Ireland Unfree, by Bob Purdie. Red Pamphlets -2 (IMG Publications. 30р)
As the position adopted nearly two years ago by The Red Mole and the IMG on Ireland. relating specifically to the resurgence of Republicanism. is now being accepted by even those who claimed not so long ago that Republicanism was historically dead Bob Purdie's pamphlet is very timely. For a long time the IMG was the only organisation on the extreme left to give unconditional support to the Republicans in their struggle against British Imperialism. This pamphlet explains why and in so doing traces the background of the Civil Rights movement and Peoples Democracy, explaining both their strengths and weaknesses. There is a thorough analysis of Republicanism and a fraternal but forceful critique of some of the positions adopted by the Provisional and Official wings of the IRA. While the pamphlet also deals with the small groups of the revolutionary left its critique of the "two nations theory" is necessarily brief and needs to be extended further elsewhere, but for militants engaged in building a solidarity movement in Britain, the pamphlet is essential reading.