tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post7720267278342402208..comments2008-02-22T21:05:25.059ZAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59301348508008450922008-02-22T21:05:00.000Z2008-02-22T21:05:00.000ZHarry, what possible reason would a radical have for remaining within Sinn Fein? There are fewer radicals now than there were. When there were more they failed lamentably to halt the slide. They are less likely to halt it with fewer of them about. Their continued membership of the party will do nothing to radicalise Sinn Fein. The party will deradicalise them. There may well be nothing that they can do when they do leave the party but that is a better position than to be complicit in the project the Sinn Fein leadership has manufactured. The radical groups outside SF are probably afflicted by the authoritarian malaise that helped suffocate republicanism within SF. What chance anything could be carved from such rotten wood?AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-61906239031369007222008-02-17T11:05:00.000Z2008-02-17T11:05:00.000Zgood article. and i agree with much it. <BR/><BR/>what advice would you give to those northern cumann members concerned with the issues you raise here? should they stay and try to move the party from witin, despite the presentation of shifts in positions of party, by the northern leadership, as almost some latent miltiary necessity?<BR/><BR/>would those disillusioned members be safer leaving the party and employing their energy in other more radical groups?harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16958177693861297537noreply@blogger.com