It was excellent that the Socialist Workers Party should be represented at the Bloody Sunday Commemoration rally by Tony Cliff, its most prominent member. Is perhaps indicates a sign of intent to more scriously relate to the Irish question bs the SWP which can only be welcomica. was nope was reinforced by the determined and the SWP participated in the Bloody Sunday's anniversary, that demonstration does not political differences between those participating in it, and in this context Cliff's speech introduced a number of political conceptions need questioning. legislatively speaking. part of the UK and in that sense soli darity with the Dublin lock-out to more chailenged the narrow 18 COUCHE ideology English working class than a strike in Glasgow would have done. More importantly, the solidarly was win an trial struggle in which the nanonal question was Issue.
on ECONOMIS With the possible exception of the Chartists, there has never been real mass working class action in this country in sup port of the right of the Irish people to break from Britain which have been, as Cliff reported, One means of struggle which Tony Cliff suggested the Irist ibe was a Right to of initiative the SWP has will indus- COULLER:
soctch comrade Clit stressed the relevance of Connelly, who will bear quoting on the type of scheme Cliff was suggesting. *The doctrine that because the workers of Belfast live under the saine conditions as de those of Great Britain, they are therefore subject to the same passions and to be influenced by the same methods of propaIt may screamingly funny in its absurdity:
INCOND LARGEST MIT SALE tion.
Work march national But throughout ha economistic struggles.
doctrine almost TOTE BATES.
SELF-RULE While Cliff is right to assert Connolly who was all the time difference between the claas ruggle and the struggle for independence!, cannor accept Call's apparent inversion of this to mean identification of the politica right with the fight around It is to the national question that we have to address ourscives in Britain il we are to build a movement that can aid the irish working class. Today this means building a move ment to get the troops out. And we have to do it in today's conditions, wliere the form of struggle of the nationalist population in the North of Ireland is not primarily in the factories or around the immediate eco The right to work for Loyalists has meant IDe tight or a political state which discriminates in their tavout che riche co work for Catholics is translated Jato a united Ireland, In short, history tells us that unity is the border This is why revolutionaries light the arguments put forward by the trade union burcaucracy and the Communist Party in favour of the "Better Liletor All Campaign, aspecifie demand of which is for the right to work This campaige attempts to ignore the major and over-Tine lesture Q Don here the nalional which is why it is a creation of a trade union burcaucracy totally ignored by the "rank and file' of all side Marxists need to decisively reject such tactics and counterpose the absolute right of th Republican rish people to fight for sell be (cages. caster for us in Britain if tbe Irish workers were content with waging struggles which avoided found Britain's presence, but heaven belp the Irish people if they ever docurt ended by saying we nood to build a movement that locker.
ALLO ACE unions, in the locality." Presumably Tony Cliff does not Republican seek to confine an Irish soli- were darity movement to these areas.
The student movement, for example, is at present one of the most fruitlul areas of activin as wel same outside this commitment Cliff made will now be followed up by the SWP fully participating in the various organisations which are trying to build the movercut.
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The key to our task is to mobilise a force on the streets in mass action from whatever socfor these forces might come. as we did with Vietnam. Thisisthe hold of the reformist leaders on this question and winning the this not happen? labour movement to give its full backing to the trish people's It is to this, and not attempt.
the form of struggle in the North, to which workers might more caxily identify, which we nood to address ourselves to. We are finish, and the problem, not the Trish TRE SEE HIRES Just out is the latest edition of Troops Out, the paper of the United Troops Out Movement. Included are articles on the Better Life fo All Campaign, Bloody Sunday, the PTA and recent British press treatment of Ireland. Troops Out is only 10p and is available from The Other Bookshop, 32B Upper Street, London N1.
line PS OUT when support for us outside is Despite this affinir, morale is sky high among all Republicans in here. This is due to a number of factors related to suocesses or the political front, such as th repent anti-imperialist ference which took place at Coalisland. There bave also been many successes for the "armed struggle', which soems to be getting back onthe correcr i again The only fear is that a recurrence of sectacianism or and railroad or divert caergies fion the real tignt apaus Unity among all anti-amperialists is