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Date Posted: Wed, Apr 30 2008, 22:22:35 PDT
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA May Day 2008 Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1 May 2008
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

May Day 2008 Statement

The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America send
solidarity greetings to our fellow workers and comrades in the class
struggle around the world on the working class holiday of May Day,
also known as International Workers' Day. We salute and share in your
fight against oppression, exploitation and imperialism.

As the North American section of the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement, we extend our greetings to our comrades and fellow members
of the IRSM in the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish National
Liberation Army, Republican Socialist Youth Movement, Republican
Socialist Martyrs Flute Bands and Teach na F�ilte, along with all
republican socialist prisoners of war. We reiterate that we remain
committed to the struggle for national and working class liberation in
Ireland, and working class liberation worldwide.

As this May Day dawns, the workers of the world remain exploited by a
global capitalist class in its unending quest for profit. The Cuban
Revolution remains defiant in the face of this and Venezuela continues
to pursue a progressive path, but until the working class collectively
and globally rises against the capitalist order, a better world for
all will remain out of reach. We, the workers, are the ones with the
power to build that world, and build it we must.

The spectre of climate change also haunts us. Capitalism cannot and
will not address this in a serious manner because to do so would
inevitably harm its ability to earn a profit for its small,
parasitical ruling class. The solution lies in the hands of the
working class and our ability to lead a revolution to create a
sustainable socialist economy that can meet the needs of both our
class and the planet we share. The survival and health of humankind is
linked to the survival and health of the planet itself.

In the most powerful capitalist state, the United States, political
debate currently revolves around which lap dog of the ruling class
will lead the nation for the next four years. Fellow workers, let us
be honest with you, those candidates have the best interests of the
capitalist system in mind, not our interests as a class exploited by
that system. No matter which candidate wins the election, the real
winner will be the ruling class, and the United States will remain a
bastion of imperialism and exploitation.

In Ireland, conditions are growing for a republican socialist
alternative to fill the void in revolutionary politics. It is obvious
that neither the Good Friday Agreement nor any other imperialist
brokered settlement can resolve the fundamental contradictions at the
heart of Irish society. Only a socialist Ireland with full
self-determination can do that, and a socialist Ireland can only
thrive if capitalism is defeated on a wider scale.

On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, we also extend
solidarity greetings to the following organizations: All-African
People's Revolutionary Party, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation,
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Communist Party of Cuba,
Communist Party of Nepal, Communist Party of the Philippines,
Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted), Debs Tendency of the
Socialist Party USA, Freedom Socialist Party, Northeastern Federation
of Anarchist Communists, Organization of Iranian People's Fedaii
Guerrillas, Party of World Revolution, Peace and Freedom Party,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Radical Women, Scottish
Republican Socialist Movement, Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee,
Uni�n del Barrio, United Socialist Party of Venezuela,
Worker-Communist Party of Iran, Worker-Communist Party of Iraq,
Working Women Organization and all others who are struggling to
liberate the working class from the shackles of capitalism and
imperialism.

As the great Irish revolutionary James Connolly said, "The great only
appear great because we are on our knees, let us arise!"

# # #

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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