On Sunday, 27th June, the IRSP held its annual commemoration to Bodenstown to honour Wolfe Tone. The march assembled in the village of Sallins before preceding to the graveyard. It was led off by the Mickey Devine Memorial Flute Band from Derry City. The band was followed by IRSP members and supporters from Dublin, Cork, Derry, Strabane, Limerick, Clare, Dungiven and Kerry. Two other bands were present, the Patsy O'Hara and Kevin Lynch Flute Bands.

In the graveyard wreaths were laid on behalf of the IRSP and the INLA. Niall Donnelly who chaired the ceremony then called for two minutes silence as the bugler played the last post and revellie.

The man speaker was Brigid Makowski, IRSP representative on the Shannon Town Commission. She addressed herself to the topics that are of primary interest to the IRSP today.

Once again we assemble in this graveyard to pay homage to the father of Irish Republicanism, Theobold Wolfe Tone.

We stand here side by side to reiterate our determination to see the realisation of the dream held dear by many Irish martyrs like Tone -- the establishing of an Independent, Democratic, Socialist Republic.

As we stand here today, the faces of our fallen comrades come to us. Many of them made the same journey that we made today, for the same aims and objectives.

Though it is over 180 years since the death of Wolfe Tone, we still find ourselves dictated to, controlled by, and exploited by foreign countries. We look to the six counties and see the brutal occupation of a foreign army, the same that has been responsible for the slaughter and torture of the Irish People for the past 800 years.

But as in years gone by we recognise the heroic fight of the Irish Freedom Fighters, who without hesitation, challenge daily the British rule in Ireland.

There is truely a "Risen people", on whose backs the burden of the struggle has been born. Tone called them the men of no property -- today these are the working class.

The working class is the only class capable of achieving the aims of Wolfe Tone. It is they that have not sold out the cause of National Liberation in Ireland.

Today we also reappraise the progress made in the past years. We remember vividly the heroic sacrifice of Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, Mickey Devine and their seven comrades who diead on Hunger Strike last year. They laid down their lives that the British criminalisation process could be stopped. They established their position as Political Prisoners. We see their sacrifice as the example to be followed by all, especially as the enemy has started to regroup to attempt to break the spirit of the people.

In the occupied six counties we have seen the cynical use of the so-called "supergrasses" in order to incarcerate men and women in the forefront of the struggle against imperialism. This new and callous disregard for elementary justice is nothing strange to a people who have suffered under the rule of the Orange Order.

As the British Army, RUC and UDR have failed to defeat the forces of national liberation, they resort to practices learnt in their colonial days of the so-called "British Empire".

The conveyor belt system of Castlereagh is used to torture young men and women into incriminating themselves, and obtaining convictions on the strength of these "confessions".

In the seventies the British assassinated unarmed civilians as a means of intimidating the Nationalist community. In the eighties they used the plastic bullet to the same purpose. Now they are using paid informers and people they have blackmailed as a weapon against those who resist their British domination. These are reduced to swearing away the lives of their friends at the whim of the RUC.

It is appropriate at this time to re-iterate specifically, clearly and categorically, the right of armed struggle taken up by the volunteers of the Irish National Liberation Army. This will continue unabated. When the resources are available the war will increase in momentum, until the rights of the Irish People to self-determination are fully realised.

We see our struggle in the same light as that of the people of South and Central America.

We stand as one with the cause of the Palestinian people, for the return of their homeland. The genocidal aggression being carried out by the Zionist forces on the Palestinian and Lebanese Peoples is condemned.

The silence that has greeted the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese has to be condemned -- we shall not stand to one side and see our brothers and sisters killed.

We must also salute the sentiments of the Argentinian people who stood up to Britain and fought for the Malvinas. We have no sympathy for the Junta, they have tortured and killed thousands of working class people during their reign. But the killing of young Argentine prisoners at Goose Green is on a par with the worst of the Junta's crimes. This is what the Paras were practicing on Bloody Sunday.

The British Government is trying once again to impose one of their so-called initiatives upon the Nationalist people in the Six Counties. The Prior Plan is dommed to failure, despite the efforts of all their lackeys.

Peace, Work and Progress is the slogan of one of those groups of lackeys, the so-called Workers Party. In order to gain recognition from the British, they have crawled to the lowest of the low. In the Six Counties, they have claimed a necessity for RUC law and order and for accepting them into the Nationalist areas. They condemn the rightful fight of the forces of National Liberation.

Shadowy figures in it have been responsible for the murder of young republicans over the years. They have passed information to Loyalist organisations on both Republican and Republican Socialist personnel. This has been used, no doubt, in the brutal murders of Miriam Daly and Ronnie Bunting and Noel Lyttle.

In 1977 they murdered the Chairman of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Seamus Costello. The fear of the man they nicknamed "Clancy" was foremost in their minds. Fear of his influence, of his dynamic energy and his political clarity became too much.

As we look to the 26 counties, we see many such groups. These live off the backs of the industrial working class. We see the "outrage" at the use of telephone tapping in the Dail - the same type of tapping that has been commonplace in anti-Government circles. The blatant collaboration with the RUC continues both along the Border and in the the Courts.

Unemployment is rising and inflation is out of control. Yet it is only the workers who pay their share, the multinationals, the Banks, Irish Business interests and the Farmers either do not have to pay taxes or spend their time avoiding it.

The Irish Republican Socialist Party sees only one alternative to imperialism and capitalism -- a 32 county Socialist Republic in the tradition of Tone, Lalor and Connolly and of Seamus Costello. We will strive for the "Reconquest of Ireland."