RisenBelfast
04-25-2008, 06:49 PM
There is an alternative to the prevailing status quo
Recent letter writers have expressed the need for an alternative to the prevailing status quo in Belfast and beyond.
The two major problems currently facing the people of Ireland are that of British interference in our political affairs and the unequal distribution of wealth and power within our society. This is as true for Belfast as it is for the rest of the country.
This is what we need to organise an alternative to – the same evils that Irish political activists have organised against for centuries
How do these twin evils actually impact on our lives?
British interference perpetuates partition, sectarianism, division, military occupation and a heavily armed, partisan police force, as well as a litany of destructive consequences arising from the inequality perpetuated by that interference.
Today, there are those who profess that we live in a time of peace and prosperity in a sort of post-conflict era. While the British Government have more soldiers here than they have in Iraq!
The British system attacks the rights of our citizens on a daily basis with under-funded hospitals, inappropriate housing, extortionate landlordism, institutional discrimination, poverty and racist attacks on the Irish identity and language.
The economic make up of our society, at its basic level, results in one in three of our children living in poverty, the exclusion of thousands of our young people and hundreds of elderly people dying of cold in unheated homes. Resources, which would make these appalling statistics a thing of the past, are unavailable because they have been given away to multinational companies to exploit for private profit.
This is broadly what republicans find objectionable in modern day Irish society. It is what have and will continue to fight against.
The prevailing status quo in this community specifically, and this country generally, needs to be challenged with a modern socialist republican analysis that creates hope and inspires radical change.
éirígí is one such party which encourages people to join in this enterprise however they can. Nobody else will do it for us.
In the timeless revolutionary saying; the great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
Is mise,
Frankie Brennan,
Runaí,
éírígí Béal Féirste
http://www.irishnews.com/appnews/540/576/2008/4/25/586157_343580027650Thereisa.html
Recent letter writers have expressed the need for an alternative to the prevailing status quo in Belfast and beyond.
The two major problems currently facing the people of Ireland are that of British interference in our political affairs and the unequal distribution of wealth and power within our society. This is as true for Belfast as it is for the rest of the country.
This is what we need to organise an alternative to – the same evils that Irish political activists have organised against for centuries
How do these twin evils actually impact on our lives?
British interference perpetuates partition, sectarianism, division, military occupation and a heavily armed, partisan police force, as well as a litany of destructive consequences arising from the inequality perpetuated by that interference.
Today, there are those who profess that we live in a time of peace and prosperity in a sort of post-conflict era. While the British Government have more soldiers here than they have in Iraq!
The British system attacks the rights of our citizens on a daily basis with under-funded hospitals, inappropriate housing, extortionate landlordism, institutional discrimination, poverty and racist attacks on the Irish identity and language.
The economic make up of our society, at its basic level, results in one in three of our children living in poverty, the exclusion of thousands of our young people and hundreds of elderly people dying of cold in unheated homes. Resources, which would make these appalling statistics a thing of the past, are unavailable because they have been given away to multinational companies to exploit for private profit.
This is broadly what republicans find objectionable in modern day Irish society. It is what have and will continue to fight against.
The prevailing status quo in this community specifically, and this country generally, needs to be challenged with a modern socialist republican analysis that creates hope and inspires radical change.
éirígí is one such party which encourages people to join in this enterprise however they can. Nobody else will do it for us.
In the timeless revolutionary saying; the great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
Is mise,
Frankie Brennan,
Runaí,
éírígí Béal Féirste
http://www.irishnews.com/appnews/540/576/2008/4/25/586157_343580027650Thereisa.html