We want to warmly congratulate Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin for their victory in the Irish general election celebrated on Saturday 8th of February. We have longly had a close and fraternal relationship with Ógra Shinn Féin and, as sister organizations, we want to send our most sincere internationalist support.
In one of the best results in its history, Sinn Féin has broken the bipartisanship that has long governed Irish politics and led to increasing inequalities, poverty and housing emergency. In a global context of neoliberal hegemony and rise of far-right parties, Sinn Féin represents a socialist republican alternative, standing up for social justice and defending the rights of the working classes against those who want to destroy them. And the project has been led by a woman, Mary Lou McDonald, providing a strong feminist perspective to such a masculinised world as institutional politics. Like in the Catalan Countries, Irish…