Post by RedFlag32 on Apr 8, 2007 22:28:40 GMT
Easter statement
Republican Socialist Youth Movement
8/4/07
The following speech was delivered by a representative of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement Ard Comhairle at the national Republican Socialist Movement Easter commemoration held in Belfast on Easter Sunday, 2007.
A chairde agus comrádaí,
We stand once more to commemorate our working class martyrs. Socialist and Republican revolutionaries that selflessly pursued the Socialist Republic. The Socialist Republic that these revolutionaries fought and died for has still to be realised and it remains to this day the goal of the Republican Socialist Movement.
1916 may seem to be a relic of the past to some but the ideals that drove those revolutionaries, in particular the Irish Citizen Army are still held dear by our movement. We salute all of those who made sacrifices for the Socialist Republic, many of those are not able to join us here, their dedication sealed their fate.
The strength of this movement today is testament to all of our comrades hard work but the struggle has just begun. Anti-Good Friday Agreement Republican organisations will soon find ourselves under the utmost scrutiny as we have already seen since the acceptance of the PSNI by the largest nationalist party. The PSNI are out to prove themselves. From this point in time, things can only prove to be more difficult.
The Irish people have suffered much under the imperial yoke, too much to sit back and accept the very principle of the Unionist state and their veto. The Union is firmly cemented, the Good Friday Agreement contains no mechanism to grant Irish unity. The British leaving Crossmaglen is heralded as a great victory, what is not mentioned is that the British will maintain a permanent garrison here in Ireland. The number of troops permanently stationed here will be larger than the number of troops they used to invade Iraq.
Too much was lost, too much was sacrificed. There can be no shortcuts to our objectives, half measures have always ended in compromise and compromise has always ended in defeat and surrender. Those who compromise find themselves acting contrary to what they originally intended to achieve.
It will be by the merit of our work and our effort to convince the working class of the virtue of our politics that represents the current struggle. The British, capitalist class and their armed defenders still remain the enemy but the methods have changed.
Anglo-American companies, encouraged by their own imperial governments are flooding this country with capital to pacify our people. They have succeeded to a large decree, but there will always be those who can never be purchased. Some of those who brought successive British governments from crisis to crisis are today in alliance with that same government.
They benefit from a capitalist Ireland and have the most to fear from a Socialist revolution, which occasionally they will dress up their politics as representing. Let us not be distracted, there is an unsurpassable margin between the careerist and the revolutionary.
Comrades, there is much more work to be done. Let it be embraced for us to move forward and develop this movement into a fortress built upon the foundations of the working class.
Ní saoirse go saoirse lucht oibre.
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Republican Socialist Youth Movement
8/4/07
The following speech was delivered by a representative of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement Ard Comhairle at the national Republican Socialist Movement Easter commemoration held in Belfast on Easter Sunday, 2007.
A chairde agus comrádaí,
We stand once more to commemorate our working class martyrs. Socialist and Republican revolutionaries that selflessly pursued the Socialist Republic. The Socialist Republic that these revolutionaries fought and died for has still to be realised and it remains to this day the goal of the Republican Socialist Movement.
1916 may seem to be a relic of the past to some but the ideals that drove those revolutionaries, in particular the Irish Citizen Army are still held dear by our movement. We salute all of those who made sacrifices for the Socialist Republic, many of those are not able to join us here, their dedication sealed their fate.
The strength of this movement today is testament to all of our comrades hard work but the struggle has just begun. Anti-Good Friday Agreement Republican organisations will soon find ourselves under the utmost scrutiny as we have already seen since the acceptance of the PSNI by the largest nationalist party. The PSNI are out to prove themselves. From this point in time, things can only prove to be more difficult.
The Irish people have suffered much under the imperial yoke, too much to sit back and accept the very principle of the Unionist state and their veto. The Union is firmly cemented, the Good Friday Agreement contains no mechanism to grant Irish unity. The British leaving Crossmaglen is heralded as a great victory, what is not mentioned is that the British will maintain a permanent garrison here in Ireland. The number of troops permanently stationed here will be larger than the number of troops they used to invade Iraq.
Too much was lost, too much was sacrificed. There can be no shortcuts to our objectives, half measures have always ended in compromise and compromise has always ended in defeat and surrender. Those who compromise find themselves acting contrary to what they originally intended to achieve.
It will be by the merit of our work and our effort to convince the working class of the virtue of our politics that represents the current struggle. The British, capitalist class and their armed defenders still remain the enemy but the methods have changed.
Anglo-American companies, encouraged by their own imperial governments are flooding this country with capital to pacify our people. They have succeeded to a large decree, but there will always be those who can never be purchased. Some of those who brought successive British governments from crisis to crisis are today in alliance with that same government.
They benefit from a capitalist Ireland and have the most to fear from a Socialist revolution, which occasionally they will dress up their politics as representing. Let us not be distracted, there is an unsurpassable margin between the careerist and the revolutionary.
Comrades, there is much more work to be done. Let it be embraced for us to move forward and develop this movement into a fortress built upon the foundations of the working class.
Ní saoirse go saoirse lucht oibre.
IRSCNA EASTER STATEMENT
8 - 4 - 07
On the 91st anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America send greetings to our comrades in
the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Teach Na Fáilte, the Republican
Socialist Youth Movement, and the Irish National Liberation Army.
We would like to applaud the great efforts of our comrades in the IRSP and
RSYM, and all other comrades of the IRSM who have succeeded in
implementing the political strategy of our movement. Recently the movement
did an outstanding job of aiding the campaign of Peggy O'Hara and
upholding the republican socialist position in the face of a massive
sellout. The RSM has done fantastic work speaking truth to power, even
when it was not popular to do so. The tremendous work of our Party and
Youth section in fighting the neoliberal attacks on the workers of
Ireland, and connecting that struggle with the issue of national
oppression is also to be commended. Your efforts to remain unbowed before
a British-backed colonial police force is an example to all freedom loving
people. The visibility and obvious energy within our Movement is inspiring
to see.
We proudly reaffirm our commitment to the leadership of the Irish
Republican Socialist Party and to the political alternative to the
US-brokered pacification process that they represent. We pledge to do all
we can to aid our RSPOWs, our Party and our Youth Movement as they
continue to show the way forward.
The IRSCNA is justly proud of our twenty-three years of service to the
movement and we pledge ourselves once again to continuing our efforts
to build recognition of and support for the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement, the national liberation of Ireland, and the liberation of
the Irish working class from the shackles of capitalism.
Once again the "men of no property" are left as the true inheritors of the
Easter Rising tradition; those republicans and republican socialists who
continue the fight against British occupation and those republican
socialists who continue to fight for James Connolly's dream of an Irish
Workers' Republic.
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
irscna@irsm.org
PO Box 8266
Austin TX 78713-8266
USA
www.irscna.org
8 - 4 - 07
On the 91st anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America send greetings to our comrades in
the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Teach Na Fáilte, the Republican
Socialist Youth Movement, and the Irish National Liberation Army.
We would like to applaud the great efforts of our comrades in the IRSP and
RSYM, and all other comrades of the IRSM who have succeeded in
implementing the political strategy of our movement. Recently the movement
did an outstanding job of aiding the campaign of Peggy O'Hara and
upholding the republican socialist position in the face of a massive
sellout. The RSM has done fantastic work speaking truth to power, even
when it was not popular to do so. The tremendous work of our Party and
Youth section in fighting the neoliberal attacks on the workers of
Ireland, and connecting that struggle with the issue of national
oppression is also to be commended. Your efforts to remain unbowed before
a British-backed colonial police force is an example to all freedom loving
people. The visibility and obvious energy within our Movement is inspiring
to see.
We proudly reaffirm our commitment to the leadership of the Irish
Republican Socialist Party and to the political alternative to the
US-brokered pacification process that they represent. We pledge to do all
we can to aid our RSPOWs, our Party and our Youth Movement as they
continue to show the way forward.
The IRSCNA is justly proud of our twenty-three years of service to the
movement and we pledge ourselves once again to continuing our efforts
to build recognition of and support for the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement, the national liberation of Ireland, and the liberation of
the Irish working class from the shackles of capitalism.
Once again the "men of no property" are left as the true inheritors of the
Easter Rising tradition; those republicans and republican socialists who
continue the fight against British occupation and those republican
socialists who continue to fight for James Connolly's dream of an Irish
Workers' Republic.
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
irscna@irsm.org
PO Box 8266
Austin TX 78713-8266
USA
www.irscna.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz--hUnabxY
