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Dublin IRSP POW function
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news report
 Wednesday December 20, 2006 21:34 by reabhloid dearg
It was a great night had by all, and more importantly a lot of money was raised (over 2000 euro) for the Prisoners dependents. Former INLA POW and member of the Ard Comhairle Gerard Forward from the Short Strand in Belfast gave the main speech. Gerard gave a well received rousing speech as well as a standing ovation. Soon afterwards a representatives of Dublin Brigade INLA read out a speech which included the condeming of those criminal elements (who are not and never where members of the Republican Socialist Movement) who use the name of the INLA to line there pockets. The representative stated that Dublin INLA had a list of names of these parasites and that a number of them had been forcibly warned to desist from there activities or face serious concequences. He stated that members of Dublin INLA were not criminals and that they would not be detered by the "no proof media sensationalists, who operate to a securicrat agenda.
 Dublin Brigade INLA. Speech
Prisoner’s Christmas Function
Dublin, 16th December 2006
Gerard Forward
Ard Comhairle, IRSP
Comrades,
It is an honour to be here this evening to share in this event in aid of all our ex- and currently incarcerated prisoners in British and Irish gaols who have unselfishly given themselves for the Republican Socialist cause, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organisers for their tremendous effort in hosting this fitting tribute.
The current situation in Ireland has plunged the citizens of this island onto the world stage once again. The eyes of the world are fixed firmly on this tiny and otherwise insignificant island, watching with interest, awe, bewilderment and amusement at the fiasco that is piped onto their television screens day and daily. What is it about Ireland that it continues to make centre stage world wide?
The answer is very simple. It is because it has, and continues to suffer unnecessarily at the hands of the British!
They drove countless millions from this land during the forced starvation of our people in the mid 1800’s. Millions were also starved to death. They have raped our land and its resources, they have plundered our wealth, incarcerated our men and women. They have murdered our families and friends. They have imposed a unionist veto upon the rights of our people and have treated us as second class citizens for generation after generation. They continue to rule us with their monarch, their laws and their landlords. They continue to strangle our resources and our economy. They continue to imprison our comrades, our loved ones and our friends and they continue to hurl insult after insult by calling them criminals.
The struggle for Irish freedom, for the right to organise and establish a 32 county socialist workers republic of Ireland is not criminal. It never has been and it never will be. It is the human right of every Irish man and woman to resist, using whatever means necessary, the forced and illegal British occupation of this land. There can be no compromise to this goal.
Our prisoners are not criminals. They weren’t criminals during the illegal internment of the 40’s, and of the 70’s. They weren’t criminals during the Blanket protest, or the Dirty protest, or the Hunger Strikes of the 80’s. They aren’t criminals now. We will continue to resist every effort by the British to criminalise the struggle for Irish freedom and social independence.
There are some fellow Irishmen who do the bid of the Brits, some republicans who also try to criminalise the determination of the continued struggle of our people. We say to you, shame on you!
The British are not the answer to Ireland’s problem – they are the cause of it! And as long as they remain in our land, they will meet with the same cold determination of the working class people of Ireland that they have met since they first invaded our land.
The ongoing Good Friday Agreement has seen the changed position of the British in the eyes of some republicans. They have embraced the enemy and the Unionist as answers to this problem. They negate the future of the inhabitants of this island with those who created the mess in the first place. They unashamedly stand in their arrogance and claim to be the vanguard of Republicanism. They claim to be able to bring peace to this land, to be the champions of equality and justice – yet they discredit those republicans who choose not to accept their policies or strategies.
This is not republicanism – it is elitism!
Our people are being sold the British as being legitimate mediators between warring communities, Catholic against Protestant, Loyalist against Republican and Nationalist against Unionist. This is a lie. This is a deception of the British, and one that they sell well. To accept and endorse the Good Friday Agreement is to accept this lie and distortion of the truth. To accept the GFA is the surrender of Republicanism – not the way to a 32 County Socialist Republic. It has copper fastened partition, heightened sectarianism and splintered Republicanism. The moderate leadership within Unionism that was required by Sinn Fein to make the GFA a success in their eyes, that was evident within the UUP, was destroyed.
The DUP who were once finished, have been negotiated to the place of majority within Unionism. They have been unified and are now the strongest party within the GFA, countering the claims of some republicans that they have decimated Unionism and their veto. Rather, Paisley and his cohorts now extract concession after concession required from Sinn Fein. This is a far call from the position of strength that PSF propaganda would declare they are in.
The latest of these concessions and requirements of the DUP as a pre-condition is the acceptance of the PSNI by Sinn Fein.
Let us be very clear. The PSNI are there to implement British Parliamentarian law. They will continue to protect the interests of their masters, their property and their investments. They are the same the world over. They protect land and investment before the worker.
No Police Force who is biased against the working class in the conduct of their duties can ever be accepted by any Republican Socialist worth their salt. They are an extension of the State, the armed wing of the enemy, and must be treated as such.
Comrades, allow me to say this before I close;
We in the RSM do not accept the offers or the proposals of the British. We do not accept their police force, regardless of uniform, name or otherwise. To do so would be to recognise the right of the British to rule in part of this island.
Our demands are simple. They cannot be compromised.
We demand the complete withdrawal of the British from this land, both militarily and economically, and we warn you, until that day, if you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you!
We defy you!
Do your worst!
Gerard Forward, Ard Comhairle IRSP.
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Jump To Comment: 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Your talk of how the Republican Movemennt in the north did nothing 1919-21 and so deserved to be abandoned was an interesting one.
first, there was actions by the north. Second, how many units of the UVF, which had been armed by the Brits did you deal with "down South"? How many times were the people of Dublin/Kerry/Meath burnt out of their homes by Loyalist mobs? To use that asan arguement is unbelievable. Also, there was a Civil War, remember? Part of that was the "Loyaly Oath" but a big part of it was the issue of the north. The Republicans lost, the Free Staters won and the rest is history. And it still does not explain the conntinued abandonment of the north. The "I'm all right Jack" mentality.
As for Lynches statement of standing idly by, why do I still remember reading it in the papers and I was 10 years old? Not to mention the fact that you all did "stand idly by", except for that shit Haughey who at least sent up a few revolvers.
It was a damning moment for the people of the South with some brave and noble exceptions. From the postings above, it is obvious that the situation has not improved. My main thrust, that the lack of action or even caring by the people and government in the South being part of the problem has not and probably will not be addressed.
Instead there are vindictives of "lumpen sectarian rats" and "unskilled working types (here is a clue fuck head, they are working class) having a go at the Prods". This shows just how much so many in the South don't have a fucking clue. Worse yet, this is not Sunday Indy readers, where I would expect such shit. This is Indy Media readers.
Dave,
If you've any evidence of your above assertions please either forward them directly to the Irish Republican Socialist Party or post them up here.
I await your reply.
Sorry to interrupt again - Lynch never actually said 'stand idly by' it was left off on the RTE teleprompter the night he said it and so while written - he never actually used the words. Yes i'm a nerd. No i'm not trolling. Not really.
INLA/IRSP - ah what a great republican organisation - Just like Padraig Pearse (except for the drug dealing, extortion, organised crime, selling counterfeit goods, do the doors on nightclubs) you'd make him and connolly proud lads. True Patriots. Nice Balaclava. Parasites.
this talk of elections is one of the reason myself and others cannot support the recent policing "debates" Its not about debate at all, its about the irsp using the 32csm and others as election workers ..sure even the irsp is doing the talking for the 32s now. If there is to be an actual debate on policing among Republicans more will attend, but many of us are not willing to be pawns in irsp profile raising!
All Anti-agreement Republicans and Socialists should get together and put candidates up in the forth coming elections. We must do all in our power to put a stop to the latest Sell Out by the Shinners.
Stop the rot now.
Just because most Trade Unionists were interested in real working class issues and not your sectarian rantings means they were real socialists and republicans rather than you Belfast murderers and rinds of Bertie Ahern
Maybe if northern republicans had actually done something between 1916 and 1921 you would not have been "abandoned". The war against the British took place almost exclusively in Dublin, Cork, Tipperary, Kerry and the other Munster counties with isolated incidents elsewhere.
And yet again the only people who displayed hostility to the the 1916 insurgents were midle class loyalists. Dublin working class has always been republican.
Interesting shit coming from Nice.
The main reason for the conflict in the north was that so many in the South, to quote Lynch 'stood idly by". If the people and government had have stod up and protected us, when we needed it so bad, history and the IRA may have been different.
You didn't give a fuck about what was happening in '69 and you still don't. It was "I'm all right jack" then and now. Oh and I lived in Dublin from about '80 till 85. I witnessed just what "radical" Trade Union types and other "leftists" did and cared about the north. I was, amongst other groups CND and a member of the ITGWU. With the rare exception, most of you did not give a tinker's damn.
So donn't tell us about Republicans from the north, sectarianism and socialism. That does of course, included one of the laboutr leaders from 1916. here is your clue. He was shot. Oh and bullshit, people from Dublin did spit on the rebels. It was because the rebellion was going to cost some people their British pensions.
Like the song says "take it down from the mast Free State tratiors".
It really pisses me of having to listen to these lumpen sectarian rats from Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland spouting on about them being on the fore front of the socialist struggle. The majority of Catholics or members o the ‘nationalist’ community in northern Ireland have always been sectarian Hibernia non-entities not republicans - they have now robbed the mantle of Irish republicanism and turned into there own attempt to get one up on the Prods - basically your wish to joint the 26 counties has nothing to do with socialism and is all about some unskilled lazy layabouts trying to rip off the heritage of hard work and genuine labour of most in Northern Ireland - you are not republicans but worshipers of suicidal young men who were used by cynical tribal politicians like Adams and McGuiness the IRSPs are a sad throw back to one man’s attempt to let lose his rampant ego at the cost of innocent working class lives. F**K the IRSPs, F**K the Provos and F**K pseudo Northern Irish Republicans.
Respet for INLA!
When Connolly was shot,10,000 Dublin people come out on the street,at Killmainham,that Dubliners for you.
The ordinary people of Dublin did not spit on the Volunteers. A myth that seems to have been created by the Irish Times and is sadly being repeated by at least one of the tour guides in Kilmainham!
Who said the people of Dublin spat on the women and men of 1916,my granfather was out in 1916,and was not spat on,and saw none ether,all shit put out by the Brits,for people like you.
Imperialism takes many forms; Economic imperialism in the form of the corporations, nationalistic imperialism in the form of the US comandeering our airports... I simply argue that while the Brits are part of a much bigger puzzle, maybe a wee bit of prioritizing might be in order. Some bits of imperialism are ripping us off and denying our sovereignty more immediately than others at this point in time.
And I reject the claim that if you're not focusing on British imperialism, you're doing nothing. I get just as pissed off as anybody when I listen to the labour party hacks running the Northern Ireland Office, intoning what Northern Ireland needs on the evening news with their posh London accents, when every ounce of their body language screams that they're only in Northern Ireland until they can swing a better position on the mainland. The sooner they're all gone the better. I don't think that speeches from the Dublin ski mask brigade are the best weapons in our arsenal, though. I really really do think we need to rethink that one...
I also tend to smile wryly when I am profiled as a middle class student when my politics are turned into print. I'm 39 and working class.
So Frank, here's hoping that all of our 'pathetic grouplets'- and if we're ALL honest, we probably all deserve that name- can see the big picture, quit squabbling, and take back our country from all them what stole it... or ARE stealing it.
Frank,
The leadership of the Republican Movement was spat on by the people of Dublin after 1916. So what is your point.
Agree with the analysis of multi-corps being the true enemy. Although the criticism of the "left" standing by and doing nothing about the north is very very valid. Standing idly by in 69, still standing by in '06.
well done frank, hit the nail on the head.
gotta put the 'social' back in socialist.
tackling homelessness drugs and EDUCATION of those on the lower strata of irish society should be priority, especially for students, who are at a point in their life where they are really flexible.
stop chaising dreams of a socialist republic - it's not gonna happen, there would be too much to give up in this booming economy.
instead use the resources (wealth, time) we have to look after our own.
also, is it fair to say that groups like irsp are responsible for misinforming and rabble-rousing among ill-educated lower-working class to egg on events like the riot in dublin last spring? or is that too much of a generalisation. some young fellas, when asked what they were doing attacking the gardai responded they were fighting for their country. we fought long and hard for centuries to have our own country with our own govt. and our own police force. are these things that our forefathers fought for suddenly enemies because they have some kind of authority?
so the Treaty wasn't all you hoped for. give over. when the people of the north want to join the republic, they'll vote on it. sorry for waffling.
More power to the IRSM. Does anyone know if they intend to run candidates in the next 26 county elections in Dublin? I for one would sooner vote for a republican candidate than the likes of Mary Lou McDonald.
Beir Bua and well done comrades.
These miniscule so called socialist/anarchist groups are fixated on campaigns which give them the easiest options to do nothing substantial. They seem to choose issues which they will not nor cannot win on the basis that the actual campaign is more important than the issue. They campaign to retain Irelands natural resources for the Irish people but in many cases, their protests actually pass by vast pockets of marginalised Irish people trapped in poverty, crime and drugs. But these issues of poverty and drugs etc.., are not pretty issues, these issues are not college based issues and most importantly, these issues involve massive amount s of work in challenging the two tier society in Ireland. The pathetic grouplets shy away from actual meaningful campaigns for radical change and instead concentrate on middle class angst issues or spend their time attacking each other over what previous comrades did or did not do at the turn of the century.
These miniscule groupings have no relevance in Irish society and cannot be seen as credible.
Jonny,
The fact of the matter remains that most Socialist groups in Ireland simply consentrate on gas and water issues while ignoring the fundamental contradiction of partition. The IRSM has challanged British imperialism in Ireland, while most Socialist groups sat on the sidelines as the British army roamed our streets.
There's no use talking about challenging imperialism in Iraq when a part of your own country remains occupied and you do nothing.
Catch yourselves on, irps.
Multinational corporate interests pose the most danger to Irish sovereignty, not the British presence. Shell, Raytheon, and a host of other corporations operating here (not to mention the US military using our airports) don't give a shit if Ireland has 26, 32, or 578 counties. And if we hope to combat these threats effectively, neither should we.
The nature of the conflict has changed, and the people of Ireland must recognize that and be willing to change tack. To simply keep banging on off a hymnsheet drafted in the mid-1800's helps neither you nor the people that you (hope to) represent.
Focus more on the 's' in your name and less on the 'r'. Believe me, Connolly would agree.