Sinn Fein is now a centre-right party: Eamonn McCann

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday April 12, 2003 20:03 by Al O' Halloran

Speaking on Radio Free Eireann, NYC, Eamonn McCann said that, largely due to the influence of corporate Irish America, Sinn Fein had now veered to the right. Sinn Fein's new allies will dictate how far they can go, and the rank and file are now paying the price for the alliances the Sinn Fein leadership has made he said. On the same programme, Tommy McKearney said that Adams meeting Bush, the leader of the imperialist order, violated every principle that republicans had suffered for. He said that the Provisional leadership will now opportunistically coalesce with Fianna Fail if given the chance, but he stressed that Irish republicanism was broader and bigger than the provisional faction and that the real task now, that armed struggle was not an option, was to create something new and radical.