New Year Message 2024/25

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement sends revolutionary greetings to all republican and socialist activists, to all imprisoned comrades and their families and to all our people struggling in their social and economic lives.

We especially send solidarity greetings to the people of occupied Palestine as they withstand the genocidal onslaught from Zionist and western imperialist forces. The ongoing colonisation and displacement of peoples throughout the Middle East is leaving a trail of devastation in its wake with the added destructive legacy that proxy Western regimes visit upon their own people in terms of persecution, corruption and theft of national resources.

We commend the activism of the BDS Movement, and all Palestinian support groups and we urge republican involvement at every level to counter the Western-Zionist genocide against the people of Palestine.

As we enter yet another year with the partition of our country more entrenched than ever, and Irish republicanism reduced to the status of impotent bystanders, we reiterate our call for a radical rethink within Irish republicanism. We are in the midst of generational change wherein the political influence that can be brought to bear does not stem from an experience of the recent phase of our struggle but of its relevance, if any, that republicans can bring from it to the Ireland of today.

The result of the recent election in the Twenty-Six Counties confirms our analysis that the body politic of that state is firmly in the control of conservative and reactionary elements across the electoral spectrum. The issue of ending partition was completely absent from that campaign which means for the foreseeable future the restoration of our national sovereignty will have zero electoral value for the political careerists.

In an editorial in the Belfast Media, a Provisional Sinn Fein mouthpiece, a stark admission was made that the direction which policing in the Six Counties is taking is in accordance with that republican analysis which vigorously warned against accepting the RUC/PSNI in the first place.

But such an admission cannot be isolated to one arm of the functioning of the statelet. The malaise runs deep in the very fabric of the gerrymandered entity vindicating the republican view that partition is beyond reform and that only the full restoration of our national sovereignty can bring peace and prosperity to all the people of Ireland.

British control over the Six Counties is not dependent on a functioning Stormont, which is self-evident, nor is there redemption for Irish republicanism if that institution collapses. These are the distractions carefully fostered by London and Dublin and used by establishment nationalists to feign revolutionary intent. Yet this is the prevailing narrative which goes largely unchallenged and entering 2025 this is what Irish republicanism must urgently address with a revolutionary narrative of our own.

Beir Bua

Belfast 32CSM Challenge PSNI

On Tuesday November 3rd there was a "public" event at the policing board headquarters in the GasWorks area of Belfast which was supposed to be a consultation on the PSNI policing plan for the next 5 years.

Three of our members attended this event in order to call out and expose the charade of community policing, however, it soon became clear that this was far from a public event. Instead it was a closed door meeting involving assistant chief constable Chris Todd, vice chair of the policing board Brendan Mullan, a handful of ‘independent’ policing board members and 4 others which included representatives of Ulster GAA and Victim Support.

As we began questioning the operations, accountability and the legality of the PSNI Chris Todd tried to save face by telling us we could talk about it after the event, needless to say we continued.

Questions were put to Todd about continuing PSNI collaboration with the British army to which he denied, he also denied the British army were still here in the occupied 6 counties. He further denied that British military personnel wear PSNI uniforms and perform stop and search operations against Republicans and their families.

When asked about the use of children as informers this was predictably denied outright, however, when Todd was told the PSNI’s official policy around using child informers, or in their terms ‘human covert intelligence sources’, so long as an appropriate adult is present, he turned bright red and began stuttering in his feeble attempts to deny knowledge of the PSNI’s own policies.

Staying on the topic of children as keeping them safe is one of the main themes of this policing plan, we asked what Todds thoughts were in relation to children being strip searched by the PSNI, he initially denied this happened but reneged when we gave statistics of a report from the childrens commissioner. When trying to make excuses Todd was ushered on by policing board vice chair Brendan Mullan who kept shouting over the top of questions that this wasn’t the time or place. We were then quietly told by one of the independent policing board members that they had to stick to the agenda or risk being “started on by the one’s in charge”.

While the responses and excuses from Chris Todd weren’t in the slightest bit surprising, what did strike us as odd was the fact that not a single political representative on the policing board was present, not even the so-called justice minister Naomi Long, nor was there any other members of the general public. This confirmed to us the meeting was simply a box ticking job, that the PSNI will continue as an unjust British police force with little to no accountability and that the next 5 years are already written without public input or interests.

The policing board is designed for one thing only, to publicly wave a finger at the PSNI, nothing else. The board would be better sticking a middle finger up to the public then atleast they’d be making an honest gesture.

The PSNI is and always has been a dysfunctional, discredited and sectarian militia of the British state. Some years ago the Sovereignty Movement made a legitimate challenge under international law to policing in occupied Ireland. In our document ‘The Necessity Of Policing’ we outline the fallacy of policing in the occupied 6 while at the same time not outright rejecting the idea of policing. We instead recognise it as a social necessity and offer a pragmatic, coherent and legitimate strategy on how to challenge the issue.

Over the coming weeks and months we will be meeting with different groups, organisations and the general public to discuss how best to move forward and progress the challenge to British policing here. Anyone interested can contact the page, our emails and phone numbers or ask any of our members for more information.

The following link is to the document 'The Necessity Of Policing'.

https://www.32csm.org/the-necessity-of-policing

Cork Cumann Retrieve Stolen Motorbike

The following is a statement from Cork 32 County Sovereignty Movement.

Sunday the 17th of November Cork 32 County Sovereignty Movement were contacted by a Family whos Sons Motorbike was stolen. The young man had saved up the 6,500 euros to purchase the bike and was dependent on it to get to and from Work.

The 32CSM asked the community for information on the bike and very quickly established who took it and where it could be located.

We would like to commend our activists who carried out the retrieval of the bike in a dignified, disciplined and Republican manner and were able to reunite it with the young owner.

We would also like to thank the Community as what was achieved could not have been done without their help.

This is another example of what can be achieved when people reject anti-social behaviour which affects our working class.

BEIR BUA.