Posts Tagged ‘Closing Borders’
1. Six-County Cops – Softly, Softly Against Racists 2. Twenty Six County Cops – target non-whites crossing Ireland’s “open(ish)” border
The two reports below tell us that policies operated by police forces operation in the two partitioned bits of Ireland – the Gardaí Síochána (Guardians of the Peace) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) [a child of the hated Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)] are racist-friendly.
The news reports are related :
Claire Mullaly, a spokesperson for End Deportations Now Belfast told The Irish News that gardaí boarded the bus and began asking passengers for identification.
She said they specifically removed non-white passengers who could not produce documents while allowing white passengers in the same predicament to remain on board. She branded the incident as “disgraceful” in light of the anti-immigrant violence that took place in Northern Ireland in recent days.
Both reports come from the Belfast Irish News.

PSNI officers told not to intervene during race riots unless life at risk
Connla Young, Crime and Security Correspondent, Irish News, June 17th, 2025
DETAILS OF INSTRUCTION SENT IN EMAIL
PSNI officers were told not to interfere with violent mobs during last week’s race riots unless life was at risk.
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Jun 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm
Posted in 1921 Treaty Partitioning Ireland, Ballymena, Direct Provision - Irish Gombeen State Racism, Dublin’s racist mobs hit the city centre, 23.11.23, Garda Síochána (Irish State Police Force - "The Guards"), Gerry Carroll MLA (Stormont), History of Ireland, Ireland, Ireland's Open(ish) Border, Irish News Newspaper (Belfast), Mainstream Media, Mark H Durkan - Policing Board member - SDLP, Media Sources - Reliable Versus Unreliable, People Before Profit, Police Forces in Ireland, Police Misbehaviour, Racism, RUC/PSNI, SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party), Six County State
Tagged with Anti Immigrant Sentiment, Asylum Processes, Closing Borders, Emigration, far-right, Gerry Carroll MLA (PBP), hug-a-thug-policy, Human Rights, Ireland, Ireland's Open(ish) Border, light-touch-policing, migrants, migration, partition, Playing to the Racist Gallery, police, police harassment, politics, Pushbacks on EU Borders, Racism, racist-pickets-of-family-homes, Transform migration policies - prevent undignified treatment of foreigners
Racism: The socialism of Fools; Racist Cancer Spreading from Ballymena in Ireland
Introduction :
The writer Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh offers very valuable insights into the June 2025 pogroms spreading from Ballymena in North Antrim to other towns in the 6 County bit of Ireland, notably Larne and Portadown. These vile events are related to similar sewer eruptions in the 26 county bit of Ireland and fit into a global rise of genocidal-racist powers such as Putin’s Russia, Netanyahu’s Israel, and their protectors such as Donald Trump’s USA. The latter is still a capitalist bourgeois democracy – but credible analysts now ask – for how long?
Below Fearghal’ s timely article – which contains very useful warnings from history : relevant references are made to the Marxist scholars and activists August Bebel, Victor Serge and Ernest Mandel :
We add :
A chilling report of an interview with the DUP Westminster MP for the Upper Bann constituency, Carla Lockhart.
A stark report from the 6 County bit of Ireland headlined “Week of Violence in North “Akin to 1930s Germany”

Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
Link :
Ballymena; Racism the Socialism of Fools; Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
I recently discussed three interconnected issues on Raidió na Gaeltachta: reform to the South’s rent caps benefiting landlords and international funds, Trump’s authoritarian militarization of US protests, and the racist attacks in Ballymena/Larne.
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Jun 14, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Posted in 26 County State (Ireland), Apartheid, August Bebel, Authoritarian Regimes in the the 2020's, “A Carnival of Reaction” - James Connolly’s Warning About the Partition of Ireland, Ballymena, BBC, Cancer, Democratic Unionist Party, Donald Trump, USA President, Ernest Mandel, Fourth International, Gavin Robinson MP DUP East Belfast, Genocide, Germany, Global Anti-Trump Protests Erupt - April 5 2025, Gordon Lyons MLA, History of Ireland, Holocaust, Housing, imperialism, Ireland, Israel, Left Wing Opponents of Neoliberalism, Mainstream Media, marxism, Nazi Movement, 1930's, Rent Caps, Ireland, Resistance to Nazi Occupation Régimes, Russia, Scapegoats, Six County State, Trump-Putin, Victor Serge, Vladimir Putin, War, Whataboutery in the 6 County bit of Ireland, World War 2
Tagged with A Call for Action, A Call for Discussion, affordable housing, Anti Immigrant Sentiment, anti-capitalist-resistance, Anti-Fascist, Asylum Processes, Closing Borders, Comprador Capitalist Class, Double Standards on Racism, Dublin Governments, Europe's Housing Crisis, extreme-right, hate-stokers, housing-crisis, Immigration, Intertwining migrant histories, Ireland's Open(ish) Border, Irish Peace Process Lies, Left Wing Opponents of Austerity and Neoliberalism, Nazi Night of the Long Knives in the 1930's, Recruit People from outside the EU to Jobs in Ireland, reform-uk, refugees, Sinn Féin, Whataboutery in the 6 County bit of Ireland
The FFFGBG (Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Beggar Gombeens) Programme for Government – Racist Devils in the Detail
A friend has begun vital work – examination of the 2025 FFFGBG Programme for Government, which contains lots of measures these parties did not propose during the recent general election campaign.
Alarming things
The programme for government has a few alarming things in it – (and the government has a few alarming people in it) eg there’s lots of commitment to reduce carbon emissions alongside actions and plans that will directly increase carbon emissions. There’s a bunch of mangled science around the particular characteristics of methane and it’s basically a valentine card to those involved in data center construction.
Shutting people up over Israel’s genocide
It also has a commitment to recognise a particular and highly contested definition of anti- semitism which would help those who want us to shut up about Israel’s genocide and occupation – and which was as far as I can remember not part of any single party or politician’s election platform. It would be very interesting to find out how and from where and on whose request this made it into the programme.
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Jan 30, 2025 at 4:03 pm
Posted in 1921 Treaty Partitioning Ireland, 2004 Referendum Amending Citizenship Definition in Irish Constitution, Adoption, Apartheid, “A Carnival of Reaction” - James Connolly’s Warning About the Partition of Ireland, Beggar-Gombeens (BGs), Catholic Church, Censorship, Child Abuse, Corruption, Direct Provision - Irish Gombeen State Racism, Dublin Governments, Emigration and Immigration, Feminism, FFFGGG Coalition, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Gombeens, Poltroons, History of Ireland, Hope and Courage Collective, Human Rights, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Ireland's Open(ish) Border, Irish General Election February 8 2020, Irish General Election November 29 2024, Israel, Israel Assault on Gaza, October 2023, Legislation in Ireland to Legalise Abortion, Martyn Turner, Cartoonist, Mobilising to Oppose Violence Against Women, Moriarty Tribunal, Mother and Child Scheme, Noël Browne, Seán MacBride, Clann na Poblachta, Racism, Saint Rita’s Nursing Home, Ranelagh, The Irish Times, University Occupations, Israeli Genocide 2025, Vatican, Violence Against Women, Women
Tagged with Abortion, Alternative Government, Anti Immigrant Sentiment, Closing Borders, Corruption, Dublin Governments, Elections, FFFGGG Coalition, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Forgetting Migrants Are people, Gaza, history, Hope Not Hate, Human Rights, Ireland, irish-politics, Israel's Genocidal War, Majority of Irish People Welcome Migrants, migrants, migration, news, open-borders, openish-border, Palestine, Playing to the Racist Gallery, politics, Racism
Musk vs Maga on Immgration
A war between vipers in the USA.
During Christmas 2024, writes Simon Hannah, the internet was a blaze with a fierce row on the far right in the USA.

This useful story comes from the British website, Anti-Capitalist Resistance.
Link :
Musk V Maga on Immigration
Key grassroots leaders of the recently triumphant MAGA movement went to war with Elon Musk on the question of immigration, in a spectacular argument that pointed to political divisions within their movement.
Tensions were already rising as Musk fanboys had started to promote their favourite capitalist as a co-president or ‘the real VP’ which angered the rampant egotism of Donald Trump who does not tolerate any competition. Musk made clear at a recent rally that Musk could never be president. Why? Because “He wasn’t born here”. Musk, a South African who is now naturalised as a US citizen would always ultimately be an outsider for the MAGA people.
This was the kindling for the wider explosion. Just before Christmas Day, Trump appointed US-Indian venture capitalist Siram Krishnan to be policy lead on AI. This was met with anger from some of the MAGA faithful – Krishnan had previously been a Democrat supporter so was seen as a suspect, but also crucially – not American. Well not fully ‘American’ in the way that they care about i.e. white.
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Jan 6, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Posted in Democratic Party USA, Donald Trump, USA President, Elon Musk, Emigration and Immigration, Germany, Ireland, Migration in Europe, Nazi Movement, 1930's, Night of the Long Knives, Racism, USA, USA Far Right
Tagged with anti-capitalist-resistance, Closing Borders, Donald trump, Elon Musk, MAGA, Nazi Night of the Long Knives in the 1930's, news, politics, Steve Bannon, trump
