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¥ with the Labour ani thas emliraces elfare ond Moeticnal very District, PRY HOUR cary, Citien Army, lig 3 Atagteral Preset, Duties, RLITING. LEAFLET BY Putech, "inly these who imagine that in on place an Army will line op and say “ae are for seclaiise and in another Place an Acer will gay "We are for Dm perialisa” and believe that this will be the sdcial revolution, only those who hold auch a ridiculously pedantic opinion could vilify the Irish rebelljon by calling it a putsch" {British labour And British Imperialianm p.1Gc), SUCLALISH AND WATDONALTS4 antrary to Stalinist legend Trotalor was NOT obe af the people being crit= iciged here. He bad condemmed Flekhamor's putschist analyeia as Sananeful!t St had overestinated the depth and effect of the Lond reforas introduced to the Britiah, This did oot impede him fron observing that the Irish working class uaa born ag the national struggle wag reaching a climax and “clashing with the emotistdoally Linlted and inperislly arrogant trade unionism of Britain has naturally wavered between syudicaliam and natioo— alism and is always ready te Link the tae conceptions together in ite rawolutionery consciousness! (Leggoaa @f The Dublin Events}.

Paced with massive militery repression during and after the Rising this -oclass ardse in ggarch of an alternative to bankrupt Home Hule politics. Retween TSI6 and [920 it expressed ita "syndicalison quite dramstically by increasing total union membership fran 40,000 to 250,000, the ITGQWI going from 5,000 to 0,000, It defeated conscription in a -feheral strike and had in 1990 beaten the bosses in [200 wage disputes cover— ing (0.05) workers at a cost af fT, 25), O00, The Latour leaders could anly offer then parer. development, To cammnigm, without having ta poss through the capitallat ataze" (Selected Works, Moscow I975, p.599),. As part of a celebration of the 50th. anniversary of the Hussian revolution we will show in future issues af SOCIALIST BEPUBLIC how Trotaky waa proved correct in his assesement of the course of the revolution and bow Lenin had ta Fight ta got this view accepted by the reat af the Bolshevik Without anr hesitatlon we-ctoke the road of the two leaders of the Russdan revolution and the founder of the Fourth Intermati¢nal in expressing our solidarity with the Aisin in spite af its Limitations and repinti ating all currents who downgrade the etruggle for national Liberation. We are hostile te those whoa revive the thaorias of pre Firat World war refermism Sy claiming that the workers will come co e0claliam as a result ef their daily struggles and expect Protnetants in the ‘erth ta be won from Grangelam in this vay. People af this opinion, whether they ba the noo-Stealinist Official Sinn Fein, or the so-called Trotalydet Militant, FPepudiate social revolution and de oot deserve the deecription "Merc" To socigliate who take a principled stand on the national question we sar that they mast embrace Trotakyigm if they are te be consistent, and understand bow the rerolution in Treland magt $e made pormanant . Even if partition staggers through ‘the current agsault the national problem in Ireland will pot oo owey, Notther will the memory or significance of tte 15 Riging. : ing DAFIT CARROLL