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Stalinist Sinn Fein?

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday March 02, 2004 10:44author by Newspaper - Today

Founder of Provo IRA condemns SF leaders

John Kelly who, with the assistance of Fianna Fail, armed the provisional republiican movement , has come out strongly against thee leadership of Sinn Fein

In an interview today in the Irish News, John Kelly described the party as a dictatorship where "there is no space for people to have an opinion thats different to the leaderships". The article reveals that Kelly was censured for unapproved contacts with the media and wass fed up with being given a line by the party elite.

Kelly got himself in serious bother with the leadership when he decided to make a humanitarian visit to dissident republicans in prison.

Kelly sums up the Sinn Fein leaderships internal party system as "contrary to the whole spirit of republicanism"

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