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When you submit your application, someone will make initial contact with you usually through text or social media, and failing that, via email. This initial contact will seek to arrange a phone call with you, the purpose of which is to ensure that you are fully informed about the organisation that you are joining, our general worldview, and our positions and policies. This phone call can be fairly short or as long as you need. Typically, we are seeking to introduce you to a member of the organisation as an initial point of contact and to equip you with all the information necessary for you to make an informed decision. It is an opportunity for you to raise any questions you may have.

You can complete as little or as much of the form below that you would like; the more you complete, then the shorter the call.

If you would prefer to discuss all or some of the below over a call instead, then just leave it blank and we’ll discuss it with you. Though questions marked with an * are required. Additionally, if you have any questions that you do not find the answers to on this page, you can note them here as part of your application or simply ask us during the call.

The information provided here is designed to make sure you are as fully informed as you can be. You do not need to be an expert in every aspect of Lasair Dhearg or our policies and positions. To join you must be over 18 years of age and living in Ireland. Any information shared with us is treated with the strictest of confidence.

Bodily Autonomy

Lasair Dhearg is a pro-choice organisation - we believe it is a person's right to choose to have an abortion and that this should be supported through the relevant health system.

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Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation

Lasair Dhearg believes, based on the available evidence, that anyone suffering from any kind of an addiction is suffering from some form of trauma - be it gambling, eating, alcoholism, sex or drugs. We do not believe that anyone suffering from an addiction should be criminalised by a supposed 'criminal & justice system' that further traumatises. Those suffering from addiction need an adequately resourced health system and the requisite support to begin the process of healing and sobriety, not criminal records. For this reason, we support the complete decriminalisation of all drugs. This does not mean that we support drug use, sale or supply, especially amongst our membership. Anyone selling drugs or taxing drug dealers is profiting from someone else's trauma, which is as an anti-community activity.

If you would like to read our policy more in depth, you can view it by clicking here (will open and download in new page/tab).

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Immigration, Capitalism & Imperialism in Ireland

Increased migration into Europe, including the island of Ireland is a direct result of imperialist wars and the exploitative nature of the capitalist economic system prevalent across the globe. Both capitalist economic systems and their associated governments in Ireland are deliberately underfunding public services in favour of growth in the private sector. This ideologically driven process has nothing to do with immigration, it will happen regardless of migrant numbers, and it seeks to undermine the public provision of services and reduce supply and access; this includes housing, healthcare and more. The purpose of this is to create a reduction in the state’s public responsibility whilst overseeing the wholesale transfer of public funds into private hands.

It is not the case that increased immigration is the primary cause of placing strain on the provision of housing or healthcare but rather that the deliberate state-driven throttling back of provision and the underfunding of resources is creating an artificial resource reduction for the purposes of maximising profits. This especially applies to the respective healthcare and housing systems across Ireland.

Concerns about crime rates rising along with increasing migration are unfounded, in fact, all evidence is to the contrary - there are no links between increasing migration and increasing crime.

When it comes to housing, direct provision and other forms of state-provided shelter for Irish citizens and non-Irish citizens, we are all being viciously exploited by the state, the landlord class, and the capitalist economic system. That system is deliberately designed to exploit those existing within the confines of both failed states and, as such, any changes within that system will not bring to an end all forms of exploitation. Only the creation of an Irish Socialist Republic will resolve that exploitation, by removing the very system that enforces it.

The evidence is clear - reduced access to housing, healthcare or other public services, is not a migrant issue. It is an issue of capitalism and deliberate underfunding by governments.

If you would like to read our policy in depth, you can view it by clicking here (will open and download in new page/tab).

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The Good Friday Agreement

They say that the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to violence - it didn’t. It was an attempt by the British state to end the violence directed at its presence in Ireland. The violence of homelessness, mental illness, forced stop & searches, addiction, suicide, plastic bullets, access to healthcare, abject poverty and more was allowed to continue for the rest of us. Many decades of the ‘peace process’ was an outstanding success for the interests of capitalism and the British state, and an exceptional failure for the achievement of Republican objectives or any other meaningful outcomes for the rest of us.

From the perspective of the Republican Movement, the Good Friday Agreement represents an abysmal failure to achieve its objectives. Unable to score any meaningful goals, it persists in moving the goal-posts - gone are the cries of  ‘a Socialist Republic’, replaced with calls for ‘An Agreed Ireland’, whatever exactly that might be; though absent of socialism, that much is clear.

Do we condemn subsequent generations over the next quarter century to the same fate or, when we reach the 50th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, will we have used those intervening years to advance new strategies and build new Movements in the fight for Socialism and Liberation in Ireland? You get to decide.

If you would like to read our position in depth, you can view it by clicking here (will open and download in new page/tab).

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