Fallen Comrades

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Fallen Comrades of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

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John O'Reilly
Chief of Staff - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 20 January 1987

John O'Reilly, a 26-year-old from Eliza Street in South Belfast, began
his career as a republican activist in the 1970s as a member of the
Official IRA's youth wing. As an adult, he joined the INLA, where he
was instrumental in securing its European arms supply network and
eventually succeeded Dominic McGlinchey as its chief of staff.

In 1986, individuals who had resigned or been purged from the IRSM
came together as the Irish People's Liberation Organisation with a
primary goal of destroying the IRSM.

O'Reilly, along with Thomas "Ta" Power and two other INLA members,
went to Drogheda to meet with representatives of the IPLO to
discuss preventing conflict between the two organisations. The IPLO
used the meeting to attack the four INLA members, killing O'Reilly and
Power.

http://www.irsm.org/fallen/oreilly/

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Thomas "Ta" Power
Staff Officer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 20 January 1987

Aged 34, Thomas "Ta" Power was from Friendly Street in the Markets
area of South Belfast. He had been a member of the Official IRA but
joined the INLA in 1975 while in Long Kesh Prison. (His brother, Jim,
was an INLA staff officer who was killed in 1981.)

Noted for having spent the longest time on remand (four years, four
months) on the word of informer Harry Kirkpatrick, he was also held
on the evidence of five different informers, and had just been
released from Crumlin Road Jail a short time before he was killed.

Respected in republican circles, he was widely regarded as a thinker
and theorist, having drawn up a plan while in prison for the
reorganisation of the IRSM. This ambitious plan, which placed all
sections of the movement subordinate to the political direction of
the Irish Republican Socialist Party, had been adopted by the INLA
shortly before his death.

He was assassinated in Drogheda, along with INLA Chief of Staff
John O'Reilly, by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation.

The "Ta" Power Document:
http://www.irsm.org/history/tapowerdoc.html

http://www.irsm.org/fallen/power/ta_power.html

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A memorial to O'Reilly, Power, and two other comrades was unveiled in
the Markets area of South Belfast on 11 May 2003.

Article about the memorial unveiling:
http://www.teachnafailte.org/markets.htm

They died as they lived: as Republican Socialists. Remember them with
honour and pride.

[komsomol]

I was on that site just the other day, I took an interest in the Irish anti-imperialist struggle again 'cause I thought I would download some Irish rebel songs. My Dad made me listen to them early on in my life and I was curious which of them I could remember. The favoroutie one I remember is Black and Tans.

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That's good. You should check out Eire Og's modern version of that song called 'London's Derry'.

[bolshevik butcher]

Do you lot side with the IRA, I think that they discredit the republican cause, acts like the omagh bombing just make you lot look terrible.

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Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 3 2005, 07:54 PM
Do you lot side with the IRA, I think that they discredit the republican cause, acts like the omagh bombing just make you lot look terrible.
No, we don't side with them.

The Irish Republican Socialist Party's military wing is the Irish National Liberation Army which has nothing to do with the various groups styling themselves as the IRA. The IRA tried to wipe us out when we were formed, both the "official" IRA and the Provisional IRA attack our movement.

The INLA follows the line of the IRSP, which is that Ireland can only be liberated by uniting the working class, both protestant and catholic. We basically regard all the Sinn Fein's and IRA's as reactionary catholic nationalists.

The group you're speaking of, the IRA who is responsbile for the Omagh bombing, is the "real" IRA. The INLA was on ceasefire before that event.

solidarity.

[bunk]

OglachMcGlinchey, iv'e heard a lot of bad things about the INLA such that they are baisically gangsters who run drug dealing, prostitution and the like.

[SpeCtrE]

I have even heard that they rob banks and take money from people

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Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2005, 09:46 AM
OglachMcGlinchey, iv'e heard a lot of bad things about the INLA such that they are baisically gangsters who run drug dealing, prostitution and the like.
So do I. All the time. Still waiting for the evidence to show up, though.

I've never heard the prostitution accusation before, though and I know that's not true. As for drugs, no, the INLA is not involved in that.

Keep in mind that Leftists are usually presumed guilty and expected to prove innocence&#33; <_<

During the height of the war it&#39;s true that there were some criminals, brit spies and unprincipled elements in the ranks of the INLA. My namesake, Dominic McGlinchey, purged or executed them. Today the INLA is under the control of the IRSP, what we call politics in command.


I have even heard that they rob banks and take money from people

They&#39;ve been accused of robbing banks many times, but it&#39;s just an excuse most of the time to arrest members of the IRSP and do a shake up. They like to invade homes of IRSP members and steal from those they accuse of being thieves. That&#39;s daily life in occupied Ireland.

If the INLA did rob a bank (I&#39;m being hypothetical here) that&#39;s of course justified, if it&#39;s not to enrich yourself but only to carry on the struggle. That&#39;s long been a method of communists and anarchists alike who are living in abnormal situations like occupations or fascism.