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Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland Gníomh Frith-Impiriúlach na hÉireann
Abbreviation	AIA
Founded	2017 (2017)
Youth wing	Óige Réabhlóideach/Anti-Imperialist Youth
Ideology	Anti-imperialism Hard Euroscepticism Irish republicanism Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Revolutionary socialism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Black   Green   White
Website
https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/
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Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland or AIA Ireland is an Irish socialist-republican organisation that advocates for the establishment of a socialist state in Ireland through a socialist revolution.^{[citation needed]} The group was founded in 2017. Since then, it has undertaken a number of protest actions across Ireland. The organisation has described itself as "a broad front" opposed to what it calls "British, EU and US imperialism" in Ireland.

AIA describes itself as a socialist-republican organisation that campaigns against what it calls "British, EU and US imperialism" in Ireland.^[1] AIA says it aims "to finish the work" of historical Irish socialists such as James Connolly, and Seamus Costello, founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).^[2] It opposes the Good Friday Agreement and "reformism"; not participating in elections and opposing a border poll as it believes this is a pacification strategy. It instead proposes mobilising workers into creating "alternative power structures" and building an "Anti-Imperialist Broad Front".^{[3][non-primary source needed]}

In 2018, AIA painted over three street signs on Victoria Road in Dublin because it was named after Queen Victoria and encouraged others to do the same to other street signs bearing the names of British officials.^[4] The same year, Israeli politician Gilad Erdan sent a formal letter of protest to the Irish government demanding they stop Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member and former airplane hijacker Leila Khaled from appearing over a video call to members of AIA and another Republican group called Lasair Dhearg^[a] during a public talk held at the teacher's club in Dublin. The protest was unsuccessful and the call was not cancelled.^[5]

Since 2019, the organization has conducted and encouraged "Poppy Watch Patrols" to forcibly prevent the Royal British Legion from collecting remembrance poppy donations.^[6]

Throughout 2020, AIA ran a political campaign against the extradition of Real IRA member Liam Campbell to Lithuania on charges of weapon trafficking.^[7] In 2009, Campbell had been found guilty in a civic court of participating in the 1998 Omagh bombing.^[8]

In June 2020, unknown persons painted rainbow colours on a statue of former IRA leader Seán Russell.^[9] AIA released a pamphlet defending Russell, and maintained that Irish republicanism and LGBT liberation were allied, not opposed, causes.^[10] Seán Russell was IRA Chief of Staff during World War II, whose tenure was marked by the increasing influence of Irish fascist group Ailtirí na hAiséirghe over the organisation,^[11] as well as Russell's direct collaboration with Nazi Germany.^[12][13]

In August 2022 the group was criticised by Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister for burning a Union Jack in a video which he dubbed a "hate crime". The flags of the Parachute Regiment and the Ulster Banner were also burned in the video.^[14]

In September 2022, a gathering of AIA members in Dublin mocked the death of Queen Elizabeth II by throwing a coffin marked "RIP British Empire" into the River Liffey.^[15][16][17]

In November 2022, AIA claimed responsibility for a paint attack on the headquarters of the Royal British Legion in Dublin.^[6]

In August 2023, AIA alongside the Communist Party of Ireland took part in a protest in Dublin to denounce the Irish Defence Forces providing training to members of the Ukrainian Army, which they said went against Irish neutrality.^[18]

In October 2023, AIA organised a march to Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, to commemorate hunger striker Thomas Ashe. It was led by masked men in berets and dark uniforms.^[19]

In November 2023, pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas flyers, bearing the AIAI logo, were posted on lampposts near a synagogue in Bangor, Maine, United States. At least one bore the AIAI logo.^[20]

The group has a youth wing called Óige Réabhlóideach^[b].^[21]

The Revolutionary Housing League is heavily affiliated with the AIA.^[22]

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