Commie Shinners

international | eu | news report Wednesday March 24, 2004 15:24 by Janus

Are Sinn Fein joining a Euro Communist Party?

There's a story on politics.ie http://www.politics.ie/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4121
That is a little odd, and perhaps encouraging. There was some discussion on indymedia as to whether SF took a left wing turn at their last Ard Fhéis and if so, was it sustainable. Motions condemning social partnership defeated the year before were passed, the membership defeated the Ard Comhairle to boycott the WEF, reaffirmed support for the Coca Cola boycott and so on.

According to this story they seem to be in negotiations with a Group that includes Rifondazione Comunista, the Portugese, French, Austrian and Greek Communist Party, Lutte Ouvrière and a bunch of other parties you feel would feel out of place at an SF cumann meeting in rural Tyrone, about joining the Group after June.

Now I am the first to admit that I don’t know a lot about European politics, but it would suggest confirmation that there is a shift of some sort to the left within the republican movement.