Three events that made the IRA: part 2
Click here for part 1 The Border had become the focus of nationalist feeling and anger. The North was now “Ireland unfree”. For the post “Fifth World Congress” Irish communists, the task was first to “complete the bourgeois revolution” before then proceeding to socialist concerns, and for the Communists as for the least enlightened Catholic nationalists that came to be identified with unifying the island. On that basis the Communists, manipulatively, merged themselves politically with republicans moving left. Abstract Republicanism, with its fetish of physical-force methods which to others...