An article written in 1988 argues that discussion on Ireland was stifled not only by censorship in the mass media but also by lies the left told itself.
At the same time as it printed articles effectively endorsing the British troops in N.Ireland, in September 1969, and while still not questioning partition, IS (forerunner of the SWP) shifted from its previous "civil rights" emphasis to extolling "the independence struggle" as central.
This article traces ideas developed in Workers' Republic, the journal of the Irish Workers' Group, before the Northern Ireland Catholic revolt in 1968; the place of those ideas in the debates of the 1960s; the reassessments necessary after 1968; and mistakes which we now think we made.
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