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February 17.. 197
(paraphrase):workers b6
screaaing male coapr
yon of the Wonan that the
b7c
--swould deal. with you the saae 'way they will deal with the fascists, tney-
..
replied that thcir seemes to be a disagreeaent
for
and the Worker's League menbers sat down and smirked at
fook nearly twcnty qucstions making the
wseveral .alnutes.
following points.
:3she :wanted a,"united Irish soclalist republic" included both Northern
and'Soutnern''ireland. 2.the Irish Protestants had 1o0,0oo registered
guns and '2oo,ooo unregistered guns in their possession. 3. If the
British nithdreu, the Protestants couldn't handle the IRA forces. 4:
Ireland to climinate IRA training camps in the South. He conpared these
xwralas.to-Ysiaeli rais on Arab geurilla camps 5. He feared a sedlout" of
'the cause by a three nay deal including "Dublin ,Westminster and Storaont"
. 6. When'asked about fascists, he said that although one IRA leader,
"worshipped 'the ground
Walked on.!! the nembers
of the IRA, maiy
of nhoa he saia he had met, were not fascists and that
polotics nere a bit out of line the meubership of the IRA.
U.S. not compare the situation in Noethern Ireland to Voet Nan and
avoid comparing the situation. there to that of American blacks in the
South? Later on, he stated that there were two IRA positions on the'
issiue of working with such people in the U.s. The irregulars, he said
would acept such conditions, while the regualr Marxists" woyld not.
said he took "the position of theorthodox Marxists" on that is-
sue. 8. Hc s
"gany wives coula"not recognize thier husbands after they had been through
t
'α fen:days of:ihterrogation, and that in the case of ne IRA leader, the
prisoner had notrcven been able to recognize his wife. He occused the
. British of

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