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SOCIALISTS should judge for the IRSP; and on that the IRSP more stringently test it is just a nationalist tion. But they represent a tions linked to military very old tradition with a groups have so far become real, tenacious mass base in appendages of the narrow The IRSP calls itself groups. The IRSP is known Marxist. It must be judged to be linked to the INLA.
only a hazy notion that the less than the Provisional IRA nationalist movement will about possible sectarian congrow over into a socialist sequences of what it does. movement. How? By way of For example, it admitted to several occasions for bringing masses of people out and closing the town down completely.
We see that development, if we get the support of the Provos, as creating the conditions where the British government will be forced to sit down and realise that either they solve the H-Block problem or they find the country ungovernable - and ungovernable from the point of view that nothing is being produced.
Pessimistic
The other thing about the H-Block struggle is that it's easy to be pessimistic and say that so many men have died and so many more are in Ireland is not only tor That's part of the struggthan the Provisionals.
The Provos are certainly rhetoric. a conscious political formathe Catholic population.
according to its claim..
Yet the senior IRSP exception. members interviewed have the nistoric process, " seems.
Given the terrible antagonism in the North, a breakthrough in Ireland can only be made by linking an organised intervention in the national struggle in the North and the workers' struggle in the South, where straightforward West European class-struggle conditions exist. What is done in the south will, finally, be decis ive for the north.
That is the testing ground organisation, with socialist All of the Irish organisamilitary concerns of those Nothing suggests it is an The INLA is more reckattemnt to kill lan Paisley.
The speakers say, "Once. capitalism has been taken out of society", ", the Catholic and Protestant workers will unite. Who is going to take capitalism out of society if not the working class?
The problem is that the working class majority is Northern Ireland is Orange, and that organisations like the IRSP in the South are just nationalists.
JOHN O'MAHONY
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