People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said, "The US billionaire Elon Musk was a keynote speaker at the London rally organised by the British fascist and Soldier F supporter Tommy Robinson.
Musk's speech called for those in attendance to dissolve parliament and prepare for violent confrontation. The far-right, whether they're waving the butcher's apron or a tricolour, claim migrants are the reason for the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists, poverty and the general feeling that everything is getting worse.
It's utter hypocrisy because the dangerous minority that's doing the actual damage to working class people are billionaires. Billionaires like Musk. The billionaire class is the enemy of ordinary people.
Few people will deny this. They hate unions. They hate the NHS. They hate Wealth Taxes. They hate democracy. They hate restrictions on polluting. They hate Palestine solidarity.
Billionaires and the super-rich are hoarding wealth like never before in history. Wealth that should be spent on schools, on fixing the NHS, on ending the need for food banks and undoing deprivation.
The alliance between billionaires and fascist thugs is to keep the working-class down, to keep the working-class divided and to make sure there's no challenge to this rotten system.
The thuggish attacks on migrants across Ireland and Britain is to prepare for thuggish attacks on trade unions, thuggish attacks on social justice movements and thuggish attacks on democracy. This is what the billionaires and fascists are doing and planning.
The working class has the power to stop them, to defend democracy and put forward an alternative to the rotten social order they are trying to preserve - but we need to be organised and prepared to fight harder than ultra arrogant billionaires and their fascist foot soldiers."
People Before Profit asks its members to take actions in their communities with their trade unions and associations to push back in every way against the far right effectively by building working-class organisation, through protests, campaigns, united fronts, trade unions, and party building work.
This week we call on all members to organise for the Ireland Against Racism Carnival 27 September in Dublin at 1pm hosted by Le Chéile and United Against Racism and now backed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Every workplace and school should have publicity and notice put in about this. Demand endorsements and spread the word. Workers here in Ireland have to demonstrate we won't be divided by the racism of the far right.
