And government.
belore ne was murderea by ine British, Connolly said that the partinon ol irelana would lead to a car. nival of reaction'. In 1921 it did just that. It divided the Irish workers, and led to the creation of two artificial sectarian statelets, North and South. Neither is democratic, neither is reformable, both stand in the way of the creation of a government stands for the workers not the bosses.
Britain spends £1000m a year on maintaining the army's which now enforces the border and partition. The economy of the South, already crippled by its dependence on foreign capital, is further wrecked by the cost of defending partition.
Workers in Britain gain nothing by our ruling class Ireland: from the days of Cromwell, when the suppression of the Irish led to the blockage of the revolution in Britain and the restoraton orle monarchy to loday, wiel our rulers' army acquaints itself with methods of combating mass struggle in the cities and puts anti-democratic legislation like the so-called Prevention of terrorism Act on the statute book.
The most reactionary part of the British ruling class, and the most reactionary the bureaucracy is based on Orangeism and Ulster Loyalism. By supporting the freedom struggle of the Irish and demanding the British get out, we can help create the conditions for our won victory.
Give Marx the last word — 'a nation which enslaves another forges its own chains'.
I FOUGHT a monster today and once which occupation bourgeois labour But it didn t deca me tuay vocause I!
(First voices scare the devils. Sometimes I general Challenge the hunger That's revolution but to PRO Hull Prison.
Huddersfield Coventry Middlesboro Southampton Cardiff Oxford Glasgow Edinburgh the Irish people against their oppressors has always been the most popular cause in Britain. It has been left to the far left press in and Socialist in particular to champion the cause of the Republican movement and heroic struggle strikers and other prisoners of war.
need Socialist Challenge — to combat the press lies about the situation in Ireland. This week we received a letter from irist prisoners of war here in British jails thanking us for our support for their struggle. Make sure you dig deep in your pocket this week to help us keep up and extend our coverage of the struggle of the Irish people against British imperialism.
"The Irish Republican POWs in Hull prison wish to take this opportunity on international workers day, 1 May, of sending greetings to the English, Scottish and Welsh working class and its revolutionary organisation We would like to send warmest thanks to the individuals and groups who have practised true international solidarity with the developing Irish the face of massive media-inspired hysteria and the intimidation by the state forces and anti-democratic laws.
'We would like to ask the workers, youth and national minorities not only to support the struggle for socialism and national independence in Ireland deepen the struggle for socialism at home.
'While Ireland may be the grave digger of British imperialism, it is the English, Welsh and Scottish working class who will put it in the grave.' Irish Republican Prisoners, Our thanks this week to:
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