Workers' Liberty 5, winter 1986. Provos, Protestants, and class politics

Contents Introduction (2007) Session one: The issues stated Session two: a foothold for imperialism? Session three: Ireland, "permanent revolution", and imperialism Session four: Two Nations? Session five:a Provo socialist revolution? Session six: A discussion with Donal R, part 2 Appendix: a way to workers' unity? Session One: The issues stated and explained. The participants introduced The scene is Belfast in July 1983, on a Saturday, about 10am. A 'Troops Out' delegation has been in Belfast, where it has talked to Republicans on the Falls Road, been to look close up at soldiers on patrol...

(Whole dialogue as a single posting) The scene is Belfast in July 1983, on a Saturday, about 10 am. A 'Troops Out' delegation has been in Belfast, where it has talked to Republicans on the Falls Road, been to look close up at soldiers on patrol, examined plastic bullets and photos of their victims, and talked to Catholics in Andersonstown. Two men and a woman have detached themselves from the delegation and crossed the short distance from the Catholic Falls Road through part of the city centre to where the Shankhill begins. Nervously, they make their way up the Protestant Shankhill Road, which...