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Date Posted: Sunday, April 08, 2:03:14
Author: IRSCNA
Subject: IRSCNA: Easter Statement 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

8 April 2012
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Easter Statement 2012

On the 96th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America send solidarity greetings to
our comrades and fellow members of the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement in the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish National
Liberation Army, Republican Socialist Youth Movement, and Teach na
Failte, along with all republican socialist prisoners of war
presently in Irish and British prisons.

On this day above all, we proudly remember all those who gave their
lives for an Irish Workers' Republic. Just as we salute the example
of James Connolly and his brave comrades in the Irish Citizen Army
who fought for national and class liberation in 1916, we also
remember those comrades in the IRSP and INLA who died so that the
working class party of Connolly and Seamus Costello could continue to
exist and continue the struggle for socialism. The political
independence of the working class is essential in the struggle to
build socialism.

It is therefore fitting that we also take the occasion of Easter 2012
to reaffirm our unwavering support for the leadership and program of
the IRSP. Our commitment to the struggle for national and working
class liberation in Ireland, and working class liberation worldwide,
is unbroken.

We are proud to be the North American section of the IRSM, building
solidarity as well as giving practical aid and support to the best of
our ability. We stand firm in the Republican Socialist tradition
begun by Connolly and continued today by the IRSP, a party whose
political analysis and leadership has never been as sorely needed as
now. The IRSP is the only organization within Irish anti-imperialism
that can both understand the line of march and lead by example.

Recent events have tragically confirmed Connolly's analyses. The new
fiscal treaty which has been prepared for Ireland will further
severely limit the nation's sovereignty. It will ensure that the
downward spiral in living standards continues without relent. In the
occupied six counties, the bosses assault on working people has gone
so far that the unemployed will now be denied their own homes and
forced to live in overcrowded accommodations. Those bourgeois
"republicans" who hijacked the anti-imperialist struggle insisted
that socialism had to wait. Reality has demonstrated again and again
that the struggle for independence cannot be divorced from the class
struggle without disastrous results.

Our struggle is not over. And our comrades who fought, struggled,
starved, and died for a free Ireland would accept nothing less than a
united and socialist Irish Republic in which the means of production,
exchange, and distribution are under the control of the working class
and its allies; a society that puts conscious human will in the
driver's seat, above the irrational chaos of the markets; and a
nation that cherishes all the children of the nation equally.

In the immortal words of James Connolly, "Our demands most modest
are, we only want the earth."

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 5174
Champaign IL 61825
USA
irscna@irsm.org
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