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Date Posted: Thu, Mar 26 2009, 20:28:19 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: 25th Anniversary Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

26 March 2009
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

25th Anniversary Statement

The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America are proud to
celebrate twenty-five years representing the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement--comprised principally of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
and the Irish National Liberation Army--in North America.

The IRSCNA was founded in Saint Paul, Minnesota, at a conference held
23-25 March 1984. Representatives from across the United States and
Canada were in attendance, including key organizers from San Francisco
and Saskatchewan. One of the founding members from San Francisco joined
the IRSP in October 1981, the first person resident in North America to
be accepted for party membership.

There was discussion of whether to establish a distinct support group
for the IRSM since at least 1981, but it was agreed that a broad front
type of formation best suited the needs of the movement at the time.
With the growing and increasingly overt hostility of the Provisional
Republican Movement toward the IRSM, it was determined by supporters in
North America that it was no longer effective to attempt to work
exclusively through broad front formations and the Ard-Chomhairle
[National Executive] of the IRSP was petitioned for permission to
establish a support group.

With permission granted, the founding conference was organized, and the
IRSP sent Brigid Sheils Makowski from Derry as their official
representative. Formal IRSP sanction and mandate was provided by the
IRSP Ard-Chomhairle in a letter from the IRSP's General Secretary in
1986. IRSP recognition of the exclusivity of the IRSCNA's mandate for
North America was reiterated by the Ard-Chomhairle in 1987. At the 1998
IRSP Ard Fheis (National Convention) it was resolved that the IRSCNA
would be recognized as a component section of the IRSM and its members
would be accorded the full rights of members of the IRSP, including
participation and voting at any party Ard Fheis.

IRSCNA comrades attended every IRSP Ard Fheis from 1984 to the present,
participating in the life of the party and important ideological debates
(particularly in 1984, 1998, 2000, and 2004). During the dim period
from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s when the IRSM was recovering from
deadly attacks by state forces and counter-revolutionaries, IRSCNA
comrades helped keep the flames of republican socialism burning.

When the San Francisco chapter attempted to hijack the IRSCNA for their
own agenda in 2005, we stood firm against their anti-democratic tactics
and remained loyal to the Movement. They were expelled, after which we
re-organized under a true collective leadership with our only agenda to
advance the cause of republican socialism in North America and build
support for the IRSM. We held a successful North American Ard Fheis in
2008, and another one is planned for June of this year.

In addition, IRSCNA members are involved in supporting and assisting the
Republican Socialist Youth Movement, sending books to political
prisoners, supporting the families of republican socialist prisoners of
war, publishing a seasonal newsletter, promoting the Irish language, and
engaging in working class struggle in our communities. The IRSCNA is
more active than before in even more areas of the working class
struggle.

On the 25th anniversary of our founding, we in the Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America once again pledge our support to
the Irish Republican Socialist Movement and the struggle to build a 32
County Socialist Republic on the island of Ireland.

Onward to the Socialist Republic!

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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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