For the first time since its foundation in August 2017, the Socialist Republican organisation Lasair Dhearg has announced that it is making membership applications public.

Speaking about the membership launch and recruitment drive, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Pól Torbóid said that “due to increased interest in Lasair Dhearg and in anticipation of an upsurge in activism and campaigning we made the decision to open membership applications to supporters and the wider public.

Lasair Dhearg is an emerging movement, involved in local campaigning, left wing activism and the promotion of the radicalisation of our communities. Our current membership is made up of ordinary people, community and youth workers, trade unionists and seasoned political activists. We encourage anyone interested in the wellbeing of their community and country to consider having a chat with us and to consider membership, only when we organise can we achieve great things. For those who have in recent years fallen away from the struggle and for those who are new to it, we ask you to engage with us.”

Lasair Dheargs manifesto states that its “primary concern is the economic liberation of the Irish working class, and the establishment of a 32 County Democratic Socialist Republic built upon the principles of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic of 1916 and the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil Éireann. We believe that Irish sovereignty, equality for all and the economic liberation of the Irish people, can only become a reality upon the establishment of a People’s Republic where all power and economic control is bestowed upon committees of the working class.

Our single aim is the eventual establishment of those same committees within our communities, and, in time, the eventual transfer of state power and economic democracy to those bodies, as the basis for a new Worker’s Republic.”

Membership of Lasair Dhearg is open to anyone residing in Ireland who is over the age of 16 and is in full agreement with the manifesto of Lasair Dhearg.

To express an interest in membership or to find out more:
TEXT: JOIN along with your name to 07756736578,
EMAIL: lasairdhearg@gmail.com,
Direct Message the Lasair Dhearg Facebook page,
Contact any of our members.

“Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.” – Bobby Sands