Sligo 32 County Sovereignty Movement has learned through members of the local community and media reports of a worrying trend developing in the county area. The latest of such incidents involved those responsible holding a man of over 80 years of age hostage in his own home for an hour in what can only be described as a reprehensible and cowardly act.
The ordeal this man endured is sickening and a complete violation of an individuals rights in his own home. This is not an isolated case, just one in a continuing series of attacks focusing on specific and vulnerable targets.
Sligo 32CSM appeal for members of the community to contact us with their concerns or furnish us with any information they may have in strict confidence. We call on those behind these actions to cease with immediate effect.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Sligo 32CSM Alarmed At Developing Trend
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Remember Irelands Patriot Dead This Easter
Wear an Easter Lilly with pride and continue the duty of those who have strived to achieve the united Ireland of equals.
Commemerations are being held this weekend and at the end of the month, contact for more information or www.32csm.info
Monday, February 1, 2010
Sligo 32CSM Letter to Sligo Champion Re: Thomas Healy Comments
Sligo 32CSM wish to express our disgust at the statement from Provisional Sinn Fein representative Thomas Healy in last weeks paper in which he continues to feebly promote the phase of normalization ongoing in the North of Ireland to the people of this area.
First of all, it is ironic at best that this ever changing organisation chooses to commemorate Vol. Coen by electing a Fianna Fail councillor to speak at his commemoration. In his rush to curry favour with the Fianna Fail electorate Mr Healy forgets the despicable record of Fianna Fail and the objectives for which Vol. Coen fought and died.
Secondly by attempting to link Vol Coen’s sacrifice with the current charade in Stormont Mr Healy lends credence to all those revisionists who have steadfastly endeavored to criminalize the republican struggle of which Kevin Coen was a part.
Equality has never come in such a warped terming if the present situation is what Mr. Healy is setting his standards by. PSNI/RUC forces, backed up by the ever present force of 5000 British army troops, ensure this through their Section 44 legislation. The so called 'Peace' walls remain steadfast, separating two communities who may only live yards apart but never meet due to the sectarian line continually being pushed where it seems appropriate to divide these areas due to their religious make up. How can an example be made to people to share a land equally and peacefully when the example that is given to them is a brick wall between them and 'the other side'??? The power sharing government that Mr. Healy says Vol. Coen gave his life for cannot even get an Irish Language Act pushed through though they apparently operate on this basis of equality, and so what hope is there for any of the other more major issues still to be dealt with by this government??
MI5,with their brand new multi millions pound base of operations in Holywood, will remain to answerable no-one on a policing level and their accountability will be zero. British forces will remain to work unimpeded on Irish soil, and this is the culmination and outcome, according to Mr.Healy, of sacrifices like Vol. Coen's and many others over the last century.
Original Article - Kevin Coen memorial event at Riverstown Wed Jan 20th Sligo Champion
Bloody Sunday Commemeration - Derry 31st January 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
February POW Protest
POW Protest - Derry
Saturday, January 2, 2010
32CSM National New Year Statement
New Year Statement 2010
We commend our activists for their dedication and hard work in pursuit of the republican goal in 2009. We commend all other republican activists for being true to their beliefs and for being generous and inventive in listening to the beliefs of others. 2009 was a year which witnessed that inventiveness being translated into political action which was widely recognised throughout the republican base. It represented the most potent expression of solidarity with imprisoned comrades. It is solidarity in action with those who were bereaved in the struggle. It is also the way forward for Irish republicanism.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has a clear vision for the year ahead. The reclamation of our sovereignty must take real form. We must give leadership to our communities to help them achieve this. Throughout Ireland communities have been betrayed by the institutions of faith, finance and state which have long purported to speak and act on their behalf. The abundance of trust placed in the integrity of individual leaders has proved misplaced. They have been left leaderless.
They have not, however, been left powerless. It is in recognition of this reality that the 32CSM will now engage with our communities. In a disciplined approach the 32CSM will liase directly with local communities to explore ways of reclaiming their sovereignty, and under these auspices, help them pursue their political and social objectives. We will focus our efforts in ensuring that all community activity will by default be a pursuit toward national sovereignty. Such a process will be a challenge to both states. It is a first step in filling the vacuum left by those who are now wholly subsumed into the apparatus of partition.
Communities so organised can become the template for national freedom. The republican objective is twofold; to secure our sovereign independence and to organise a just society within that independence. Like our republican forebears we can now enact our aspirations, we can involve our people with our beliefs in real and tangible terms. Republicanism cannot be detached from the people and the people cannot be detached from the strategies deployed to secure their freedom. We can only lead through democratic involvement with our communities.
Because it is a first step it must be taken with due diligence. We have prepared our arguments and are refining our position as mandated at our Ard Fheis. It will be democratic. It will be a learning process which will require discipline, patience and pragmatic political judgement. Republicans cannot interact at a distance. We need to create a new interface between ourselves and our people which will allow us to seek their mandate for our struggle. This mandate will not be measured by a gerrymandered vote. Its value will be in its democratic integrity and its sovereign credentials. For us the ballot box means more than just numbers. Democracy can only be returned to the Irish people when their national sovereignty is recognised.
Because it is a challenge to the state the state will obviously respond. Mistakes will be made, but also learned from, and it is this disciplined approach which will allow for this engagement to spread successfully to other areas. In part the success of this project may be gauged from the state’s reaction to it. They will not be alone. Establishment Nationalists will also have a vested interest in seeing this project fail. They will seek to divide and conquer. But a clear understanding as to the implications of its sovereign distinction and clear democratic practices will thwart them. After all it was disdain for democracy within their own organisations which led them into the cul de sac they now find themselves.
The 32CSM will be active on other fronts. Two major international initiatives will be launched in the coming year. We have observed how issues at play on the international stage are geared toward political events in the occupied six counties. We have made our intentions known to the relevant governments that we are determined to follow a particular path challenging any move that would seek to de-legitimise the republican struggle. These initiatives are for the benefit of Irish republicanism, we will not claim sole ownership of them. But we will provide the leadership that will open up counter arguments for all republicans to employ against these nefarious measures.
Republican unity in 2009 resulted in impressive demonstrations on a range of issues. The continuing media and political demonising of republicans is proof of their effect as is their grudging admission of our growth. The media and political establishment’s objective is to ignore us but through mutual cooperation we have made this impossible. In the coming year this cooperation can be galvanised within our communities as these issues now become their issues in pursuit of our national objectives.
The British Government’s strategy of finally destroying any vestige of republicanism within the provisional movement will not be allowed to undermine the separatist ideal. A resurgent republicanism will demonstrate to both governments and the international community that the destruction of the provisional movement was the liberation of Irish republicanism. It is up to all of us to ensure that 2010 clearly demonstrates this reality.
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