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"The Free State Fine Gael led Government has cancelled its commemoration for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), Auxiliaries and Black & Tans which had been due to take place on 17 January.
This follows a major backlash from various elected representatives and County Councils which voted to boycott the event.
A Counter Demonstration was due to take place on January 17 with many expressing in the spirit of 1920 their militant opposition to all vestiges of British rule in Ireland.
While the Free State waters down history in the schools and removes it entirely from the curriculum they expect the Irish people to forget their own past and the suffering and genocides that British rule imposed on the people of Ireland.
The message sent to Leo Varadkar, Charlie Flanagan and the other west-British elements in the counter revolutionary Leinster House was that this is totally unacceptable. No other nation on earth commemorates its oppressors.
The cancellation of this ‘commemoration of British crown forces’ is a victory for now for the Irish people. But the West British elements looking to rewrite our history are still at work. Apathy needs to be discarded and vigilance cranked up.
CONTINUITY not COMPROMISE"
“The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with – a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.”
— James Connolly #NoBlackAndTans
1916 Societies Statement
The 1916 Societies condemn the shameful event organised by freestate minister for justice Flanagan and his MI5 Garda commissioner Harris to commemorate the RIC and DMP Black and Tans in Dublin castle on friday 17th of January.
Britain’s suppression of all Irish independence movements including the Fenians, the Land League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Citizens Army , the Irish Republican Army and the democraticly elected Dail Éireann was enforced by its colonial police forces, the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police. The RIC and DMP acted as the eyes and ears, the spies and intelligence gathers of British imperialism and British capitalist interests in Ireland.
In 1920 the RIC was bolstered by the notorious Black and Tans and the brutal Auxiliaries, they were part and parcel of the RIC and no amount of historical revisionism will change that fact.
With the establishment of Dáil Éireann in 1919 by the democratic will of the Irish people, the RIC/DMP Black and tans with their partners in the British Army violently attempted to surpress and undermine the Irish Republic and Irish democracy refusing to recognise our right to self-determination.
During An Gorta Mór the RIC with their own bellies full ensured that crops and livestock was exported to Britian under their armed protection while our people starved to death.
The RIC's shameful history also shows how they acted as crowbar brigades for the landlord class during evictions, driving our people into workhouses, onto coffin ships or to the graveyard.
It is fitting that it is a Fine Gael government that is holding this obscene Commemoration in Dublin castle for it is they who are descended from the landlord class, the Redmondites and Castle Catholics who upheld British rule in Ireland, it was they that Padraig Pearse referred to as the defenders of the realm, it is they who think that they have foreseen everything, it is they who still think they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half, it is they who are the fools yet again.
In their arrogance and stupidity they have awoken an anger in the Irish people who are rightly horrified by this insult. The atrocities of the RIC/DMP Black and tans are too numerous to mention but they are etched into the collective memory of our people.
We believe this Commemoration and previous pro-British Commemorations in the guise of WW1 ceremonies and the appointment of MI5 agent Drew Harris as Garda commissioner is part of a much wider political agenda by the freestate and British political establishments intent on bringing the 26 county state into the British commonwealth as part of the ' Agreed Ireland ' agenda under the Good Friday Agreement.
We believe a clear and unequivocal message must be sent to the freestate establishment on friday the 17th of January. We commend our comrades in the Seán Heuston Society, Dublin for their initiative to organise the protest against this obscenity.
We encourage all right minded people to attend the protest to show their opposition to this insult to the victims of the RIC/DMP Black and Tans.
Ends.
If they aren’t able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won’t break you. They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we’ll see the rising of the moon.