On February 23 three comrades of the International Marxist
Tendency attended the Republican Socialist Youth Movement's (RSYM) winter day
school in Belfast.
Jim Daly, Sean McGowan and Bernadette McAliskey spoke on various aspects on the
question of Republicanism and Socialism and the role of the working class.
Francesco Merli spoke on Venezuela.
There was keen interest in the ideas of Marxism and the school bodes well for
the development of the RSYM. A HOV speaker also took part in this year’s Connolly Festival on February 22 and 23, while Labour Youth organized another talk on Venezuela in Galway with a speaker from HOV on February 26.
The second edition of
Alan Woods' book on Ireland,
Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution, has just come out, the first
edition having sold out. It is now available again to order from Wellred Books.
Over 150 years ago Ireland lost a staggering 13% of
its population to death by disease and starvation. How could it be that Britain, which
was still the richest and most powerful country in the world, could not prevent
this horrific death toll? The answer is simple ‑ the British ruling-classes did
not want to minimize the death toll, on the contrary, they welcomed it!