IN THE LETTER published in SO no.17, your unnamed correspondent criticises me for not putting forward the marxist position of unconditional but critical support for Irish revolutionaries fighting for national liberation.
am also accused of being blind to the class criteria that one snoutd apply in dealing with capitalist collaborators.
veil i suppose it Fa Dee writing for, et's say Socialis Worker, I'd have made sure to put in every relevant slogan rom my Ladybird Book of MarI took it for granted that readers of SO would be sufficiently familiar with both our history of involvement in virtually every serious anti-imper ialist initiativeof recent years as well as our theoretical positions to make it unnecessary for me to go over the basics. Mea maxima culpa.
My intention in the offending article was to draw attention to the high level of loyalist terrorist activity, the lack of Ireland and how this absence was isolating the main revolunionary orxanisanon, so caus ing its military component to separate political and military considerations. This is the crits. cal hall of the 'unconditional but critical' formula.
My only Texter is that the analysis in the article continued to be borne out by subsequent The IRA would have killed the Protestant building workers at Teebane if they had been Catholic.
Ina revolutionary situation it may be nec ly with collaborators, but politi cal considerations come before moral or military ones.
Peter Brooke does not give a damn about the dead men and