The divided Left

Richard Boyd Barrett has wrote an incredible piece in the current issue of Village magazine, which has already been picked upon by An Phoblacht.

As An Phoblacht correctly pointed out, Barrett, like many who write for the middle class read Village, has been less then kind to Sinn Féin. He even managed to out do his intellectual left friends by getting "Sinn Féin" and the "devil" in the one sentence.
Barrett goes on to state that certain groups such as people before profit have "
principles that don’t bend with every passing wind", and "they opposed the neo-liberal economic model when was it was neither profitable nor politically fashionable to do so". Prehaps it wasn't fashionable to oppose the policies of the Tiger/Greed economy, but, as Richard Boyd barrett well knows, Sinn Féin led the way in opposing it.
Barrett admits that, "the Left has its failings – the biggest of which is being too divided and failing to communicate its message in a language that ordinary people can understand.

Mmmm, lets see if we can address that.
Maybe the Left is divided because Mr Barrett and his University educated defenders of the working class can't get through one article in a poorl;y circulated elitist magazine without attacking the largest alternative left party in Ireland today, Sinn Féin.
And maybe the ordinary people cannot understand your message Richard, because you have little, if anything, in common with them.
The elitist, so called intellectual left have been the sole cause of our failure to gain a true workers republic. The people do not want to be talked down to by a bunch of snobs who have no real electoral support, and who could NEVER enter government without being brought in as minor partners with a larger Left wing party such as Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin are well known in the working class estates of Ireland, because most of us LIVE in them. This is not a weekend game for us, its life. We are engaged in trying to build a better country for our friends and family. The elitists want to help the poor downtrodden proles, who wouldnt be welcome in their driveways, yet alone their homes.
Remember what the last great elitist left party, the workers party, used to call building labourers and shop workers? The Lumpenproletariat. A phrase used to signify a group that they felt were "counter reactionary" and unfit to serve the cause of a workers republic. Ironic, the fact that they were the workers!
Sinn Féin don't believe in the lumpenproletariat. We believe in the people. We are a vessel for the people to reach their true destiny, as laid down in the 1916 proclaimation and the 1919 democratic programme.
We don't worry about minor things like wheather or not Stalins views were better than Trotsky. We don't care what Richard Boyd Barrett thinks of the Irish left. We just don't care. The only thing we do care for is the welfare of the Irish people.
Sinn Féin is the only true peoples party in Ireland. Fact.