Irish Republican Army Part 01 · p.173

AYBE IT WOULD TAKE TEN YEARS,
WORKING LIKE TMIS, OEPORE WE COULD EVEN
SAY INE HAVE TME BASIS
OF A REVOLUTONARY MOVEMENT.99
CATHAL GOULDING C/S IRA
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marked the beginning of a ncw era
for tho IRA with the cnorganco of Cathal
Goulding, a socialist, aα ita leader.
lo
had fought in the abortivo 1956 bombing
campaign and Buffered internmont for fivo
ycarB. During imprisonment Goulding and the
majorlty of those remaining in the IRA rcal-
izod the mistakes of rcvolutionary elitiame
and docided to take a differont road to
rovolution.once releused. Previoug IRA adventureb, like the bombing campagns,
had led to only pormanent isolation and futility. The esoance of Marxist
gtrategy, of.revolutionary gtrategy of our time, la to combine tho atrugglo
for reforma with thc strufrlo for rovolution. This ia the only way in which
to build.a revolutlonary party capable of providing leadership to the massc6,
and of enabling thom, in revolutionary situationo, to muke the transltion'in
consciouaneas and in action from the struggle for reforms to the struggle fgr
power and revolutiona
Uromotion of roform through the exiating
syatem was what the IRA waa tryinr to do with the Iriah Civil Righta Movemont
In the late sixties. At that time both Cathollcs and Protestanta were workin?
mog - A1zueaxodug yoou " pun 'uo7aoonpa '9uganoy tosaea *uroyau Teo7arrod 1og
REVOLUION