AT THE Debating organised by 'International' magazine many learned for the first time the consequences of Socialist Organisers' In a debate between Socialist Action Socialist Organiser details of their new scheme for a federal Ireland were explained which has crippling and damaging consequences for the left and puts them in the camp of the Militant on the Irish issue.
How do socialists look at Ireland? The traditional socialist view insists Ireland is divided by Britain in order to preserve capitalist rule. This division takes the form of the border which created two reachonary cienical stales pee regime the optante pro bureaucracy, the state in the North was propped up by the most reactionary sector of the British ruling class and is now run directly from London with the use of an occupying army to keep down the nationalist population.
Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report Sean Matgamna This divides the people of Ireland on every level economically, politically and socially. aspect of popular dissent womens liberation movement is divided by im perialism and by the border. more determining role than the flags people march. planation of the strife which has forn the six counties of the North apart since the civil rights movement was batoned down by the thern cops is a mythology touted by the British as an excuse for their presence.
It is this that Socialist Organiser now backs. It is a fallacy to say the anti-imperialist struggle to free Ireland from British domination is sectarian. Sean Matgamna went as far as calling the civil rights movement a 'catholic revolt'. It is wrong to say protestants have something to fear from a anited irelana.
In our coverag of the alliance between church and state which shored up bankrupt Southern regime inevitably big attacks on women's rights and preservation of the family unit. It is exactly the same in the North where loyalist politicians have vetoed every progressive peice of legislation from Westminster whether it was the Homosexual Law Reform Bill.
Socialist Organiser explained the referendum as an attack on Protestants and Jews by religion. The British press and labour bureaucracy use these myths and lies to write off the anti-imperialis struggle of Sinn Fein as 'green fascism' concerneg not with ending backwardness and fighting for a socialist republic but rule of the Southern Tories to the North. In their of the elections, coverare claimed there was no real difference between the anti-imperialist fighters of Sinn Fein and the class collaborators of the SDLP.
We have made in the Labour sizeahle section of the left that Britain has no role in Ireland and that withdrawal provides the path to peace. Once Socialist Organiser was in the forefront of that struggle alongside us. are moving very fast to the before you fight imperialism you have to reconcile catholics and protestants in the North.
This is a reactionary imperialism is removed from Ireland can the diversion of religion be junked. Only then can the way discovered by the struggle for socialism.
Socialism weekend ideas about Martin Collins from trom pliant the Religion plays no under which The dominance of religion as an expro-British recent Abortion we explained how the means Abortion Act or the extending the horrendous Socialist Organiser good progress in winning the to convince only Now thes Militant position that pipe-dream. Only when workers
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