By Clive Sulish On December 7, 2022 By rebelbreeze via thefreeonline

The founding of the Irish Citizen Army, the first workers’ army in the world¹, was commemorated in Dublin at the site of Wolfe Tone monument in Stephens Greeen, in song and speech on 23rd November 2022.

Organised by the Connolly Youth Movement, the other participating organisations represented were the Irish Communist Party, Independent Workers Union, Lasair Dhearg² and Welsh Socialist Republican Solidarity (Ireland) – the Irish branch of the Welsh Underground Network.

In addition, a number of independent activists were also present.

THE IRISH CITIZEN ARMY

The Irish Citizen Army was founded on 23^rd November 1913 on a call from Jim Larkin and James Connolly, both leading the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union in its titanic struggle against the federation of Dublin Employers’ plan to break and disperse the union.

The call for the formation of the ICA arose due to the attacks of the Dublin Metropolitan Police on the workers and their supporters; already in August 1913 the DMP had killed two workers by truncheon blows and injured many, including a youth who would die later as a result.

The ICA’s initial organiser was the writer and dramatist Seán O’Casey, later succeeded by Boer War veteran Jack White.³ In addition to requiring its recruits to be union members, the ICA enrolled women as well as men and some of the former were officers commanding both genders⁴.

While the ITGWU was defeated in the eight months of the Lockout, it was not smashed and came back stronger in a relatively short period. The ICA faded away then but was reorganised over following years and approximately 120 took part as a unit in the 1916 Rising, alongside other units.⁵

SPEECHES AND SONG

A small crowd had gathered at the advertised location, the Wolfe Tone Monument in Stephen’s Green and the chairperson of the event called people to order.

Diarmuid Breatnach, an independent activist, was asked to sing one of Connolly’s compositions, ironically titled Be Moderate, often referred to instead by its refrain, “We only Want the Earth”.

An older man with a Dublin accent, Breatnach told his audience that Connolly published the lyrics in New York in 1907, going on to sing the five verses to the air of Thomas Davis’ A Nation Once Again⁶, using the chorus part to repeat the refrain that “ … we only want the Earth!”⁷

A representative of the Independent Workers’ Union, a young man with an Ulster accent, spoke about the need for workers to have a trade union and for that union not to align itself with employers or with the State.

In order to truly represent the interests of the workers, the union needs to be independent, he maintained and also democratic in its decision-making.

In conclusion, the speaker said that the IWU is the union that is needed and called on people present to join it and to support it.

“MAKE THE VISION A REALITY”

Amy Margaret, a young woman, also with an Ulster accent, delivered a speech on behalf of the organisers of the event, the Connolly Youth Movement.

“The Citizen Army was a direct response to the brutality carried out by the RIC and Dublin Metropolitan Police during the Dublin Lockout” she said; “the police killed two workers, injured hundreds more with baton charges, and frequently ransacked the tenements where strikers lived.”

“The Citizen Army fought back with some succes” she continued “and as one pointed out, a hurley has a longer reach than a baton. It was in the Citizen Army that the working-class stood up to the RIC and employers,” she continued.

“The same RIC that torched farmer’s homes during the Land war, the same employers who often owned the slums where workers lived; it was here at Stephen’s Green (and elsewhere in the city) that the Citizen Army stood up to the British Empire, alongside comrades in the Irish Volunteers.”

She told her audience that when, during a dockers’ strike in 1915, scabs were imported and police harassed picketers, Connolly sent a squad of the ICA with fixed bayonets to the scene, resulting in the dispute’s resolution with “a considerable increase in wages to the dockers concerned”.

“The Citizen Army was not simply workers armed with guns,” the speaker said, “but also armed with culture” and referred to weekly concerts in Liberty Hall (the ITGWU’s HQ) and to the dramatic acting history of Seán Connolly and whistle-playing of Michael Malin, both 1916 martyrs

“What the ICA stood and fought for in their own words, “… is but one ideal – an Ireland ruled and owned by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent, from the centre to the sea.”

“Connolly was clear however that such a Republic would have no place for the “rack-renting, slum-owning landlord” or the “profit-grinding capitalist”, but should rather be a “beacon-light to the oppressed of every land”.

“The most fitting tribute for the ICA then is to make that Republic a reality. To do so we must learn from the past and their examples. We can learn from them to never be cowed by the odds against us, we can learn from their comradeship to each other.

We can learn from how they combined political, economic and cultural methods to advance the cause of a worker’s republic. But more importantly we must be able to learn from their shortcomings.

After the Rising and the loss of its leadership the ICA began to devolve into a social club and whilst some members played an important role during the Tan War, the ICA was not the revolutionary workers’ army it once was.

Therefore we must build a truly mass movement – not just a committed core of activists, and we must build a movement not reliant upon key personalities so that it can function no matter what.

We all know that things must change in Ireland, and so we reaffirm the principle that the Citizen Army stood by; only the Irish working class is capable of waging the revolutionary struggle necessary to change things; not capitalists and landlords.

Helena Molony of the ICA, said, “We saw a vision of Ireland, free, pure and happy. We did not realise that vision. But we saw it.”

As the socialist-republican youth of today, we commit ourselves to make that vision a reality and to build a Republic that the men and women of the Citizen Army would gladly call their own.”

MARKIEVICZ: “RESOLUTION, COURAGE AND COMMITMENT“

Breatnach was called back to the microphone and talked about the lessons to be learned from Constance Markievicz, co-founder of Na Fianna Éireann, the Irish Citizen Army and of Cumann na mBan, born in Britain “as were a number of our national and class heroes”, he said.

“Constance was born into a settler landlord family, the Gore-Booths”, he told the audience and her experience of witnessing deprivation, along with her sister Eva, during the Great Hunger, had a strong effect on both, inclining them to social reform and they became also suffragettes.

The speaker said that in that latter aspect and as a poet Eva became well-known particularly in England but Constance was better known as a revolutionary and for her allegiance to the working class and to the Irish nation.

December 7, 2022 from Under The Banyan by mike shanahan via thefreeonline

Human wellbeing threatened by ‘unprecedented’ rate of biodiversity loss

Conservation narratives about protected areas and local people are not telling the whole story

A new study highlights flaws in stories that conservation organizations often tell about how protected areas can improve the wellbeing of local people. It shows that some of the most entrenched narratives lack evidence and need more nuance. But it found stronger evidence for narratives that centre the rights and roles of indigenous people and local communities.

The findings are timely as the global community is striving to agree a new plan for conserving the planet’s biodiversity and securing the benefits it provides us. That deal, set to be agreed at the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022, could include a target of increasing protected areas to 30% of the world’s land area, from about 17% today.

The target has the backing of more than 100 countries and some major conservation organizations. But groups focusing on human rights, such as Survival International, Amnesty and the Rainforest Foundation UK say it is a “disaster” waiting to happen.

Explainer: COP15, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade

“Should it go ahead, it will constitute the biggest land grab in history, and rob millions of people of their livelihoods,” said Fiore Longo of Survival International in a press release on 1 December. “If governments are really meaningful about protecting biodiversity, the answer is simple: recognize the land rights of Indigenous peoples.”

The new study on conservation narratives, in the journal UCL Open: Environment, lends weight to that argument. The researchers investigated evidence for each of five common narratives about protected areas and human wellbeing in countries that the World Bank defines as low- or lower middle-income.

These narratives are prevalent. One or more of them appears on 138 of the 169 websites of conservation organizations that the study team reviewed. More than 70 percent of these organizations used the “conservation is pro-poor” narrative.

28 migrants fled from a plane en route from Casablanca to Istanbul that made an emergency landing in Barcelona after a false birth announcement. The passengers fled at night down the runway from a flight from Morocco at El Prat airport. The security forces have finally located half of those who escaped, but at least 14 are still free.

A plane from Casablanca (Morocco) had a forced landing this Wednesday in El Prat (Barcelona) after the false emergency of a woman giving birth. With this distracting event, 28 migrants have escaped from the plane. The security forces have already located half of those who have fled along the airfield runway.

Migrants flee plane that was forced to land after woman faked pregnancy …

Sources from the Government Delegation have explained that the plane, with 228 passengers, had the planned destination of Istanbul (Turkey) and asked to land in Barcelona at 4:30 a.m. to attend to a supposed medical emergency.

The usual protocol has been activated and two patrols from the Civil Guard, one from the National Police and the medical services have come to the track. When the woman disembarked, a group of 28 people left the plane trying to flee.

The agents on the runway have intercepted 14 people, including the pregnant woman: five have been returned to the plane – “because they want to and the plane’s staff accepts them”, according to the aforementioned sources – and eight have begun a process of inadmissibility and return to Morocco.

The other 14 escapees have disappeared and may be hidden by pro migrant organisations

READ ALSO: 2,000 people try to jump fence into Spanish enclave in Morocco

For her part, the woman who ‘suffered birth symptoms’ has been treated at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona, but no “indications of being in labor” have been found, for which she has been discharged but vwas then arrested for an alleged crime of public disorder by allegedly pretending to be in labor.

Baton-wielding riot police charge towards group of migrants in Barcelona after one failed to pay his fare …

The authorities are looking for the other 14 passengers who have gotten off the plane but that the Police have not intercepted on the runway.

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 Italy only allows a dozen migrants to disembark from two ships and threatens to return hundreds to the sea
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This is a case with similar characteristics to the one that occurred a year ago in Palma, Majorca.

In that case, 22 passengers on an Air Arabia flight that had landed in an emergency at Son Sant Joan due to a supposed medical emergency escaped from the plane. In the case of Palma, the investigation is already closed with those involved prosecuted for crimes of sedition and coercion.

Closely mirroring Wednesday’s escape, 24 people pushed past crew members and fled the plane, with cellphone footage showing men running across the airport tarmac. Police ultimately arrested half of them, who were Moroccan citizens along with one Palestinian man, but 12 others were never found.

Spain and Morocco are now collaborating strongly in enforcing stopping migrants at source and thousands have died trying to cross in boats, scale giant fences or swim.

Spain has done a dirty illegal deal with Morocco at the behest of the US and Israel to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over occupied Western Sahara, contradicting the UN, and leading to future great extraction profits from oil, gas and minerals, despite the ongoing resistance by the Saharawi people, recognized by Algeria, African countries and the UN.

Un grupo de migrantes huye de un avión que aterrizó de emergencia en Barcelona tras un falso aviso de parto

Varios pasajeros han huido de un vuelo procedente de Marruecos en el aeropuerto de El Prat. Las fuerzas de seguridad han localizado ya a la mitad de los que escaparon.

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Un avión procedente de Casablanca (Marruecos) ha tenido un aterrizaje forzoso este miércoles en El Prat (Bacerlona) tras la falsa emergencia de un parto de una mujer. Con este suceso de distracción, 28 migrantes se han escapado del avión. Las fuerzas de seguridad han localizado ya a la mitad de los que han huido por la pista del aeródromo.

Fuentes de la Delegación del Gobierno han explicado que el avión, con 228 pasajeros, tenía el destino previsto a Estambul (Turquía) y pidió aterrizar en Barcelona a las 4.30 horas para atender una supuesta emergencia médica..

Se ha activado el protocolo habitual y han acudido a la pista dos patrullas de la Guardia Civil, una de la Policía Nacional y los servicios médicos. Al desembarcar a la mujer, un grupo de 28 personas ha salido del avión intentado huir.

Los agentes en la pista han interceptado a 14 personas, incluida la mujer embarazada: cinco han sido devueltos al avión -“porque ellos quieren y el personal del avión los acepta”, según las citadas fuentes- y a ocho se les ha iniciado un proceso de inadmisión y retorno.

Por su parte, la mujer ha sido atendida en el Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona, pero no se le han encontrado “indicios de estar de parto”, por lo que se le ha dado el alta y ha sido detenida por un presunto delito de desórdenes públicos al supuestamente fingir que estaba de parto.

Las autoridades buscan a los otros 14 pasajeros que han bajado del avión pero que la Policía no ha interceptado en la pista.

Se trata de un caso de características similares al ocurrido hace un año en Palma. En este caso, 22 pasajeros de un vuelo de Air Arabia que había aterrizado de emergencia en Son Sant Joan por una supuesta urgencia médica se fugaron del avión. En el caso de Palma la investigación está ya cerrada con los implicados procesados por delitos de sedición y coacciones.

READ: Melilla: Europe’s risky gateway for migrants

(+note: This excellent exposé frames the Covid Crimes against Humanity as only affecting the ‘American People’. We add that these corrupt policies are still being repeated slavishly throughout the US-controlled West, killing and disabling millions of us.)

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH at Courageous Discourse on December 7, 2022 shared with thanks via thefreeonline

SCIENCE CORRUPTED – The Burning Platform

Why Doctors Push COVID-19 Vaccination so Hard

Patients commonly ask me why their other doctors push COVID-19 vaccination so hard still to this day with alarming safety statistics, loss of efficacy, and now a complete lack of human trial data with the bivalent boosters?

The answer may come by following a money trail from HHS and CDC called “COVID-19 Community Corps” that early in 2021 made undisclosed individual payments to hundreds of organizations to promote mass vaccination.

There were notable medical groups including the American Medical Association, American Association of Family Physicians, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Student Association.

$13,000,000,000 funding

More investigation is likely to reveal that federal money received was temporally linked to e-mail blasts, town hall meetings, and many other activities pushing mass vaccination.

Could COVID-19 Community Corps money to the AMA have been the reason why the AMA launched its campaign to “abolish” the use of ivermectin in 2021 so the public would be panicked into taking more shots?

Yes, it’s a good idea to bribe people to get vaccinated | CNN – May 13, 2021 “Over the past few months, public and private innovation in America has coalesced around one goal: bribe people in order to get them vaccinated against Covid-19. Getting people vaccinated is lofty and noble…“

How could the pediatric associations take federal money before the clinical trials for their patients were completed or the vaccines approved via EUA?

Most of Africa escaped mRNA jabbing for the first year for lack of cash. Then when funding became available the whole continent began refusing the vaccines. Africa has had a lucky escape with near ZERO short and long term vaccine deaths and crippling side effects. The ‘unjabbed’ have “mysteriously” evaded the plague of lost babies, cancers, myocardis, sudden deaths and plummeting birth rates.

December 7, 2022 / Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola / Fact Checked / shared with thanks / via thefreeonline

Scientists Struggle to Explain

Story at-a-glance

• “Vaccine equity” remains high on the global cabal’s list of priorities, even though real-world evidence shows the COVID shots have done more harm than good

The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why | Science | AAAS

• Africa, where fewer than 6% of people have received the COVID jab, have maintained an extremely low COVID-19 death rate throughout the last three years, likely because they didn’t have equal access to experimental COVID injections

Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster | AP News

• While wholly ignoring the African experience, U.S. media are now trying to scare people into taking additional shots for fall by warning of an incoming “tripledemic” of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
• The tripledemic narrative is scientifically implausible. Respiratory viruses tend to interfere with each other’s spread, such that one typically ends up dominating

!!Will You Survive the ‘Tripledemic’?? – ac.news!!

• Pfizer’s and Moderna’s pediatric trials both found RSV infection was more prevalent among children who got their COVID jabs than those who didn’t

The globalist cabal that invented and drove the make-believe COVID narrative is facing growing problems, as holes in the logic just keep getting larger over time. Case in point: The irrational promotion of vaccine equity.1

According to the World Health Organization and other globalist strongholds, the Western world must sponsor vaccine deliveries to developing nations to make sure everyone has an equal chance at survival.2

The problem is that developing nations with the lowest COVID jab uptakes have fared no worse, and in some cases far better, than developing countries that greedily “hoarded” shots and boosters for themselves.

The African Conundrum

According to early predictions, Africa would be decimated by COVID for lack of shots,3 yet the COVID death toll in Africa has remained consistently lower than anywhere else over the past three years. Everyone feigns surprise. No one can figure out why. In August 2020, Science magazine reported:4

“Antibody studies suggest large numbers of infections have occurred but the death toll remains low … After testing more than 3,000 blood donors, Uyoga and colleagues estimated in a preprint5 … that one in 20 Kenyans aged 15 to 64 — or 1.6 million people — has antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, an indication of past infection.

That would put Kenya on a par with Spain in mid-May6 when that country was descending from its coronavirus peak and had 27,000 official COVID-19 deaths. Kenya’s official toll stood at 100 when the study ended. And Kenya’s hospitals are not reporting huge numbers of people with COVID-19 symptoms.”

The situation was still the same in November 2021, when media reported that Africa, where fewer than 6% of people had received a COVID shot, was among the countries least affected by COVID. Researchers theorized that “lower rates of urbanization, genetic reasons or exposure to other diseases may have spared the continent the more lethal effects of the virus.”7

No one in mainstream media has been willing to address any of the towering elephants in the room, which include the fact that the COVID shots don’t prevent cases or deaths, that natural immunity is superior, and that COVID-19 was never as lethal a threat as they said it was. Africa gives us real-world evidence of these facts, yet the globalist cabal still insist that “vaccine equity” is an imperative goal.

Even though places like Africa didn’t have adequate access to COVID shots, and even though they fared just as well or better than the Western world where COVID shot uptake was high, the cabal insist we still need to make sure that, next time, Africa will get the same kind of injection coverage as the rest of the world.

This makes no sense, especially when you consider that the majority of COVID deaths in the U.S. and elsewhere now occur among those who got the COVID jabs.8