Partial: lan Paisley be for some kind of devolved govemment with minimal Dublin involvement, are designed 1o break the logjam.
His optimism is possibly based on an assessment by the IRA is being contained militarily and that the Republicans are The message is unlikely to be very different from the one which Mayhew has been playing publicly for the last few He has been declaring that or economic interest in Northcally cleansing non-Serbs along a military corridor between Serbia and whatever Serbs live in Bosnia.
In Bosnia the issue is not one of self-determination either. It is the right of multi-ethnic, religiously pluralist communities to continue to exist free from the predations of nationalist warlords from whatever part of ex-Yugoslavia they Arms for Bosnia sounds good, but basically it accepts that the different nationalist leaders have priority over the basic right of people to live in peace in there own diverse Ultimately, when the bloodbath stops people will have to em Ireland", and praising the Republican tradition, as well as asscrung the exitimacy of nationalist demands, namely a Alostop the armed struggle British hopes for success revolve round isolating the Reamong the Nationalists. The latBut the Hyde Park rally alabout 10,000, its propaganda use was ruined among the target relatives of victims of British Dungannon priest to say Likewis, Brush nopcs that Irish Labour leader and new 400 words in length will be cut. carry on their own lives together whatever their nationality or religion - unless you are advocating ethnically pure and religiously separated statelets. as the Vance-Owen plan does.
Arms for Bosnia seems to amount to your whole strategy.
You run a whole page arguing against humanitarian intervention but say precious little about how the conflict might be resolved. For socialists the basic starting point must be the right of people to life and London THE debate on black nationalism raises a series of more general quesuors, but BE is 101 ply to Zbigniew Kowalewski, (SO 42) Phil Hearse tackles two principal isues.
Is nationalism compatible
repeal the Constitution, but resell it to the cloctorate. series of corruption scandals and in no position to take such own. Many Nationalists believe ists of the Labour Party, would But the Tories are now weak with its downward coonomic him to cut the Unionists adrift.
John Hume's publicly stated British is undermined by apparent unease among the SDIP that knows that any British attempt at a 1974-type settlement would Socialist Outlook welcomes readers' letters on any topic. Letters over with marxism? And does the petty-bourgeois nationalism of an oppressed nation always play a progressive role? Phil is correct to answer both of these questions in the negative.
In the struggle for national liberation it is of course possi. ble for petty-bourgeois nationalism to piay a progressive revolutionary democratic role by championing a natonal allimiddle peasantry with the proletariat against imperialism and its national bourgeois stooges.
But the black petty-bourgeoisie in the USA is not pre-capitalist and is so tied to capitalism that it is not possible for black nationalism to play a progressive role in the American revolution.
The essence of Malcolm X's break with the Nation of Islam was precisely that he began to realise this and to break with black nationalism, turning instead towards proletarian interThe 1985 Anglo-Irish Agrochalt just such a loss of support to Sinn Fein following the Hunbe happy to be part of what lan not extend quite as far as Rome, gun to target SDLP members. regions' solution, which he has date, given Tory divisions over SDLP from the likely failure of ionists, or the Nationalists, iscaApart from demonstrating heavily promoted in Britain that 46 per cent who opted for it afler Kowalewski's attempts to reconcile Marxism with nationalism and his suggestion that there is something intrinsically progressive in black nationalism are hallmarks of a petty. bourgeois nationalism cloaked in Marxist phraseology.
Petty bourgeois nationalist masqueraders give a separatist interpretation to the bourgeois democratic demand of the right of nations to self-determination. Instead of being understood as a democratic safeguard for all nations within a multi-national state, this demand is interpreted as the necessity of separation.
This appears to be premised on an abstrac principle of one nation, one state - which nas notine widisoever io ou with Marxism.
Phil's critical remarks are a welcome contribution.
Roy Rudditt NW London
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