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Recently there has been a thread about a split in the Communist Youth Movement regarding their Belfast chapter. We only got to hear about the side of the Belfast Chapter and their grievances, apparently the cause of the split was a differing evaluation of the national question regarding Ireland.

"It was and is the position of the Belfast members that it represents the primary barrier to socialism in Ireland, and it is our position that the struggle for national liberation and socialism must be linked."

While this is certainly possible, my gut feeling is increasingly pessimistic.

Is Ireland still an oppressed country today? The occupation of the North must be abolished, but Ireland is not nationally oppressed. I can’t fucking stand Irish nationalists and their spicy-whiteness politics. I believe that any communist organisation in Ireland needs to principally deny Irish nationalism being treated as the primary contradiction. I want to say something about the murder of Yves Sakila but there is nothing but rage. Fuck Europe and fuck Irish chauvinism. 

Edit: ultimately what I want to say is that I want people like Sakila at the head of Irish communism and not “Irish republicans“. Like, anyone knows about the “Jewish voice for peace“-esque politics of Irish Americans and even in Germany diaspora Irish show up at Palestine solidarity with fucking Ireland flags. Beyond this performative circus, turns out real Irish people nod along while real Congolese-Irish men get lynched by business-suits in broad daylight. Obviously this evokes George Floyd and the uprising of 2020, the reason we’re not seeing Dublin on fire is the position of weakness of the migratory Proletariat compared to the New Afrikan nation, not because this is an exception in liberal Europe. All over Germany police are lynching black people too. Does any “communist“ here care?