In this issue
01/27/2012
1. 24 hour protest fast by Republican prisoners
2. Republican POW denied release to attend father�s funeral
3. Rioting erupts in Derry following RUC raids
4. Martin McGuinness afraid of debate on Scottish independence debate
5. Cork protest in support of Republican POWs
6. Protest outside Craigavon court
7. No welcome for Crown Forces in Galway
8. No honour should be given to Margaret Thatcher by UCC Fine Gael
9. Duffy released, Shivers convicted in Massareene trial
10. Hooded men support Bloody Sunday march
11. Bloody Sunday relatives want Paras 'hunted down like Nazis'
12. Martin McGuinness prepared to meet Queen in future
13. Sell-off of 26-County State assets
14. The numbers that sum up modern smalltown Ireland
15. Emigration in Ireland not �a free choice of lifestyle�
16. Kilmihil�s missing generation
17. The detention of IRA veteran Marian Price harks back to internment
18. Hunger-striker's daughter denounces Provisionals
19. The Boston College IRA tapes controversy -- a reply to Niall O�Dowd
20. US judge finds no basis to stop release of IRA interviews
21. Free Marian Price and Martin Corey: PFC
22. Israel passes law tantamount to internment
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(Suzanne
Breen,
Sunday
World)
Old
Bailey
bomber
Marian
Price
will
hear
this
week if
she's to
be freed
from
Maghaberry
jail
where
she has
been
held for
eight
months
in
solitary
confinement.
Price
appeared
before
the life
sentence
review
commission
in the
top
security
jail two
weeks
ago.
Her
legal
team are
arguing
that by
continuing
to
imprison
her,
without
charge,
the
British
government
is
acting
illegally.
The
commission
is due
to
announce
its
decision
on the
fate of
the
North's
most
famous
female
republican
within
days.
The
57-year-old
mother
of two
was
arrested
and
charged
with
holding
a
statement
for a
masked
Real IRA
man at
an
Easter
commemoration
in Derry
in
April.
She was
granted
bail by
the
court
but
Secretary
of
State,
Owen
Paterson,
then
withdrew
her
licence
and
returned
Price to
prison.
Her
lawyer
claims
he'd no
legal
right to
do so.
A
lengthy
hunger-strike
and
force-feeding
in
Brixton
prison
had left
Price
gravely
ill.
Weighing
only
five
stone
and
suffering
from
tuberculosis
and
anorexia,
she was
released
on
licence
in 1980.
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New Year Statement from the leadership of RSF
A vision of hope and inspiration
Republican Sinn Féin extends fraternal New
Year
greetings
to
all
of
our
comrades,
friends
and
supporters
both
at
home
and
abroad.
The
coming
year
will
be a
challenging
one
for
working-class
people
in
Ireland
and
across
Europe
The
threats
facing
us
are
manifold.
Economically
people
are
faced
with
the
consequences
of
the
austerity
programme
imposed
on
them
by
the
EU
political
and
financial
elite.
For
Irish
Republicans
increasing
repression
highlights
the
reality
of
the
old
imperialism
of
British
rule
in
Ireland.
The economic policies being pursued by the
Leinster
House
and
Stormont
regimes
are
all
part
and
parcel
of
the
same
finance
capitalism
which
created
the
present
world
economic
crisis.
The
very
markers
of a
civilised
society
�
the
right
to
health,
education
and
protection
of
the
most
vulnerable
�
are
being
sacrificed
to
uphold
a
failed
and
undemocratic
EU.
This
should
serve
as a
call
to
arms
to
all
who
wish
to
build
a
new
world
from
the
ashes
of a
failed
political
and
economic
model.
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The
Fenian
Faith
By:
Brian
Mór Ó
Baoıghıll
In 1915
in
Glasnevin
cemetery,
Dublin
at the
funeral
for the
returned
Fenian
O'Donovan
Rossa,
Padraig
Pearse
commented
that
something
should
be said
before
they
turned
away
from the
grave of
that
gallant
man. He
went on
to
deliver
his
immortal
tribute
to the
fallen
Fenian,
"The
Fools"
Now
almost a
century
later,
some
very
short
words
must be
uttered.
This
Fenian
memorial
was
dedicated
in 1907
by the
IRB -
Clan na
Gael to
the
heroes
who had
died in
the
America
Civil
War and
to those
warriors
who took
part in
the '67
Rising.
As was
done in
their
time
with the
Phoenix
Park
executions,
the fall
of
Parnell,
and the
ultimate
betrayal
of the
Fenian
faith, I
don't
think
they
would be
astounded
today to
realize
that the
cancer
of
Revisionism
once
again
stalks
the
land,
attempts
to
obliterate
the
memory,
and
rewrite
the
history.
Revisionism
must be
reviled
and
Revisionists
must be
exposed
for the
running
pack of
Seonín
dogs
they
are. If
we, the
inheritors
of the
Fenian
faith,
have one
thing to
achieve
it is to
take
back the
dream,
rekindle
the
flame,
and
revive
the
damaged
cause of
a United
Ireland.
To
paraphrase
the
words of
a Fenian
ancestor
of mine,
Séamus
Bonner,
on the
passing
in
America
of
another
Irish
hero
Bellew
McManus,
I
cannot
share
this
final
phase of
the
journey
with
you, but
you have
never
left my
mind and
my
heart.
Resurgam!
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