A column from Socialist dered they would accept the word of the leadership. Democracy, Irish section of the Fourth international goes deeper than this. In the week following the suspension of Stormont British army lost weapons involved in the Bloody sunday massacre New calls were issued by international Human Rights bodies for an investigation of British and Kut involvemicat t tae tarace of a solicitor, Pat Finucane, and a bloody feud broke out between loyalist paramilitaries. Militants note wryly that even a series of killings by loyalists provokes no crisis in the peace process. used to launch the pogrom that began the present troubles, and to run the death squads in collusion with the state ever since. So the question becomes: do we accept the assertion that the peace process means an end to these threats and that republicans should erstwhile friends in the "nationalist family": who are now calling for their immediate surThey are still a long way from doing this. A mass protest strategy would need to convince supporters that tacy were dot sillyty cann fodder in a game of secret diplomacy, and in practice would find itself in conflict with the "nationalist family", who will demand imme diate demobilisation. The maiority of working neople in Irelane will continue to support the peace process, endorsement by the Irish State, mass media and capital and toe absence on any sizeable left opposition, particularly as - presented so starkly by the republican militarist opposition in recent bombings - - is another violent campaign with The present instability and the present confusion of the republican Icadership does offer at least the prospect of a decline in the use of secret diplomacy, the regroupment of militants sceptical of the nationalist family and the rebirth of opposition based on a princi pled democratic and socialist viewpoint, one democracy Ireland depends not on British good inten. tions but on British withdrawal.
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