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3 June 1999 Edition

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Back issue: Vote Sinn Féin

Many people in the 26 Counties will be voting for Sinn Féin candidates in the local government elections, next Thursday 7 June.

The radio and television ban on Sinn Féin spokesmen, the ruling that the name ``SINN FEIN'' cannot appear after candidates' names, and the intensified harassment of members (including the gaoling of Cork candidate Peadar Beecher), are all indications that the Free State regime fear not just sound republican social and economic policies but that they fear the raising of the National Question.

A vote for Sinn Féin is much more than a vote for better local government, it is a vote against British repression, against H-Block, indeed against the whole British presence in the North - a presence which ensures Irish working-class people are divided and weakened, and thus more easily economically exploited, North and South.

In struggling for all of these demands, the Republican Movement will also be exposing the neo-colonial nature of the 26-County state, and will mobilise the people behind the demand for BRITS OUT and the establishment of a democratic SOCIALIST REPUBLIC.

An Phoblacht, June 2nd 1979.


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