RSYM member harassed by Special Branch

national | miscellaneous | press release Wednesday January 30, 2008 01:16 by reabhloid dearg

The RSYM have reacted angrily to the harassment of its membership by Garda Special Branch in the Co. Dublin area.

Republican Socialist Youth Movement
Tuesday, 29th of January 2008

The RSYM have reacted angrily to the harassment of its membership by Garda Special Branch in the Co. Dublin area.

Spokesperson Sean McGowan said “A relatively new member of the RSYM had his home visited by Special Branch officers who proceeded to ask questions on individual IRSP members and on the party in general.”

We see this as a government led upsurge that has a clear agenda to discredit the Republican Socialist Movement and to neutralise new and potential members. This policy has also manifested itself in the press; we have seen stories running for weeks recurrent claiming the RSM is involved in drugs and other criminal activity in Dublin.”

We see this as paving the road further for what we have witnessed earlier today when an IRSP member from Waterford was imprisoned, prior to being held for over half a year under the notorious Offences Against the State Act (Section 30) - political activists are now imprisoned, essentially being framed a non-jury court in a country billed to be a democracy for being members of an open, democratic and legal political party.”

Mr. McGowan concluded “The harassment of young Republican Socialists must be placed within a proper political context, the state have plenty to fear from the growth and development of the IRSP and its youth organisation. But no amount of black propaganda and harassment can stop this organisation advancing and moving forward.”