Let the ruling classes tremble.

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday June 04, 2002 22:03 by Con Lee - Saor Eire

Or will Sinn Fein sell out?

From the rebel homes of Kerry, the Ulster hills of Monaghan, and working class Dublin, the 5 Sinn Fein T.D.s pose a challenge to the powers that be. They inherit a 200 yr. old revolutionary tradition that has promoted the needs of the people of no property. They have withstood a vile, vituperative campaign from that most backward political section,-the pathological hacks of Sir Anthony in the Independent. But will they be true to that revolutionary spirit, or, in Leinster House with those who bartered and sold, will they assimilate to the structures of oppression? Already, over in New York, Smurfit's boy, and Gerry Adams' friend, Niall O'Dowd, in the Irish Voice, has attacked Sinn Fein's winning equality platform. Will they be true to those who elected them, the people of no property, or will they succumb to their millionaire U.S. backers, some of whom have the most sinister connections? Interesting