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paris by the working class, Sone Sockab inte bi crap ety Bie See coripemagt | that national independence, unification, sece . of ireland that the Irish only after the working clase sesees poyor rrpigaired Re atate pene ee prevedtits ty strugeLing on iseuee auch as wages, ‘ 5 ern hp Tram thaiging society that segdaliets should espouse national eee iectmeie ure deaigive for Geragids they place thelr mais and central ae ta ae itera Coemolls arete that that “the Irish worlctng claus #lone pumains the incerryptibie inber— ditar of the fieht for Trish treeden®. Thos the Tnutignel qigetion™ became a “clases gdustion'*, There are fey socialists in Treland today who would disagree with this proposition. Dut there woe differgnaes orer Fie ig mpauyt br toe thet the metionsl qeatien can : pow, smash it, and replace it with a mew form af democracy.

eecialist deminds ans not simply demands i jat chaneing the mature of the states WEIStiLOb TALIS I TREAT So Uf political demands are the key te pushing forward the struggle for te tote that tha state in Ireland, te political change is British dey bat simply ta aar that Ey thet gelyas the Irish tourgcesieie peuld nec be politically strotas alougy to nointadn a afabla atate upayritus 4 British Inpricliam belpe te maintain a reastnably atahle state power in Dreland ty dividing the witting class (through particion) to danping civil righta to the tathnlic Trotegtant comunitr) br relying on Catholic au Pretagtant, and br cajoling ant compelling the Kortteari and S@uthero gevercoweota to mdntaio in arsenal of repressive Lays and LikticutLens , vmpleitatiany Matienal dewnds, in ether ponds, have becom: the central BCOMCHIDS IEMA Mone cr this inpdies- that economic das, survival of workers) they give an wlahentaryr class consciouennsa, will netar canvince the working clasa wLAL ethetpts dor seciilists to eni™ these strigglos 74 polities! character"

fesge dominding economic crmeaedens met aoly frau the soployers bot fron the state ay well) beidee the wep.

Wey 7 Recaee the Pungatigatal conkrue Workers? power is ao iniis= pensible pretequisite for rearganisiog the c= ence in the intereste of the workers. Tins as Lenin arel Trotsky incessantly pointed aut or ceonomic geing socdolist demande are abirve all else palicical demands iia. domaods aitied ® the understamlille socinlisgn, wat precisely shoul theses demands he in Ireland? Te angwer this qeestion it ig first ef all necessary Werth and South, is a neo colonial ang That is to say the furdamental barrier Iepardalism, This is oot to exhesorate the Irish bourmesiade, se the Staliniste tiinerity(wiile supporting 4 privilged™ the obecurantisn of the churches, both ‘ 802 Irish workercy demunde are: uninpertant, Miwiausly thes are dapertaot for the material, day te workers canfidance and ifuae then with Fat by Chettelves day te day atrugeles ot the need to seize State poser, Kor Cee it is understeed that productian Carel woe disteiimbicn) is the sporem of cexplaitation and class strigeele: wud ames ih is undesstead that the PPecene Of potdurtigo Ctsell Le mrstified tw social ami peliticsl relations, then it besames clear that (a) the dey co day eceonttic experienc: af the working clags Le werped and defordad tne the contracditorcy values of the proses af production, (b) That sinsequently dt de futile te try ar mwild on thie deformed expordeore ao as ta exter! dt to secialist cesgeoicustae. Lo}tbe fight to bring a zorufne socialist consciousness to the vorlaea Mast begin not with their aecnoiic “aperdence bet by attacking the soda’! and political foroms weich dafocn that experience), Janes Oeonar Information joural af Fourth International Available fron SA seller and 34, Clanawley Aoed, Dublin.

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