People's Voice, No. 2
| Date: | December 1968 |
|---|---|
| Organisation: | Saor Éire [Cork] |
| Publication: | People's Voice |
| Issue: | Number 2 |
| Type: | Publication Issue |
| View: | View Document |
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Commentary From The Cedar Lounge Revolution
17th July 2017
This repost of the Saor Éire (Cork) publication People’s Voice brings a better copy of the edition to the Archive and many thanks to Jim Lane for that. There’s much to consider in the 12 page issue. It has a range of articles – one on TACA (which notes that ‘Jobbery is our game’), an outline of the position of workers under Franco, another on Nixon, a piece on ‘The Red Flag over Knocklong’ and another on the Derry Riots.
Perhaps most interesting is an Open Letter to Republicans. This is in response to an article in the November 1968 issue of the United Irishman entitled ‘The dilemma of Sinn Féin’.
Saor Éire argue that:
…regardless of our well known hostility towards the political course pursued by the movement over the past few years, we will be the first to admit that it certainly appears to have had the positive, and therefore welcome effect of shaking the movement out of the lethargy and political fantasy which had dogged it for so long.
And it continues that while the article in the UI saw the dilemma being that SF faced a ‘stronger radical movement made up of the Free State Labour Party in alliance with the Trade Unions’ it sees it differently.
In our view the [Labour Party is not a radical body], it never has been and it never will be. And in all fairness to that party, it has never claimed to be radical, in the sense that the term is clearly understood by revolutionaries.
And it continues that the real dilemma facing the Republican Movement is parliamentarianism.
REFORM OR REVOLUTION: THIS IS the question now facing Radical Republicans. The present Republican Movement, due to factors endowed by its organised life, and by the middle class ideology which originally instituted and shaped its structure, is incapable of reorientation to meet the requirements presently demanded of a radical movement. therefore for Republican radicals to continue to uphold the movement in the light of recent disclosures means in effect they opt for reformism and cease to be radicals.
And in conclusion it calls for the building of a ‘new movement, which by being radical in its objects, will also be the true inheritor of that revolutionary pattern of development that is the proud tradition of our people’.
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By: WorldbyStorm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:15:36
But that’s the other Saor Éire isn’t it?
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By: Owen Thu, 07 May 2009 01:33:41
Finian
Garda Fallon killers got their day in court and were found not guilty.
You were only 3 when you lost your father, I was 3 years of age when my hero died for what he belived in. Our lives will never be the same without them, It seems to me you are looking for the smoking gun, Well the man Cj who knew about that is also dead.
He too had his day in court and went on to great thing’s Ireland.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
stephendorri.
Christy Dunne was not a member of Saor Eire, Dublin or Cork,
He did however know the Walsh’s from childhood day’s that’s all. This also was before the Irish courts with the “rag” Smack.
Liam Walsh was killed in October 1970 at Black Horse Ave Dublin 7.
He was not alone at the time.
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By: Tarnation Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:08:43
Owen you obviously know a bit about what went on. Unfortunately your response is not very clear, logical or consistent. It confirms that people who support destruction of this kind eventually lose touch with logic and truth.
You only have to look at what is going on in the Middle East and how despicable acts are being defended with utterly illogical rationales to understand that.
That you can equate the death of a “hero” (presumably unrelated to you) with the family of Garda Fallon losing their father is appalling. There is nothing heroic about using a gun and murdering an unarmed policeman. Nor is this comparable with going out with the intent to murder someone else and getting killed in the process.
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By: Budapestkick Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:21:01
They were quite an interesting grouping. Particularly as a lot of the criticisms they raised in the early/mid 60s of the IRA leadership was implicitly recognised by Goulding et al. Also, for anyone interested, the first 5 issues of their paper (An Phoblacht) are available in Cork City Library thanks to Jim Lane.
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By: Cas Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:46:57
In reply to Tarnation.
Do you think it fair to state that the three men are guilty, when a court has found otherwise? Do you further think it is fair to feed speculation of that kind to a victim who could hardly be expected to look at it with any measure of discernment, having spent a lifetime hungering for tit-bits of information? Unless you have sound information available to you that you are quite sure, then it would be better not to abuse that vulnerable man by offering your suspicions and gossip. But maybe you do know something concrete?
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By: Left Archive: An Phoblacht Issues 1 and 2, Irish Revolutionary Forces, 1965 | The Cedar Lounge Revolution Mon, 20 May 2013 06:52:08
[…] These documents, An Phoblacht, Issues 1 and 2, were published by the Irish Revolutionary Forces, a Cork based republican socialist group composed in the main of former members of the IRA, in September and November of 1965 [for more information see here]. The IRF would become Saor Éire in 1968 (a copy of their publication, People’s Voice is in the Archive here). […]
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By: dragon city hack android Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:15:00
Very descriptive post, I enjoyed that a lot.
Will there be a part 2?
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