Vol. Joseph O'Connor Remembered

Cork 32CSM commemorated the 9th Anniversary of the death of Vol. Joseph O'Connor at the hands of counter insurgency forces in a Flag Lowering ceremony at Cork's Republican Plot.

Vol Eddie Carmody Commemoration 21/11/09

Volunteer Eddie Carmody Commemoration 21/11/09
Assemble 8pm Eddie Carmody Memorial Hall Ballylongford
Speaker: Marion Price 32CSM



Volunteer Eddie Carmody was born in Moyvane, Co. Kerry and at a very young age moved to Ballylongford to work on a local farm. He was an outstanding Gaelic footballer and an all round athlete. He was a man of great courage, honesty and innate chivalry. He was one of the first local men to join Óglaigh na hÉireann becoming at first the Quarter Master of his local company and then a Lieutenant within the IRA. While on his way to an arms dump outside Ballylongford on the 22nd November 1920, he was ambushed by a patrol of Black and Tans. He was severely wounded after being fired upon several times, but still managed to struggle away a few hundred yards. The Tans following his trail of blood found him after a brief search and dragged him onto the roadway, where he was kicked and beaten with rifle butts. After being stabbed by the soldiers bayonets in a frenzied attack he was shot several times in the face resulting in his death. His body was then put onto a cart and dragged through the village to the local barrack's, where he was left outside in a turf shed till his father collected his body the following day.

VOTE NO, AGAIN

Statement From Francie Mackey
Chairperson 32CSM
27/09/2009

Lisbon Treaty Referendum October 2nd 2009

As predicted, and as expected, the people of the Twenty Six Counties face another vote on the already defeated Lisbon Treaty. Following on from the sidestepping of the Dutch and French people’s rejection of the EU Constitution the second referendum being held here is yet further proof that democracy is viewed as a hindrance to the current EU direction. Despite platitudes about different contexts and binding guarantees the true intent of this referendum is to be found in the politics behind it. Fearful of an almost certain rejection of Lisbon in a British Referendum if a change of government were to occur in London the Irish people are being forced to revisit their decision because foreign political opinion deems it expedient to its interests that we do so. It is a mockery of Irish sovereignty on a par with the continuation of partition. Once again the British Government is imposing its will on the outcome of an Irish election.

It is clear that the acceptance of democratic will is deemed less worthy of guarantee by those who sought it, but argued for a different outcome. The so called guarantees issued by the EU Heads Of State are designed to give the illusion of change to justify the calling of a second vote. The Lisbon Treaty remains the same. The so called guarantees are not being voted on. If Lisbon is passed there is no legal prohibition preventing the Heads Of State reconvening afterwards to overturn the so called guarantees. Dublin can veto this of course but that merely amounts to a political promise that they would act in such a fashion. Given that they went to Europe like chastened schoolchildren after the people exercised their veto, there can be no realistic expectation that Dublin will act contrary to the wishes of Brussels.

Because the Lisbon Treaty remains the same our original objections to it remain the same. But the second referendum does open different fronts on which objections to Lisbon can be expressed. Not least of these is the economic crisis. A crisis cannot be resolved by those who created it, employing the same failed ideologies, electing the same failed political elites and endorsing the same failed policies which they are wedded to because of the influence of corrupt bankers and developers. It may well be the better option that this economic crisis can only be resolved by confronting it with a political crisis which has no option but to force change through. It is not acceptable that working people should be subject to periodic bouts of economic boom, followed by economic doom, whilst the architects of it bask in the financial security of massive wages, bonuses and pensions. Small wonder that it is from these quarters that passing Lisbon is most cherished.

Equally, there exists a mindset in the Twenty Six County body politic that holds that financial failure and misdoing should be rewarded as opposed to being punished. The banks acted wholly irresponsibly yet are rewarded for same. State appointees, part of the crony culture, who viewed the public purse as a slush fund for extravagant living, are excused with massive remuneration packages form the very same public purse they abused in the first place. This is the political mindset which boasts of having been involved in the negotiations which gave us the Lisbon Treaty.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement calls on the people of the Twenty Six Counties to remain firm in their rejection of Lisbon. We say that there is a consequence for saying No which confirms that a No Vote can effect change if the political will exists to do so. If that will does not exist, then that too must be changed.

VOTE NO, AGAIN!

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POW Sponsor Mountain Climb

Members of Cork 32CSM took part in a sponsored mountain climb in the Galtee Mountains to raise funds for Republican Prisoners.

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Munster Republicans Bizzare Court Appearance

32 County Sovereignty Movement
23/07/2009

Justice seen to be done in the case of Munster Republicans.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement welcome the fact that justice appears to have been served after three judges sitting at the Special Criminal Court ruled that four Republicans from the province of Munster could not be retried on charges that were quashed last May .
Not content with this application of justice the Director of Public Prosecutions, no doubt guided by voices on high, sought to have the four men, Ciaran O Dwyer, Gerard Varian, John Murphy, Aidan O Driscoll and a fifth man, Ultan Larkin who also had the charges of membership of Óglaigh na hÉireann Quashed last may, retried on the same charges. All this despite the fact that Aidan O Driscoll spent three years interned on remand in Portlaoise whilst the four other men spent various periods interned and on strict bail conditions for up to five years.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement believe that there was no grounds to charge these men in the first place in December 2003 and that what they have gone through in the intervening five years is nothing short of serious political harassment and a wholesale attack on their civil liberties. We have no doubt that these charges were an attempt to thwart the legitimate political activity of Republicans in the Munster area which has witnessed growth in the last number of years.
Whilst the 32 County Sovereignty Movement welcome this ruling we do not hold out much hope for the administration of what passes for justice in the 26 counties being applied in an even handed manner where Republicans are concerned. It is worth noting that many other Republicans are still being held on charges of membership which do not require the state to reveal evidence other than the word of a chief superintendent. Such blatantly anti democratic practices are an invitation for serious human rights abuses of Republicans by the state in their defence of and support for Britain’s illegal sovereign claim to the occupied six north-eastern counties of Ireland.

Dennis Spriggs Commemoration

Dennis Spriggs Commemoration
July 2009

A chairde on behalf of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement I would like to thank you all for attending this years commemoration of Volunteer Dennis Spriggs. Like all republican commemorations we look back to such events for inspiration and guidance as we continue the same struggle today. We take great heart from the fact that Irish men and women were and are ready to pay the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of our country. But we also attend these commemorations to take honest stock of our own efforts and we stand here accountable to all those who went before us. The greatest honour we can do for our patriot dead is to realise the objective for which they died and to achieve this we need to look ever forward.

Dennis Spriggs was executed by British Forces during the War of Independence. British soldiers were executed by the IRA during the same conflict, the cause of which remains with us to this day. But more importantly what we have also inherited from that period of the conflict is the flawed approach of how we resolve it. Treaties which usurp our national sovereignty are unworkable because they deny the Irish people their fundamental right to determine our own destinies. The so called Stepping Stone Treaty of 1922 took three quarters of a century to move to the next step with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement but that was a step backwards for Irish Freedom. Partition has been copper fastened.

It is to positive steps forward that republicans must now concentrate on. The Republican Unity Initiative represents such a move. Recognising the limitations of our abilities and seeking the cooperation of other republican groupings has laid the foundations for the growth of Irish Republicanism. In realistic and pragmatic terms we have addressed the constitutional status quo which has allowed us to set attainable goals and work together towards achieving them. Crucially we have made this process an open and democratic one because we have learned the hard way of the effects of elitist leaderships acting in secrecy. We have begun a continuing series of public meetings to give our views and listen to the views of the people.

In the current economic crisis, the product of capitalism, we are mindful of the words of James Connolly, "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the Green Flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through the whole army of commercial-industrial institutions she has planted in the country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs. England would rule you to your ruin."

Those that would tell us that the conditions of Connolly’s time are not relevant today need to explain why someone who cannot pay a Television License is imprisoned whilst a multitude of Bankers who squandered billions are handsomely rewarded at tax payers expense. Connolly’s assertions on the establishment of the socialist republic remain supremely relevant. But Connolly also realized that to set about establishing the republic sovereign independence had to be achieved. The proofs of this are self evident. We see it in the internment of republicans. We see it in the slavish attitude the Dublin Government displays towards Brussels. We see it in the bail out of the banks and the wealthy developers. We see it in their weasel deference to the Religious Orders who abused our children whose only crime was to be poor. We see it in their refusing to abide by the decision of their own electorate when they comprehensively rejected the Lisbon Treaty. All these wrongs must be righted. And the only realistic way of securing this is to end partition thereby beginning the ending of their political dominance.

Comrades the way forward is to work together. They worked together in 1916 so the template is already made for us. We have a unique vision for a post partition Ireland. Dennis Spriggs saw this also. No man should die for history but we pledge our lives to our future, free and just.

Beir Bua.