No equality under Brits

The statement, read at Republican gravesides and monuments over the Easter period, maintains that the revolutionary Republican Movement of history is intact and that its objective is clear: British disengagement from Ireland and a totally New Ireland.

The statement is critical of those who present the analysis that "nationalist rights and equality" are sufficient aims. The events of last July and August demonstrated even to middle-class nationalists that there will be no equality of treatment under British rule.

"The London government will always favour those who support the status quo in Ireland against those who do not," the statement adds.

Republican Sinn Féin’s boycott campaign of the Stormont Forum elections last June has been completely justified and after nine months of "useless wrangling" the Stormont talks are now adjourned for another three months.

The Stormont identifies the unachieved aim of the talks as the establishment of a "New Stormont and a new British police force in Ireland which would include former nationalists."

It notes that the Continuity Army Council has carried the war to the enemy by attacking the British Crown Forces and by striking at economic targets in the occupied area.

Republican prisoners who were recently transferred to Portlaoise from Limerick and their supporters are congratulated for having won political status in the past year after four months of protest.

Real and meaningful negotiations in Ireland can only take place when the British government "makes that fateful decision to quit Ireland for once and for all." Then the Irish people can decide how to live together.

The Easter Statement describes the organisations which share these objectives as the vanguard of the historic freedom-struggle of the Irish people: Republican Sinn Féin, the Irish Republican Army under the leadership of the Continuity Army Council, Cumann na mBan and Fianna Éireann.

The support of Irish people at home and abroad for these organisations is needed to complete the awesome task "so nobly undertaken by the men and women of Easter 1916 – in our time," the statement concludes.

In this issue
Easter Statement from the Leadership of the Republican Movement
Republican Sinn Féin members harassed by Special Branch
Schoolboy intimidated
Boy (11), punched in the face by Branchman
Ó Brádaigh’s RTÉ interview not ‘live’
Bloody Sunday: new evidence
British police force a ‘cause of conflict’
Unionists had British police authority members sacked
Loyalist boasted about beating ‘Taigs’
‘King Rat’ jailed as a threat to current process
Hope raised for Belfast prisoner
BRG offered Derry walls to Orangemen
Establishment silence over UDA killing of nationalist
Pearson case plea by New York cardinal
Orange fascists mount terror campaign
PTA passed again as British Labour abstains
Politician hit by rock at Harryville church picket
Westminster election: no understanding with others
Denton bias case raised in US Congress
Aitheantas do Ghaelscoileanna ar fud na 26 Chontae
Birmingham Six to sue Tory MP
Punishing poverty – learning lessons from Ireland’s tragic past
March 1, 1847. By the first post
Apprentice Boys not to march on lower Ormeau Road
Arms find in Fermanagh
Trimble says unionists have achieved almost ‘all of our agenda’
Irish in Britain should use electoral strength for British withdrawal
International Women’s Day protests at Limerick women prison conditions
Women sexually harassed by male offenders
British terror’s small concession in McAliskey case
Tory rant on Róisín McAliskey