Republican SINN FÉIN Poblachtach was founded in 1905. In 1969 following the reformist/revolutionary split in the organisation Sinn Féin re-organised as Provisional Sinn Féin and in doing so upheld the separatist republican constitution loyal to the All Ireland Republic Proclaimed in 1916. 1986 In 1986 Provisional Sinn Féin under a misguided leadership spearheaded by Gerry Adams decided to take their seats in a British imposed parliament, namely the 26-County Parliament Leinster House. The movement split again. Sinn Féin reformed again out of the walkout of the 1986 Ard-Fheis led by the true Republican leadership who saw the failure of the new Provisional leaderships’s decision to enter into a partitonist assembly. This as predicted led to a larger erosion of Republican principles, to the acceptance of entering a new Stormont and an acceptance of British Partition. Today Provisional Sinn Féin implement British rule in the occupied six counties of North East Ireland, they have completely abandoned all Irish Republican principles. The true Sinn Féin organisation which re-organised in 1986 as Republican Sinn Féin uphold the right of the Irish people to oppose the continued British occupation in Ireland. We are dealing with state sponsored censorship and are continually demonized in an overwhelmingly pro-British media. Despite this a committed membership has seen the organization thrive in areas where the Republican message has been put forward in a positive manner. Our objective is a New Ireland — Éire Nua and the creation of a Federal Democratic Socialist Republic with real Regional power and Government. Republican SINN FÉIN Poblachtach was founded in 1905. In 1969 following the reformist/revolutionary split in the organisation Sinn Féin re-organised as Provisional Sinn Féin and in doing so upheld the separatist republican constitution loyal to the All Ireland Republic Proclaimed in 1916. 1986iiiIn 1986 Provisional Sinn Féin under a misguided leadership spearheaded by Gerry Adams decided to take their seats in a British imposed parliament, namely the 26-County Parliament Leinster House. The movement split again. Sinn Féin reformed again out of the walkout of the 1986 Ard-Fheis led by the true Republican leadership who saw the failure of the new Provisional leaderships’s decision to enter into a partitonist assembly. This as predicted led to a larger erosion of Republican principles, to the acceptance of entering a new Stormont and an acceptance of British Partition. Today Provisional Sinn Féin implement British rule in the occupied six counties of North East Ireland, they have completely abandoned all Irish Republican principles. The true Sinn Féin organisation which re-organised in 1986 as Republican Sinn Féin uphold the right of the Irish people to oppose the continued British occupation in Ireland. We are dealing with state sponsored censorship and are continually demonized in an overwhelmingly pro-British media. Despite this a committed membership has seen the organization thrive in areas where the Republican message has been put forward in a positive manner. Our objective is a New Ireland — Éire Nua and the creation of a Federal Democratic Socialist Republic with real Regional power and Government. OUR ORGANISATION office05Republican Sinn Féin’s head office, Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill (Dáithí Ó Conaill House), is located at 223 Parnell St, Dublin 1 (Tel. 8729747; Fax. 8729757). Republican Sinn Féin is organised throughout the 32 Counties of Ireland with cumainn (branches) in England and Scotland and supporters in North America, Australia and throughout the European Continent. Our Belfast office is 229 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6FB (Tel. 90319004; Fax. 90319863). The Republican Movement has a newspaper Saoirse – Irish Freedom, The Voice of the Republican Movement, which is published every month, in print and on the Internet and which Republican Sinn Féin members contribute too and sell nationwide. Republican Sinn Féin is barred from contesting local government elections in the Six Counties because of the political test oath imposed by Margaret Thatchers British government in 1989. Republican Sinn Féin does contest local elections in the 26 Counties and has witnessed electoral success in areas where candidates have established themselves. OUR PRINCIPLES Republican Sinn Féin believes that the historic Irish nation is a distinct, coherent unit and is entitled to exercise its own independence. Because of the history of our own country we identify with national liberation struggles around the world. We believe, in the words of one of the 18-Century founders of Irish Republicanism, Wolfe Tone, in the urgent need to “break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils”. We stand for the complete overthrow of British rule in Ireland. ABSTENTIONISM Republican Sinn Féin is abstentionist. We do not recognise the legitimacy of the Six or 26-County States in Ireland, both of which were created by acts of the British parliament in Westminster as a denial of the wishes of the Irish people. Therefore, we do not give voluntary recognition to either jurisdiction. THE EUROPEAN UNION We recognise the danger of the growing European Union becoming a world superpower in its own right. As it grows stronger it will assert itself and become involved in what Jack Deleors described as the “resource wars” of the 21st Century. We do not believe that Ireland, with its history of being a colonial possession, should involve itself in the oppression of other nations that the growing EU will eventually mean. There is also the danger that, instead of finally winning its freedom and independence, Ireland will find itself swapping British domination for European domination. Republican Sinn Féin has opposed full membership of the EU from the outset as a highly centralised political and economic power-bloc where decisions about our lives are taken in completely undemocratic institutions. Our struggle has been to manage our own affairs and our programme is for maximum power at the base. That is real democracy and the very opposite of EU imperialism. Under the EU our resources (eg fish) are being taken. The EU bureaucrats are doing well on their large salaries and so are the big farmers. But the plan is to wipe out the small farmers and restructure industry so that the EU centre can prosper at our expense. In agriculture far from the promised guaranteed level, milk, cattle and sheep prices are down. New standards for milk collection are being brought in to force the small farmer out. We can expect these processes to increase further. Irish neutrality is under sustained threat. INTERNATIONALISM Republican Sinn Féin is internationalist. We have a sense that we all have a common identity as human beings, as members of the great family of peoples. We wish to play our role in this wider world community on the basis of equality and respect for the rights of others. In particular, we would wish to eliminate the kinds of international trade and international debt that impoverish the peoples of the Third World. We advocate neutrality in respect to military alliances and power blocs and we feel a sense of solidarity with all peoples who are struggling for freedom and justice. We believe in the establishment of a reign of social justice based on Irish Republican Socialist principles in accordance with the Democratic Programme and the 1916 Proclamation. THE NEED FOR JUSTICE Republican Sinn Féin campaigns for a just settlement to the conflict in Ireland. It is our belief that a key ingredient missing from the Stormont Agreement is justice for all the Irish people. The “solution”, so-called, leaves the people in the 26 Counties stranded in a neo-colonial State, which by nature is heavily centralised (it is only now seeming to go contrary to its centralist nature at the behest of its European masters in order to receive maximum grant aid), with a political system contaminated beyond repair by an ethos of cronyism. In the Six Counties a new assembly is being set up; a successor to the old Stormont parliament which was overthrown by the peoples struggle in 1972. The added prop to the new British assembly, which was missing from the old parliament, is the active participation of nationalist parties. This agreement, if it runs its course, promises many more decades of working class alienation and institutionalisd sectarianism. The sooner it falls, the better. THE STRUGGLE ON ALL FRONTS We stand for the complete separation of Church and State. We believe in the central importance of the Irish language to the Irish identity. In these and in other matters, Republcan Sinn Féin will not hesitate to take issues into the streets or wherever may be necessary to ensure the interests of the people they serve.