Revolutionary Greetings for 2010

international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Thursday December 31, 2009 21:16 by Ardoyne Republican - Republican Network for Unity (RNU)

The republican network for unity (R.N.U.) would like to thank all the people and organisations who supported our aims, objectives and campaigns throughout the year of 2009. We move into this new decade as a young, vibrant, determined and highly organised republican socialist alternative with support growing for our position of putting the working class first throughout the 32 counties and beyond. As an organisation the network supports the concept and practice of real community empowerment free from all selfish political interests. The struggle for a 32 county socialist republic lies at the heart of the networks ethos and work.

The republican network for unity (R.N.U.) would like to thank all the people and organisations who supported our aims, objectives and campaigns throughout the year of 2009. We move into this new decade as a young, vibrant, determined and highly organised republican socialist alternative with support growing for our position of putting the working class first throughout the 32 counties and beyond. As an organisation the network supports the concept and practice of real community empowerment free from all selfish political interests. The struggle for a 32 county socialist republic lies at the heart of the networks ethos and work. In the 26 counties we witnessed the complete failure of the ‘non-inclusive Celtic Tiger’, we saw wages fall to new lows and many migrant workers return home. Throughout our island the banks and the richest parts of Irish society were ‘bailed out’ by the state and working class who retain little more than toxic debt for future generations. In essence, 2009 was the culmination and ultimate failure of the idea that ‘greed is good’.

The year of 2009 witnesses some of the worst political policing and repression by the P.S.N.I/ R.U.C. and their MI5 bosses. The so called accountability through the policing boards was revealed to be little more than a sham and consultation was revealed to be non- existent. The year was dominated by the application of internment by remand of men like Colin Duffy and Terry McCafferty, thousands of section 44 stop and searches were carried out against the nationalist and republican community and the systematic harassment of republican socialists continued in every part of the world from Cork to Lithuania. The year was also marked by the sad death of John Brady while being detained in P.S.N.I custody..

Throughout 2010 and beyond, the network will re-double our support for economic, social and political justice and equality for the working class. The network sends its pledge of support to all communities fighting the scourge of drug dealers, poor housing conditions and repression regardless of their politics or creed. We have recently witnessed the rise of racism in several nationalist areas throughout the 32 counties. The R.N.U. states unequivocally that racism is the tool of the state, it sets worker against worker and it is the anti- thesis of our republican tradition! Most of us have experienced anti – Irish racial harassment and abuse over the years we cannot allow this cancer to take hold in our communities. It is with great pride that we send revolutionary greetings to our supporters in Ireland, (especially Scotland) and throughout the world at this time of year. What should mark us out as different, in this coming decade, is our desire to see and our actions to attain freedom, justice and dignity for all the citizens of this island.