RSYM

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Founding statement of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
13/10/2005

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement was officially formed in County
Wicklow on 1 October 2005 by socialist and republican youth from
throughout Ireland. The RSYM declares its intention to work towards
National Liberation and Socialist Revolution. The Youth Movement intends
to do this by submitting its membership to intensive political education
and activism that will prepare them for their future role in the
struggle of our class for liberation.

The RSYM upholds the analysis of the IRSM on the nature of the six
county state, the current ceasefire and political strategy of the RSM.
The RSYM defend the right of the Irish people to bear arms against
imperialist onslaught.

That strategy is to agitate, educate and organise within our class to
mobilise our class towards the objective of removing the Northern
colonial and Southern neo-colonial statelets on this island, thus ending
imperialism and capitalism, and preparing the basic structures for an
Irish Workers' Republic, taking our direct inspiration from Irish
socialist martyrs such as Liam Mellows, Ta Power and Gino Gallagher and
the great theoreticians Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, Vladimir Lenin and
James Connolly.

The RSYM's intensive education programs, international solidarity work
and active agitation within our class will see our goals realised.

[PRC-UTE]

RSYM CONFERENCE IN WICKLOW

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement was founded by young
republicans, socialists and members of the two flute bands aligned to
the Irish Republican Socialist Party at a weekend residential at
Glencree Centre for Conflict Resolution from Friday September 30th
until Sunday October 2nd. The participants at the inaugural conference
were largely inexperienced in the field of politics and the level of
politicisation was low. However, all participants left having learned
something.

The day started with a lecture on the history of the movement by
ex-INLA prisoner Gerard McGarrigle. Gerard spoke specifically on the
movement in the period of the late 80s until the middle of the 90s,
mentioning his own personal experiences. Ex-INLA prisoner Willie
Gallagher then spoke on the history of the movement within the
prisons, relying heavily on his own personal experiences also.
Willie's lecture had a profound impact on the audience as he spoke of
his hunger strike, the cages, H-Blocks, dirty protest and so forth.
Willie mentioned the disastrous effects of other organisations
attitudes towards the movement in a historical sense he also pointed
out that numerous events such as escapes from Long Kesh by INLA
prisoners have been effectively removed from written history.

Once Willie had finished, the participants were divided into five
workshop groups. The groups penned their thoughts on the movement, the
direction of the movement, what is needed within the flute bands and
so forth. They submitted their thoughts orally, most of which were
centered on the need for a greater amount of discipline within the
flute bands and the need for those within the flute bands to
understand what and whom they represent.

We are hoping to organise such weekends again focused primarily on
educational seminars. We would like to thank Teach Na Failte for their
assistance and support throughout the weekend.

(Sean Mac Ruadhan, RSYM)