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CFAD Meet The IMC in Belfast « Result #1 Today at 10:36pm »
A chara,
Last month in it's 22ND report, the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) alleged that Concerned Families Against Drugs (CFAD) were, 'a vigilante group who was responsible for a number of punishment shootings and pipe-bombings of suspected Drug Dealers' in the North Belfast area. Although, we were surprised and dismayed at these unfounded allegations, given that the IMC had not contacted CFAD before issuing its report. CFAD complained to the IMC through our legal representative and were subsequently invited to meet with the IMC today (8/12/09).
The meeting itself was courteous despite the 'charges' being leveled against us by the IMC. We were glad to have been able to put our case forward to the nine Commissioners and left them in no doubt about the growing scourge of drugs and associated crime in our community. We also informed them of our group's success in exposing Drug Dealers to the wider community and how, two leading Dealers had been able to purchase and run a garage directly facing Antrim Road Barracks in which the RUC/PSNI Drug Squad has its offices.
We also made the point of how some so-called Community Workers who are also members of North Belfast Sinn Fein have been deeply involved a smear campaign against our group and activists. Instead of helping to produce the resources needed to tackle deprivation and hopelessness in working-class areas such as, Ardoyne. CFAD also detailed the lack of targeting of known drug dealers by the RUC/PSNI in the area and how these parasites were still able to swan about the area in their flash cars selling children dangerous drugs. While some of these teenagers were now addicted to these substances and had involved themselves in serious criminality to fund their habits.
Finally, CFAD told how to date none of its members had been arrested, questioned or charged with any illegal activities connected to our anti-drug campaign. We now await the IMC's findings and hope an apology is included.
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Re: Patsy O'Hara Commando - Red Army Faction « Result #2 Today at 10:11pm »
Passed along from LOR:
ZUSAMMEN KAMPFEN- Paper For The Anti-Imperialist Front In Western Europe was the official publication of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Eight regular issues and seven special editions have appeared between 1985 and 1988. In Zusammen Kampfen Issue 2, April 1985 the title page shows pictures of Patsy O Hara, Elisabeth Van Dijk and Jan Carl Raspe (two members of the RAF killed in 1971 and 1977 -LOR) set into a five point star. (This issue appeared exactly two months after the Patsy O Hara Kommando of the RAF killed Dr Ernst Zimmermann, chariman of the Munich military aircraft engine manufacturer on 1 February 1985 -LOR) In this special hunger strike issue they published a letter from Patsy O Hara and an IRSP solidarity adress translated into German, with they peculiar typographical convention of using no capital letters. (capital letters was bourgeois -LOR). The German text translated back into English read as follows:
Letter from PATSY O HARA to the prisoners of the RAF patsy o'hara of the inla was a prisoner. he died in may 1981 in a hunger strike for political status. apart from him thatcher let a further nine prisoners starve to death.
inla is the irish national liberation army. irsp, irish republican socialist party, is a political party which represents the same political aims as inla.
3.4.1981
comrades,
i take this opportunity to express my support and solidarity for your hungerstrike for political recognition. i have followed your struggle for some years now and have always had the greatest respect and admiration for your struggle against imperialism and national capital. i believe we have much in common; i too am hungerstriking for political status with my comrades.
in our current prison struggle 500 irish republican socialists have taken part over the past four and half years, on the blanket and in the dirty protest. we have refused to accept the abolition of the special category status (which in practice amounted to 'political status'). whilst 500 other prisoners in the cells of long kesh enjoyed special category status we had been ordered to wear prison clothes and to do prison work. of course we refused to be turned into criminals and so the regime moved us into isolation blocks, into cells which contained nothing but blankets.
i am certain that you know about our struggle just as we do of yours. it suffices to say that the british government uses all conceivable means to break our determination, including inhuman and degreading methods and psychic torture. the stakes are high: had the british succeeded they could have represented to the world the national liberation struggle of the irish people as nothing but an armed conspiracy. but our will for resistance was and is strong and before enduring another four years in this hell we decided to bring this matter to a final solution. the only means left to us was the hungerstrike which started on the 27 october of last year. 40 men and women participated in this action at the peak of the hungerstrike. the brits told us on the 53rd day that they would fulfil our five demans if we stopped the hungerstrike and so the strike was ended only hours before the first man would have died. we knew it would take some time before all the changes could be made but the days became weeks and we found we had been tricked. so again we had no choice but to hunger strike.
to achieve our aim, our hope for socialism we cannot, i believe, limit ourselves to national boundaries. our perspective is internationalist, that is the nature of socialism.
we stand for human rights and nothing must distract us from our purpose.
together with the other inla-irsp prisoners on the blanket i send you the warmest greetings and i hope that your struggle will succeed without loss of life.
not those who inflict the most suffering - but those who suffer the most will finally be victorious!
patsy o'hara h-block 5 long kesh
IRSP: to the group of relatives: (of the RAF-LOR) 23.01.1985
to you and your comrades in the hunger strike for just recognition as political prisoners we send our greetings and solidarity. we know exactly the purpose of the west german government with respect to both the h-block long kesh and armagh prisons in northern ireland and the portlaoise and limerick prisons in the republic of ireland was well as with respect to the concentration camps in which german political prisoners are kept behind bars. the same brutality is always perpetrated against our prisoners regardless in which part of the country they are imprisoned. as we are confronted with international repression we too must get together and must know that our struggles are the same: against a common enemy and for a common aim.
receive our support and solidarity; may the imprisoned men and women who stake their lives for the political rights of man in west germany and other western european countries be victorious. your fight is our fight, victory will be ours.
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Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #3 Today at 10:04pm »
Thats why I say they need a network. Your fighting a war against drug culture here, you need to go on the offensive. Guard and patrol the streets you live in, observe and probe dealers. Learn how they operate, their associates and customers.
Patrol the entrys in Ardoyne at night and catch them unaware, moving about their e's and coke. Solidify your organisational structure, put more people on the ground and co-ordinate through a network, a headquarters. Use walkie talkies and co-ordinate, so if someone is being attacked or intimidated you can all respond quickly and efficiently.
You cant stay awake 24/7 yourself, but your organisation needs to be on point and online constantly to react to such threats and accomplish greater victories against the dealers.
Set yourselves out publicly and professionaly, set up a web site and forum to legitimise your movement. There is no doubt that you have made dealers in North Belfast hide in the shadows and think twice about how they operate, but that doesnt mean that they have gone away. If anything they will become more shrewd and low key about their dirty dealings.
" We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle." Che Guevera.
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Re: Cael « Result #4 Today at 9:59pm »
i only joined revleft today so i have no opinion on how they operate there as yet but it looks like a good revolutionary socialist webforum so far.
Is there a chance that perhaps Cael rubbed someone in the admin there up the wrong way and they banned him abitrarily for personality based reasons?
However, if he was trivialising the exploitation of minors then that is clearly wrong.
I always thought his politics were Stalinist in orientation not libertarian/anarchist to be honest. Is he the same guy that had the nick 'Hank Palooka' on Bebo's Debate Central forum? Someone on another forum was claiming that was the case.
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you." (James Connolly ,1897)
Every politician a soldier, every soldier a politician!
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant - Che Guevara
...We leave victorious... because we Sandinistas have spilled blood and sweat not to cling to government posts, but to bring Latin America a little dignity, a little social justice. - Daniel Ortega
Every politician a soldier, every soldier a politician!
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant - Che Guevara
...We leave victorious... because we Sandinistas have spilled blood and sweat not to cling to government posts, but to bring Latin America a little dignity, a little social justice. - Daniel Ortega
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you." (James Connolly ,1897)
I saw the comments too, I also post over there now and again. He's a complete fantasist, and offaly boy he certainly deserved his banning from revleft in fairness...racist abuse and going on about child prostitution like it was a joke, and asking how much a comrades sister was for 15 minutes. I wouldn't take him too seriously, his politics are all over the place he's most likely a troll.
Every politician a soldier, every soldier a politician!
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant - Che Guevara
...We leave victorious... because we Sandinistas have spilled blood and sweat not to cling to government posts, but to bring Latin America a little dignity, a little social justice. - Daniel Ortega
If you haven't seen it before, I recommed the film "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex"...Found that very interesting mate on the RAF. Its in german but with english subtitles.
I was kicked out of the "CC" and almost banned for supposedly being homophobic some years back.
Disagreeing with abortion is also an offence on there. It appears one cant be anti-abortion and a "revolutionary leftist".
Revleft is a left sectarian cesspit and I rarely visit it anymore.
I dont see whats wrong with being a "republican anarchist". Cael comes across to me as having authoritarian type politics rather than anarchist, but I very much doubt he's a fascist or 'non-leftist'.
I agree. Revelft is like a dictatorship. Censorship is very common and the "Restricted" nonsense is just utter crap. Surely you can have a debate on issues without being banned from able to post in certain sections.
Protest against Health Cuts, Belfast « Result #19 Today at 5:37pm »
PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT HEALTH WORKERS
LUNCH TIME PROTEST
1.30PM SHARP
MONDAY 14th DECEMBER
OUSIDE FAIRVIEW, CRUMLIN ROAD
(Opposite Mater Hospital)
Universi, the Health Workers Branch of the IWU will stage a lunch time protest this Monday, the 14th December, 1.30pm sharp outside Fairview. (Opposite the Mater Hospital).
Our union continues to grow and many of our members from the catering and administration are experiencing the worse attack on the terms and conditions of their employment ever.
The Trust plan to introduce prepared chilled meals for elderly patients, suffering a range of mental health problems. Not only will this replace the long standing practice of freshly cooked meals on site, there is a plan to contract this service out to a private company. This will not only impact on the quality of food served to patients, it will impact greatly on staff jobs, terms and conditions of their employment.
Administration staffing has been cut over the past number of weeks, resulting in patients and the public being unable to get through to our services. Not only have jobs been lost but the cuts to admin staffing impacts adversely on patient care.
Note that the catering and admin staff are the most vulnerable workers. They are banded from 1 – 3 on the pay scale. We must ask why are management starting the cuts at the bottom of the pay scale? We must ask why don’t they cut the top heavy management structure? Think of how many catering and admin staff they could employ if well paid management posts were restructured.
In the meantime existing posts in the mental health services have not been replaced and staff in mental health services are over worked and exhausted with responsibility to deliver mental health services in the most socially and economically deprived area in Western Europe.
You are entitled to a lunch break. Please come out and support your colleagues.
PTO
Remember if these outrageous cuts go unchallenged they will move to the next layers of workers with confidence and your job could be on the line.
This union will challenge the ongoing attack on patient and workers’ rights.
Banned Cael - racist, security risk, troll, pretty much nothing but scum
Quote:
Its not hard to get banned from revleft.
I checked into it, and the only way to be banned immediately as happened with Cael is for posting racist or fascist comments. I don't see what's wrong with that. the site is hosted in Germany, so they legally must have a zero tolerance policy with nazis.
it appears Cael only went there to harass irps. I can't think what would cause him to ask a comrade over and over again how much it would cost to spend fifteen minutes with his sister...I'm rather surprised he knew this person had a sister. Then to racially insult him? it's sinister, imo.
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Re: McGlynn murder inquest « Result #21 Today at 5:05pm »
The man was a maniac.
He kidnapped a fellow local drug dealing scumbag in Derry and said that he would inject him with aids (he even took out a syringe) if he didnt hand over a large amount of money.
If a couple of Bryan's associates knew what he was involved in and what he was slabbering about, then his girlfriend must have done as well.
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Re: McGlynn murder inquest « Result #22 Today at 4:55pm »
Inquest hears of 'brutal execution' Girlfriend renews appeal for information
A heartbroken Derry woman who saw her boyfriend gunned down in front of her has issued a further appeal for anyone with information on his murder to come forward. Jennifer Cowley's boyfriend Bryan McGlynn was shot dead at the couple's Fountain Hill home in the Waterside on June 3, 2007.
An inquest at Derry Coroner's Court this morning heard that Mr McGlynn, who had worked as a pub doorman in the city, was killed after two men broke into his home in the early hours of June 3.
The INLA subsequently claimed responsibility for the murder.
Mr. McGlynn, originally from Strabane, had been asleep in bed with Ms Cowley when an armed man ran into his bedroom, shooting him twice, once in the chest and, after he collapsed to his knees, again in his left shoulder.
A report from the State Pathologist concluded that Mr McGlynn's internal injuries were such that he would have died instantaneously.
Giving evidence, the investigating officer in the case, Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Taylor, described the killing as "a brutal execution" adding that, while the case was still ongoing and no one had been held accountable, it was accepted that the killing was carried out by the INLA, as claimed to the Derry Journal newspaper on June 15, 2007.
Speaking after the inquest, Ms Cowley said she would "not wish on her worst enemy what Bryan went through" and what she has been through over the last two and half years.
"I will always hope and pray that someone is brought to justice for what happened to Bryan," she said. "I thought we were past this, that the Troubles were over but, to me, they are not. There are still people being murdered in the name of paramilitary organisations.
"Now I'm just looking for justice for Bryan. I would appeal to anyone with information to come forward."
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Re: McGlynn murder inquest « Result #27 Today at 1:53pm »
Pub doorman Brian McGlynn was shot twice - inquest
Brian McGlynn worked as a nightclub doorman in Derry Murdered pub doorman Brian McGlynn was shot twice with a shotgun at close range in front of his girlfriend, the inquest into his death has heard.
The 28-year-old was killed in the bedroom of their home in Fountain Hill in Londonderry in 2007.
A detective told the inquest that there was speculation Mr McGlynn was a drug dealer, but he had never been arrested.
His girlfriend, Jennifer Cowley, said there was "no reason why Brian should have been executed so brutally".
The police detective also told the inquest that while it was possible Mr McGlynn's past may have had something to do with his killing, there was no evidence he was involved with the INLA.
Didnt say he was scared, asked is he or indeed would you be affraid of such scumbags and their starting pistols?
The point im trying to make is, they are trying to scare CFAD, but they arent doing a very good job of it. You fellas should be sitting up waiting for these wasters, let them think you are in your bed.
Then if or when they try to act, bolt out with a hurl and batter them. This is why you need a a dedicated network, otherwise you exist as individuals and are more vulnrable to intimidation attacks like this. You need to be able to trap these rats and catch them in the act.
terrafirma, i know where u are coming from, but u cant stay awake 7 days a week with work , kids etc.
Revleft is the largest left wing forum on the net, and for them to ban someone for being a fascist is pretty clear evidence that we were right all along about this nutcase "republican anarchist".
it's obvious that Cael is a fascist degenerate infiltrating republicanism. no one even knows him in real life, and the RSFers over at the IRBB don't like him, though he claims to support them.
A chara,
i got a 404 error with that link. Is there another one ?
I dont know much about that Cael fella really except he is now an admin on ir.net .
I must try that revleft site to see what its like. I hope they dont ban me for being Pro-Choice
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Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #31 Today at 1:02pm »
Didnt say he was scared, asked is he or indeed would you be affraid of such scumbags and their starting pistols?
The point im trying to make is, they are trying to scare CFAD, but they arent doing a very good job of it. You fellas should be sitting up waiting for these wasters, let them think you are in your bed.
Then if or when they try to act, bolt out with a hurl and batter them. This is why you need a a dedicated network, otherwise you exist as individuals and are more vulnrable to intimidation attacks like this. You need to be able to trap these rats and catch them in the act.
Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #32 Today at 12:49pm »
who said tarafima that this fella is scared? i dont think anyone especaily with a young family likes to get there home attacked by drug dealing cowards weather it be fireworks, blanks or a revolver as u say. of course any attack on your home is scary, but these scumbags would not face you in the street , no they crawl out of there holes in the dark and attack your home,car when your in bed. most of them have no balls to be honest just low life scum who dont like the fact that they cant sell drugs openly now like they used to in places like ardoyne, oldpark, newlodge etc in north belfast. i wish cfad the best of luck in there fight against the drug dealers, people like martin and sammy are just 2 people there are many others.
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Re: Cael « Result #35 Today at 10:30am »
Its not hard to get banned from revleft.
I was kicked out of the "CC" and almost banned for supposedly being homophobic some years back.
Disagreeing with abortion is also an offence on there. It appears one cant be anti-abortion and a "revolutionary leftist".
Revleft is a left sectarian cesspit and I rarely visit it anymore.
I dont see whats wrong with being a "republican anarchist". Cael comes across to me as having authoritarian type politics rather than anarchist, but I very much doubt he's a fascist or 'non-leftist'.
Capitalism differs from that of slavery and serfdom, in that capitalist domination is not over people, but only over property. But it is a form of property that is only useful if it buys domination over people.
Revleft is the largest left wing forum on the net, and for them to ban someone for being a fascist is pretty clear evidence that we were right all along about this nutcase "republican anarchist".
it's obvious that Cael is a fascist degenerate infiltrating republicanism. no one even knows him in real life, and the RSFers over at the IRBB don't like him, though he claims to support them.
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
You've the debating and comprehension skills of a child. And I'm not debating with you after this post. Good luck if you think anti-SF rants will get you anywhere, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s I could think of better issues to get involved in. Each to their own I suppose. I look to RSF for an indication of the success of these rants.
Its 'your' btw. You're means 'you are'.
Maybe someone should advise the shinners that their leadership aided and abetted this "economic crisis" in Ireland when they voted to support the bank bailouts whilst hundreds of their ex-prisoners will be sitting in poverty this xmas! I could also "think of better issues to get involved in" cara.
Ah, yes, ex-prisoners. Nevermind half a million claiming the dole in the 26 counties.
IRSP is mentioned 71 times on the APRN website. (with their archives going back to the 90s) Once negatively from what I could see.
So, yaya, how many times recently have the IRSP attacked Leinster House and Fianna Fail? Not a lot, and miniscule compared to the RSFesque attacks on PSF. The DUP is the most right-wing government party in Europe, yet we have to ensure this anti SF tirade time and time again. This only engenders bitterness and obscures the space for genuine and clear political debate and analysis - of which this isnt.
I think the main point SD was making is that verbally attacking PSF gets us nowhere, and only lowers the RSYM to the likes of RSF, i think he makes a fair and valid point, for IW to get annoyed by it is slightly immature
Pointing out the failings of a party in losing touch with the working class is not an attack cara. Don't allow yourself to fall in to this political correctness that Stormont British ministers are trying to condition us with. If something is wrong, it's wrong and pointing it out is not attacking anyone.
“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.” Joseph Goebbels
You've the debating and comprehension skills of a child. And I'm not debating with you after this post. Good luck if you think anti-SF rants will get you anywhere, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s I could think of better issues to get involved in. Each to their own I suppose. I look to RSF for an indication of the success of these rants.
Its 'your' btw. You're means 'you are'.
Maybe someone should advise the shinners that their leadership aided and abetted this "economic crisis" in Ireland when they voted to support the bank bailouts whilst hundreds of their ex-prisoners will be sitting in poverty this xmas! I could also "think of better issues to get involved in" cara.
“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.” Joseph Goebbels
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IRSCNA: IRSM's 35 Years of Struggle « Result #41 Yesterday at 11:20pm »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8 December 2009 Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
IRSM's 35 Years of Struggle
The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America are proud to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement. As the North American section of the IRSM, we are proud to carry the banner of republican socialism alongside our comrades in the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish National Liberation Army, Republican Socialist Youth Movement, and Teach na Failte, as well as all republican socialist prisoners of war.
For three and a half decades, the IRSM, in particular the IRSP and the INLA, has been on the front lines of the struggle for national liberation and socialist revolution in Ireland, leading the way by forging the national struggle and the class struggle into one.
The IRSM's story began with the Official Republican Movement (Official Sinn Fein and the Official Irish Republican Army), and that movement's slide toward reformism in the early 1970s. Principled members like OSF vice-president and OIRA staff officer Seamus Costello who opposed that slide were forced out of the ORM, resulting in former members of the ORM, independent socialists like Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, and trade unionists coming together on 8 December 1974 to form the IRSP with the stated goal of ending imperialist rule in Ireland and establishing a 32-county democratic socialist republic with the working class in control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. The INLA was formed at a secret meeting later the same day as a vehicle for achieving those goals through armed struggle.
Although the young movement quickly came under attack from the OIRA and Costello was lost to an OIRA assassin's bullet in 1977, the IRSM survived and continued its fight, with leaders like Miriam Daly and Ronnie Bunting there to keep it going, until they too were assassinated. During the hunger strike of 1981, INLA volunteers Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine gave their lives in the ultimately successful pursuit of political rights for all republican prisoners. In later years, leaders like John O'Reilly, Thomas Power, and Gino Gallagher lost their lives at the hands of counter-revolutionaries.
But no matter what our enemies did, no matter how they attacked us, nothing could extinguish the flames of republican socialism, and like the mythical phoenix, the IRSM always arose from every attack to carry on the struggle for national and class liberation.
There were successes along the way, too. For the IRSP, it became the first political party in Ireland to support the legalization of abortion and equal rights for gays and lesbians in 1975, it won two seats on the Belfast City Council in 1981 and a seat on the Shannon Town Commission the next year, and in 1984 intense ideological debate led to a declaration that the party stood in the tradition of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, and James Connolly. In 2005, a youth wing called the Republican Socialist Youth Movement was formed, and with the support of the IRSP and the IRSCNA, the RSYM continues to grow in all four provinces and represents the political future of the IRSM.
For the INLA, there was the assassination of British Member of Parliament (and close advisor to Margaret Thatcher) Airey Neave in 1979 within the supposedly impregnable Houses of Parliament, participation in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes, the bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in 1982, numerous successful attacks on British occupation forces and their loyalist allies, and the execution of loyalist death squad leader Billy Wright within the walls of Long Kesh Prison in 1997.
The INLA declared a ceasefire on 22 August 1998, and on 11 October 2009 called an end to its armed campaign, recognizing that the objective conditions for armed struggle no longer existed and declaring that "the objective of a 32-county socialist republic will be best achieved through exclusively peaceful political struggle."
As Mao Zedong once pointed out, "politics is war without bloodshed," and so setting aside the tactic of armed struggle based on a sound analysis of current conditions in no way means that the war for national and class liberation is over. It merely will take a different form, with the IRSP carrying the struggle forward through organizing, agitating, and educating the working class.
The IRSM continues to believe that there is no parliamentary road to socialism, because socialism cannot be forged by seizing the bourgeois state apparatus; nor is there a guerilla road to socialism, because a social revolution requires the active participation of the masses; and therefore a socialist republic can only be established through the mass revolutionary action of the working class in the political, economic, and social spheres.
In the words of revolutionary Assata Shakur (a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army), "No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is. That's why political work and organizing are so important. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you." This is what the IRSM has sought to do by adapting its tactics to the objective conditions currently existing in Ireland.
We in the IRSCNA are proud to be part of the IRSM, and we again declare our support for the leadership and direction of the IRSP, and our only allegiance is to the working class.
The Irish Republican Socialist Movement has survived 35 years of intense political and military struggle, and it will continue to exist and to struggle until Ireland is not only free of imperialist occupation, but free of capitalist rule as well.
The Ballad Of Patricia McKay « Result #42 Yesterday at 9:37pm »
Hello, I want to show you my new audio/video. The song called "The ballad Of Patricia McKay" and is written by George McDonald (better known as "macdomhnaill" in this forum). Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hp3l1vEmiM May you like it or you like it not ... I like it. It´s a verry sad story, but the world has to know. I have this song in my programm when I am on stage. Bye ... Peter
REMINDER,POW/ANTI-INTERMENT PICKET,SAT 12th NAAS « Result #43 Yesterday at 9:19pm »
Mo chairde, Just a reminder, RNU will be hosting an anti-internment/prisoners picket for ALL republican POWS this Saturday 3pm at Naas Court House, Naas, Co Kildare All welcome, feel free to bring banners and placards etc, December is a tough month for internees/POWs so please attend to show your support, Le gach Beannacht
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Re: Strabane RSYM statement. « Result #44 Yesterday at 8:22pm »
I think the main point SD was making is that verbally attacking PSF gets us nowhere, and only lowers the RSYM to the likes of RSF, i think he makes a fair and valid point, for IW to get annoyed by it is slightly immature
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Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #45 Yesterday at 7:28pm »
Blanks have a far brighter flash compared to live rounds. It must have been a revolver, this all just sounds like scare tactics. The question is are you going to be affraid of someone trying to threaten you with blank rounds. It was probably a fake revolver too with the barrel welded over.
Harmless, they would have been better off throwing fireworks ffs.
Re: New book charts rise of the Official IRA in De « Result #46 Yesterday at 7:27pm »
I had the honour of working alongside all those named above and Mickey Montgomery through the armed struggle. I had the chance to stay with Johnny White a few times when he lived in Tallagh. All good men who struggled on behalf of the working class. Venceremos
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Re: '9/11' PAGER MESSAGES LEAK « Result #47 Yesterday at 5:32pm »
In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. There is truth, and there is untruth. To be in a minority of one doesn't make you mad. - 1984
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
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Re: Shots fired at the SS/RUC in Co. Fermanagh « Result #49 Yesterday at 2:45pm »
its worth noting that plainclothes psni/ruc were calling at houses in the mid-falls telling people that they were investigating a series of thefts of fuel from oil tanks , then asking to be allowed access to people's heating fueltanks via their houses.
seemed a bit sus to me tbh. i just said i had phoenix gas
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you." (James Connolly ,1897)
It is very sad that anyone has to die like that but Mr McGlynn was engaged in a very dangerous game .
Its my understanding that he had set up a pseudo gang masquarading as the INLA then set about recruiting dupes to join his 'gang' and sent them out to push drugs. He would surely have been aware of how lethal a business he had decided to embark on
Did not know that, I have no sympathy for the man then.
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
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Re: McGlynn murder inquest « Result #51 Yesterday at 2:24pm »
It is very sad that anyone has to die like that but Mr McGlynn was engaged in a very dangerous game .
Its my understanding that he had set up a pseudo gang masquarading as the INLA then set about recruiting dupes to join his 'gang' and sent them out to push drugs. He would surely have been aware of how lethal a business he had decided to embark on
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McGlynn murder inquest « Result #54 Yesterday at 12:34pm »
The inquest into the death of a doorman who was gunned down in his Waterside home by the INLA over two years ago, is scheduled to take place next week.
Bryan McGlynn, who was originally from Strabane, was shot dead in front of his girlfriend in his Fountain Hill home on June 6, 2007.
A masked gunman entered the former nightclub doorman's bedroom and took just 36 seconds to shoot 28-year-old Mr McGlynn.
The INLA claimed responsibility for the killing, however no-one has been charged with the murder.
Police used the second anniversary of Mr McGlynn's death earlier this year to appeal for anyone with information about the murder to come forward.
The inquest is listed for Tuesday morning at the city's courthouse in Bishop Street.
Aontaim leatsa go hiomlán a chara. It is widely acknowledged that the Belfast media group are as much a part of the provisional PR machine as the Republican News, maybe more so of late. Venceremos. On this story though, I still find it strange that if this was an actual act of intimidation, then why did they not target one of the better known activists such as Carsy, Martin Óg, wee Ta, or Aidan among others? All of whom have long track records as regards anti-drugs issues etc. Venceremos
Comrade, having spoken to some of Sammy's neighbours about the incident, one of them was informed by the Peelers that the two shots were more than likely blanks? Which would account for there being no stike marks etc?
Regards Sammy and his particular profile in CFAD, the week before he appeared in the NBN about a drugs find in the New Lodge. This possibly made a target for dealers/thugs? As well as, the fact that his home is fairly easily accessed unlike the others U mentioned? Just a theory like but quite feasible all the same comrade....
Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #56 Yesterday at 11:02am »
Aontaim leatsa go hiomlán a chara. It is widely acknowledged that the Belfast media group are as much a part of the provisional PR machine as the Republican News, maybe more so of late. Venceremos. On this story though, I still find it strange that if this was an actual act of intimidation, then why did they not target one of the better known activists such as Carsy, Martin Óg, wee Ta, or Aidan among others? All of whom have long track records as regards anti-drugs issues etc. Venceremos
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Re: Strabane RSYM statement. « Result #57 Yesterday at 6:11am »
stephen dedalus, i assume by your comments your quite clearly not from strabane or dont have much knowledge about the area or feelings of the local people, especially when you ask who is the rs youth, i dont think irish worker was taking cheap shots at the psf which yes can get boring at times rather just stating the facts, i think the sdlp would have more sympathies from the strabane youth than psf in the present climate and thats saying something in a republican stronghold like strabane. i think you addressed the original topic not going on factual knowledge about the town but by the air around your comment coming from a provie sympathetic line of thinking and the area didnt come into it, if it had been creggan or galliagh, bodside brandywell in the area part you would have responded the same??????
organising the unwaged/unemployed is definitely a good idea and one that has been largely overlooked aside from the usual people/places like the IWW and Venezuela.
The Independent Workers Union in Ireland accepts unwaged and associate workers it could be used platform to radicalize?
I think a league for unemployed workers has huge potential. not only are they more likely to listen to a radical message, but this can organise them to agitate and organise for their rights as well as prevent scabbing.
This was the primary support base for the German Communists during the Great Depression.
organising the unwaged/unemployed is definitely a good idea and one that has been largely overlooked aside from the usual people/places like the IWW and Venezuela.
The Independent Workers Union in Ireland accepts unwaged and associate workers it could be used platform to radicalize?
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Re: Unionizing Entire communities? « Result #60 on Dec 6, 2009, 11:41pm »
organising the unwaged/unemployed is definitely a good idea and one that has been largely overlooked aside from the usual people/places like the IWW and Venezuela.
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Re: Shots fired at the SS/RUC in Co. Fermanagh « Result #62 on Dec 6, 2009, 10:57pm »
Have to agree with TF, never allow any member of the security forces into your home, who knows what they will leave lying about and come back for later, along with yourself.
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
You've the debating and comprehension skills of a child. And I'm not debating with you after this post. Good luck if you think anti-SF rants will get you anywhere, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s I could think of better issues to get involved in. Each to their own I suppose. I look to RSF for an indication of the success of these rants.
There is no PUL community, IW. Its a term used by UDA people like Twister McQuistin and others to justify their 'constituency's' reception of peace money.
Hold on let me get this strait.
You are telling me that there is NOT Protestant Unionist or Loyalist community’s in the O6.
Re: Strabane RSYM statement. « Result #68 on Dec 6, 2009, 8:32pm »
You've the debating and comprehension skills of a child. And I'm not debating with you after this post. Good luck if you think anti-SF rants will get you anywhere, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s I could think of better issues to get involved in. Each to their own I suppose. I look to RSF for an indication of the success of these rants.
Re: Unionizing Entire communities? « Result #70 on Dec 6, 2009, 8:29pm »
There is no PUL community, IW. Its a term used by UDA people like Twister McQuistin and others to justify their 'constituency's' reception of peace money.
''The fact that youths feel the need to stone the PSNI in the Ballycoleman Carlton Drive Lisnafin and the Head of the Town is a clear indication of how out of touch the PSNI and PSF are with the working class youth''
How is that the case? The fact the youth stone the PSNI shows that PSF are out of touch with the working class youth? Sorry, but that is quite simply not the case. SF are more 'in touch' with nationalist youth than the IRSP, lets get real and stop attacking SF for the sake of it. Its tired and boring. If I wanted to read this nonsense I'd download Saoirse from the RSF website. This sort of statement undermines the good work the RSYM do.
''Republican Socialist youth of the town''
Are the RSYM attacking cops? Or who is the RS youth?
Also, the obvious and lazy spelling mistakes make the statement go down even further in my estimation.
Why are you complaining about PSF getting attacked by the RSYM, when PSF are the ones meeting and debriefing the PSNI in Strabane about the dealings of Republican Socialists?
A leading Strabane "Provie" and a current Strabane PSF Cllr were spotted inside the grounds Strabane PSNI station deep in conversation with local peelers in suits.
The peelers in Strabane are not content unless they have a dozen young lads arrested on a Friday and Saturday night for stupid "offences". They drive around the town in land rovers intimidating and enticing young lads too verbally or physically attack them and when this happens the young fellas find themselves beaten arrested and charged with a litany "crimes" that really only exist in the Imagination of the arresting “pig”.
Strabane PSNI will not be happy until every young nationalist and republican in the town has a criminal record.
And you come on here and try and defend PSFs stance on policing.
Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #75 on Dec 6, 2009, 7:29pm »
This is the article from the NBN.
Anyone from the IRSP or Teach na Failte in North Belfast will confirm that what appears in print in the NBN isn't always what was said to their journalist. The NBN has an agenda and putting a certain slant on the story to create a reaction as we have seen here is just what they intended. I'm led to believe the names of the culprits are already doing the rounds after they were boasting to their mates. They apparently even named the person who they did it for. I hope they were paid enough CASH.
Its an interesting angle but one in the current Irish context is bound to have problems. In theory it would be nice to see both Protestant and Catholic working class people uniting in these Unions and developing a certain class conscousness. But it will inevitably be split along sectarian lines. If a United union made any real head way in attracting significant amounts of Protestant working class people then the sectarian cauldron would be stirred up by the reactionary elements within Ireland and inevitably a schism would occur where the Protestant Working class are taken into a Reactionary Community Union with a wholey anti-working class policy. The Trots in Irelands tactics with regaurds over coming Sectarianism boils down to pure economism whereby any contentious political mainstays of Marxism is abandoned and will only address the PUL Community on an economic basis, Gas and water socialism in Connollys time and Ring Road socialists in Costellos time. This Community Union theory does vear away from the safe reformist middle ground of economism but it is hard to see it overcoming centuries of Reactionary indoctrination. In the end of the day in a Marxist Materialistic perspective the Unionist and Loyalist community in Ireland is reactionary and should be treated as such.
Although I agree that the PUL community would automatically see such a entity especially if it started in a "nationalist" area of the o6 as an immediate threat and oppose it we should not spend to much time worrying about what the PUL might and might not do they exist and we acknowledge there existence but that is as far as it should go.
This type of reorganization of a Union hasn’t been seen before in Ireland a Union which includes single mothers to pensioners and from farm laborers to teachers all equal and all entitled to receive the benefit of the collective. A Union that wields power not only in the workplace but from within the communities that the workers live. If it hasn’t been tried before then it hasn’t failed before and shouldn’t be dismissed until it has been put into practice.
It would be relatively easy to try as all it would take is the commitment from a few individuals to canvass there own area and put it to the people. That for a few pounds or euro per month they could receive the benefit of a collective group willing to stand together in the face of Social injustice.
Out of this unified unionized community the possibilities are endless social economy projects could be launched derelict housing could be seized unused land could be seized and all put to good use for the benefit of the unionized community creating jobs within the areas.
All the while keeping firm and steadfast to the belief that a unionized community will eventually lead to the end of state control in unionized areas and the establishment of a radical militant working class.
Re: Strabane RSYM statement. « Result #77 on Dec 6, 2009, 6:07pm »
''The fact that youths feel the need to stone the PSNI in the Ballycoleman Carlton Drive Lisnafin and the Head of the Town is a clear indication of how out of touch the PSNI and PSF are with the working class youth''
How is that the case? The fact the youth stone the PSNI shows that PSF are out of touch with the working class youth? Sorry, but that is quite simply not the case. SF are more 'in touch' with nationalist youth than the IRSP, lets get real and stop attacking SF for the sake of it. Its tired and boring. If I wanted to read this nonsense I'd download Saoirse from the RSF website. This sort of statement undermines the good work the RSYM do.
''Republican Socialist youth of the town''
Are the RSYM attacking cops? Or who is the RS youth?
Also, the obvious and lazy spelling mistakes make the statement go down even further in my estimation.
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Re: Workers Republic - Lower Falls No 1 « Result #78 on Dec 6, 2009, 4:59pm »
It's a sign of the times that another IRSP cumann had to be established as we attract old and new faces alike to our movement. Wish the comrades all the best for the future.
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Re: Unionizing Entire communities? « Result #79 on Dec 6, 2009, 4:08pm »
Its an interesting angle but one in the current Irish context is bound to have problems. In theory it would be nice to see both Protestant and Catholic working class people uniting in these Unions and developing a certain class conscousness. But it will inevitably be split along sectarian lines. If a United union made any real head way in attracting significant amounts of Protestant working class people then the sectarian cauldron would be stirred up by the reactionary elements within Ireland and inevitably a schism would occur where the Protestant Working class are taken into a Reactionary Community Union with a wholey anti-working class policy. The Trots in Irelands tactics with regaurds over coming Sectarianism boils down to pure economism whereby any contentious political mainstays of Marxism is abandoned and will only address the PUL Community on an economic basis, Gas and water socialism in Connollys time and Ring Road socialists in Costellos time. This Community Union theory does vear away from the safe reformist middle ground of economism but it is hard to see it overcoming centuries of Reactionary indoctrination. In the end of the day in a Marxist Materialistic perspective the Unionist and Loyalist community in Ireland is reactionary and should be treated as such.
Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #81 on Dec 6, 2009, 2:11pm »
Yes i am the same person who posts on here and other forums. here's some facts of that night .. (1) Two loud bangs were heard not just by myself but also people who live in the street and as far as the cliftonville rd. (2) the family next door seen a black car with three people inside then saw two flashs then also heard the bangs. (3) As for strike marks could it be that they fired between the two homes my drive way runs between them ? (4) As for the shells maybe as a another poster said was it revolver ? (5) it might have been a blank fire only they know? OR did they know that i have a family of five and next door also has a few kids as well ? (IE: TO SCARE ME AND CFAD OF ) (6)As for taking it seriously believe me i do BUT i will not hide away from them because the day i do that is the day they have won
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Unionizing Entire communities? « Result #83 on Dec 6, 2009, 1:53pm »
We are all familiar with the concept of unionizing the workplace against the bosses but I have read very little on the idea of unionizing entire communities.
If entire communities waged and unwaged old and young were unionized it would put a new and fresh dimension into union politics and give unions far more sway when involved in negotiations with the state and the bosses as citizens could be encouraged not to pay rates etc in support of striking workers attacking the bosses from two platforms.
Unionizing the communities would also radicalize them and go some way in building the class consciousness needed to instigate social revolution.
The unions could become more than what they are today and not only fight social injustice in the workplace but fight it in the day to day lives of the people.
This is very possible as most unions have affiliate or associate membership available where people would only have to pay a few euros or pound per month to get the benefit of Union backing in dealing with social welfare issues or dealing with other state bodies.
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Re: CFAD Member Targeted for a Second Time in Two « Result #87 on Dec 5, 2009, 6:19pm »
Read the article. There seems to be some gaping holes in the story. Firstly jumping to conclusions about loud bangs being gunshots, and secondly assuming that those shots were aimed at his home. The credibility of CFAD and the RNU could hang on claims such as this. Could this be the same sammy5441 from North Belfast that posts regularly on this forum. If it is, perhaps he could fill the weaknesses in the scéal. Maybe the fault lies with the NBN reportage and not how the incident in question panned out at all. Would be interested to find out. Venceremos
As well as, the home of another CFAD fired into by Drug Dealers because of our strong and radical anti-drug campaign.
Martin. If this is the same guy who is in the N-B-News pictured alongside you then this has yet to be proven as FACT. I do sincerely hope we are dealing in facts here as its quite clearly stated that there was and still are NO VISIBLE OR PARTIALLY VISIBLE STRIKE MARKS on this fellas house. no casings/cartridges were found and as of yet NO PROOF 100% that this is what actually happened.
Keep in mind the fella says all he heard was two loud bangs which werent fireworks.quote the N-B-News...
Around 8pm, Father of five (Name) had just returned from visiting relatives when he heard two loud bangs. It is unclear what the noises were, but he said he *Believed* it was the sound of shots being fired.
`Someone` rang the cops and they came looking for strike marks but couldnt find any. It wasnt a firework. It must have been shots.
Did drug dealers admit it?
Im hoping you know more than myself as there is no proof here whatsoever for any kind of attack on this guy who I know `well`. .
He`s not taking it as seriously as others would and he`s not exactly hiding when he appears alongside you in the picture.
Clearly Identifiable. Not saying he should hide btw.
Excellent stuff comrade. Will have a pat butchers through the links provided.
I have that Martin Dillon book (The Dirty War). Haven't had a look at it in years. Must have another wee read through.
If you haven't seen it before, I recommed the film "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex"...Found that very interesting mate on the RAF. Its in german but with english subtitles.
PFLP in Gaza continues to mobilize for the 42nd « Result #95 on Dec 5, 2009, 12:54am »
PFLP in Gaza continues to mobilize for the 42nd anniversary of the Front
Preparatory meetings for the 42nd anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have continued to take place throughout Gaza, bringing together communities and sectors of the Palestinian public together to plan the anniversary in a spirit of unity, resistance and confrontation of occupation.
On December 2, 2009, the PFLP held a public meeting in Abed Rabbo, east of Jabalya, in the yard of one of the homes destroyed by the occupation assault in December 2008-January 2009. The mayor of Abed Rabbo, Abu Ayman, and a group of community leaders met with Comrade Ibrahim Sultan and others.
The meeting began with a moment of silence for the martyrs and a tribute to the prisoners, with Comrade Leader Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the PFLP, at the forefront. Eyad Abed Rabbo spoke, recalling Abdel Muti Abed Rabbo, one of the owners of a home destroyed in the recent assault on Gaza, saluting his steadfastness in staying on his property and cultivating his land despite being made homeless by the occupation, remaining steadfast in pursuing our national goals and upholding our resistance.
Comrade Ibrahim Sultan, in turn, praised the steadfastness of Abed Rabbo in the face of the assault of the Zionist military machine and the savage destruction it wreaked upon Gaza.
In Jabalya, a meeting took place on December 1 in preparation for the 42nd anniversary, where PFLP comrades and town residents discussed the current situation and planned for the anniversary events.
Comrade Hussein al-Jamal, member of the Central Committee of the PFLP, called for the broadest awareness of the siege on our people in Gaza, stressing upon the need to break international and Arab silence about the crimes against our people.
Comrade Ramzi Abu Assaf spoke also, stressing the need to uphold the armed struggle as the strategic option for the liberation of Palestine, calling all to follow in the path of the martyrs of the Palestinian revolution, led by Dr. George Habash and the martyr Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa.
This meeting followed upon an earlier event in Jabalya on November 26, 2009 as part of the build-up and preparation for the 42nd anniversary, at which Comrade Ibrahim Sultan reviewed the history of the Front, paying tribute to its martyrs - Dr. George Habash, Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa, Comrade Wadie Haddad and Comrade Ghassan Kanafani - and leaders, including imprisoned General Secretary Comrade Ahmad Sa'adat.
Comrade Sultan stressed that this anniversary comes at a time of danger to the Palestinian national project, emphasizing the need for national unity and calling upon the masses of our people to participate and raise the voice of unity and resistance.
The Association of the Martyr Muhammad Abu Nasr held another meeting in Jabalya Camp as part of this series of preparatory events on December 1, 2009, attended by many youth and camp residents. Comrade Salah Abdel Ati of the Gaza Branch Central Committee spoke at the event, laying out the political perspective of the PFLP and emphasizing the need for youth participation in the national struggle.
The Front in the camp also organized with the National Democratic Assembly a series of visits to the families of martyrs and prisoners in the camp, greeting them with solidarity from the Front.
The Youth Activities Committee of the PFLP in Gaza City held an expanded meeting on November 25, 2009, welcoming representatives of the Progressive Student Action Front from universities and secondary schools across the Gaza Strip as well as student activists and elected leaders of the PSAF, as well as Comrade Dr. Rabah Muhanna, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP and leader of its Gaza Branch, Comrade Nasser Kafarneh, member of the Political Bureau, and Comrade Salah Abdel Ati, member of the Gaza branch Central Committee.
Comrade Muhanna spoke about the need for active youth and student mobilization and participation in the 42nd anniversary of the PFLP, stressing the role of youth as a cornerstone of the Palestinian national movement and providing a review of the current Palestinian political situation.
Comrade Kafarneh discussed the upcoming event in central Gaza, calling upon all to fully engage and participate and build a rally truly worthy of the history and sacrifices of the Front. He also conveyed the greetings and congratulations of all comrades abroad to all comrades in Gaza on this anniversary.
Re: new member « Result #99 on Dec 4, 2009, 10:27pm »
Hello all, Im a new member too.. . Might as well introduce myself, Im from Scotland, and been involved in republican and socialist politics for a few years, in my local area and nationally. Only 18 years young Tis good to be here.
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