Out of the ashes
Not such a big surprise after all, eh?
One paper, one message, the harnessing of republicanism in thirty two
counties behind our independence and socialist struggle, and our
statement, at long last, that we the oppressed people of Belfast,
Derry and Ballymun, of Wexford, Cork, Limerick and Galway, that we
the nationally dispossessed, the country rebels of Crossmaglen and
Tyrone, the poor, the unemployed and the underpaid are in the
business of achieving power and establishing a real democracy.
Finna Fail, the ``republican'' jokers, take fright. Our deadly
seriousness should annoy you from now on.
The aims of 1916, the struggle of Pearse, Connolly, Markievicz and
Mellows, which Fianna Fail sold out, the stories of our mothers,
fathers and uncles about the 30s, 40s and 50s, the thinking of the
living Marie Comerford and Nora-Connolly O'Brien, which all coincide
with our recent experiences of hardship and oppression, and the ashes
of `69, inspire us to republican revolution.
Phoblacht 27 January 1979
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