Belfast 32CSM On PCSP Meetings

The following is a statement from Belfast WolfeTone/McCracken cumann in relation to a meeting of the PCSP in West Belfast on Monday 24/02/2025.

Today our members disrupted a meeting in west Belfast of the PCSP, Policing and Community Safety Partnership. These meetings and the panel of PCSP representatives are designed for one reason, to normalise and legitimise the presence of crown force personnel in our communities.

A range of those in attendance today were paid to be there, and the lack of local residents attending voluntarily shows the factual lack of support for the PSNI in the community- despite the utterances of constitutional parties and certain members of the press.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement's position on policing in occupied Ireland is clear, the PSNI is a British political police force, it can never be normal, it will never be impartial and it will never be acceptable in Republican communities.

Questions must be asked of those representatives from a certain political party today issuing threats of violence and trying to intimidate Republicans out of the room. Their defence and acceptance of the PSNI seemingly goes against their own party's recent stance on policing. 

Back in December a propaganda paper for constitutional nationalism published an article stating "Those of us within the nationalist community who took a gamble in 2007 and decided to go with the PSNI project faced down stern warnings - mostly, but not all from dissident republican elements, the simple fact is that those who warned against taking a policing punt have pretty much been vindicated". 

Only last week the same paper published an article entitled "How close are we to calling for the PSNI to be disbanded?" and detailed "a vanguard of the RUC stayed to shape the organisation in its own image, to maintain the reputation of the RUC, and to protect former RUC officers from scrutiny regarding violations. Not every member of the RUC, or members of the PSNI once in the RUC, were in that vanguard, but many were, and they succeeded".

These admissions and other recent events garnering the support of a once republican party, such as the Sean Grahams rememberance fiasco, would imply a shift in thinking and raises the question of why their members are so vehemently supportive of the PSNI in our community? Is it to keep their funding streams alive perhaps?

10 years ago at a similar public meeting in Ligoniel, north Belfast, members of our cumann were arrested, charged and sentenced in British courts for daring to challenge the narrative. Local councillors present that day gave statements against our members who then subsequently received jail sentences and fines. No doubt the criminalising of those who dare challenge the status quo will continue after today's event.

We managed to have the event today cancelled as soon as it started with the chairperson stating to those in attendance that they had met their statutory obligations and done what they set out to do, to us that means they got their 30 pieces in funding for betraying the people of west Belfast. 

The PSNI continue to be complicit in collusion, continue to refuse truth to the families of loved ones murdered by the state, continue to abuse, harass and intimidate our communities on a daily basis and at its core, is a culture of rampant sectarianism. 

British policing has no place in our society and to address it we must address the root cause of their being here- the continued British claim to sovereignty over the occupied 6 counties.

Reject British policing in Ireland now, beir bua.

James Lillis Commemoration

The following oration was read at the graveside of IRA Volunteer James Lillis in Carlow yesterday. The oration was delivered by Phil O'Donoghue, lifelong republican and the last surviving member of the infamous Brookborough raid.

A chairde, I would like to thank the family and contemporary comrades of Volunteer James Lillis for inviting me to speak at his commemoration here today. It is an onerous honour to stand at the graves of our patriot dead because it is here Irish republicanism must be at its most self-critical.

It is over a hundred years since IRA Volunteer James Lillis was executed by Free State forces in Carlow Barracks. His executioners, the Free State army, came into existence from an act of the British Parliament as a counter revolutionary force to combat the defenders of the Irish Republic, Oglaigh Na hEireann. It is a role they continue to this day, ably aided and abetted by a modern counter-revolutionary force, Provisional Sinn Féin.

We are kind when we call them politically and militarily illiterate because they had the clear guidance of both history and sacrifice to guide them on the proper path to national sovereignty. They bartered peace in Ireland for auction politics and the illusion that British interests in Ireland are concerned with Irish rights.

Their prospective partners in government are either those who executed seventy-seven republicans in Free State Jails or those who brought the English hangman to do the same in their so called Twenty-Six County Republic.

There is no all-Ireland architecture in a British treaty that maintains a claim of British sovereignty over a part of Ireland. Our national sovereignty remains violated and the delusion that it can be ended by vesting control of constitutional change in a British Minister is a betrayal of history and logic.

Domestic governance under British rule is not a stepping stone towards separatist objectives but rather a strategic outworking of British foreign policy as it concerns its own military and economic goals.

A 32 County Ireland enmeshed in the infrastructure of NATO, the British Commonwealth and Western bankers is an Ireland far removed from that envisaged in the Proclamation of 1916 and the Democratic Programme of Dáil Eireann. Like Volunteer James Lillis we are not for Home Rule, we are for the republic of Tone, Connolly, Barry and Sands.

The struggle for Irish freedom has made common cause with many other similar struggles throughout the world. And as we stand here today our thoughts must turn to the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine.

The relentless 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.

But as we call for an immediate end to the Zionist genocide the voice of Irish republicanism also calls for the full restoration of Palestinian sovereignty as a first and necessary step to rebuilding peace and stability in the region.

We commend republican activists for their frontline involvement in the many Palestinian support groups especially the vanguard activism of the BDS Movement. But we must not lose sight of the needs of our own struggle.

We cannot stand at graves such as these and shirk our responsibilities as to the fractured nature of today’s Republican Movement. Our patriot dead display a perfect unity by the selfless sacrifice they have paid for Ireland’s freedom.

In the absence of our ability to impact on the national political narrative it may be that our only recourse to gain some form of republican cohesion is to return to these graves and demand it of ourselves.

Every county in Ireland holds graves of our patriot dead. They also contain monuments and marking stones of our leaders and significant events throughout the republican struggle.

Let republicans in each of those counties make it their solemn duty to identify those graves and monuments and through local initiative and leadership organise commemorations, not simply to honour them, but to rally the core republican message in their name.

Let this be the task for the new year for those assembled today. There is no national republican leadership so leadership must begin here. Irish republicanism will not be restructured from the top down but from the grassroots up.

We do not need new organisations, nor new slogans nor the illusion of unity to bolster numbers. Our patriot dead did not give up their lives for praise, they did so as a deliberate military, political and ideological act to advance the cause of Irish freedom.

There is only one question from the grave of Volunteer James Lillis and that is; are we there yet? It is an onerous task to try and answer it but answer it we must.

Beir Bua!

32CSM Response To Nolan Show

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement reject the accusations made by UUP and DUP on today’s Nolan show that our anti policing posters contained a threat of intimidation.

The only thing these posters contain are facts. The current threat level imposed by British intelligence service MI5 is at substantial. This is evidence enough for any member of the public to ascertain that officers of the PSNI would live in fear and feel the need to look over their shoulder constantly due to a high risk of injury. These points are also evidenced in the fact that each officer receives a danger payment of £4000 annually while civilian staff receive £600 based on the current threat level.

The latest recruitment campaign by the PSNI received one of the lowest amounts of applications in years from those of a Catholic background and the lowest total amount of applications, further proving that people are waking up to the charade of the dysfunctional police force. This along with the multitude of recent embarrassments by the PSNI reflects negatively on the politicians sitting on the policing board, as well as their respective parties, and in an attempt to save face have sought to use our poster as a means to deflect from their own political failures.

So long as Britain retains its claim of sovereignty over the 6 counties, policing under whichever banner, be it the PSNI or the RUC, will always be political, never impartial and the 32 County Sovereignty Movement will not be found wanting in exposing it.