but those who did were the main them was James Connolly, probably Marxist these islands have produced.
Connolly's greatest hope was latest that the rising would light a fire that would spread across Europe', and he was to stress "we are out for economic as well as political freedom".
The Easter Rising 3od the Provisional Irish Government brutal suppression by failure. Yet once the leaders of Connolly were executed, the support for the ideas they were fighting for won acceptance among the majority of the Irish people.
Seventy percent of the Irish population voted for Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, and by so doing for an allEnsn Kepublic. That wish was denied in 1921 partition of Ireland.
NOTORIOUS Do lie Mory goos o, and the execution by Britain of those TOE Kepublic continuc.
In commemoration of 1916 reprint below a recent address made by T. George of the Irish Republican Socialist Party in Long Kesh political prison in the North of Ireland.
The speech commemoration of one of the Comparatively few took part in the Rising in 1916, figures in the Republican and Socialist movements. Not least among victims Today we pay our last respects to our dered comrade Thomas NOT COC ATOLYCAMOC British war machine in Ireland. the circumstances which leave only was gunned COCOL OR Or ANCHO 05 the action of Loyalist gunmen DENTAL TOCENTURE.
Since then we have witnessed LIVERS COverale orl murder by press mother 'sectarian killing'. Le us brush aside these diversions and red herrings which British propaganda has so skillfully built up when they use terms "sectarian killing' the "Catholics dead" or 'Protestants dead"
They seek to give the impression that there are numerous tribal feuds continually fought in the Six Counties and that they are the peace makers. The world is told by the British press La highly complex one, involving many factors and not a little insanity. In this way they lie The truth is that the issues are crystal clear. to maintain their strangichold COTTER. THe Repubian the greatest of British and it as ye forces are fighting to drive them out and free the Irish peopic. Successive governments have brainwashed the Protestant population into believing nationalist people are suppres sed the Loyalists will lose their privileged way of life.
The Loyalise politicians are WE SERVE NEITHER KING NOR KAISER.
Irish Citizen Army on parade bafore the 1916 rising; described by Lenin as 'the first Rod Army in Europe'.
real British policy, Loyalist unpaid and their used as the mouthpiece of the gunmen are the unencumbered members of their occupation out murder Tools Thomas Traynor's death was first plamned, not in some back room of a Protestant estate, but I in the more simister rooms of Scans, left.
Downing Street and Whitehall.
We must recognise the root cause of this conflict and once we have recognised it then all endeavours must directed towards removing it.
This is no time to be carried away by the emotion of the hour and think that an eye lor lan eye policy will resolve the fiate from immediate problem. To think this is to become another 100l of the British war machine We, as socialists and Republi have identified Beitish Imbecinlism as the root or li problem.
Once it is torn out. the branches of fanatical Loyalism will wither and die. Remove the presence and the called loyalists will for the first time he forced to see the realicy of their situation and will Tonger be able to live in thei British created dream orld The deatles of Thomas Travnor and Colm McNutt are clear indications of the latesi and most brutal stage of the oppressors' campaign. Planned assassinations. with reactionary murder gangs and attempts to terrorise th people into submission are well practised methods of counterinsurgency forces, They signify a very agonising period for the people •and paraculany for those who actively oppose the British regime but they also signify the last methods of coercion the oppressors have It is vital that both our enemy and our objectives are kepi clearly before our cyes for the enemy dearly needs u sectarian LOSE TO GICTETHE pressure from it.
le is the duty of all Republican socialists to strive for the only truly fitting memorial to all the dead of this campaign and all that have gone before. We must ensure national liheration and build socialism in our this path.