International Republican Socialist Network

Scottish Independence: The View from America
September 27, 2013

The Scottish-American community is estimated to number approximately 30 million people, or roughly one-tenth of the nation’s populace. To what degree those self-identified Scottish-Americans are ethnically Scottish and to what extent they are aware of the contemporary reality of their ancestral homeland would be subject to a great deal of debate, but from personal experience, I would think that the answer would be “not much” on both accounts.
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IRSN Arbroath Commemoration Statement

The comrades of the IRSN wish to express our solidarity with our comrades in the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement and the whole of the Scottish working class as you honour the Declaration of Arbroath. It causes one to wonder, when it is recognized that the Declaration commemorated today was first issued in the year 1320, because it expresses sentiments which are surprisingly modern....
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IRSN to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Irish Citizen Army at San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade

Comrades and friends, socialists, communists, syndicalists, anarchists, Irish republicans, Pan-Africanists, and other working class and anti-imperialist activists, the comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network will once again be participating in the San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade and invite you to join us in solidarity.

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Solidarity Statement to Annual SRSM Glencoe Rally

10 Feb 2013

The comrades of the International Republican Socialist Network take this opportunity to convey our greetings of solidarity to the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement and the Scottish working class in its struggle for national liberation and socialism.

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Remembered Always With Honour and Pride: Gino Gallagher

30 January 2013

1996, 17 years ago today, Gino Gallagher was murdered by a petty criminal scumbag, under the direction of a small group of expelled INLA volunteers, who sold their souls to their imperial masters to avoid going back to jail, after botching an arms smuggling operation.

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Twenty-Six Years Since the Death of Ta Power

20 Jan 2013

Today is the 22nd anniversary of a killing the signalled the
onset of a war that nearly destroyed the Irish Republican Socialist Movement.....

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Remembering Seamus Costello

It has been 35 years since Seamus Costello was gunned down by a member of the Official Irish Republican Army, thereby robbing the Irish working class of their most effective, gifted, and charismatic leader then living. 35 years is a long time; it is long enough for Seamus to have died anyway from natural causes; it is time for political views to change and passions to rise and fall. For those reasons, I have no desire to play the "what if" game. Had Seamus survived, he might have led Irish workers to victory; he might have decided in the '80s that the Provos were sufficiently left that the IRSM could safely join forces with them; he might have maintained the IRSM's independence, built its membership and continued the INLA as an active force in the struggle against partition, British imperialism, and domestic capitalism; or he might have been murdered by the SAS, the Provos, or Hugh Torney.

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Remembering John MacLean

It is appropriate today, with the possibility of Scottish independence with sight and the working class of Scotland again confronted by the misery with which the system of capitalism fills their lives, but it is not sufficient to pay tribute to the man; it is important to pay attention to him as well. MacLean may easily lend himself as a symbol, an icon, to the contemporary struggle, but he has wisdom to lend to it as well and the Scottish working class would do well to make use of it.

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International Republican Socialism – 2013

1 January 2013

When it was formed in 2005, the International Republican Socialist Network declared its purpose to be the building of support for a republican socialist analysis within the revolutionary movements of those nations confronting both a national independence and class struggle, and helping to build solidarity amongst republican socialist movements and individual activists across national boundaries. It is appropriate, therefore, that we take the occasion of the coming New Year to reflect on the current circumstances confronting the national movements upon which the IRSN is especially focused.

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I Have Come To Preach Revolution

Comrade Peter Urban

All around us, the masses of the working class have risen, having recognized the reality of their own class oppression. Gone even are the former restraints imposed by national borders; from Wall Street to Wellington to Warsaw the word on the lips of working people is “occupy,” from Topeka to Turin to Timbuktu the class is in motion. Seemingly nowhere, however, has anyone stepped forward to show them the road to their own liberation; within a Left obsessed with claiming the mantle of revolutionary leadership, there appears to be noone who can lead. Engels had said, and Luxemburg so often quoted that two roads lie before us, one leading to socialism and the other to barbarism. Our class appears to have been left to choose their course between these two destinations with no lighthouse to guide them through the fog. If they break their bow on the rocks of barbarism, their blood will be on the hands of those who were absent when they were most needed. I do not want that blood on my hands, so I have come to preach revolution....

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