Joe Higgins speech in the Dail

[Phil Ferguson <plf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I generally agree with much of the speech made by Higgins of the
Irish SP (formerly the Miitant Tendency), I cannot help noting that his
examples of British support for terrorism are all foreign ones.  Higgins
could have been speaking in parliament in NZ or Australia rather than
ireland.  If you're an Irish MP and you want to attack british hypocrisy
over terror, why not attack British state terrorism in Ireland, ie the
cuntry where you actually live?  Even when the SP is adopting an OK
position on an international question, they cannot bring themselves to
relate it to Ireland itself.

As for the SP organising both sides of the border, this is a *new*
development.  For the duration of the anti-imperialist struggle of the
republicans against the British state, the Militant Tendency organised two
separate groups, one in the north and one in the south.

It is rather ironic that Brian Cahill should be so opposed to what he sees
as Domhnall's support for a united (bourgeois) Ireland, when Militant went
along with an *imperialist-impose* border.  And still do, to the extent
that they never speak about partition.  I mean, let's forget about
imperialism, the main enemy is apparently the weak and pathetic national
bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations!

Like I said before, people who sat in the comfort of the Irish Labour Party
for 25 years, while armed resistance raged against the British imperialist
state, are not to be taken seriously as *revolutionaries*, although no
doubt they are quite good left social democrats.  Or, as Connolly called
them, "gas and water socialists".

Philip Ferguson




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