twised with the capulsion of british Imperialism. of the coming struggle. It will not help to create alliance with either a degeneration in Earlier this year (1-15 Jan.) the Mole published an interview with a leading member of Saor Wire; Parties ranging from Fianna Fail to Clann na this followed a fierce witch Just in the Free State, in tehich sileged kidnapping plots inalting Saar Eire were used as an excuse to re-enact the Offences Against the State Act, which means that dissidents con be interned without frial Now we have received the following mani festo, in suitich Saor Eire explain their policies and merhods of smuggle. We pablish it in the belief that it is an important contribution to the discussion on the way forward for the Irish revolution.
MANIFESTO It was England's final and total victory which threw the mass of the Irish people down into a condition of unbridled class slavery From which we have never yer succeeded in fully emancipa ting ourselves though we have never yet. and never will as the risings in each generation testify cease to struggle against chat enslavemenr.
Imperialism in Ireland must be overthrown because it has never meant anything, but foreign domination and oppression of our peuple, despoliation, economic exploitation, and absolute subordination to the military and economic needs of the British ruling class, a permanent wasting away of the human resurces. of the nation and finally the mutilation of partition, Imposed by the British Empire and bringing with it chronic coonomic stagnati both sides of the Border and the instit Teed division of the working class ir counties It must be smashed and socialist system which reinca modern conditions in Irela communal values and: ancient Gaelic tribal soc our by the successive capitalsit England.
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The Natiens Revolution: Patures Possibilities of Success!
The cause of the failare of the Ir Ferolution has been basically: @bestion. The argument b very genuine and sincere only we could have k would have been support among various sections of community and any real sigas of ga field as purely "military" questions. been one of the main failings of the mow and the realization of the necessity for rel tionary polics has resulted in a political backlash where today we have the position th any brand of "socialist" politics is better than none. During the Civil War the inability of al Republican caase to break outside the narr political confines set by che Free State, led to its military defeat For example in the west of Ireland the land courts, which bade been in operation for some time belarchand. predestined the defeat of Kepublicanion in the West or at least the lack of corhosiasm for the calise there. When these courts took back the land which the landless men had seized chey took back thei Republic". Arevery scction of the people has its own economic interpretation of the Republic so also had che farm labourers ep there it was land. Te che workers it was economic boldings and propertics of British Imperialise.
JE we look ac che main programmatic points ol any national democratic resolution we can ser that chey are basically three:(1) National Unity (2) Economic and pelitical independence (3) The land question These were basically the three aims of the leish National Revolution and as yet they remain to be sulved. The National Democratic Hevolution has yet no be completed in Ireland. This struggle has been waged for fifcy years by various polici Cal identicies, on various fronts, withour any The Red Mole 1 June 1971 Page 8 results and withour any foresceable successes Poblachea to the present day Sinu Fein have all soughe, in their time and in their way, to complete this unfinished revolution. Their reasons for failure arc diverse but it is basically one of politics They failed to understand and were incapable and unwilling to grasp the dynemics of the Irish Kevolution and the interaspects, Connolly stated "if you remoe the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set abour the organization of the Socialist Republe your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her landloeds.
through her financiers, through the whole army of commercial ami individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the sears of our mothersand the blood of our martyrs". This piece of Connelly's wrising has been parties and groupings is to relegare into a relegated to a series of cliches on the Irish political scene and political parties are content to mouth such phrases as a substitute for formulating a programme which would show how the changing of property relationships is interFor tactically it is a question of identifying the enemy and deciding where che real enemies of Irish independance lie. ofrealizing that the Free State ruling class is one of the loyal cusrodianof HM garrison in tie land, and that only the who wy systern, root go all the This ne Fing t trish Revolts e will be no a defci ourselves against the forces Free Stati If the political reality of suc non is t grasped then we are doomed to faire. During the last campaign(1955-62) this was precisely obe of thie contributing factors to the defeat of the L.R.A. Young men who had risked their ives in border raids were ordered by an oppor cunist leadership to walk mildly into che Carrat concentration camp. The political leadership of the "official" movement today are still no nearer discovering » political solution. If they try and make the best of a bad job and enter the Dail and Stormont the system they denounce will just swallow them up. Experience from Fiarna Fail to Clamm na Poblichta shows char icelutably. These so called "left wingers" are nore reaccionary than any so called "rightwingers" chey might have deposed. For choagh they may indulge in "socialist" phrase mongering they have divested the Republican Movement of its revolutionary pocentiel by dismantling and undermining ics armed wing. They talk of two stages in the leish revoletion. First we establich territorial unity and then we cackle the question of property relations in the 32 counties. What do they think the Frue State will be doing while they are trying to unite the country? There can be no discinct, separato stages in the Irish revolution. True there are stages but these stages overlap cach ocher and the tasks posed are inter woven, this gwing an uninterrupred revolution which will drive out the forces of British Imperialism and their agents once and relationship between its Socialist and Nacionalist for all from Ireland, Daless this lesson Is grasped by Republicans we are assigning ourselves to endless defeats.
One Method of Fighting Based on the premise of the necessity for armed struggle and the need to mobiize and radicalize groater masses of workers, small farmers and sodents un overall strategy and programme must beddercloped. To limi, the struggle to the conlines of purely political process of cadless discussions, ineffective motions, resolutions and debates and to siderrack it into a political whirlpool. There are enough parties and groups in existence at the moment who claim for themselves the leadership another such organization. Action will test the validity of each distinct political philosophy tion that leadership will be ges and tactics must be tuation. Rural guerills h topopuphy and I developments must bo its proper context and mor an the urban guerrilla. out the country, actic groups and politic ust be the order MY act an a detonator for the initia for national liberation. No sin that te Mi Foremenr Fra movement that is ane steg fill in contact with the people and which ends tail ending she mass lovement sf ins present stage of development. The objective conditions for a revolucion nest nor be waited upon but must he created from the material already existing. The inability or unwillagness afany party or group and their lack of success in this field has made it imperatie to create small armed groupings who can take an active part in creating these necessary conditions, There are sufficient diverac political sulpings in existence at the momeat and the creation of one more will ony lend further to the confusion already existing. Thu such a moveinent must draw for its support and man ower on these same bodies and carry the Struggle to a higher plane. There is no contradiction berween the building of armed groups and the building of the muss movement. Such actions as they will carry our whether they be armed insurrection in some labour dispure, the redressing of a social evil. or atracks on State property or its servants, will show to che people that there is in existence the means and the methods tu combat and defear a bureaueraric capitalist state Such actions will focusthe attention bEthe people on thewwrongs and evi that exist in our society and wil expose the dictatorial character of the state machine in its unwillingness to ahrogate ita privileges.
Io theory at least, Republicanism is nearer to this correct tactical approach than the more d celoped Sociahst groupings. It is not the quancity of Marx digested that makes a revolu tionary but the ability to prepace for, cake par in and make the revolution that matters Some Socialst groupings, for varions subjective reasons. hald to the belief that the mascof the people must be policeally conscions and that he objective conditions must be ripe before wo start to make this revolution Such atrinides will condemn them to endless discassions. the continual analysis of actions after the event anc crencially to political excinction.
What elevates the actions of Saor Bire to a serious revolutionary platform is the attemp: te weld this political and military struggle into an unit. Any attemps in recent leish history to per form such a task has resalted in an ach conveationa. retorinist politics group of a purely militarise r Saor Eire was Foun members of tie and the Men who had ectinarwhich i the numerous were involved in Our first step was to evo ucionary action perized ailable inded was solely on n. Ar the c actions to armed b then certain re clana still he Emed bandirs With chis form of defamation a connon with the revolutionWinning we have used revoalack the interests of the ialism in Ireland. It is only warfare that the people will truly achive the goal which has for uninterruptedly over the many of unquenchable struggle and eedom. Republican Ireland has th the Free Stace since is creatien e been ceasclires but no treaties ind in the not roo distaer fucure cessary to take up this struggle again GLOSSARY Suor cite Free Freland pronounced sey-or ayre Ence State the 26 connty regime de the south of freind which was originally called "Seorstar Eiream" (Trish Free State), Republicans refuse to recognise ir as the Republic Cumbers -Money lender.
Mallores-Liam Mellower, Republican who war murdered by the Free State chering the Civil War. His writings from prison stressed the need for a socialist goal for the Republican strugale. Eiauns Fell-the present governing party in the Free Stale: initiated as a split from the Repub lican assement by De Valenz it orightally flirted with Republican phraseclogy, but is now a direct agent of British imperialism in Ireland. Clanu na Poblachta another split from Repub Lcaniam, at first even whore demagogically Republican than Fiarme Fail, bur as the first opportunity it went into a reactionary coulition government, and proceeded to persecute Repub ficans viciously, Forunately now extinct. Sam bein the political wing of the irish Repsch lican Morement, it split last year, and there are now two perries colling thensehes Sinn Fent, the Officials Gardiver Place, and the Provisiesais Kevin Street).
Pease Padraig Pearse, one of the main leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.