The struggle for socialism in Ireland

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roars off, leaving helmets and shields behind. Red Weekly 5 April1974 Page 4 INCIDENT IN THE BOGSIDE: 1. Factory is set on fire, Saracan chases watching crowd; 2. It stops at Creggan, troops jump out and attack crowd with CS gas: 3. Crowd rafuses to break up, soldiers beat hasty retroat into Saracen; their shields jam in the panic as Bogsiders attack and, 4, drag soldier from Saracen; 5. Saracen group of people who struck fire to tinder in Derry in October, 1968, and his book describes how that modest civil rights demonstration led to the current war between the IRA and the crammed with information, it is the best popular account of the Irish struggle that has been written, It is broken up into three parts: the struggle since 1968; the historical background to the Irish crisis, and a section on the political problems faced by revolutionaries in Ireland.

As a work of pop' propaganda the book would be unsurpassed, were it not for the fact that Eamonn has set it a much more ambitious task: "The future in Ireland lies with the small, but ar last steadily growing forces of Marxism. To make Hritish Army. Highly readable, witty, I thoughts..

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defeat suffered by reformism, and with the strength of their own organisation tits prestige, its character, and its ability to act in the present situation) they will be able -together | discussion around such a polemic. Hut polemic, the political struggle, must be one of the main political priorities for the MIR; moreover, it can't be separated from the total I tinued ambiguity is out of the ques tion in the long term.

Very quickly, the choice will be brutally posed: to capitulate politically or to break with this front. And

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BOB PURDIE discusses Eamonn McCann's book "War and an Irish Town' (Penguin, 40p)