CWI and Ireland

[Xxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/12/01 11:17 PM,marxism-digestowner-marxism-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> In fact, they had such a social-chauvinist position that in Ireland itself
> they had two separate organisations for many years - one in the South
> (esconced in the reactionary southern Labour Party, which perenially went
> into coalition with Fine Gael, the most reactionary bourgeois party in the
> South) and a separate group in the North (which did the usual 'gas and
> water' politics, mainly among the Protestant and loyalist workers, rather
> than the Catholic ghettos).  Both sides of the border, they denounced Irish
> republicanism and armed resistance to British rule.

Actually, the SP in the north of Ireland has an equal number of Protestant
and Catholic members and is part of the Socialist Party (Ireland) and to Lou
Paulsen, no, Ulster is not viewed as a "nation".

Xxxx

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