Sinn Féin’ 1971- Hypocrisy Exposed ELEOSE IRISH PRISONERS FROM)

Tomas Mac Giolla delivers the party line watched by Mairin de Burca, who needs no introduction. USSR bureaucracy. has fallen flat on its face. News became widespread about this when a Sligo FG Councillor revealed the details! Fine Gael is a product of the split in Ireland between those who accepted partition and the treaty in 1921, and the republicans who wished to complete the national revolution, It crushed the antitreaty forces with the help of the British guns during the civil war. Although it still claims to favour Irish Unity it is really an agent of the British ruling class, However, as we can see from its disarray on the Armagh/H Block issue, it is not immune from the pressure of a rising anti-unionist movement, RECENT REPUBLICAN SPLIT a more recent product of the split In the anti-imperialist movement goes by the name of Sinn Fein -the Workers Party (SF-WP). It was born from the 1970 split of the Republican movement into Provisional and Official (subsequently SF-WP) wings. Unlike in the 1920's one of the split groups thought it was politically on the left. Whereas Fine Gael became immersed in the explicitly Fascist Blue-shirts (modelled after Hitler and Mussolini) in the 1930's, the S--WP proclaimed itself socialist, and competed with the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI)in its international support of FG/SF-WP SPOT THE DIFFERENCE EXTREME PARANOIA Seasoned SF-WP watchers are familiar with its! leaders extreme paranoia. The little Stalins of 30 Gardiner Place regularly refer to the split with the real Sinn Fein in 1970, or with the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) in 1974, in bizarre apolitical terms, they say things such as "we have removed the cancer" or refer to vipers and soon. This is hardly the language of an organisation confident in its Own politics, or with much time for free and democratic debate.

Frances Donnelly and the Killarney members, and presumably others inside this trusted organisation need to understand this quickly. They should not assume it is just the hundreds and thousands of Irish supporters of the political prisoners who are the targets of the following lines taken from an editorial in the January 1981 SF-WP monthly WorkersLife. ".,.. The H Block hunger strike has been designed to close the era with a renewed cres— cendo of gunfire, killing and indiscriminate bombings.... Discount those people who saw it as a tummitarian issue... those who orchestrated and positively supported the campaign were clearly aware that this was their road to a final solution. The final solution with its Hitlerian overtones was directed at the Protestant population of