struggle and soldarity with it in this country.
reputation has to say Marxist Group.
OVER a century ago Mars said that a nation that oppresses others cannot be Therefore the withdrawal Brilish troom from Ireland is not only in the interests of the Tish people, it is in the basic interest of every worker in this CONTES But let's be clear about it: Annish mrerialim wil withdraw unless there is mass THE OD BESI imperialism.
COLLAPSE Now how do you build the mass pressure? There is a man who all of us can learn very much from. And that Jaines Cornolly, Because James Coitolly important thing 1 think was al the time emphasising that there was no difference hetween the class struggle and the struggle for national indeEMILALE Unlike many other people talking dit the left dilferent conipartments believed that SOCIETIE struggle and the political struggle shouldn't be separated from each other.
This was his great contribution not only in Ireland, but also in Britain. The beginning of a real Marsist movement in Britain was James Connolly. that Marxists in Britain used to tulk abour the idea of socialism, the ideas of Marxism.
When he (Connolly) came to Scotland, when he started the Socialist Labour Party. what was his main emphasis? That the industrial METLERIC organises workers. Organises millions by action industrially, and at the sametinse politically And hefore 1 get into a lot of argument ол that point. I will tell you a very important Hory. Do you remember? The 1913.
Wbat Babbened st chra time? It is crue that it was not who locked out but interestingly the support (in Britain) was mass working class.
In Manchester 30,000 workers cante to hear Jim Larkin, In Edinburgh more than 10,000 came to beat him. And Glasgow. London, there On 29 January in London, Tony Cliff — a leader of the Socialist Workers party — spoke at the Bloody Sunday Commemoration rally in London. Below we re-print what comrade Cliff had to say on the Irish disagrees with a number points and interpretations which Tony Cliff made, but we print the bulk of his speech because we believe it is important to record what a comrade of Tony Cliff's on an issue as important as Next week we will be publishing comments on this speech from the irish organiser of the International was mass support.
Irom Iristmen. but in the rece free of the workine class. of Then there conference at the same time, a special conference, put the knife hard and good into the Irish workers; James What did they đan Larkin. What The Trades Unicn Congress walese per bfficials. And there was n Action, The railwaymen did True that (British) workers are was wich Irish workers. What is important when the the strikes (of Irish people) took he place is that they •CIL sections. For example 1911 in Liverpool, The seamen were on strike and the dockers were ob. strike. Not only that, the buses were out on strike, Two Royal Navy boats were in the port. sitat do so think were he SEBOCts. happened then?
The workers Tram Everon - the callo i aras the workers from Bootle, from alla forces build Beans the army They were Ches ad built hem bees had built them before. the Bur NOW they knew which enemy, the enemy was the army and they built them against the army, STRIKES Jis very interesting that in all those cases the rank and tile went one way, the leadership acid anourer war, IT was a shame and disgrace House of Commons. And you should remember it. as checited the one was executed who len uproar for the execution? Who was i? Arthur secretary ol the Parly.. (member) of Coalicion Goveriment. There fore you should not, and in no war say that the leaders and the rank and file And the wicat thing in about James Connolly is that all he knew the ward rank and file*. He incroduced the concepr of the rank and file into the Petitity in Britait and All of us here are for the withdrawal Ireland. We lake it for granted. of The only question: what are we going to do about it? (Cde Cliff then went on to give example Anti-Nazi League, arguing the throuch working in factories •..And the Irish question. It B not an irish guestion - 15 R British question. British imper Not only exactly the same. turn it into every fuctory, every W9S 2-T00 and they inito and cent full-time it 15 simply not have Dockers Against Building Nazis.
umbrella the CENTRE alism is there. Wehaveto work picker-line are more or less th We have to sametree. And we have 10 link THE SHER trade enion branch, ete, etc.
It is no good us having an unless Nazis.
MUCH IS Against Engincers Nazis, Tenchers Agaist Nazis.
It is no good ar all having it as it is the job unless it is going to have a DERMISSI relation to building workers. engineers. leachers, etc. etc.
shouldn't be The British Army in Ireland and the police on the Grunwick because IE15 EAMMON McCANN and BERNADETTE CALISKEY, Who — with Tarig All — were the other spokers at the rally SWP leader speaks together. The muki-nationals of the whele South (of Ireland) and the multi nationals of all Britain, and the multi-nationals of all the world. They are the Against samebloody multi-nationals.
And I would never dream that of the Brilish workers to tell the irish workers how to finht. But let's be clear. If there is a march for the Right to Work in Britain, I don't see any reason at all why there march fron Dublio to Belfas question of unemployment are all unemployed. Orif it can't go to Hellast, then a march fron Dublin to Derry. I would love for left unicy in order to face up to see the Orangemen shouting at them!
I want to see what Impact there as consciousness because unemplosment in the South is as bad as the North. In fact it is worse.
SHARE What I am trying to say bere is speaking here to the converted.
What we lave to do is.to tura whar is here into a movement. A movement that is in the factories, in trade unions, in the localities. In every area where back tonight and tomorrow.