Issue 155, Saoirse: Irish Freedom (March, 2000)

              uimh 155 marta — march 2000 50p usa 1 198o hunger-striker slams sell-out brendan hughes the leader of the 1980 h-block hunger strike has given an interview to a new magazine fourthwrfte slamming the stormont agreement and stating that the republican struggle has not been concluded he called on other republicans who disagree with the proivisionals to speak out • see page 2 m ¦ jsj 2 •**» office • ruairi 6 brddaigh president republican sinn fdin outside the organisation's new office in belfast which he officially opened on february 26 republican sinn fein took a great step forward on february 26 with the opening of the organisation's office at 229 falls road in the heart of west belfast it will be a significant boost to the republican campaign for an end to british rule and the creation of a new ireland • sign of the times belfast telegraph billboard outside a falls road newsagent at the opening ceremony president ruairi o bradaigh said that the office would be a rallying point for organisation and mobilisation of the people not to bring back stormont but to end english colonisation and imperialism in ireland the most recent crisis had shown the world that the english government is in charge in ireland what the irish people want counts for nothing as westminster once more upholds the unionist veto snubs the dublin government and stormont collapses for the fifth time 1972 1974 1976 1986 and 2000 john taylor boasts that unionists now have a better type of direct-rule with articles 2 and 3 of the 1937 constitution gone and the anglo-irish agreement of 1985 which gave dublin an advisory role in the six counties abolished he rejected the media label of dissidents and said republican sinn fein is the continuation of the united pre 1986 organisation and has adhered to the sinn fein constitution broken at that year's ard-fheis he continued we are the heirs of irish republicanism others have sold it out and have been sucked into the british system here erstwhile friends in the sdlp dublin and washington have now turned on the provos and joined with the british and the unionists to demand the shameful surrender of arms acquired to achieve the national independence of ireland the alternative is clear mobilise to end british rule a new four-province federal ireland with a nine-county ulster is the answer with republican democratic socialist environmental and self reliance policies • full coverage on page 3 inside