Communists larping as Republicans

 

Doesn't explicit call himself a republican but mentions Connolly.

 Peadar O'Donnell wrote in 1933: "We are back again at the stage when a middle-class leadership is busy uniting all the people of Ireland to overthrow the common enemy, England. Anything in the nature of class warfare is to be suppressed because it would weaken the national forces." Page 12 of the War for the Land in Ireland by Brian O'Neill.

 

 ...fascism is the enemy and not Britain or any other foreign/international entity or group that violates our sovereignty.

1916 Societies is a self-described "Irish separatist movement" founded in 2009. In a Facebook post on 24 June 2025, it announced that it was aware that members of one of its member branches, the Patrick Rankin Society, attended a rally in Newry organised by the Newry Says No group on the previous night. 1916 Societies announced that the Patrick Rankin Society was “stood down” pending on inquiry and disciplinary process. The post explained that attending these events went against their republican ethos and values. After the completion of the process, it announced in a Facebook post on 27 June that the Patrick Rankin Society was being disbanded completely with immediate effect. I don’t know any details of this story beyond this but there are a few things that this incident as described tells us. Cracks First and foremost, it shows that Red republican groups are starting to feel the effects of the undeniable surge in popular nationalism. What is this surge and where does it come...