Join With the IRSN in Support Prisoners of War

Join With the International Republican Socialist Network in Support Prisoners of
War

The IRSN is pleased to announce that due to the generous contributions received last year, we do not need to solicit donations of books in order to engage in our annual holiday shipments of socialist books to prisoners of war. Though, unfortunately, we are not permitted to send books to comrades from the Breton and Basque struggles, we will be sending them to Puerto Rican and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners of war again this year.

While not asking for donations of books, however, we are asking for your help again in assisting republican socialist prisoners of war. In part, this will again be done through our annual holiday card program, which will be launching in mid-October. However, our primary interest this year is in being able to increase our annual contribution to Teach na Failte, the organization founded to assist former Irish Republican Socialist prisoners of war once released from incarceration.

The IRSN is proud to have contributed to Teach na Failte every year since our network was founded, but we would like to increase the level of this material assistance substantially. In order to accomplish this, we are asking all revolutionary activists we are in contact with to translate their solidarity into something more substantial and contribute as much as you can to this effort. The comrades of Teach na Failte in Strabane, where the organisation was founded, have been an example to other struggles and an important basis of support for the continuing republican socialist struggle in Ireland and they, and the former POWs they assist, deserve your support. So please, dig deep and help us to help the work of Teach na Failte this year.

Cheques or money orders can either be made out to IRSN or you can make the out directly to Teach na Failte, which ever you prefer. If you can't afford to make an individual contribution, please consider undertaking a fund raising event with this as the focus of your effort. The IRSN is prepared to assist such efforts by arranging to loan some of its collected videos, which can be used to organize socials in private homes, where donations can be solicited or funds raised through sales of 'refreshments' .

In the age of the Internet and the Web, it is too often the case that would-be activists believe that it is sufficient to express support through e-mail discussion groups, but revolutionary activism requires more than this. It requires taking opportunity to speak with those in your workplace and social circle about the problems of capitalism and the solutions to those problems. It requires being visible in your support on the streets when it is needed. And, it requires providing material assistance, to the extent you can, to those undertaking the expenses of organizing in support of the republican socialist struggle. So, we ask you once again, join us in our drive to raise funds for Teach na Failte.

Send funds to:

IRSN
205715th Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94114 USA

or donate via PayPal, using the e-mail address: irsp@netwiz. net.