1 May 2006
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
May Day 2006 Statement
The Irish Republican
Socialist Committees of North America issue solidarity greetings to our comrades and fellow workers around the world on the
working class holiday of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. In your fight against oppression, exploitation,
and imperialism, and even your daily struggle to survive in an increasingly impoverished world, we salute you.
As the
North American section of the Irish Republican Socialist
Movement, we extend our greetings to our comrades and fellow members
of the IRSM in the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish National Liberation Army, Republican Socialist Youth Movement,
Republican Socialist Martyrs Flute Bands, Teach Na Failte, and the James Connolly Society. We reiterate that we remain committed
to the movement and its struggle for national and class liberation.
On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement,
we also extend solidarity greetings to our comrades and fellow workers around the world, in particular the following organizations
and individuals: All-African People's Revolutionary Party, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation, Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration
Committee, Communist League, Communist Party of Cuba, Communist Party of Nepal, Communist Party of the Philippines, Communist
Party of Spain (Reconstituted),
Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners, Debs Tendency of the Socialist Party USA, Free
People's Movement, Freedom Socialist Party, Irish Freedom Committee, Irish prisoner of war Aiden Hulme and all other Irish
prisoners of war resisting criminalization, Na Claiomhte Solais, Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, Organisation
of Iranian People's Fedaii Guerillas, our communist comrades in Italy, Peace and Freedom Party, Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, Radical Women, Rising Youth, Scottish Republican Socialist Movement, Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee, Worker-Communist
Parties of Iran and Iraq, Working Women Organization, and all who are struggling to liberate the working class from the shackles
of capitalism and imperialism.
Since last May Day we have seen workers' movements grow in
determination and militancy.
New York, Dublin, London, and most especially France have seen major actions of workers resisting privatization and attacks
on living standards. In Dublin, working class anger manifested itself in the streets in response to the reactionary Love Ulster
march by supporters of British imperialism. In the United States a mass movement of immigrant laborers have asserted themselves
against the criminal regime which threatens them and treats them as non-human while viciously exploiting their labor power.
The unity of the working class has not been this high in many years and
appears to be growing in relation to the increasing
decadence and incompetence of the ruling class.
The Irish Republican Socialist Movement always attempts to point the
way forward for our class. In Ireland we believe conditions are growing for a republican socialist alternative to fill the
void in revolutionary politics. It is likely that the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement will not take place. This
aside, neither the GFA nor any other imperialist-brokered settlement will resolve the fundamental contradiction at the heart
of Irish society. Only a socialist Ireland with full self-determination can begin to do that.
As our great teacher
and martyr James Connolly said, "The great only appear great because we are on our knees, let us arise!"
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Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 8266
Austin TX 78713-8266
USA
irscna@irsm.orghttp://www.irscna.org/http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html
