·rilE UNCONQUERED "DY THE PEOPLE SOUL ASSERTS AN PHOBLACHT THE PEOPLE MUST ITSELF" DE FREED" - · La[,,· -Con t/Olly THE REPUBLIC ===== ORGAN OF IRISH REPUBLICAN OPINION ===== VOL. l. N0 ,2 NOVEMBER 1965 PREPARE FOR TOMORROW: ORGAN~ZE! EDUCATE! ARM~ ,AN unavoidable feature of a IN EFfECT, fellow republicans, publication such as this, is that we asked ourselves: What damn at the outset it appears to lay good is there in having a 32 county more str~ss on the deficiencies of Republic if our people are still a.x.isting R~publican organizations, forced to emigrate; if the mass of than on the course of action neces­ our rural population continues to ·s a r y t o s e t t h in g s r i g h t . •Ath i 1 e struc1gle in uneconomic holdings, the paper seems to be foreveT while foreign landlords and qentle­ harping on the in~bility of ~he men Farmers retain control-of the Republican Movement tci ~ur~Ue a best of our land, and continue to r~volutionary path, it does not exPand their land ~ possessions; if always follow' immediately withthe the control of our natural res­ necessary antidote. ourcesi mBagre though-they ~re,be retained by foreiqn · speculators WE are very conscious of these and a minority o f the national trends, but ~ot the life of us we bourgeoisie,to be manipulated for do not know how they can be avoid - their own personal benefit;if our . ed. As time ptooresses the situa ­ industrial development continues tion will right-itself automatic­ to be ma nipulated by alien and ally; but it would, · perhaps, be native capitalists, whose motiv­ ~n advant~ge t~ ex~lain now why ation is Personal profits and not this is so, so that our readers community benefits; and, if . our may undet~t~hd our motives, and proletariat continues to be faced thereby retain our overall work in with the prospects of occupational ~roper perspecfive. insecurity and periodic unemplcy­ men t because cap-it a l is m deems t h is IT is ·first necessary to ex ­ a necessary weapon in its arsenal plain ou r own position . Over t o cont rol the workers . f~e past fi~e or six years the Peopl~ reipcinsible for the ~ubli - WE Found the social, political ·cition of AN ~HOSLACHT were grad ­ and econom-ic policies of Sinn Fein ually awakened to the realization to be avowedly bourgeois in cont­ that the Reputil ican organizations, ent. Consequently, it was plain and for that matter, all other enough that should Sinn Fein ever groups which claimed revolutionar v get its much desired 32 county aspirations, were incapable o~ parliament, things wo~l~ inevit ­ realizing an Irish Republic that abl y remain very much the same as would totally destroy the system they are at present. And, since of political, social and economic the I.R.A . is bound hand and Foot exploitation which continues to to Sinn Fein policies, it was sap the energies and wealth of our ob v i o-u s t hat i f 5 inn r e in was ban ­ people. In a wor ] , although L~e krupt in the social an d politi­ appreciated the possibility ofthe cal sense, the I. R.A. was equally Republican Movement establishiMg, bankrupt in the military sense; by some · means or othe r, and at by association the reaction oft.he s9me time or other, a 32 county former automatically applied it­ R~publ ic, we honestly concluded selF to the latter. that such a state would in essence differ _ very little from that pres-­ WE then had a look at the ently functioning in the Free State. proq rammes of the Communist party (or-should we say Communist patt­ THE inevitable _ questions then i~s , since they recognize partit­ _arose: What earthlv advantaoes ion ), and examined their record could a 32 county state offer ·to as a whole. On the surface their the mass of the people, if thev policies offered much that was were t6 exist under _ the Tricolou~ desirable. However, it appeared as they did under the Union t o u s that it was of little use Jack 7 tould the ~ufferinqs, sac­ pr~posing what could, and should, rifices and privatibns demanded be do ne, when it was stipulated fr-om the people in a liberation that the attainment of these obj­ struqgle be justified, IJJhen all ectives was to be restricted to a they got in return was an illusion process of "peaceful transition." of freedom, and the ~ompLlsory teac~ing of Irish? · f\IOW, you know, we knouJ, and 2. everybody with a g rain of co~mon ­ lies not in that the Irish people sense knows that: l ) Ireland is were, or are, priest - ridden; but, not going to be freed by talking; in the fact that t~ev themselves 2) THAT THE aOURCEC ISIE, who are Moscow - ridden. it is quite presently monopolize Irish affairE, obvious that such a g roup can are not going to relinquish their hardly be considered an a dmirable position of privileqe on request . source through which Irish freedom This implies that the bouroeoisie should be p~rsued. · would v o l u n tar i l y proceed f o. .-}; i q'::. u i d a t e t h em s e l v e s a s a ~..P o l i Li'·c a ~ LVt;'f · cJi: .• ived' then at the force inthe interests offiumanily'. ' ih~sca~abl~ ~dDncl~sion that it Perhaps stranger tilTn g s have hap­ was necessary to return to the pened,but the likes of this has . be_d~roc_k of our · rev.d.lutionary tra ­ never· bi::cu :rre-d; nor is. it l~iq:Jly ditions and ·from there advance by to i~ the future. formulating new revolutionary pol ­ icies ' and a new movement to i~~l ­ THE discrepancy between the ement them . This appears the only programme ~F the Communist party pragmat i c approa c h to solvin~ the and the 'lleans by which they advocate present d i lemma, - and, of g real-t r its implementation ·represented,i:o importance,for e~su r ino tha~ whe n ­ our ~dint of via~; too o rea t a a Republic is aoain esfablished -~ contradi~tion to make an9 sense. as it will b~ -- - that it will inc ­ Their positiOn appears similar to orporate all the necessa r y elements the ?~n who suggested marc hing of freedom and national sov.ere i gnty. North to Fight the English , ard who t~en took his t r oops to King ­ HAVING accepted this ~s the bridge Station to board the train only realistic course open to rev ­ for Cork . And this, of c.ourse, olutiona r y minded Irishmen, the brings · td _the fore yet another decision . was then made to l aunch fac~or which ~liminates the Comm ­ AN PHOBLACHT. Our aim~ are to unist Pi3rfy as a medium of real i. ­ propaqate the great need fur ~ zing Iri~h -~ spirations. n e wly . C.on s t i t ut e d r e v o 1 u t ion a r y · effort . Howeve r, by so doi ng , THE p~~seht anti- revolutionar y we are also faced wi th the very att i t u_de' of Lri.sh Commu:1ists real need of illustrating the rea ­ ema n_ates exclusively from their ctionar y essence of t~e p r §~~n t ly su~je2t~o~ to the Communist Pa~ty functioning .Republican Mov~ment; of the. s ·ov-iet Un ion. Since the because this has' first tobe ei-im - .. t w8 ~ q e·s:- the I r ish C . P . has p r os ­ inated in the operational sense tituted ·· itself to the interests of before it is p r aclical to set in the C. P . S.U. It has taken its mot-ion a new r evolu.t i ona r y offens­ orders,its programmes,its changes ive a g a ins t the c o 1 on ia '! s t r u c ·tu re. in ~ cp u rse from that source in the pasJ, ~n:d it cui1L . co~tinue . to do THE surviving rem nants of the sci i~ t~e future . Yeiterday , Republican ~o0ement must be dest ­ Ir.ish Co~~ u nists backed the idea royed and its remaining influence of r~-v ohj lion; today the.y s;:~y within acti v ist circles nul l ified th~t Irel~nd can - secure its free ­ before it is secure to proceed dom · v.~a "Parliamentary means." with the task of a new revolutiona r y A U o f t h i s i s i n ·-' t u n e w i t il c h a n g e s policy: this i s the key to the in the foreign policies of Russia . ·. tenor of our a r ticles. We must In a wotd, Irish Communists hav _e· clear the decks internally before m_ade no 1 attempt to adapt the we can strike with success exter ­ principles of socialism to th e nally; .this is the re~son why I~ish situatioh . Instead, by AN PHOBLACHT places such heavy t h e i r 5 u b s er v i·e.n c. e t o t h e C . P . 5 . U. st r es .s at .