The 32 County Sovereignty Movement sends revolutionary greetings to all republican and socialist activists, to all imprisoned comrades and their families and to all our people struggling in their social and economic lives.
We especially send solidarity greetings to the people of occupied Palestine as they withstand the genocidal onslaught from Zionist and western imperialist forces. The ongoing colonisation and displacement of peoples throughout the Middle East is leaving a trail of devastation in its wake with the added destructive legacy that proxy Western regimes visit upon their own people in terms of persecution, corruption and theft of national resources.
We commend the activism of the BDS Movement, and all Palestinian support groups and we urge republican involvement at every level to counter the Western-Zionist genocide against the people of Palestine.
As we enter yet another year with the partition of our country more entrenched than ever, and Irish republicanism reduced to the status of impotent bystanders, we reiterate our call for a radical rethink within Irish republicanism. We are in the midst of generational change wherein the political influence that can be brought to bear does not stem from an experience of the recent phase of our struggle but of its relevance, if any, that republicans can bring from it to the Ireland of today.
The result of the recent election in the Twenty-Six Counties confirms our analysis that the body politic of that state is firmly in the control of conservative and reactionary elements across the electoral spectrum. The issue of ending partition was completely absent from that campaign which means for the foreseeable future the restoration of our national sovereignty will have zero electoral value for the political careerists.
In an editorial in the Belfast Media, a Provisional Sinn Fein mouthpiece, a stark admission was made that the direction which policing in the Six Counties is taking is in accordance with that republican analysis which vigorously warned against accepting the RUC/PSNI in the first place.
But such an admission cannot be isolated to one arm of the functioning of the statelet. The malaise runs deep in the very fabric of the gerrymandered entity vindicating the republican view that partition is beyond reform and that only the full restoration of our national sovereignty can bring peace and prosperity to all the people of Ireland.
British control over the Six Counties is not dependent on a functioning Stormont, which is self-evident, nor is there redemption for Irish republicanism if that institution collapses. These are the distractions carefully fostered by London and Dublin and used by establishment nationalists to feign revolutionary intent. Yet this is the prevailing narrative which goes largely unchallenged and entering 2025 this is what Irish republicanism must urgently address with a revolutionary narrative of our own.
Beir Bua
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