As a working class organisation and union initiative made up of both local and migrant working class people we awoke to the news of a brutal and shocking attack in North Belfast last night. Our thoughts, as they must be are primarily with the victim, who remains in a critical condition as we issue this statement, and his family. This attack must of course be utterly condemned and can have no justification.
No justification can be given either to the fascistic and racist manipulation of this brutal and shocking attack to scapegoat the entire migrant population and further promote the politics of hate and reaction. The far right agitators in both of our ‘main’ communities are stoking fear and outrage in furtherance of a hateful agenda that offers nothing to working class communities. We are all confronted with the reality of social and economic hardship heaped upon us by capitalism and state.
Among others the DUP and the IRSP have ‘leaned in’ to anti-immigrant propaganda and right-wing populism and should be utterly condemned – along with blatantly fascist agitators – for doing so. Instead of using this brutal attack to turn on many of the most vulnerable people in our society it is essential that we build working class unity in opposition to homelessness, austerity, a failing health services and the multiple other problems heaped upon the working class and the poor.
Class unity is necessary in the face of fanaticism and brutality – a fanaticism and brutality welcomed, stoked and engaged in by the racist and fascist gangs calling people out onto the streets to engage in violence and intimidation. We hope everyone can stay safe over the coming days and extend our solidarity to the entirety of the working class – migrant and local – in Belfast and across the North in these worrying and dangerous times.
Organise! IWA
June 09 2026
Originally posted:
organiseanarchistsireland.com/organise-iwa-statement-on-recent-attack-in-north-belfast
