SF and SD

Date: 12th June '01

Name: C, Dearg

Country: Wales

Well, as a non-aligned (Irish) republican socialist I give critical support to all aspects of the struggle for national liberation and socialism in Ireland, from SF/IRA,IRSP/INLA, 32SC/RIRA and RSF/CIRA as well as the CPI and ISP. However, as regards Sinn Fein, I feel that they may be regressing down the road of Social Democracy and as we all know you can't win a revolution with Red Roses - you need hammers, sickles and starry ploughs. My other fear is that if somehow they become the one party of the NI working class, crossing the community divide, then they will be happy to remain in the relative power the illegal statlet grants them rather than be in an extremish minority on an all-Ireland basis, thereby abandoning any sense of revolutionaryism, simply paying lip service to unity. However, I believe that, at the moment anyway, this will not happen. Its just a niggling fear at the back of my mind.
Sln
C, Dearg (Red Kev)

Back to discussion page                    RA home page