Poll proves massive support for IRA
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PRESS An indication of the problems faced by Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch in fully assisting the Tory government's planned crackdown on the republican movement has emerged from a survey published by the Irish Economic and Social Research Institute.
A massive 72% support a unilateral withdrawal of British troops from the occupied six counties.
68% look to a united Ireland as the solution to the continuing war of liberation in the North.
Supporting motives 20% openly admitted supporting the motives : of the IRA in the war against British imperialism, and nearly 10% even admitted support for its methodsunder conditions where the IRA is an illegal, witch-hunted organisation hounded on both sides of the imperialist-drawn "border' Lynch It is necessary, of course, to warn of the inadequate and partial nature of such polls and surveys. But at the nationalist ghetto areas of the six counties.
At the same time the failure of the republican. movement to direct into the organised Irish workers' movement as the vital leading force in the anti-imperialist struggle means that this support remains more potential than actual.
A Trotskyist party, capable of mobilising the Irish masses on a programme of demands which connect with their existing consciousness and lead on to the struggle for national liberation and socialist revolution, must be built.