Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 138, 30 June 1983 · scan p. 13 · about 150 words

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merely parallels the politics of Alistair Todd and others just as Militant twins the IRSP).

Todd says ignore class questions and focus on the national question fas if any national or other polítical question can exist for us apart from the class question!) Quigley says: accept the status quo, concentrate on class unity, and hope the Catholic revolt and the Orange backlash go away.

Untenable

They won't. So then we condemn the Catholics as 'irredentist' and accept the oxisting Six Counties as the expression of the iegitimate democratic rights of the Protestants? This is the politics of passive-conservative defence of the untenable status quo. The discussion between advocates of 'class unity' versus 'national liberation struggle' versus 'rights for the Protestants' reminds me of the well-known poem about the 'six blind men of Hindustan' who 'went to view the on BM Box 5355, • London WCIN 3X) banaçA,or FETI

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