AcTioN penence the mass Western today. Sinn Ard-Fheis gle British imperialism, La 32 Ene more.
allow Sinn their in the taKe The Irish page successful will greatly increase the conduct 10132 It will make more ficult.
opposing Southern ConDole represThe OI on offensive against Movement.
The re-writing of the sexist language is also in the WILL way Republican Movement the vanguard fighter not only for the national liberation of Ireland. but also for sup port to the demands of against clericalism in the whole of Sinn Fein's national council will be calling for the Sinn Fein Ard-Fheis to support candidates laking their seats where successful in elections Southern Irish parliament. This will require the two-thirds majority necessary to change Sinn Fein's constitution.
The debate at the Ard-Fheis follows public discussion Sinn Fein activists which has paper associated by Joe an interviev tion By "There a debare We stand i council North seats. • westminster.
oath of take. don't take seats in Westminster.
of - and WE don't there either.
They see it They might not They with its but who see generally Leinster So is ing the enter Have lu use there's some For exgovernment 1s so balance against une governickl TD would cross the republican prisoners SDLP and potenwhich defend imthe Lausan It followed _per governthe fact that LWO republican seats in Southern legitimised, stabilised? Surely the contrary is true:
more and more shutting down. Meanwhile Sinn Fein are exposing the justices of the system, and are the only party relevant to the needs of ordinary are possible in the Free State. Sinn Fein, by enter ing Leinster House, could:
Show up the hypocrisy and incompetence of Free State politicians; '2. Show how rotten the system is and how it exploits and represses peomake relevant through involvement which daily affect ordinary people; '4. Give Sinn Fein a useful platform explain republicanism the necessity of armed struggle It could throw the Free State, especially Fine Gael, into the same confusion panic loyalists are in at present; it would present a real a tionalist alternative Fail; would destroy the myth that Labour and the Sticks (the Workers socialists?
Anolne dent, Paul Norney, writing Hull says. 'As republicans our aim is establish a thirty-two county socialist republic. As revolutionary tionalist lorce WC recognise the need to wage armed struggle to remove British imperialism. However, as socialists, we must recognise that to remove a neo-colonial elite of native Irish who are accepted by the majority of Irish people needs more than armed struggle Hughie Doherty writing from As socialist Wakefield Says.
republicans we must fight on all fronts if i progress is to be made both militarily politically. Any member of the Republican Movement elected Leinster House would enter it with the intention of using it as a platform to expose the corrupt manner which the system operates, exposing it not only to our own people but people over They would highlight how the career politicians reveal the truth about what is happening in the occupied Six counties, and publicise the damage partition is doing to our- country economically, socially and culturally.' ON TUESDAY, 14th OCTOBER, the following statement was issued by the Irish Republican Ar•Recently, and after much careful planning, IRA delegates from all over Ireland secretly met in a General Army Convention for the first time in 16 years. At this meeting were members of the outgoing Army Council and representatives of the Army Executive, GHQ Staff and thern and Southern Command Staffs, Brigades and Battalions and Units, all of whom were elected by their own conventions to attend.
pledge of rededication to the armed struggle and confidence in the armed inging about Irish independence.
required two-thirds majority, the delegates passed two particular resolutions.
ban on Volunteers discussing taking of parliamentary seats.
ministration in forces.
reads in non-sexist language.
firmed.
with every issue.
P. O'Neill Irish Republican Publicity Bureau, Dublin.
Absentionism has historically symbolised the Republican Movement's rejection of the Free State parliament's ratification of the partition of Ireland January 1922 Those who argue for maintaining point to those like De Valera the Workers' whose rejection of abstentionism their abandonment or the coincided national struggle for Iris! unity and independenc However, as the entire activity of today's Sinn Fein makes clear, taking up seats in Leinster House now will mean deepening Departments, Nor The convention opened with a unanimous struggle as being the means of breaking the British connection and brSeveral sections of the Constitution of Oglaigh na hEireann were amended and, by more than the The first removed the or advocating the , The second removed the ban on supporting successful republican candidates who take their seats in Leinster House.
Also reaffirmed was General Army Order No 8 which prohibits offensive action against the adthe twenty-six counties or its The Constitution was modernised so that it The objective of restoring the Irish language as the everyday language of the Irish people was reatThe present strategy of the Irish Republican Army was discussed and endorsed, although the volume of resolutions made it impossible to deal By secret ballot, the delegates then elected a 12-person Army Executive, which in turn elected a new Army Council. The Army Council, the Chief of Staff it has appointed, and the Army Executive will study the outstanding resolutions which relate to how best to prosecute the struggle for freedom.
dependence and a united struggle by moving politically challenge the capitalist parties the South to whom Britain is again turning for help in partition Fein maintaining It will mean Sinr challenging both claims of the Labour and Workers' Parties to repre the Irish working Fianna claims to "republicanism'.
It puts the political. strug gle firmly on a thirty two county basis which is the only basis on which it can be successful. The proposal is an enormous step forward for Sinn Fein
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