Ireland and the Fourth International

Papers, journals and pamphlets of the Fourth International's supporters in Ireland, 1969–1996

Partition

In The Plough: Vol. 2 no. 16, c. January 1975 · scan pages 1–2 · about 239 words

Partition and the national questionLoyalism and unionism

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The subsidiary slogans calling for an end of internment and for British withdrawal have been turned upside down by the British propaganda machine, when it states the concentration camps would close and the British Army's numbers in the North reduced with an end to violence.

it is not by anti-imperialists coming to terms with the calls for a false peace or attempting to use the calls that a solution in the interests of the Irish working class will be found. There must be absolute clarity. Only by facing up to the sweep towards loyalist take over and the necessity of organising the mass defence by the anti-unionists of the North can this be done. The anti-imperialist answer to the peace calls is clear: The violence of partition and the Northern state precludes any peace for the working class; the anti-unionist working class must prepare for its Vague unclear sentiments, plus a willingness to accomodate the employers in solving problems not of the workers making, are nothing but a substitute for leadership on the part of the trade union bureaucrats, Workers must be prepared to fend off ail the moralist propaganda being unleashed at them, as they begin to struggle for a right to work, for a decent living wage. The problems of the capitalists must not be dumped on our back.

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By all accounts an up swing in the international economic situation is espected

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