHER soldier who was also involved in the Bloody Sunday Massacre.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

Over fifty-three years later, the trial of ‘Soldier F’ whose name is Lance Corporal David James Cleary, began in a non-jury court in Belfast last month.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 14h

To no surprise, the British ‘justice’ system is concerned not with delivering justice for the families of those murdered by British occupation forces, but rather, protecting those very forces who were involved in the massacre that was Bloody Sunday in 1972. #BloodySunday1972

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

The only way we can deliver housing justice is by building a movement that will fight for it!

Join the fight for housing justice and #ForANewRepublic - Join Éirígí! 👇

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Éirígí Join Us — Éirígí For A New Republic

Éirígí is a campaigning political party that was formed in 2006 by community and political activists who believed a new organisation was needed to challenge systematic injustice and to build support f...

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Read more about UP Housing on our website👇

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UP Housing — Éirígí For A New Republic

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

UP Housing is the ONLY solution to the housing crisis! It would be genuinely affordable, as rent would be linked to household income.

It would also provide long-term security of tenure and would be open to all who want it.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Tallaght is just one of the many working class areas that have been hit hard by the current #housingcrisis in the Twenty-Six Counties - a result of successive governments abandoning their responsibility to directly provide housing to the people.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

📍Tallaght | #BuildUPHousing

Éirígí activists in South Dublin recently held a stall promoting our #UPHousing campaign in Tallaght.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Read Thomas Sankara’s 1984 speech at the United Nations 👇 #ForANewRepublic

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On The Shoulders Of Giants . . . 'Speech To The UN' - Thomas Sankara — Éirígí For A New Republic

Today, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish a speech that was first delivered exactly thirty-seven years ago by Thomas Sankara to the United Nations General Assembly on 4th O...

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).

Rest In Power Thomas Sankara! 🇧🇫

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt, arguing that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting former colonising powers.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Railways and roads were built, tying the nation together.

Foreign ‘aid’ from the West was opposed, with Sankara quoted as saying “He who feeds you, controls you."

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Women were appointed to senior positions, encouraged to work and granted pregnancy leave during education.

Over 10 million trees were planted to retain soil and halt growing desertification.

Land was redistributed from feudal landlords and given directly to Burkina Faso’s peasants.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

In the Revolutionary Burkina Faso of Thomas Sankara -

A nation-wide literacy campaign began, which increased the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.

2.5 million children were vaccinated against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

The then 33-year-old Sankara set about enacting a radically progressive programme for his nation and his people.

Opposing French neo-colonialism and combatting the local ruling elite, Sankara transformed Burkina Faso.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Sankara acting as president renamed the state from its aforementioned colonial name to one that was more apt for what Sankara had planned for his nation, ‘The Land of the Upright Man.’

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Thomas Sankara, a leading light in ‘Upper Volta’s’ military, soon realised the reason for the problems plaguing his nation - imperialism!

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

A short history of Thomas Sankara 👇

In 1983, Burkina Faso was known as ‘Upper Volta’. This state had a mostly destitute, illiterate population under the thumb of former coloniser France and it’s local gombeen rulers.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Former colonising power France, along with the USA, worked together with traitors in Sankara’s own ranks to murder him, along with a significant number of his government ministers.

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Éirígí - For A New Republic @eirigi1916.bsky.social · 19h

Socialist revolutionary and President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated by counter-revolutionaries on this day in 1987. #ThomasSankara

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