The armed struggle is over. Class struggle is the only
option. Those who ignore the class question and stand alone on their
“republican principles†stand condemned to remain in splendid isolation. We now
live in different times and the old certainties now no longer hold. We all on
the left need to forget our petty differences and become relevant to the lives
of the working classes in Ireland
while keeping alive our vision of socialism.
The following speech was delivered by a representative of
the Republican Socialist Youth Movement Ard Comhairle at the national Republican
Socialist Movement Easter commemoration held in Belfast on Easter Sunday, 2007.
The power-sharing
executive involving Sinn Fein, the DUP and others, that should emerge from last
week’s elections to Stormont, will be called on to apply the anti-working class
policies dictated from London. Socialist Republicans now face the task of
offering a class alternative.