Labour and Ireland Il | IMGpapers 1976

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class and overall Armstrong COLIN KENNEDY. most Enoch The report is an extremely contradictory and document.

It alternately applauds and condemns aspects Nationalist struggle, implying some degree of support for the revolutionary Dail Eireann of 1919-21, the economic policies of Sinn Fein, yet arguing that Irish democracy and economic Independence can safely abide with Britain under the protective wing of the British Er It would ne pull apart the report on the grounds of the inconsistencies of its logic.

ideo- But the significance of the report lies not in the wrongness of its positions but the extent to 1L 1S running articulation of the consciousness and views of the British working class movement in the If this is the case, we have to ask which of the contradictory views contained in the report movement into action at any country is permanently indifferent to the struggle for particular time. complex was formulations of the Irish forces and people? was it which not be difficult to point.

policies authentic working class in 1920. the confused deploring 1E06 The military reprisals by the British denial democratic rights to the Irish those sections preached that the Irish lamb should learn to lie down and live with the British lion?

Historica studies of develon. the Wall ments in 1920 and early 1921 attempts to reveal that the most advanced sections of the British working newly-emerging class were greatly intluenced b opinion a broadly progressive stand- The This brought working class opinion into conflict with the and actions of the INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ON BRITAIN'S PRESENCE IN IRELAND RALLY Speakers: BRENDAN Willie Gallagher Representative of Tribunal Planning Cite FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER 7.30 PM NUFTO Hall (Jockeys Field, off Theobalds Rd)

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SHE VENTURES INTO SHE SAYS THAT SHE

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ONE of the most widely accepted myths of the British left is the idea that the labour movement in this

sell-determination and democracy in Ireland, writes The third issue of Ireland Socialist Review just published includes a reprint of the Report of the