If those forces supporting the struggle for democratic and national rights in reland want to intervene in the British general election, they should do so with the clear understanding that a victory for the British er working class will be in the best interests of the revolutionary movement in reland.
This means that they should first of all call for a vote for those revolutionary groups to the left of the Labour Party (in safe constituencies) who defend the right to self-determination for reland and who advocate a consistent fight against British capitalism at home. Where this course will not be possible, as is likely in most cases, they should call for a vote for Labour, without illusions, and carry on their own fight for the withdrawal of troops, the ending of interment, and the repeal of repressive laws.
This is the only principled course open to ICRA which would be consistent with striking the greatest possible blow at the next election against those who ate unieashing repression in reland. The fact that /CRA follows a different, even opposite course, shows the major weakness of the ICRA and Provo leadership: ie. their inability to understand the de cisive importance of class struggle. This has led them to a situation where they advocate a course of action which, if successful, could do enormous damage to the struggle in reland. ably weakened. all this the British army continues to develop itself as the world's most highly professional machine of counterinsurgency: The training it receives party. daily on the streets of Northern Ireland serves to amply back up the theories of the infamous rigadier Kitsen..
It is against this background that we can see the importance of a victory for the Irish revolution. Such a victory would be a massive gain not only for don. the workers of Ircland but for all the workers of these islunds, and the British ruling class would be immeusurAs long as British workers ignore the reality of the Irish struggle, as long as they assume that British impenalism has some neht to be in con-