Sinn Fein 100 years of Sinn Fein - Part 5 The Republicans discover socialism (continued)

Socialist Resistance no28 | page 20-21

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

duce.' speaking of the period after

There was a lot here that the border campaign, IRA

was absolutely correct, espeleader Cathal Goulding gave

cially the analysis of the the following diagnosis of

weaknesses of traditional the problem: "The question

republican politics and was; how could we get the

emphasis on the self-emanpeople to support us? The

cipation of the people. evidence was that the

An underlying problem Republican Movement had no real policies." however was the concept

that economic and social

'Our first objective then was to involve ourselves in demands are peculiarly

socialist and that it is the everyday problems of

around these that a socialist people; to organise them to

programme can be defined. demand better houses,

What distinguishes the better working conditions,