Irish Republican Army Part 01 · p.174
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Both religious olements in Ulster wore for the firut time gaining rapport
with one another and realizing that their needs wero. onc and the Bame.
In
addition, Protestant civil rights activiatg vere beginning to'educato Protost.
pawns. It would be an oxageration to say that Protcstant and Catholic work-
ors were murching arm-invarm by l969, 'but Btrides wore being made under the
socialist IRA.
Umpatience and political blindncss, however+
rlodooo uotra4oeg youa 4o9 Ataanx? pun *696r u7 ustodueo 3urquog mou p 04 pot-
αtion.
The Provieional IRA, iabued with military elitiam, and unablo to viow
the Protestant workero a8 natural. friends, renewed the sectarian strife.
The
Provisionals, with their political blindness, Btill rcfuso to uao reform 8b
a vehiclo for rovolution. They refuse to campaign. for offi.ce or to work with
other organizations whio hold their same authoritarian outlook. They omulato .
-oons 0y gumou Kruo aua gy youio4 youa Sutaortoq fq gunaxay out pue panoduon
088.
Wuccess, howover, i8 not on the Irish horizo
on.
Ireland, contrary to what some radicals and'others may 'think, is not now
in a revolutionary Bituation.
Thia ls unfortunate and regrcttable; but truo;
and it' is 'from the accoptance of thle truth 'that the revolutionaries muat pro-
cood in the development afthoix strategy and tactics.
Athe other hand,it ie true to Bay that
thero ie,considerabie gocial
frustration, alionation, and the Btart
of sizoable radicalization amop
peQple.
Thio moans thatthere ba
favorable. bituation developing Hor oonnoioqa and dedicate
that thera io a growing body of paop
who can be won to the caube of the
rovolution oven bofore a revolutionar
situation arisos. By fighting for
roforms, revolutionaries can reach the
vast majority of peoplo who have not
yot roachod rovo]utionary congciousneso.:
with one another and realizing that their needs wero. onc and the Bame.
In
addition, Protestant civil rights activiatg vere beginning to'educato Protost.
pawns. It would be an oxageration to say that Protcstant and Catholic work-
ors were murching arm-invarm by l969, 'but Btrides wore being made under the
socialist IRA.
Umpatience and political blindncss, however+
rlodooo uotra4oeg youa 4o9 Ataanx? pun *696r u7 ustodueo 3urquog mou p 04 pot-
αtion.
The Provieional IRA, iabued with military elitiam, and unablo to viow
the Protestant workero a8 natural. friends, renewed the sectarian strife.
The
Provisionals, with their political blindness, Btill rcfuso to uao reform 8b
a vehiclo for rovolution. They refuse to campaign. for offi.ce or to work with
other organizations whio hold their same authoritarian outlook. They omulato .
-oons 0y gumou Kruo aua gy youio4 youa Sutaortoq fq gunaxay out pue panoduon
088.
Wuccess, howover, i8 not on the Irish horizo
on.
Ireland, contrary to what some radicals and'others may 'think, is not now
in a revolutionary Bituation.
Thia ls unfortunate and regrcttable; but truo;
and it' is 'from the accoptance of thle truth 'that the revolutionaries muat pro-
cood in the development afthoix strategy and tactics.
Athe other hand,it ie true to Bay that
thero ie,considerabie gocial
frustration, alionation, and the Btart
of sizoable radicalization amop
peQple.
Thio moans thatthere ba
favorable. bituation developing Hor oonnoioqa and dedicate
that thera io a growing body of paop
who can be won to the caube of the
rovolution oven bofore a revolutionar
situation arisos. By fighting for
roforms, revolutionaries can reach the
vast majority of peoplo who have not
yot roachod rovo]utionary congciousneso.: