Socialist Party of Ireland support Imperialism

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday November 13, 2002 20:36 by Damian Lawlor jflalor at hotmail dot com

Socialist Party of Ireland support Imperialism in Queens University Belfast

For over a year now the British Army has been engaged in an imperialist war in Afghanistan. It will also soon be travelling to Iraq to kill more civilians and impose the British and American governments will on people in the middle east. This follows a long and already bloody record of the British armed forces abroad.
Considering the British Armies record both historical and recent you would think that any socialist would oppose there activities in any way they could. This is isn’t the case though. Socialist Pary member Andy Ward is on the QUB Students Union executive. When the issue of the British Army at the Union’s open Day recently came up Mr Ward supported this imperialist army. Also when contacted about this the Socialist Party refused to reply.
What a disgrace. A party calling itself socialist supporting imperialism.