http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/ IRSM Forum en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:49:21 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/images/styles/zen/misc/rss.png http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/ http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57490-INLA-prison-handicraft-on-e-bay.&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:01:50 GMT http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=280558303840




A WOODEN FRAMED HANDICRAFT OF THE 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC.....HANDMADE IN PORTLAOISE GAOL BY REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PRISONERS WHO HAVE ALSO SIGNED THE BACK OF IT MAKING IT A UNIQUE COLLECTORS ITEM FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN IRISH HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS,,,,,CLEARLY A FINE PIECE OF ART WHICH TOOK LONG HOURS TO CONSTRUCT AS THE WRITING IS BURNED INTO THE WOOD,,,A REALLY SKILLFUL TECHNIQUE,,,,,,,,,,,,CAN BE POSTED FOR A FEE DEPENDING ON DESTINATION OF WINNING BIDBUT ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE FOR COLLECTION OR DELIVERY WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS FROM DERRY,,,,GOOD LUCK TO THE EXTREMELY LUCKY WINNING BID......A FINE PIECE ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement dellboy http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57490-INLA-prison-handicraft-on-e-bay. http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57412-Vols-Alex-Patterson-amp-James-McPhilemy-Remembered&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:54 GMT INLA Volunteer Solider James McPhilemy Aged 20, McPhilemy from Strabane was part of a three-man team when he was killed in action as he prepared to attack an army post at Clady, Co. Tyrone. He had... INLA Volunteer Solider James McPhilemy
Aged 20, McPhilemy from Strabane was part of a three-man team when he was killed in action as he prepared to attack an army post at Clady, Co. Tyrone.
He had made himself vulnerable when he called out to warn children in the area to get down as soldiers opened fire and killed him.


INLA Volunteer Solider Alex Patterson
Alex Patterson, aged 31, and a father of four from Strabane, County Tyrone, was shot dead on 12 November 1990 by an SAS team who had staked out the house of an Ulster Defence Regiment member near Victoria Bridge outside Strabane.


Patterson's death was subject of an inquest in 1997, highlighting another example of Britain's "shoot to kill" policy when dealing with republican activists.


A wreath laing ceremony will take place on Saturday 2nd of October at 3pm at the West Tyrone INLA memorial in the Carlton Drive Est. ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Poblachtach Sóisalach http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57412-Vols-Alex-Patterson-amp-James-McPhilemy-Remembered http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57307-The-importance-of-the-Ta-Power-Document-within-the-IRSM&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:34:56 GMT :sovi: The above title was open for an article on the USA based European politics channel on the Helium website. I had a stab at writing an article about it within their 400 - 1500 notional... :sovi:


The above title was open for an article on the USA based European politics channel on the Helium website. I had a stab at writing an article about it within their 400 - 1500 notional word count limit:

http://www.helium.com/items/1941311-...power-document

by Iskra
Within the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) in Ireland there are multiple references to the Ta Power Document as a central theoretical tenet. The Irish Republican Socialist Movement was made up of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the National Liberation Army (INLA.) Invariably the INLA, a guerilla army became internationally the best known component of the IRSM in the years popularly known as the 'Troubles' due it's armed campaign against the British military presence in Ireland. Many international observers mistakenly saw the INLA as a smaller and perhaps more ruthless version of the Provisional IRA. Bestsellers such as Deadly Divisions created many mistaken perceptions of the IRSM and the movement Ta Power viewed as a credible revolutionary force. Hopefully this short article will shed a little light on the importance of Ta Power and his critique provididing a better understanding of the author and his ideas.

Thomas "Ta" Power was a guerrilla fighter, a volunteer in the INLA which was an integral part of what is known as the IRSM. Power's revolutionary actions were reinforced by a clear ability to provide an insight and analysis of the nature of the age old struggle for Irish independence and the nature of the political vehicle to achieve that. Many of his ideas are contained in a dissertation popularly known as the Ta Power Document. The Republic that Ta Power believed was worth fighting for was one that guaranteed economic liberty for the Irish working class, not just an exchange of one ruling class for the homegrown Gombeen variety in a unitary state. Ta Power believed in the concept of a Workers Republic as envisaged by Ireland's first Marxist philosopher and commander of the Easter Rising James Connolly. Connolly's Republican Socialism rejected the native Capitalism of traditional Irish Nationalism just as much as British Imperialism. Ta Power's legacy to the Republican Socialist Movement was considerable but his critique of the past excesses within the liberation struggle and the need for a cadre that would make 'every soldier a politician and every politician a soldier' has frequently been described as an Irish "What is to be Done!"

Thomas 'Ta' Power did not live to see the key points of his critique being implemented within the Republican Socialist Movement, he was assassinated in January 1987 along with John O'Reilly at the Rosnaree Hotel outside Drogheda by members of a counter-revolutionary cabal bent on the destruction of the INLA and IRSP. Before his tragic assassination at the age of 33 Ta Power spent his lengthy time in prison conducting a root and branch analysis of the revolutionary forces involved in the struggle for National Liberation and Socialism. The finished critique is some 67 pages of in-depth analysis of the history of the Republican Socialist movement from its inception and emergence as the most radical element within Irish Republicanism. Ta Power recognises the leading role of Republican Socialism's most outstanding advocate Seamus Costello and he refers to the near 'incalculable loss' to the movement of his assassination in 1977: "The sheer stature of the revolutionary Seamus Costello is too great for what can be expressed in feeble words, yet words are the only (way) to express and convey this stature albeit in a feeble way."

Ta Power pulls no punches in his critique of the Republican Socialist movement's varied fortunes but his analysis points out that at the heart of any excesses were structural defects which made those mistakes not only possible but inevitable. At the heart of Power's critique of Irish Republican Socialism is the need for politics to have primacy over military activity as opposed to the past practice of political work being ultimately subservient to the gun. Power goes some way to proving that the past excesses of Republican Socialism and the near eclipse of the Irish Republican Socialist Party in the 1980's were a direct result of just those practices. Power is honest in his descriptions of the excesses of the period of what is termed 'military rule' within the Republican Socialist Movement personified by the already well documented and more often than not tabloid media sensationalised tenure of Domnic McGlinchey as Chief of Staff. The Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) was often relegated in those days to functioning as a mere public relations department for the military actions of the INLA.

Power's key contentions for the re-building of a dynamic revolutionary party could be said to have been ahead of his time and during the period when he was compiling his critique all forces within the broad Republican project were very much military orientated. Within the IRSM and indeed all Republican groupings there was a strong military culture that was almost Macho in practice that in turn looked unfavourably on overtly political work. It is clearly apparent that elements within the Provisional movement borrowed heavily (though selectively) from Power's critique and this can be seen in the machinations and the eventual subservience of the Provisional movement to Sinn Fein from at the very least the 1990's onwards. Ta Power outlined adroitly in his critique how a movement that did not have politics in primacy would become directionless and subservient to militarism that in turn would as it happened have a relatively short shelf life.

Ta Power's critique re-defined for the Republican Socialist Movement their raison d'etre and the ideas contained within his critique have become key principles of the IRSM today. Within the general public in Ireland and further afield there is no longer the misconception that the IRSM is a Cinderella sister of the much larger Provisonal movement nor is there any doubt on the importance of the IRSP as a potentially radical alternative to the reformism of mainstream Republicanism. Power's examination of collective leadership models in Mozambique reinforced his assertion that accountable collective leadership within the IRSM would lead to political stability and the negation of any tendency for factionalism around individual power bases. In short Power's critique provided a blueprint of sorts for the IRSM to rebuild and consolidate itself as the dynamic revolutionary party that it is becoming today. Power's re-defining of military activity as a tactic and not a Holy Grail has proven equally prophetic in the current political climate. It could be argued that the most significant developments within the IRSM have had a close correlation to the Ta Power Document's proposals which in turn re-inforce the concept of the primacy of politics. Even a casual perusal of Power's critique will dispell any misconceptions that the IRSM has been involved in a 'catch-up' exercise with the Provisonals, in fact the document provides a precedent or historical verifiable marker for the IRSM's current political direction and it's adaption to an age requiring new strategies for survival and political growth.

For those who wish to read the Ta Power Document it can be found in it's entirety here: http://irsm.org/history/tapowerdoc.html In conclusion it is tragic that Ta Power was so cruelly robbed of the chance to see his proposals becoming key policy. His assertion that revolutionaries were merely "dead men on leave" proved tragically prophetic! Ta Power's critique's legacy is very much alive within the contemporary Irish Republican Socialism Movement which has gone through a radical re-appraisal and a consolidation of it's original political dynamic which has the potential to again make Republican Socialism a key player in a radical alternative within the Irish political landscape.

http://www.helium.com/items/1941311-...power-document





:sovi: ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Iskra http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57307-The-importance-of-the-Ta-Power-Document-within-the-IRSM http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57299-New-IRSCNA-Address&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:26:44 GMT IRSCNA has a new address: *Irish Republican Socialist Committees PO Box 5174 Champaign, Illinois 61825 USA* IRSCNA has a new address:

Irish Republican Socialist Committees
PO Box 5174
Champaign, Illinois 61825
USA ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Costello39-77 http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57299-New-IRSCNA-Address http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57099-Harassment-from-some-anti-RSM-crank&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:23:00 GMT :sovi: I mentioned on another political forum that crank with an anti-Socialist agenda and some weird grudge against Republican Socialists has been sending me bizarre emails and comments to my... :sovi:

I mentioned on another political forum that crank with an anti-Socialist agenda and some weird grudge against Republican Socialists has been sending me bizarre emails and comments to my blog.

It is a minor annoyance but it is my belief that things like that deserve to be exposed to public scrutiny so that other Republicans can see this crank's agenda.

As the old saying goes you are 'only only as sick as your secrets' so in the spirit of that maxim if permitted I intend publishing all of this cranks emails & messages in this thread.

'Better out than in!'

:sovi: ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Iskra http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?57099-Harassment-from-some-anti-RSM-crank http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56642-Belfast-City-Council-plan-a-minimum-of-376-redundancies&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:34:43 GMT IRSP PRESS RELEASE 22/8/10 Belfast City Council plan a minimum of 376 redundancies. Last night IRSP Press Officer Paul little warned of “Local government employers using the economic... IRSP PRESS RELEASE
22/8/10


Belfast City Council plan a minimum of 376 redundancies.


Last night IRSP Press Officer Paul little warned of “Local government employers using the economic crisis to frighten workers into accepting greater levels of poverty.”

Local Government Employers in pay cuts and job losses scare tactics.

The I.R.S.P has discovered that all 26 local authorities in the North of Ireland have drawn up plans to cut jobs and services. It is thought that the wage cuts will mean in real terms a cut of £10 to £40 a week.

Mr Little said, “Such cuts in wages will only apply to those employees earning under recognised poverty levels.”

The IRSP representative continued, “it was significant that there are no plans to reduce the income of those earning £1000+ per week”

The IRSP believe that there is no need for cuts in any public services pay or pensions, but that the collection of £100bn worth of tax evasion by the very wealthy and big business should pay for the crises that is not of our making.
The IRSP stand shoulder to shoulder with all under paid and under valued workers who stand against the Local Government employers, they have stated that they do not intend to make a pay offer for 2010 nor, do they intend to keep the promise of £250 made to those workers already living below the poverty line.
This is in direct contradiction of the Government who announced that staff earning less than £21,000 per annum would receive an increase of £250.
STATEMENT ENDS ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Costello39-77 http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56642-Belfast-City-Council-plan-a-minimum-of-376-redundancies http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56569-Ardoyne-Setting-the-record-straight&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:47:31 GMT I copied and pasted this from the IRSP Forum Ardoyne, setting the record straight – North Belfast IRSP On BBC Newsline on BBC1 20/8/10 they issued a statement on behalf of C.A.R.A (Crumlin... I copied and pasted this from the IRSP Forum


Ardoyne, setting the record straight – North Belfast IRSP

On BBC Newsline on BBC1 20/8/10 they issued a statement on behalf of C.A.R.A (Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association) denying that they were affiliated to Sinn Fein. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that they are not officially affiliated to SF, we are unaware of any community group anywhere that is officially affiliated to any political party. The C.A.R.A. denial does however beg the question why would anyone claim that they are?

FACT- THE ORIGINAL PROTESTS IN THE MID 1990’S AGAINST LOYAL ORDER PARADES ON THE CRUMLIN ROAD WERE NOT RESIDENTS PROTESTS BUT THEY WERE ORGANISED BY FORMER SINN FEIN COUNCILLOR EOIN DE BRUIN UNDER THE GUISE OF OGRA SINN FEIN. THEY ONLY BECAME RESIDENTS PROTESTS WHEN IT WAS POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT FOR SINN FEIN TO SAY SO.

C.A.R.A was set up a couple of years ago at a meeting in Ardoyne Hall, this meeting was called by Joe Marley (Prominent Stormont republican) and addressed by Stormont Junior minister Gerry Kelly in the wake of the break up of the APDG ( Ardoyne Parades Dialogue Group). The APDG broke up following SF’s failure to get consensus on its strategy of NO TALK-NO WALK approach to unwanted sectarian marches through the area, most Ardoyne residents totally oppose the loyal order marches passing Ardoyne and rightly view any dialogue with the loyal orders as futile. Republican Socialists, through our ex prisoners group Teach Na Failte were actively involved in the APDG, we worked tirelessly to find a solution to this problem, It was Republican Socialists that investigated and located an alternative route away from Ardoyne and in to Glencairn where undoubtedly all loyal order parades would be welcomed with open arms.

At the initial meeting to set up CARA in Ardoyne hall attended by the IRSP and SDLP as well as Stormont republicans (SF), SF produced an already written constitution and proceeded to attempt to form CARA even though there was no consensus to do so at the meeting. It was clear that SF were going to form a group that was sympathetic to its strategy of consenting to loyal order parades passing Ardoyne in the morning but not on the return in the evening, regardless of the overall rejection of that strategy by the vast majority of Ardoyne residents.

The 12th demonstration 2010 and the trouble that accompanied this triumphalist parade have been well covered in a SF compliant media. CARA were the good fenians (Identified by yellow bibs with Ardoyne Steward printed on the back) and GARC (Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective) were the bad fenians, the Orange Order and the PSNI were blameless, so the media told the world. This is utter rubbish! The GARC protest was both legitimate and peaceful and whilst GARC called for support from other areas and political groupings to join their protest, they were entitled to do so, the same tactic worked on the Garvaghy Road and Ormeau Road. What went unreported is that many of the yellow bib brigade supporting CARA, do not come from Ardoyne but are bussed in from other parts of Belfast, they are paid Sinn Fein apparatchiks, who masquerade as Ardoyne residents. The job of the yellow bibs, led by Sinn Fein’s Bobby Storey, is to suppress the genuine residents of Ardoyne.

The IRSP neither support CARA or GARC, we view this division of the residents of Ardoyne as entirely the work of Stormont Republicans. Republican Socialists refuse to get drawn into this false division, however, we do support all the residents of Ardoyne who quite clearly oppose sectarian marches passing their homes, and we support their right to organise free from political interference.

In regards to CARA assertions that it is not affiliated to Sinn Fein it needs to look at why people might think they are? If they are not bringing the paid, state vigilantes into Ardoyne to decide who is allowed to protest and who is not, then who is? ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement undefeated http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56569-Ardoyne-Setting-the-record-straight http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56204-IRSP-statement-on-Ardoyne-residents-protest&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:34:59 GMT 15th August 2010 The State response to Ardoyne community objection to loyalist coat trailing parades passing their homes is nothing less than political policing at its worst states the north... 15th August 2010

The State response to Ardoyne community objection to loyalist coat trailing parades passing their homes is nothing less than political policing at its worst states the north Belfast IRSP.

The IRSP in north Belfast have strongly critisised the Stormont regime for once again forcing a loyalist parade through Ardoyne/Mountainview. We witnessed on Saturday morning the P.S.N.I., Stormont ministers and a rag taggle of misfits bussed in from other parts of Belfast to masquerade as Ardoyne residents in an effort to enable the Apprentice Boys to march through the area. This triumvirate of the Stormont state attempted to dictate who could protest and who couldn’t on Saturday morning.

Many genuine residents of Ardoyne were prevented from having a peaceful protest, as is their right, amongst those whose freedom of movement was restricted were IRSP members who were there to observe that residents were not abused by the forces of the state.

The IRSP reject the attempt by Sinn Fein/PSNI and paid vigilantes to not only police the Ardoyne community and enable a loyalist parade, but also to tell the community what to do and think! We support the residents of Ardoyne who know how to act and what to think themselves, without political interference.

We condemn in the strongest terms the capitulation of elected representatives whose role is to protect the rights of the Ardoyne residents not fritter them away on a wave of political expediency.

Statement Ends ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Poblachtach Sóisalach http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?56204-IRSP-statement-on-Ardoyne-residents-protest http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?55852-Re-IRSP-policy&goto=newpost Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:45:36 GMT I was discussing the IRSP and their current position but found myself lacking any proper logic and relevant knowledge about what course the party is planning to take or taking at present. Can anyone... I was discussing the IRSP and their current position but found myself lacking any proper logic and relevant knowledge about what course the party is planning to take or taking at present. Can anyone help?

(Nb: Anyone with an anti-IRSP agenda I DONT CARE!) ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement springfieldroadrepublican http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?55852-Re-IRSP-policy http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?55840-The-Story-of-the-Irish-Citizen-Army-by-Sean-O-Casey-PDF-Version&goto=newpost Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:46:56 GMT http://irspscotland.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/the-story-of-the-irish-citizen-army2.pdf http://irspscotland.files.wordpress....izen-army2.pdf ]]> Irish Republican Socialist Movement Costello39-77 http://www.irishrepublican.net/forum/showthread.php?55840-The-Story-of-the-Irish-Citizen-Army-by-Sean-O-Casey-PDF-Version