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Re: Irish Stalinists
>I suppose this is pointless, but let me try once more to point out to the
>Trotskyist dogmatists that the Protestant or Loyalist working class vote
>in huge numbers for Iam Paisley. In fact such is the level of political
>consciousness in the Loyalists community that he is undefeatable. He is
>certainly on the far right of the political spectrum. Also
>explicitly fascist groups such as that round Mad Dog Adair have recieved
>huge support from Protestant working class communities. I could go on
>about the nature of the Protestant working class and its links to British
>imperialism. But what is the point?
>My own observation about those dogamtic revolutionary groups who denounced
>the sectarianism of the Provisonal IRA is that they never made the mistake
>of going into Loyalist areas to do this. The Protestant working class
>would simply have murdered them.
>There has only one revolutionary non-sectarian mass movement in Irish
>history and that is Irish Republicanism. Whatever the Trotskyists, the
>Stalinists and the British Security Apparatus say about the Provisionals
>they have not betrayed the non-sectarian tradition of Irish republicanism.
regards
Gary
- Thread context:
- Re: Irish Stalinists, (continued)
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
Gary Maclennan Wed 08 Nov 2000, 02:39 GMT
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
Philip Ferguson Wed 08 Nov 2000, 03:42 GMT
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
mmcdon Wed 08 Nov 2000, 03:46 GMT
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
mmcdon Wed 08 Nov 2000, 04:53 GMT
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
Gary MacLennan Wed 08 Nov 2000, 07:11 GMT
- Re: Irish Stalinists,
Philip Ferguson Wed 08 Nov 2000, 22:54 GMT
- Older men and younger women,
John Edmundson Tue 07 Nov 2000, 22:43 GMT
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