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IAWM / SWP supports Hamas and Hezbollah
IAWM protests with RIRA against Tony Blair

Richard Boyd Barrett is quoted by Al Qaeda

Irish "Anti-War" Movement / Socialist Workers Party / People Before Profit

The IAWM / SWP / PBP are probably the most consistent supporters of the global jihad in Ireland, more than any Islamic group.

Oddly, they are not Muslims. Rather, they are a group of deluded dhimmis who think the jihad killing around the world somehow fits in with their absurd plans for communist revolution.

The Irish "Anti-War" Movement marches beside the Hamas flag at an anti-Israel demo, Dublin, 31 May 2010.
From here.

Irish "Anti-War" Movement
- These are not anti-war. They are anti-west, and pro-the other side. They are linked to the Socialist Workers Party, who want to take away our freedom and establish a totalitarian communist state.
- The SWP openly promotes the totalitarian communists Lenin and Trotsky and Che, none of whom were "anti-war". In fact, all were mass killers.
IAWM support for Saddam in 2003:
- IAWM discussions obviously represent diverse points of view, but it is interesting how many "anti-war" people became pro-Saddam once the fighting started in 2003, and go on to sympathise with Saddam's "resistance" after the liberation.
- "COME ON THE IRAQIS!!", March 27, 2003. "I know that it's not very "anti-war" of me but am I the only one cheering the Iraqi military on against the US and UK?"
- "Liberating Iraq", March 26, 2003: "1. Saddam Hussein is the only state leader to publicly support the Palestinian people. This is enough to make him into an eternal hero in the eyes of the Arab people and everyone who believes in justice. 2. Saddam Hussein is the only state leader to stand up against the mighty American and Zionist colonial hegemony. This is more than enough to make him the ultimate hero for those who believe in the idea of 'free man', 'anti-colonialism' and 'anti-globalisation'."
IAWM support for the Iraqi fascist "resistance" after 2003:
- "Resistance is the First Step Towards Iraqi Independence", by Tariq Ali, November 5, 2003: "the resistance is predominantly Iraqi - though I would not be surprised if other Arabs are crossing the borders to help. If there are Poles and Ukrainians in Baghdad and Najaf, why should Arabs not help each other? ... Meanwhile, Iraqis have one thing of which they can be proud and of which British and US citizens should be envious: an opposition."
- Open IAWM support for the Iraqi "resistance": IAWM statement, 9 Apr 2004. Richard Boyd Barrett, Chairperson of the IAWM said: "For the sake of the suffering Iraqi people we must hope that Iraqi resistance and protest here in the west force the US to pull out as quickly as possible."
- Rory Hearne of the IAWM, letter to Village, 19-25 Feb 2005: "It is the historic global anti-war movement, manifest on February 15th 2003 - when over 40 million demonstrated across the world - and the defiant resistance in Iraq which have created the crisis for Bush and Blair. It is only through the continued growth and resistance of these movements that we can end the bloody occupation of Iraq and ensure there are no more wars against Bush's "axis of evil""
- You would think that, even if they support their aims (the end of democracy, and the setting up of an Islamist fascist tyranny), the "anti-war" people would complain about the fact that the Iraqi "resistance" is violent.
Plenty of open support for Islamofascist torture and killing on Indymedia (after the Fallujah mutilations). Again, the "anti-war" mask slips for the hard left. They support war (as I do). They're just on the other side. For some reason they support fascism rather than democracy.
What is the Iraqi "resistance"?
The IAWM in 2006 claimed that Iran has democratic elections: "The US wants to paint Iran as a fascist state with Ahnadinejad as the new Hitler (just like Saddam before him). Iran is a modern country ... It is one of the more democratic states in the Middle East. Iran has democratic elections and a powerful reform movement, ... It is the US and its allies that are undemocratic. ... In Iraq the US are trying to rig the parliament"
Socialist Workers Party
SWP support for violence:
- SWP article, 23 Apr 2002, openly supports the intifada: "Clearly, although the Palestinians can achieve tactical victories, to win against the huge military power of the Israeli state requires mobilising the whole region. This means extending the intifada across the cities of the Middle East, overthrowing the corrupt pro-Western Arab governments and mobilising the mass of Arabs in the fight against the racist Israeli state."
- SWP statement on 31 July 2006 openly supports Hezbollah: "we are happy to join the Arab masses in expressing our solidarity with the fighters of Hizbollah and our hope is that they succeed in defeating the Israeli assault on Lebanon."
The pro-jihad SWP re-prints an article by Ken Olende, 27 July 2011, which says the Somali famine of 2011 is caused not by jihad but by capitalism!
- Incredibly, he implies that Africa is capitalist, saying it has had "Thirty years of free market structural adjustment programmes". In reality, Africa is a black zone of state control, high regulation and lack of economic freedom.
- He refers to "Capitalism’s failure to provide basic nutrition". Yet oddly, none of the countries suffering famine are capitalist.
- He does not condemn Al Shabab for threatening to kill aid workers and starving refugees, but rather says: "Its suspicion of the West is hardly surprising."
People Before Profit is another cover name for the same SWP crowd.
Richard Boyd Barrett, Chair of the Irish "Anti-War" Movement.
- Election record
- Profile by Rob Harris
- Richard Boyd Barrett, Apr 2009, told a gathering of Islamic jihadists "that it was "entirely legitimate" to argue that "Israel has no right to exist"".
- Appalling: Richard Boyd Barrett elected local county councillor, June 2009. He tops the poll in Dun Laoghaire area. A sad day for Ireland.
- Dun Laoghaire, by the way, is a wealthy area.
- Even worse, he is elected to the Dail in Feb 2011.

Polish war poster from the Polish–Soviet War 1919-21 portrays Trotsky as a butcher sitting on a mound of human skulls.
Why? Because in real life Trotsky was a warmongering butcher who killed millions.
And now we have an alleged "anti-war" movement run by followers of Trotsky!

Socialist Worker, no.212, 26 Nov 2003, front page, describes the communist butchers of North Vietnam as a "heroic resistance".
Some "anti-war" people these are.

"Freedom for Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan. End the Occupation. Victory to resistance".
Councillor Brid Smith of "People Before Profit" (*) carries an SWP placard openly supporting the jihad resistance in Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan.
Demo against Tony Blair, 4 Sept 2010.
Screenshot from this video.
(*) A better name would be "Prostrate Before the Prophet".

The IAWM hangs out with Hamas and the Iraqi "resistance"

The Cairo jihad conference, 2005 - promoting bloodthirsty violence as the solution to the problems of the Middle East.

Richard Boyd Barrett attended the conference of the International Campaign against US and Zionist Occupation in Cairo, Mar 2005.
- This conference was openly dedicated to "Supporting the resistance in Palestine and Iraq". Given that both of these resistances are violent, it seems strange that "anti-war" people would support them.
Present at this international hate-fest were:
- The child-killers Hamas. By that I don't mean they kill children by accident, as all armies do (and all car manufacturers do). I mean they target children, because they are Jew-hating racists.
- The fundamentalist Islamist al-Sadr thugs.
- The Sunni Iraqi fascist "resistance".
- The original Islamic religious fascists the Muslim Brotherhood.
The IAWM declined to condemn any of these groups. On the contrary, it said: "There is a growing unity of anti-occupation groups in Iraq, anti-imperialist currents across the region and anti-war groups in the west."
The IAWM hangs out with Hamas, and declines to condemn them.
What is the Iraqi "resistance"?

IAWM / SWP openly supports Hamas and Hezbollah

"SOLIDARITY WITH THE RESISTANCE"
Socialist Worker no.262, 8 Aug 2006.
Open support by the SWP for the violent, anti-semitic, civilian-targeting, gay-hating, atheist-hating, Jew-hating, Islamic religious fundamentalist terrorist group Hizbollah (for there is no other "resistance" to Israel's 2006 attack on Hizbollah in Lebanon, the Lebanese government having wisely chosen to sit it out).

Inside the issue, Richard Boyd Barrett writes explicitly opposing the disarming of Hizbollah. "a key part of our task is to resist calls for a western force or Irish troops to be sent into Lebanon to disarm Hizbollah. ... the people of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon have the right to resist colonial aggression and occupation", says this "anti-war" person.

Another article by some useful idiot says: "We support Hamas and Hizbollah in their courageous stand against imperialism". Hizbollah, of course, are an agent of Iranian imperialism, while Hamas want to cleanse Israel of all Jews. They are not fighting "against imperialism". They are fighting for jihad.

The SWP editorial openly supports Hezbollah. "we are happy to join the Arab masses in expressing our solidarity with the fighters of Hizbollah and our hope is that they succeed in defeating the Israeli assault on Lebanon."

Despite this disgraceful support for violent groups, the SWP are still welcome at "anti-war" marches.
At this "anti-war" march in Galway, Aug 2006, a woman actually holds up this issue supporting Hamas and Hizbollah.
That looks like the gay rights flag behind her, as she supports gay-murdering religious fascists.

Niamh McDonald of the SWP supports Hamas, 9 Jan 2011.
"Hamas are the only group that are fighting for freedom", she absurdly says, as if Hamas are fighting for any concept other than jihad and sharia.
She says "we look for a secular free state where all religions ethnicities and cultures can live together peacefully", while ignoring the fact that such a place already exists. It is called Israel. She is attacking the only secular free state in the region, and supporting religious fascists who believe in brutal sharia law.
Hamas would kill to stop a secular state.

Niamh McDonald's Hamas heroes celebrate the barbaric killing of the Fogel children in Mar 2011: "Five Israeli settlers were killed on Friday night ... angry Palestinian attacked a home in the illegal settlement of Itamar near Nablus and killed Five settlers from one family ... According to the International law Palestinian resistance factions have the full right to resist any kind of occupation on the land of Palestine".
Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, May 2011, looks forward to killing all of the Jews: "In just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil."

IAWM brings Hezbollah to Ireland

The Irish "Anti-War" Movement invite a representative of Hezbollah to an "anti-war" meeting in Ireland, Nov 2006. Shame on the Irish government for letting this Islamist jihadi terrorist into Ireland.
- The Irish "Anti-War" Movement openly admits: "The IAWM is NOT a "Peace organisation" - there are, at least, 10-12 Peace organisations in this country, some of them anti-war / some of them not. The IAWM, as stated in its constitution, is an anti-imperialist organisation whose main objective is to stop the use of Shannon and other Irish facilities by the forces of the Empire, while simultaneously extending support and solidarity with those who are invaded, and those who fight against that invasion and occupation by any means at their disposal."
- "Anti-War" Ireland also expressed support for violence (so long as it is violence by jihadis, not by democracies): "My personal political position (as a non-pacifist) is that Hezbullah and any other Lebanese group were perfectly entitled to defend their country against Israeli aggression. I would also be understanding of actions taken in defence of Palestinians."
- Again, I am not "anti-war" myself. What I object to is the claim that these people are.
- The Irish "Anti-War" Movement also refer to: "some plans we have to invite a couple of leading Hamas and Fatah militants into Ireland soon".
The Irish "Anti-War" Movement invite a representative of Hezbollah to an "anti-war" meeting in Ireland, Oct 2007.
- They invite "Ibrahim Mussawi (Al-Manar TV — Beirut)". He is the Hezbollah media relations officer. He has been quoted as a Hezbollah spokesman for years. Al-Manar is Hezbollah TV.
- "The conference will challenge the myths and propaganda peddled by the main stream media and discuss practically how we can build the movement of resistance to war and occupation over the coming months. Unity of the anti war movement across organisational and territorial boundaries and solidarity with those who fight the illegal occupation of their country is what we seek." I don't see one word of condemnation of the violence of those who "fight" and "resist". The "anti-war" people are only against some wars, it seems.
- The conference also has Lebanese and Iraqi politicians. No, not tolerant liberal democrats, silly. Rather, pro-Syrian and pro-al-Sadr politicians, respectively, of course.
- Supporting this disgraceful event are the "anti-war" groups PANA and the NGO Alliance.
- Signed up to share a platform with Hezbollah were Michael D. Higgins of the Labour Party, and Patricia McKenna and Dan Boyle, both of the Green Party. The Green Party are actually in the Irish government!
- Of course, the fact that the "anti-war" people also invite a violent Irish group like Sinn Fein is simply unnoticed.
- Alan Shatter spoke in the Dail, 4 October 2007, about this conference, and the shameful attendance of mainstream politicians at it: "I think it is a disgrace that some Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a member of a party that is in Government, will, according to the leaflet published by the Irish Anti-War Movement, share a platform with a member of Hizbollah at this meeting."
- I missed the fact that the Hezbollah man was refused a visa on security grounds, so none of the above useful idiots did actually share a platform with Hezbollah.
- To his credit, Declan Meehan of East Coast FM asked Michael D. Higgins about this during his (sadly successful) run for the Presidency in 2011. (Think this was on 29 Sept 2011.) Michael D. simply replied: "I never shared a platform with Hezbollah", which is technically true. Meehan did not have the material to question him any further.

Hezbollah issues a fatwa for the assassination of Lebanese belly dancer Johanna Fakhry, July 2011.
Her "crime" was dancing with an Israeli.
These are the kind of scum that the Irish "Anti-War" Movement supports.

Richard Boyd Barrett and an anti-Israel mob chant outside the Israeli Embassy, Dublin, 8 June 2010.
How pathetic to support totalitarians against a democracy.

Protest against Tony Blair, Sept 2010

The jihad-loving IAWM and the Brit-hating RIRA protest Tony Blair's launch of his memoirs, Dublin, 4 Sept 2010.

Irish useful idiots, commies and Islamist-lovers blame counterjihad leader Tony Blair for the deaths caused by the jihad!
Why are they not protesting (every day) outside the Iranian and Pakistani embassies? You know, the governments that actually support violence in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Open jihad supporter Richard Boyd Barrett appears in the above video, to blame Blair for the deaths caused by the jihad!

"Freedom for Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan. End the Occupation. Victory to resistance".
Placard in open support of the jihad resistance in Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan, carried by Richard Boyd Barrett's own party, as they blame Blair for the tens of thousands killed by the jihadis. Nauseating hypocrisy.
Screenshot from this video. See another screenshot.
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"Victory" to the "resistance" that is causing the genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And lock up anyone who is trying to stop it.
Even better, lock them up for the crimes of the "resistance".
From here.

And of course, no one even notices or cares that these alleged "anti-war" people are hanging out with the people that bombed Omagh and more recently have tried to start the Ulster war again.
Photo from here.
Such hypocrites these "anti-war" types are.

The SWP / IAWM / PBP march with the RIRA:
- Jason O'Mahony: "Is there anyone Richard Boyd Barrett will not enter a Von Ribbentrop style pact with?"
- Someone rather pathetically claims they can't control who turns up to the demo. O'Mahony replies: "I doubt RBB would sit passively by if the BNP or old National Front turned up to protest the war."
- Of course, the gardai would have happily separated the SWP from the RIRA types if the SWP had ever asked.
- The idea that the SWP - who support Hamas - would have a problem with the RIRA is ludicrous. Here on their website the SWP happily name the RIRA people as their co-demonstrators.
The RIRA bomb Derry, Oct 2010.

Richard Boyd Barrett is quoted by Al Qaeda, Oct 2010

Richard Boyd Barrett, Ireland's no.1 supporter of global Islamism, has really arrived now. He is quoted by Al Qaeda, Oct 2010.

Richard Boyd Barrett is quoted by Al Qaeda in their glossy magazine, Inspire, Oct 2010 ("Fall 1431").
The other people quoted by Al Qaeda here are Sabah al Mukhtar, Faisal Shahzad and Abd al-Bari Atwan.

An editorial by Bin Laden in the same issue.

Another article in the same issue tells jihadis how to carry out random attacks on civilians in western cities.
The article claims that if you slaughter innocents, a being called "Allah" will welcome you into a place called "paradise". No evidence for these ludicrous claims is ever presented.

Richard Boyd Barrett and his jihad loving groups are demolished.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council meeting, 11 Oct 2010.
Boyd Barrett is challenged to condemn Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban. He declines to condemn them.

I broke the story here in Oct 2010.
The Irish Times prints it in May 2011.
Hey, where's my acknowledgement!

"The self-styled Irish Anti-War Movement ... is not a peace organisation. ... It is not so much an anti-war movement as a strident anti-American one. Rather than an organisation which wishes to see the peaceful resolution of conflicts around the world through discussion and compromise, it is a collection of misty-eyed old Soviet Union sympathisers who have now befriended Islamic fundamentalists."
- Alan Shatter in the Dail, 4 October 2007.

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