• Behind the irish Ceasefire' in Red Weekily of 20 February asserted that a cosetro call Decame inevitablo for the Fi on their political acumen + sincerity of your iriterest cisive lactor of sucents against the imper alist. Your mporter says.
bis proved more and more unable to get out of the blind alley of their bambing First, there are a number of excellent reasons for the bombing sempaign. Symbol.
cally, buildings and factories owned, con trolied and exploited by the foreign imperalist are attacked and seat to be attacked, To protect the property of the capitalists business zonet: thus it important tactic value of tying down soldiers who would atherwise bo omployed in suppressing quor illa strongholds.
the government unsole to stop the hombings, hai to foot an enormous and costly bill, which brings involvement dower to an unprofitable level. Profitability the raison d'ebre of Occupation - is attacked at the roots. The bombing it complemen Lary to the military attacks waged by ProVisional units from their areas (the ghetto, the estate, the suburb) against a now dep Tered force. To a true revolutionary its pol ariang errect must be seen as tavourabla.
campe-those for the IRA and those against ibility and magnitúdeof a mandate. There are no fence-sitters-even the fences have been blow to bits! it creates ammunition for unimaginable propaganda victories. the racent daring raid into the Euroga hotel by a bombing team in broad daylight serlousy pomoranspo the socunty Forces who thought it impenetrable. Now to call such a tactic will to many propitious effects Irrelevant is crass ignorence.
Politically. the bombings increase instability and demonstrate by widespread disorder that the rule of even oppressive laws is impassible. More impartansiv, it demonstrates that the long, khaki-coloured arm of the law is of capitalist design. The Irish Republican Army of the working class have shown the working class their capabilities and indomitable strength whlist led by a revolutionary vanguard with good DELICS Implicit in the aims, methods and outcome of Provisionalism is the existence of a revolutionary nucleus. The icaders are the anly people capable of creating a 32 county, Socialist Republic. They have considered hew to carry this out and if bomb Ing is an ancillary tactic in their arsenal then its use has been decided upon by an authority-the revolutionary guerilla-and is not to be attacked by an armchair critic.
second, your man congratulates the Provisional Inadership for abandoning lindeed, they have noel! the irrelevant' bombings which ho insists led to the ceasefire, and then he castigates them for accept ing the same ceasefirel! Such misrepresentation of the situation is bound to confuse thase outsiders attempting genuinely 10. understand the political violence of the The ceasefine is indefinite, and could end tomarraw: It will certainty end soon, for the feeling in Belfast is that the Gavem ment are not prepared to relinquish end That certain suspicions of the Provisionals seem to be justified. When it does end, and it becomes pater tly clear to your man that the Provisionals -apparently volte-face have resumed bombings, how will he explain this to your readers who have been lon to believe something different? Not at the expense of the Frovisionals i hope PETER ARNLIS, Boltast i the Provition-