[proach to the basic struggles of the working…]
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proach to the basic struggles of the working class and the labour movement.
Record
From this general approach has flowed its record over the last 13 years. Initially it opposed the deployment of British troops on the streets _ after August 1969, and sympathised with the Catholics. It quickly veered (by 1970 or '71) to an attitude of condemning the sectionalism' and then the 'terrorism' of the Catholics. It was like its attitude to the struggles of blacks, women, gays and others in Britain itself: the Catholic revolt in Northern Ireland was a complication it wished would go away.
Ever since they have not supported the just revolt of the Catholics. Within the labour-movement they are among the most vicious opponents of any attempt to get a calm discussion of the Republicans, their struggle and their objectives. Militant peddles its The Socialist Workers Party of the USA, an old-established Trotskyist group, has recently and suddenly announced that Trotsky's theory of 'permanent revolution' was wrong after all. This new pamphlet - 40p plus postage from PO BoX 135, London NI ODD - looks at the arguments An analysıs of the political evolution of the american SWP
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Trotskyism or Castroism? Castroism