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rer the past few teaoths the Provas, pecially in Belfast heave been erit— wliy evaluating their past peliticel futegy. This balance abort hag manatrated tne itpertant lessen for Proves = tha teed ta ture to the wking class, peaking at the Toi? uma Wolf Tone toommaration, my Drm proclaimed taat MWe med positive tie in with the tass of the ‘Leh people We vom) to mike a AB On eGiiietic issuen and on overy y strugebes at paaple.! mY Proves welcome this new fram thought 4a ao fresh wid that could aw atte mew Life into the natianal beration atrugsle, But it is orasary tt look at. the origing of ds turn and itty oractical implic= lens before giving unqualified Peart ta such optimistic hopes, RESO POR "THE TORKT is 90 agemet thet fer sanc tim ly Priwas hate een uneasy about the erratign and metinian of the ranents politics over the past fey ite. Mest of the discewtarh hag warantly originated from the wiLicary be af the movenant, This is paradox iL since it ig preciacly the nilican ruggle which hag nourished the farnidan of recast times, Jive om, in tiie Hodenstew speach, ea apecdifiic amample of boy this pens tiiatred and resanttwark of & Pedtish) army camet sustain war, and tie isalacion of socialist gublicana sreund the aed strugeia danmervas aril has produced at Lagst aoe clreles, the reformist ootian at MWisteft is the Lagoa, -dilch con hehow bs teselved witheut the b2lisutian at the yorkidg clsas in w 26, couties® ‘nay be. added that the oilitary fuzele has not cely lout to ignaring 926 comty workers, Sut alse ta ignoring the working class in the Goos, The Proves concept of armed struggle is an glitiat ome based esgemtially of wo undicrestimation af the revalstionary petentialed the working class.

The more isolate! an elitder milinare campaign becomes the more monatles a view of the wortcing slosa it engenders;

the more reformist and cesctiomury itis polities becom.

Ape) oo Gt de ne real surpeiae cto flid that thefailure of the Eroavos arte! uirigsle ta attain ite objectives has resulted, mec ih un exatlingtion of the nature of the armed atrugels iraclt, bet, in a watering down of ita objectives, This at the ent of the day the Provas held on to their military prestige bat as Jin lrunn painted vet they traded in thadr gacracent ddesd of a united Ireland! for a plastic ine Gounty Glyter", ‘The oore isolated the military campaden berate the mre Bizarre becamn the politacal rationaligations until eventually the ordinary rank amd Sila Peeves ware Latt with nothing meaninefall cr taaliatic bo aay be anyeme., a oredabilitr eup hagan to widen between the Brows and owen their ataunchast wereting clesa supporters in the gaettess.

MIT CRITICAL EXOOGI Tt da clear that any atterpt tc flese that dagcercus cap heteeer the anti-itperialise fivhters and the f4ases fast begin with & oritical evaluation of the armed -strugele, (efortunaitely thar is of evidans: to Alugeeet that such an exercise ig being utelectaken, The suspicious ~ taro to the working closs, teu cdated at Dedenstown, quickly ran dote a cul dq gece In particular, Jimny Cruom's speech failed te peasp the gettle of cemed strusgle aml displayed ¢ ceotineing wider estination aul can patronddacteo, of thea working wlinemy ery Cf the Provas, CONC LOS LW Fu CARROLL On the relationship betianen the amined atrugele and mess supsare Deans speech wae confusing. He armucs that becomes an dadlated arnuad campaign breeds reformist illusions Tt is necessary to tum te the working clage fo broaden the base af the ailitary struggle, Amd so he saps "The ferging af sprang. Links between The republican noveniget and the warkerd of Ireland and radleal trades iionists ell create an irrepressible Tiss ferment al willl ensure: msy support for the gaecieine wooed struggle, Hat wy was the arted cone saign isolated ia the Yarut fllace?, Decanae dt did net have the support of the workers =< andl se we are back ta ayoare one. Leless the initicl weakness aT Chearmed canpaien is adtiitted in Ls meaniticless to talk aheut @hirning to the wtrking class", The failure of the new tort by the Proves bo break dacisively with elitist military attitudes is reflected ina failure te break with i Passive conception of the parking chaise, Thus ween Siony Crum spaky abort tumidac to the parkise clans ib was gat in ender te get the workers to fake up the "eataaral guestiare, oo 5. the national yesatien was ti remiin tha sacred preareva ef te Provas 4 Ibe Proyes were to add the woviters in the day te dar teind eo chit the Jetter would syfipathise with the anti=fnperialisn struceLe, fut the aoti-imperdalise seruraia was to Temiin molusively in the handy ‘While the tenor of Jimny Dram speach ds te be weleomad, Gt still doa tnt eigoal a deeisdye turn te the yerking claza bp the Brows, A turn ta the woeking clase Mauna mom thar taleinge SoOnE dresd and bitter issoes. Lt meas nanslising weekera te fight. fer their cational rdekes. And the only face of etragzle capable of doing that are masa artigos and ,orker: aor!

Bent From ps tack place in the sarly 3s, portdewleriy after interment, Uoder the colossal proasure Thee penrated, te Keeie areca were stremchtece ed, the Arite ani the Levalist militien, — beth offiedal (RUGS URH) and usetfiedal Cuba ine), wer dettoralicad, aid the anti=itperialists | gained thedr greatest gingle victory wince Partition, the abslitiga of Stemont, ifter that british coacessians avibiaed Kath ercura Made ky the laadecsbip af the anti‘imarialist strygcle, 2llayad the SDLP ta cons orawling out of toeir haley aod rewsin credibility with the Sachelic oossea, Though that hold is etill strang — us Shoe dn the eeeant local soveriwot coats — her are now onder pressure because Eratedn seus 7d Pegeen to make amr geriaus poss bons ail hag bean conaisteactly movin towards the Laral= tdete, culminatin: in the ondertand Westwingber poral, An oppertindty thus omtate te rebuddd tbe links between the aneisimperinlice; rao wuard and the tasses throush using thea 211\fealang created by the repressdan policies ‘te demand of the S0LP (and the nay “achteors MucHaucms party) tbat they aigpert protaat witwens against thy state orotality, Failure to do thas in the caning percod @an only maan tmotiveless Mmirtecet; mere Frdciah reginonty Smisbalavine?, All of which will bead i the Weata, Turlara, tives, acd Paloleys lerding it over anew and ange _ | vicious syuten af diserimingtion diregted against the cutholigg, ‘This bos got ta be stopped aod gan ba stopped, Thare wl) Ge a bis prise to pay Lf it isn't,