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demonstration commemorating Bloody Sunday "The general national movement, however it was expressed in the heads of the nationalist dreamers, did not materialise at all. The Irish countryside did not rise up. The Irish bourgeoisie, as also the upper, more influential, layer of the Irish intelligentsia, remained on the sidelines. The urban workers fought and died, together with revolutionary enthusiasm from the petty bourgeois The historical basis for the national revolution had disappInasmuch as the Irish movements in the last century had assumed a popular character, they had invariably fed on the social hostility of the deprived and exhausted pauper-farmer towards ... the independent Irish commercial and industrial bourgeoisie, in so far as it has formed over the past decades, immediately adopted an antagonistic position towards the young Irish proletariat, giving up the national revolutionary struggle and The young Irish working class, taking shape in an atmosphere saturated with the heroic recollections of national rebellions, and clashing with the egotistic, narrow-minded imperial arrogance of British trade unionism, naturally swing between nationalism and syndicalism, ever ready to unite these two concepts in their revIt attracts the young intelligentsia and individual nationalist enthusiasts who, in their turn, supply the movement with a preponderance of the green flag over the red.

In this way, the 'national revolution', , even practice has become an uprising of the workers." KEMEMBER)

BLOODY SUNDAY DERRY intelligentsia. eared, even in backward treland.

the omnipotent English landlord.

entering the camp of imperialism. olutionary consciousness.

Britain Vol III, by foreign bankers and capitalists, and the links between these imperialist holdings and the 'Irish' capitalists.

To the Protestant workers' illuson that the link with Britain works in his favour, we must counterpose practical action to expose the exploitation inflicted on him by British and international capital, and show him this is directly linked to the involvement of the British army in Ireland In tackling the central question of jobs, we must emphasise also that the chronic depression in world trade, lurch### REMEME DER 1972 Ireland, in Leon Trotsky pp 168-9 (emphasis added).

must intensify the cutbacks in engineering and textile industries in the North.

The hunt for foreign investment under such conditions not only worsens working conditions but also intensifies the weakness of the Irish economy and its dependence on the international capitalists. The desire to offer these predators and parasites the lowest possible rates of taxation on their super-profits stands as a crucial barrier to the establishment of a programme of public works to end unemployment. Because of the way imperialist ilei granu us er =a on and to social revolution.

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ing now into open trade war, BLOODY SUNDAY

DERRY BLOC 1972 SUNC