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No pasarán – cha jed ad shaghey! An nasc idir na meáin agus fás an fhaisisteachais

Seo thíos litir a scríobh ball de chuid Misneach, Ben Ó Ceallaigh, a foilsíodh i nuachtán ar an Oileán Mhanann. Cé go mbaineann an t-ábhar le heachtra ar leith ar an oileán, tá lón machnaimh sa litir do gach éinne atá ag plé le cúrsaí frith-faisisteacha sa Ghaeltacht, sna tíortha Ceilteacha agus níos faide i gcéin.

The recent publicity given by The Isle of Man Examiner to a dangerous fascist group which is actively trying to recruit on the island, including reproducing their leaflets in full and distributing them on social media, shows a blatant disregard for the welfare of those targeted by fascists and a complete lack of understanding of how these ideas take root. Indeed, the front page of the paper was described by one of the leaders of the group as “amazing publicity” in a recent social media post.

While most readers will recognise fascist ideas for the bile that they are, it only takes a small percentage to be persuaded for people’s lives to be at very real risk. Famously, in the week after the leader of the fascist British National Party was disgraced on Question Time in 2009, 3,000 people applied to join the party – a tiny percentage of the eight million who watched, but a huge increase in absolute numbers for a fringe neo-nazi group. This is the risk of publicising ideas that present an existential threat to all that is decent in society. Across the world, laws proscribe hate speech, incitement to violence and other unacceptable actions such as marketing tobacco to children – very few people are truly “free speech absolutists” who oppose such measures. Likewise, such is the nature of the “paradox of tolerance”, as philosopher Karl Popper called it, that we must not extend freedom of speech to fascists, who will deny this very right to others at the first chance. Reproducing their propaganda and circulating it to a huge audience as The Isle of Man Examiner has done is politically illiterate and utterly ignorant of the nature of the fascist threat. This matter is especially serious given the context of the recent fearmongering about sex education in the QEII High School in Peel.

Groups such as the one recently reported on aim to sow division and hate, scapegoating the most vulnerable in society for problems which are caused by an economic system that makes the lives of so many so difficult. In presenting immigrants and refugees as responsible for issues such as the housing crisis or austerity, fascists serve as useful idiots for the powerful, distracting attention from the real source of people’s woes. As Max Horkheimer, a Jewish refugee from nazi Germany, famously wrote in 1939, “whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism”.

As has often been noted, rather than beginning with death camps, fascism ends with them. By giving such an enormous platform to a nauseating white supremacist group, the Isle of Man Examiner has unwittingly contributed to the growth of this ideology, and in doing so put at risk immigrants, people of colour, LGBT+ people, trade unionists and many more who fall afoul of the disgusting ideas spread by fascist groups. Let this mistake not be made again, and all their propaganda removed from the paper’s online presence immediately.

Anti-fascism is self-defence. No pasarán – cha jed ad shaghey!

An Dr. Ben Ó Ceallaigh

Ollscoil Aberystwyth

Cuirimís deireadh leis an bhFaisisteachas

Ar an Satharn beag seo (14/12/2019) i mBleá Cliath beidh léirsiú “ar son na síochána agus i gcoinne pholaitíocht na hainnise”, arna eagrú ag an dream Solidarity Alliance Against Racism and Fascism (SARF).

Is eagraíocht leathan í SARF a tháinig le chéile sa mbliain 2016 chun seasaimh in éadan lucht Pegida a bhí ag iarraidh eagrú sa tír. Is grúpa Ioslamafóibeach é Pegida a theastaíonn uathu go mbeidh forlámhas ag daoine geala.

Tacaíonn neart eagraíochtaí éagsúla le haidhmeanna SARF. Ina measc tá roinnt mhaith ceardchumann, grúpaí frith-chiníocha, grúpaí ar son an Lucht Siúil agus dreamannaí eile nach iad atá lonnaithe ar an eite chlé.

Tá an agóid seo le teacht le chéile lasmuigh de Theach Laighean ag a 1 i.n. chun teachtaireacht láidir a sheoladh do na faisistithe inár gcuid pobal. Tá leithéidí an ceardchumann Mandate, Comhdháil na gCeardchumainn, agus amhránaithe amhail Christy Moore tar éis tacaíocht a léiriú don agóid.

Faraor, tá gá práinneach ann bailiú le chéile mar gheall go bhfuil borradh ag teacht faoin eite dheis i stát na Sé Chontae Fichid. Baineann an dream seo mí-úsáid as coincheapa amhail “saoirse cainte” le cur i gcoinne reachtaíochta atá beartaithe ag an rialtas maidir leis an bhfuathchaint.

Tá tábhacht leis an tsaoirse cainte, gan dabht. Ach ní thugann an tsaoirse chéanna cead a dtoil do dhuine bheith ciníoch go poiblí ar ardáin ar nós na meáin sóisialta agus ceap milleáin a dhéanamh as mionlaigh.

Dar ndóigh, nuair a dhíríonn na hamadáin seo a gcuid gráin ar na mionlaigh agus nuair a chuireann siad an milleán orthu d’iliomad fadbhannaí an stáit chaipitligh, tá obair shalach na bunaíochta ar bun acu.

Ní hiad na mionlaigh is cúis leis an ngéarchéim tithíochta nó an léirscrios atá déanta ar an gcóras sláinte. Is iad lucht an rachmais is cúis leis. Dá bhrí sin, is namhaid an lucht oibre iad na faisistithe seo agus is mithid dúinn seasamh go láidir ina gcoinne.

Beidh Misneach ann ag a 1 i.n. amárach lasmuigh de Theach Laighean. Bígí linn agus cuirimís deireadh leis an bhfaisisteachas!

Seasaimís in aghaidh an fhaisisteachais

Tá MISNEACH ag iarraidh ar lucht labhartha na Gaeilge a bheith i measc na slóite a chuirfidh in éadan na ngrúpaí faisisteacha nuair a bheas siad i mBéal Feirste Dé Sathairn (14/07/2018) ar 2.30in.

Léirionn an stair gurb eard a tharlaíonn le faisisteachas má dhéantar neamhaird air ach go bhfásann sé, ní hea go dtitfidh an tóin as muna dtugtar dúshláin dó.

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