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Date Posted: Thu, Apr 03 2008, 8:26:21 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: 2008 Ard Fheis Motions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

3 April 2008
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

2008 Ard Fheis Motions

Constitution/Policy

1. That Section III, Part C of the constitution be changed to have
membership fees be sliding rates based on income. The rate shall be
set by the incoming Coordinating Committee.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann (Chicago)
Status: APPROVED

2. This Ard Fheis declares its unwavering support for the program of
the Irish Republican Socialist Party and to the principles of
Republican Socialism established by James Connolly, Seamus Costello
and Ta Power.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann (Seattle)
Status: APPROVED

3. This Ard Fheis applauds the Irish National Liberation Army for
maintaining a principled ceasefire for ten years.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

4. This Ard Fheis recognizes the necessity of the Irish National
Liberation Army and salutes them for their determination and refusal
to decommission or disband.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

5. This Ard Fheis declares that it supports no war but the class war.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

6. This Ard Fheis declares that only socialism can liberate the
workers of the world.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

7. This Ard Fheis calls for full equality for gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transgendered people, including the right to marry and
raise children.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann, Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann (Kansas City)
Status: APPROVED

8. This Ard Fheis affirms the anti-colonial necessity of the growing
Gaelic revival and also affirms that the language movement can only be
successful within a socialist Ireland, not in an exclusive or
nationalist context but as part of a multi-cultural society following
the tradition of � Cadhain and Connolly
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann, Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

9. We reiterate that the Irish Republican Socialist Committees of
North America represents the Irish Republican Socialist Movement in
North America and struggles to build recognition of and support for
the national liberation of Ireland and the victory of the Irish
working class in its fight for socialism. This Ard Fheis proudly
upholds the exclusivity of the IRSCNA's mandate for North America as
was reiterated by the Ard Chomhairle in 1987, and we continue to
zealously defend our mandate as the sole legitimate representatives of
the IRSM in North America against all usurpers.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

10. This Ard Fheis recognizes that the IRSCNA exists primarily as a
support group for the IRSP/M but is de facto also a revolutionary
tendency active within the North American workers' movement that
represents the woefully under-represented Marx-Engels-Lenin-Connolly
tradition.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

Solidarity/International

11. This Ard Fheis wishes to send greetings to the Irish Freedom
Committee for all their hard work on behalf of POWs families and for
the hospitality they have shown the IRSCNA.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

12. This Ard Fheis wishes to congratulate the Chicago Hunger Strike
Commemoration Committee for their respectful and unified commemoration
of the 1981 H-Block Martyrs.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

13. This Ard Fheis condemns the continued occupations of Afghanistan
and Iraq by United States imperialism and its allies, including the
British government.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

14. This Ard Fheis condemns the continued occupation of Palestine by
Zionist imperialism and the continued support for that occupation by
the United States.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

15. This Ard Fheis expresses solidarity with and support for: those
comrades within the PCC (Communist Party of Cuba) who continue to
uphold the gains of socialism, the All-African People's Revolutionary
Party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the
super-exploited immigrant workers' movement that is continuing to
organize in the belly of the beast, the recently-formed Party of World
Revolution who have been so comradely towards the IRSM, the Communist
Party of Bohemia and Moravia which is subject to constant attacks and
criminalization by the Czech state, the Bolivarian Revolution, and all
genuinely revolutionary working class currents throughout the world
that still uphold socialism, proletarian-led self determination and
liberation from imperialism.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

Activities

16. This Ard Fheis instructs the incoming Coordinating Committee to
establish an educational program for all incoming members.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

17. This Ard Fheis encourages all cumainn and members to work harder
to host educational events such as screenings, talks, etc.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

18. This Ard Fheis instructs that the incoming Coordinating Committee
designate a Public Relations Officer (PRO) to contact Irish-American
news outlets as well as other Left organizations to help promote
Republican Socialism in the United States.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

19. This Ard Fheis wishes to recognize and thank the outgoing
Coordinating Committee for all the hard work they have done to keep
the IRSCNA going after the disastrous events of three years ago.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

20. This Ard Fheis calls upon the incoming Coordinating Committee to
update the document "What is the IRSCNA?"
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

21. This Ard Fheis calls upon the incoming Coordinating Committee to
reestablish the James Connolly Prisoners' Welfare Fund and the
Republican Socialist Prisoners' Educational Fund.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

22. This Ard Fheis calls upon the incoming Coordinating Committee to
look into redesigning the IRSCNA website and have it hosted separately
from irsm.org.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: REJECTED (it was decided that the IRSCNA website should remain
part of the irsm.org domain)

23. This Ard Fheis calls upon the incoming Coordinating Committee to
designate a steering committee to prepare motions, suggested by the
IRSCNA membership, for the IRSP Ard Fheis later this year.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: REJECTED (it was decided to have the Coordinating Committee
handle this directly)

24. This Ard Fheis calls on the American working class to reject the
mockery of democracy represented by the presidential elections and
reminds the class that all of the major party candidates are agents of
the ruling class.
Proposer: Ta Power Cumann
Status: APPROVED

25. Call upon our members whenever possible to support the Hands off
Venezuela and Cuban Revolution solidarity activities.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

26. This Ard Fheis calls upon the IRSCNA Coordinating Committee to
immediately establish a regular newsletter to raise the profile of the
IRSM and make its views more widely known.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann, Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

27. This Ard Fheis calls on the incoming Coordinating Committee to
establish a Prisoner Welfare Officer, Youth Coordinator and Webmaster.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

28. This Ard Fheis suggests to the incoming IRSCNA Coordinating
Committee to adopt a comprehensive and assertive recruitment effort.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

29. This Ard Fheis praises the efforts of the outgoing Coordinating
Committee in trying to consistently establish collective leadership as
per the Ta Power Document and IRSP Ard Chomhairle's instructions, and
we ask the the incoming Coordinating Committee to follow this example.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

Prisoners

30. This Ard Fheis sends solidarity greetings to all Republican
Socialist Prisoners of War in Maghaberry, Magilligan and Portlaoise
gaols and to all other Republican POWs in gaols in England and Ireland.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

31. This Ard Fheis condemns the actions of the Free State Government
by interning and abusing fellow members of the Irish Republican
Socialist Party and Teach na F�ilte.
Proposer: Joe McCann Cumann
Status: APPROVED

32. This Ard Fheis calls upon the Coordinating Committee to make a
financial donation to the families of recent victims of Free State
terrorism.
Proposer: Larkin/Gino Gallagher Cumann
Status: APPROVED

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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 901479
Kansas City MO 64190-1479
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

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