Defend Ireland’s Neutrality – Keep The Triple Lock! Calling on all women to defend the triple lock and stop the government from abandoning neutrality! Resist, sisters, resist!

DEFEND IRELAND’S NEUTRALITY – KEEP THE TRIPLE LOCK!

Statement by: Raging Grannies, Red Umbrella Éireann, Street Workers Collective of Ireland
& Global Women’s Strike Ireland

Calling on all women to defend the triple lock and stop the government from abandoning neutrality! Resist, sisters, resist!

• Taoiseach Michéal Martin said in 2013 that the Triple Lock is at the core of Irish neutrality.
  Now the government wants to do away with it and lies that neutrality is not affected.
• They want to increase military spending in the arms industry, tripling Ireland’s military budget to 3 billion euros over the next few years.
• They continue to allow the use of Irish airports and airspace to facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Without the Triple Lock, this shameful complicity will only get worse.
• Without the Triple Lock, soldiers from Ireland could end up involved in wars and illegal invasions to grab land and other resources – even becoming complicit in genocides like Gaza.
• The bombing of Iran by Israel and now the US makes Irish neutrality even more urgent.

We women say + NO to war + NO to war hysteria + NO to slaughter + NO to the reproductive genocide in Gaza + NO to our children coming back in body bags + NO to our money being spent on weapons and killing!
Our caring work is not for war. We want that money for people’s needs, starting with a care income for all of those, regardless of gender, who are caring for people and the planet! All children are our children.

Women were at the heart of the anti-conscription campaign which resisted the British government’s imposition of a military draft in Ireland for WW1.
We can do it again. We can stop this latest drift to war and military spending!

• CALL YOUR LOCAL TDS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE TO KEEP THE TRIPLE LOCK!
• IF THE TRIPLE LOCK IS ABOLISHED, WE CALL FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO PROTEST!

For more information: Ireland@globalwomenstrike.net