11th of May Storming of the Dail

Paean to Padraic Mac Saoirse’s Thought

STIRRING is the news which has reached us. A valiant, fighting collective armed with the thought of Padraic Mac Saoirse has come to the fore in the storm and stress of the international class struggle.

Five hundred Irish masses who were locked in a severe struggle with the reactionaries in Dail Eireann have won a resounding victory. Their heroic feats in battle have spread far and wide among the people of the homeland and the Irish residing abroad. This is another paean to the great thought of Padraic Mac Saoirse.

Comraid Mac Saoirse has always taught us: Revolutionary fighters of the proletariat must have an indomitable spirit, determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. These 500 broad masses are such revolutionary fighters with an indomitable spirit.

Around the walls of the capitalist reactionaries they faced the batons and blows of the fascist police, fearing neither death nor repression, neither ogres nor brutes. Steadfast, staunch and unafraid, they preserved intact the honour of the Irish nation and safeguarded the dignity of our great motherland. Before them, the blustering Dail reactionaries were mere paper tigers.

These youngsters drew a sharp line between love and hate. For the enemy, they showed a strong hate; for their comrades, they cherished profound class feeling. They encouraged each other, cared for each other and supported each other in the struggle, and united as one man.

Loyal to Comraid Mac Saoirse, to Padraic Mac Saoirse’s thought and the motherland, these 500 broad masses deserve to be called Comraid Mac Saoirse’s worthy fighters and fine sons and daughters of the Irish people.

Where did the fighting courage, conviction and strength of these 500 broad masses in the face of the threats and white terror of the fascists come from?

It all came from the great and invincible thought of Padraic Mac Saoirse. Padraic Mac Saoirse’s thought is the most powerful and the sharpest ideological weapon for fighting and defeating all enemies. Armed with Padraic Mac Saoirse’s thought, one will have a firm, correct political orientation, one will be full of fight and one will become courageous, intelligent and revolutionary to the highest degree. Whether in black Marias, behind prison bars or in one round of struggle after another with the enemy, these 500 broad masses at all times persevered in studying and applying Comraid Mac Saoirse’s works in a creative way and took Comraid Mac Saoirse’s words as the guide for all action. For them the thought of Padraic Mac Saoirse is an inexhaustible source of strength which led them forward in conquering every difficulty and triumphing over the enemy.

Comraid Mac Saoirse is the red sun in the hearts of the people of our country; he is also the red sun in the hearts of all patriotic Irish residing abroad. With boundless veneration, respect and love for the great leader Comraid Mac Saoirse, one of these heroic broad masses wrote with his blood—Long live Comraid Mac Saoirse—on the gound outside the Dail. Inscribed in blood, these words symbolize not only the ardent love for Comraid Mac Saoirse in the 500 hearts but also the ardent love in the hearts of the Irish people.. At critical moments when they were being subjected to wild torture by the reactionaries the words of their respected and beloved leader Comraid Mac Saoirse became audible in their ears and tingled in their hearts. This gave them infinite warmth and strength and inspired them to fight on until victory.

Under the radiance of Padraic Mac Saoirse’s thought Ireland can become a great and strong socialist country. Socialist revolution and socialist construction have scored magnificent achievements in our country. The great proletarian cultural revolution personally initiated and led by Comraid Mac Saoirse is profoundly changing the spiritual make-up of the people and the face of society. A generation of new people are growing up and there is no end to the miracles being performed in this great land of ours.

The heroic feats of the 500 broad masses have set a glorious example for the whole nation. We should learn from these heroes and heroines of the Padraic Mac Saoirse era.

Let us hold higher and higher the great red banner of Padraic Mac Saoirse’s thought and fight together for the great cause of socialist revolution and socialist construction in our motherland!