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Date Posted: Thu, Feb 15 2007, 14:20:04 PST
Author: Sinn F�in Poblachtach - Cork
Subject: Sinn F�in Poblachtach Launches Manifesto

(Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach Launches Manifesto.

A Press Conference was held on Tuesday February 13th in Belfast. (Republican) Sinn Fein Poblachtach had called the conference to introduce the candidates. They are, as follows:

Fermanagh/South Tyrone: Michael McManus
West Tyrone: Joe O'Neill
Mid-Ulster: Brendan McLaughlin
Upper Bann: Barry Toman
West Belfast: Geraldine Taylor
East Derry: Michael McGonigle

(Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach also launched its election manifesto for the forthcoming election.

It reads:

Smash Stormont
(Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach election manifesto, Feabhra/February 2007.

(Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach is taking the opportunity of the present election in the Six Counties to put before the electorate a positive programme for an end to English rule in Ireland. We seek national independence for ALL 32 Counties of our country.

Believing the Stormont Assembly to be an obstacle to Irish national liberation, our candidates will not, when elected, take part in that body. They will act as spokespersons at home and abroad for those opposed to English rule here and make themselves available to sit in an All-Ireland parliament of the future.

For close on four decades (Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach has adhered to the noble concept of �IRE NUA - a totally New Ireland of the four provinces, including a nine-county Ulster.
With optimum devolution of power and decision-making to strong regional boards and local councils, every section of our people would have maximum control over their own future based on local majorities. A community of communities is our aim.

Our social and economic programme, SAOL NUA, A New Way of Life, is based on Republican, Democratic Socialist, environmental and self-reliance principles. We seek an end to exploitation of humankind by any section and wish to "cherish all the children of the nation equally".
In particular we reject English police, English courts, English laws in Ireland. Those who accept these institutions here betray the many generations of Irish people who have struggled valiantly for long-downtrodden humanity.

What the Provisional leadership is doing is in direct conflict with the 1916 Proclamation of the Republic and with the Declaration of Independence of the First (All-Ireland) D�il. Their recent decisions also conflict with the high ideals for which so many men and women of all creeds have struggled, suffered and died over the centuries.

To approve of and work the institutions designed deliberately by a foreign power to subjugate and hold us down as a people is to strengthen English rule here and weaken our effort for national liberation.

A previous generation smashed Stormont. Efforts are now under way to undo the gains which were made then and Stormont is to be re-imposed on us. Vote Republican Sinn F�in and smash Stormont again.

No to English police, courts, laws and institutions; Yes to English withdrawal, Yes to EIRE NUA (A New Ireland), Yes to real All-Ireland democracy.

People of the Six Counties! Do not give away what earlier generations won for us by their sacrifices. Stand by the Republican prisoners who are a living reproach to those who allowed the political status won by Bobby Sands and his comrades on hunger strike to be ended under the Stormont Agreement of 1998.

Remember an English government more than a century ago attempted to "kill Home Rule with kindness". Those who came before us did not allow that to succeed. You, today, must not permit the advances already made to be given away by those who are selling us out step by step to the English government.

To those of the Unionist persuasion we would say that this new Stormont arrangement can only lead to continuing instability which is not in the interest of any section of the community. We would ask them to look again at our �IRE NUA proposals for a four-province federal Ireland which, we believe, is the blueprint for a true and lasting peace in Ireland.

The 1916 Proclamation declared "the right of the Irish people to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible". Stand by that right in this election.

V�t�il (Republican) Sinn F�in Poblachtach. Seasaimis leis an bPoblacht Uile-�ireann.

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