Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Sister Sarah Clarke - "A thirst for justice and persistence" A tribute by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh THE TWO outstanding characteristics of the late Sister Sarah Clarke (82) who died in London on February 4 were her thirst for justice and her persistence in the pursuit of it. Her published autobiography No Faith in the System (Mercier, 1995) makes clear her uncompromising stand in this regard. Republicans salute her passing as a fearless radical who espoused the cause of ordinary working people like the Irish emigrants in England and especially the cause of Irish prisoners there. Comments: 8:18:17 AM

This is Republican Socialism! From The Starry Plough Feb. 2002 The Irish Republican Socialist Party is an organisation created by and for working class people, to aid working class liberation in Ireland and internationally with others who share that common goal. The IRSP stands in the tradition of James Connolly, seeking an end to all forms of exploitation and the creation of a 32 county socialist republic, with the working class collectively owning the means of production, distribution, and exchange, as well as democratically administering society. Comments: 8:16:25 AM

Eire Nua Tanzanian Style Liam O Ruairc Recently, Sinn Fein and the IRA's foreign links have been put in the spotlight with the arrest of three Republicans in Colombia and Gerry Adams' visit to Cuba. Over the last thirty years, the Republican Movement's foreign connections have been examined by many observers. Much of what has been written on that topic is based on speculations by self-proclaimed "experts" in the "terrorism industry": the Republican Movement is supposedly manipulated by foreign agencies like the KGB, Libya, etc. and a secret international network links the IRA to ETA, the PLO, RAF, etc. The best known examples of that type of approach are authors like Claire Sterling, James Adams or Yonah Alexander. More serious studies have been devoted to analyse the links between the Irish struggle and the Palestinian, Basque or South African struggles. Those links have been relatively well documented. But an area which remains unexplored is the Republican Movement's attitude to particular political regimes or specific foreign governments. If the general public is aware that Irish Republicans back the Basque struggle, very few would know for example that Sinn Fein had developed for almost a decade a fascination with Julius Nyerere's regime in Tanzania. Comments: 8:06:44 AM

Winning the Republic This weekend, Sinn Féin activists from all corners of Ireland will converge on Navan for a key meeting to discuss what has become known as the All-Ireland Agenda. They will arrive on the back of two promising polls showing gains for individual party candidates, a strong signal that the party's optimism for the forthcoming general election is not misplaced. Comments: 8:03:46 AM

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