The Revolutionary Marxist Group (rish section of the Fourth International! considers that revolutionaries have a right to organise freoly without physical obstr uction or attack from any organisation with which they may have political diff.
It can in no waw serve the Interest: of the working class for opposing revolutionary organisations to abandon pot itical debate and turn to physical intim ing alterences. rurtermore, wo considor that members of any revolutionary organ TOSHH THE ORINCIOn We utterly condemn the violence dir ected by the Official IRA against the Irish many weeks now the Official IRA have been carrying out a violent campaign ag ainst tho IRSP. Their initial response to the first public accusations of the IRSP • compson At the same time they launch ed a campaign of smeas and slanders, designed to portray the IRSP as a gang of non-political sectarian thugs, and to divert SHIC SO T TH R Sa агон - Leading members of the orticials have made clear their intention to prevent the THor trom stabilising its omanisation anc carrying out political activities. They have stated that ' more people have yet to die'; апо готатия in теинюю то тле rrovionals, regretting that they did not 'stamp on them five years ago' Wrish Independevi, 3 March] have obvious implications in relation to the IRSP.
The campaign launched by the Official IRA is fertile ground for agents provocateur and cowboy elements; above all it is counter revolutional, he call on the Off icials to abandon immediately their attacks on the IRSP, to accept the offers of intor масіпнь and to enter immodiata negotiations with the IRSP for the diffusing of the situation.
. Is situation or enternecane violence must not go unchecked. Vie therefore call on all Republican and Socialist organisations to draw up an agreed code of revolutwas to defend their right to carry out such ionary conduct in defance of the right to free speech and to free organisation in the revolutionary movement. To this and we propose me setting up at a rommisson of respected trade union, Socialist and Rep ublican figures, which would also be able but or genuine artierondes of palitica prit to serve as an intermediary body for neg otiations and investigations to avoid outbreeks of the kind we hav been witnessing is to break down organis ational sectarianism. The vendetta app roach to sorting out political differences arises directly from an attitude of sterile sectarianism in ocaine ween toe powe questions facing the working class.
lican organisations, which have real diff but which, at the same time, agree on certain basic issuas. It is the duty of all these organisations to unite on questions where there exist no differences of political principle.
organisations to come together to discuss the revolutionary mousment and also deal a body blow to sectarianism.
March 7, 1975. In the longer term, the only sure way Officinks
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