Founding statement of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement was officially formed in County Wicklow on 1 October 2005 by socialist and republican youth from throughout Ireland. The RSYM declares its intention to work towards National Liberation and Socialist Revolution. The Youth Movement intends to do this by submitting its membership to intensive political education and activism that will prepare them for their future role in the struggle of our class for liberation.

Founding statement of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
13/10/2005

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement was officially formed in County Wicklow on 1 October 2005 by socialist and republican youth from throughout Ireland. The RSYM declares its intention to work towards National Liberation and Socialist Revolution. The Youth Movement intends to do this by submitting its membership to intensive political education and activism that will prepare them for their future role in the struggle of our class for liberation.

The RSYM upholds the analysis of the IRSM on the nature of the six county state, the current ceasefire and political strategy of the RSM. The RSYM defend the right of the Irish people to bear arms against imperialist onslaught.

That strategy is to agitate, educate and organise within our class to mobilise our class towards the objective of removing the Northern colonial and Southern neo-colonial statelets on this island, thus ending imperialism and capitalism, and preparing the basic structures for an Irish Workers' Republic, taking our direct inspiration from Irish socialist martyrs such as Liam Mellows, Ta Power and Gino Gallagher and the great theoreticians Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, Vladimir Lenin and James Connolly.

The RSYM's intensive education programs, international Solidarity work and active agitation within our class will see our goals realised.