NO! NO! NO! Sinn Fein in its Northern guise is a nationalist device of US imperialism and British politicians to kick the ball of Progress further down the field.
Sinn Fein is a trying to morph into a democratic party of a republican type but it is dragged down despite the best intentions of its leaders by its dependence on a few country admixtures or daoine cleasta.
Michelle O Neill says that she strives for rights and equality of treatment.
Opposition to elitism and discrimination is supposed to be Sinn Fein's founding principle but it is a party which is handicapped by the need to draw competing classes together. The result is that it settles for the Lowest Common Denominator.
Its socialism is petite bourgeois.
Sinn Fein cannot truly align itself with big business without loss of a majority of its support or mediate the demands of the wage workers without cutting itself adrift from its rich financier and investment banker friends.It is in a very difficult place caught between the two pillars of politics and economics.
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However unprepossessing that situation may be,it has survived democratic crisis and upheaval to build a strong, determined, cross-class alliance of interested parties,one of whose core aims is Irish Unity.
In the South Sinn Fein was historically a party of the lumpen proletariat,the dossers,the small publicans and the shop assistants with a few death riders and upper class literati, doctors and lawyers thrown in.
It should,in passing,be said that there was no worse opponent for any real politician be he red or green than a small Irish shopkeeper or publican or tradesman. He wouldn't have given you the wind of his fart. No more than Donald Trump or the big-shots in the Houses of Congress want to pay the medical bills of the poor. The overwhelming majority of the Irish Parliament and Senate was no different.
Sinn Fein, a "voluntary association"?
If Sinn Fein wasn't prepared to pay the wages of those who risked their lives on its adventurist games,they are even less likely to care for them in old age or infirmity now. Many are replicates of the dissidents who want to bring disorder and chaos.
Both parties of republicans, government and unaligned,wish to collapse the taxation and welfare system. It is the enduring law of government income and expenditure in every jurisdiction that the books are balanced from internal revenue not outside cash or foreign subventions, the so-called Barnett Formula included.
Furthermore there is no difference between an Irish Irelander on the end of a needle and an Orange thug high on amphetamines.
At the top and bottom of Dublin and Southern Sinn Fein and at the rural level,there are very few worthy and grounded people involved. Sometimes they have been badgered by constituents into doing favours and awarding lucrative government contracts. Often the old hands have been hoodwinked by talk that comes from the criminal classes. We say that one of the facts of life is that listening to criminals has cost some of them their sanity and that they have lost their bearings.
Then there is the ever present wayfaring stranger like John and Vincent Fitzpatrick.
The followers of people such as Adams, Kelly,Twomey and the hangmen who came to prominence in the early days once congregated around street corners to throw bricks and bottles at the British Army. I refer to people like Martin and Mick Mc Manus and Manus Maguire and the people of the Bogside and Lenadoon and Ardoyne and the Lower Falls.
Sinn Fein dragged everyone into the gutter to take part in riots, demonstrations and protests.
Those games were what Connolly called a carnival of reaction. Connolly was a man who long foresaw where mob violence inspired by Orange ringleaders in Belfast and Irish Ireland rhetoric would lead.
More recently Sinn Fein sabotaged social and economic outcomes for Young Dreamers to keep its captive audience alert and active as "street players" . It went on to recruit nuisance 'call handlers' and immobile creepy crawlers.
Some other salient facts must be pointed out to the audience of internet readers and time-expired BBC license holders.
The active component of volunteers never numbered more than hundreds. Perhaps a thousand,no more,at any one time because anything greater would have represented a threat to the Southern rulers who put them up to their games with bombs and guns. The IRA's activities were directed through intermediaries by the Irish Army,those idle mouthpieces who boasted openly about their links to Sinn Fein and financed beer parties all along the Border during the worst days of the conflict. The Irish Army's model was the drunken, German soldiery of the 1930's.
All gone! All long gone apart from the lumpen proletariat which sustains and votes for Green Tories such as Adams and his large coterie of Irish Irelanders. The latter gather around him like flies around dung.
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Just as the English working class must part with illusions about the NHS,so must the Irish workers part with illusions about nationalist parties of tradesmen and small proprietors claiming to be on their side. They are little other than proponents of a reactionary change basted with the lard of time-expired dreams of an Irish Ireland.
