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IRSM Hunger Strike Commemoration
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Sunday August 25, 2002 19:01 by Henry Joy - IRSM
IRSM Hunger Strike CommemorationIn August every year we gather here at this monument to honour the 1981 hunger strikers. This year marks the 21st anniversary of that period in which we lost ten of the bravest men Ireland has ever seen. We, in the Republican Socialist Movement, are here today not just to remember them but to re-dedicate ourselves to the political ideals that our comrades fought and died for. In August every year we gather here at this monument to honour the 1981 We in the IRSP as part of the Republican Socialist Movement, represent the We in the Republican Socialist Movement acknowledge that there have been
Unlike the middle classes, our comrades and members live in these so called We are neither war mongers nor sectarian bigots. We do not want to see The Non-Aggression Pact is about encouraging working class dialogue, The Good Friday Agreement has failed and our analysis is that it will The collapse of the current power sharing Executive would be in the Whatever they do is their choice. But we say that both North and South they Other Republicans believe that the continuation of armed struggle will
Today in Derry 2002 that quote from Ireland's greatest Socialist sums up A healthy democratic, radical, and Socialist movement is the best vehicle There is revolutionary potential stirring within the working class in But our fight, our struggle, our battlefield is here in Ireland. Our They are there in defence of Nationalist working class areas in Belfast In short, wherever there is struggle that is where the class-conscious, Regardless of what others do, we in the Republican Socialist Movement will On to the Republic, comrades! Victory to the Irish working class! --Delivered by John Murtagh, IRSP Ard Comhairle
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Jump To Comment: 1Speech at Hunger Strike Commemoration was by Vincent Kelly of the IRSP, not John Murtagh.
Also, photos of the event can be seen at http://irsm.org/fallen/commemorations/