Sinn Féin Ard Fheis Broadcast

[Catalpa]

SF as it stands are finished in the Capital that's for sure.

The current Leadership just don't understand what makes Dublin people tick at all - esp Dublin working class people.

Pandering to the Dublin Yuppies and every micro PC group in the City has backfired Big Time.

Back to basics and they might (if they play their cards right) perhaps get some street cred back eventually...

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH!

[YoungLiberal]

SF as it stands are finished in the Capital that's for sure.

The current Leadership just don't understand what makes Dublin people tick at all - esp Dublin working class people.

Pandering to the Dublin Yuppies and every micro PC group in the City has backfired Big Time.

Back to basics and they might (if they play their cards right) perhaps get some street cred back eventually...

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH!

Contradiction much?

Just because you don't like foreigners, doesn't mean Dubs don't like them. In fact, apart from Taxi men, the vast vast majority of Dubs I know have no issue with them and just get on with their lives without being obsessed with people born in a different state.

[The Salmon of Knowledge]

SF as it stands are finished in the Capital that's for sure.

The current Leadership just don't understand what makes Dublin people tick at all - esp Dublin working class people.

Pandering to the Dublin Yuppies and every micro PC group in the City has backfired Big Time.

Back to basics and they might (if they play their cards right) perhaps get some street cred back eventually...

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH!

The only way to answer your racism is with the words of the great James Connolly:

James Connolly


Let Us Free Ireland!
(1899)

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From Workers’ Republic, 1899.
Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997.


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Let us free Ireland! Never mind such base, carnal thoughts as concern work and wages, healthy homes, or lives unclouded by poverty.

Let us free Ireland! The rackrenting landlord; is he not also an Irishman, and wherefore should we hate him? Nay, let us not speak harshly of our brother – yea, even when he raises our rent.

Let us free Ireland! The profit-grinding capitalist, who robs us of three-fourths of the fruits of our labour, who sucks the very marrow of our bones when we are young, and then throws us out in the street, like a worn-out tool when we are grown prematurely old in his service, is he not an Irishman, and mayhap a patriot, and wherefore should we think harshly of him?

Let us free Ireland! “The land that bred and bore us.” And the landlord who makes us pay for permission to live upon it. Whoop it up for liberty!

“Let us free Ireland,” says the patriot who won’t touch Socialism. Let us all join together and cr-r-rush the br-r-rutal Saxon. Let us all join together, says he, all classes and creeds. And, says the town worker, after we have crushed the Saxon and freed Ireland, what will we do? Oh, then you can go back to your slums, same as before. Whoop it up for liberty!

And, says the agricultural workers, after we have freed Ireland, what then? Oh, then you can go scraping around for the landlord’s rent or the money-lenders’ interest same as before. Whoop it up for liberty!

After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won’t touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won’t pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn’t that worth fighting for?

And when you cannot find employment, and, giving up the struggle of life in despair, enter the poorhouse, the band of the nearest regiment of the Irish army will escort you to the poorhouse door to the tune of St. Patrick's Day. Oh! It will be nice to live in those days!

“With the Green Flag floating o’er us” and an ever-increasing army of unemployed workers walking about under the Green Flag, wishing they had something to eat. Same as now! Whoop it up for liberty!

Now, my friend, I also am Irish, but I’m a bit more logical. The capitalist, I say, is a parasite on industry; as useless in the present stage of our industrial development as any other parasite in the animal or vegetable world is to the life of the animal or vegetable upon which it feeds.

The working class is the victim of this parasite – this human leech, and it is the duty and interest of the working class to use every means in its power to oust this parasite class from the position which enables it to thus prey upon the vitals of labour.

Therefore, I say, let us organise as a class to meet our masters and destroy their mastership; organise to drive them from their hold upon public life through their political power; organise to wrench from their robber clutch the land and workshops on and in which they enslave us; organise to cleanse our social life from the stain of social cannibalism, from the preying of man upon his fellow man.

Organise for a full, free and happy life FOR ALL OR FOR NONE.

[factual]

SF as it stands are finished in the Capital that's for sure.

The current Leadership just don't understand what makes Dublin people tick at all - esp Dublin working class people.

Pandering to the Dublin Yuppies and every micro PC group in the City has backfired Big Time.

Back to basics and they might (if they play their cards right) perhaps get some street cred back eventually...

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH!

The ad explicitly stated that SF was the only party that actually cared about the least well off - those struggling to make ends meet.

[The Salmon of Knowledge]

The ad explicitly stated that SF was the only party that actually cared about the least well off - those struggling to make ends meet.

But thats a Lie they are not the only party who care about the least well off, infact its questionable if they even do especially now since they have comodified water.

there is the socialist party, PBPA, éirígí, the IRSP and many others who work day and daily with the working class, and care about their needs because they are made up of working class people.

sinn féin are not working class.

ffs sinn fein supported the bank bail out.

[Catalpa]

So IRELAND FOR THE IRISH is 'Racist'?

Its people like you who have destroyed SF in Dublin

- the whole idea of SF was that it was for the Irish People 1st!

- then they dropped that idea and turned themsleves into (ala John Hume) a Post Nationalist Party.

We have enough of those already!

[YoungLiberal]

So IRELAND FOR THE IRISH is 'Racist'?

Its people like you who have destroyed SF in Dublin

- the whole idea of SF was that it was for the Irish People 1st!

- then they dropped that idea and turned themsleves into (ala John Hume) a Post Nationalist Party.

We have enough of those already!

I'd say so yes, or at the very least it is patently xenophobic. Why are you so obsessed with keeping people not eligible for Irish citizenship out of the country?

[The Salmon of Knowledge]

So IRELAND FOR THE IRISH is 'Racist'?

Its people like you who have destroyed SF in Dublin

- the whole idea of SF was that it was for the Irish People 1st!

- then they dropped that idea and turned themsleves into (ala John Hume) a Post Nationalist Party.

We have enough of those already!

I am not a member of Sinn Féin.

Ireland for the Irish is not what sinn fein was about it was until the decade between 1986-1998, and certanly after 2005 about removing the british presence from Ireland.

You are racsict and you do not speak for the ordinary dub.

[Catalpa]

The ad explicitly stated that SF was the only party that actually cared about the least well off - those struggling to make ends meet.

Yeah sure Factual

- if thats so then why do 'the least well off' in Dublin give them a such miss at Election time?

[Catalpa]

I'd say so yes, or at the very least it is patently xenophobic. Why are you so obsessed with keeping people not eligible for Irish citizenship out of the country?

We don't need any more - there are not enough jobs for the people who are here as it is.

SF is openly seen as a Party that supports Mass Immigration and that costs them droves of votes in Dublin at Election time.