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(From the O'Hara, Lynch, Devine IRSP Cumman, H-Block 3, Long Kesh)
1. The Cumman endorses the entire leadership of the Republican Socialist Movement and supports the strategy adopted since the last Ard Fheis.
2. The Cumman wishes to thank the Prisoner of War representative (Willie Gallagher) for his work over the past year and hope he can continue in this role in the coming year.
3. The Cumann supports the effort to date to produce a monthly newspaper and hopes this task can be achieved within a definitive time frame. We would suggest the setting up of a working committee to ensure this task can be completed.
4. The Cumman recognises the need to establish the IRSP more effectively in major centres such as Dublin, Derry, and in other areas where the IRSP has previously had a strong presence.
5. The Cumman calls for the establishment of a standardised education programme for the movement.
6. The Cumman calls for voting rights to be amended so that each cumann's voting strength will be proportional to the size of the cumann's membership.
7. The Cumman calls for the work of Teach na Failte (the IRSM's prisoners' welfare department) to continue.
8. The Cumann expresses solidarity with our support groups worldwide and with our fellow Prisoners of War in Portlaoise and Maghaberry. (From the Downpatrick Branch)
9. This Ard Fheis ensures that all major policy decisions taken in the past six months are kept constantly under review.
10. This Ard Fheis recommends to the incoming Ard Comhairle that the issue of disarmament will not be on any future agenda for our movement.
11. This Ard Fheis will instruct all party members regardless of position to fully involve themselves politically and socially within their own communities. This should not be optional, but must be a prerequisite for all party activists.
12. This Ard Fheis oversees the drawing up of a comprehensive economic strategy document outlining the party's definitive position on all economic matters as they effect the working class.
13. This Ard Fheis expresses its support for the Cuban, Iraqi, and Libyan people who continue to be denied basic medical equipment and medicines by the United States led blockades.
14. This Ard Fheis calls upon the incoming Ard Comhairle to set a time-scale for the publication of a party paper and delegates an editorial board to oversee its production. (From the Executive Committee)
15. That this Ard Fheis ratifies and applauds the courageous decision taken by the Irish National Liberation Army to declare a cease-fire on August 22nd 1998 on the recommendation of the IRSP Ard Comhairle. (From the Belfast Branch)
16. This Ard Fheis opposes attempts to downgrade the Mater Hospital in Belfast, and all existing hospitals, this will result in the loss of acute services.
17. This Ard Fheis calls for the establishment of a major educational establishment in North Belfast. (North Belfast has less than 1% educated to degree level compared to 48% for South Belfast.)
18. This Ard Fheis calls for the scrapping of tuition fees for Third Level Education. Tuition fees exclude students from low income families from getting third level education. (From the IRSCNA)
19. We reiterate that a party Ard Fheis remains the highest decision making body of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, and that it is the responsibility of the Ard Comhairle to implement the will of the membership as expressed at the Ard Fheis at which they themselves are elected.
20. The Ard Comhairle will be responsible for recording the minutes of its own meetings, including the reports from delegates from throughout the 32 counties. Minutes will be distributed to all branches and support groups following the Ard Comhairle meetings. Minutes should include departmental reports.
21. That the Irish Republican Socialist Party reiterates its analysis that all classes within society have a unique and mutually opposed class interests. Accordingly, the IRSP recognises that it is responsible to the Irish working class alone, and rejects the concept that there are social interests of the "people" that supersede interests of the Irish working class.
22. The Irish Republican Socialist Party reiterates its commitment to the establishment of a 32-county Socialist Republic, and its understanding that such a revolutionary transformation of society results from Class War.
23. The Irish Republican Socialist Party reiterates its analysis that the partition of Ireland remains a primary obstacle to the attainment of the interests of the Irish Workers, that the six-county statelet is irreformable, and that the struggle for socialism in Ireland is inseparable from the struggle for national liberation.
24. The International Secretary of the IRSP's Ard Comhairle shall be responsible for keeping members in Britain and supporters abroad informed on developments impacting upon or initiated by the Irish Republican Socialist Movement in a timely fashion. Accordingly, all party statements will be made available to the North American Co-ordinator. Should similar support organisations arise in other nations, this policy will be applied to them as well. (From the IRSPGB)
25. That this Ard Fheis accords full party status and representation on the Ard Comhairle for members of the party in Britain and overseas. (From the Dublin Cumman)
26. The Dublin Cumman IRSP Call on this Ard Fheis to commit the party to becoming a genuine revolutionary party of the working class. We believe that this can only be achieved by offering the working class an alternative to the capitalist system of production, control, and exchange. That alternative society must be based on "need not greed" and an end to capitalist exploitation. We therefore propose that this Ard Fheis commit the party to becoming communist and internationalist with an ideology based on the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848. We propose the party aspires toward Marxism with a full commitment to the Manifesto.
27. This Ard Fheis condemns the use of criminal legislation to imprison workers involved in legitimate industrial action. (From the Strabane Cumman) This Ard Fheis rejects the use of punishment beatings and shootings as a method of community justice.
28. We call on the IRSP to enter into dialogue with local communities on the basis of the Community Policing and Justice service paper (text to follow). Constitutional Ammendments
Article six be changed to increase the size of the Ard Comhairle from 12 to 15.
Article eight be changed to decreased from 7 to 5. |