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Breandán Mac Cionnaith defends éirígi
In response to an opinion article by Niall O'Dowd (Read the article here), Breandán Mac Cionnaith, who in May of this year was elected as general secretary to the socialist republican party, éirígi, has submitted the following article:
In a recent “Periscope” article, Niall O’Dowd referred to éirígí[i] in the following terms, “Eirigi is a curious mix of hardliners who woke up too late and found the landscape utterly changed by the peace process and a fair few Utopian dreamers who continue to plug their paramilitary driven socialist all Ireland agenda although the tide has gone out many years ago.”
The use of terms such as “hardliners” and a “paramilitary driven socialist all Ireland agenda” paints a false picture of éirígí for the Irish-American community.
Rather than factually portray éirígí for what it actually is – a legitimate, open and democratic political party which is successfully organizing throughout Ireland – the reference in that article in my view totally misrepresented éirígí.
It makes no mention of the steady growth which our party has experienced in our short existence or the far-reaching decisions taken at our recent Ard Fhéis in May of this year.
éirígi is, indeed, unapologetic in its commitment to achieving an end to the partition of Ireland, an end to continued British interference in Irish affairs and to the establishment of a new all-Ireland Republic, based upon socialist principles of social and economic equality and human solidarity. In doing so, our aims and objectives differ little from those well-known “Utopian dreamers” such as Michael Davitt, James Connolly, Peadar O’Donnell and many others.
éirígí does not believe that the present political institutions in Ireland have the potential to bring about those aims and objectives, particularly full re-unification and national independence – a point which officials and ministers of the Dublin government appear to agree with us when they referenced Irish re-unification and the “constitutional issue” as being off the agenda and on the back-burner for at least 40 years.
We believe that the political process which brought us to the present situation was driven by an exploitation and manipulation of the Irish people’s overwhelming and genuine desire for peace, justice and freedom into a process which delivered only an imperfect Pax Britannica that reinforces sectarian division and partition.
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