War on Neutrality - the Marxist case for defending Irish Neutrality

This week Cian sits down with Rupture regular Diana O'Dwyer to discuss the government's war on neutrality, and the Marxist case for defending it.

Diana recently helped write the PBP Neutrality Bill which would have enshrined neutrality in the constitution and barred the government from joining NATO or other military alliances. It was narrowly defeated in the Dail, after the Greens broke with their previous position and voted it down.

We talk about why we  socialists must oppose the attempts to present NATO as some sort of peace force, and why we should defend the idea of Irish Neutrality, and push for a consistent anti-imperialist, anti-war approach.

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