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Fourthwrite .............................Issue No. 2
Dear sir,
Your website is very interesting, although I don't share the politics of anyone I've read there.
I'd be interested to read a response by your collective to the piece by Stephen King who argues that the campaign was 'undoubtedly sectarian' all along. Your man Liam O'Ruairc seems to believe that the IRA planting bombs for 30 years and cleaving the working class had some connection with the 'tradition of the oppressed'. Perhaps he can show how the campaign wasn't sectarian, divisive and ultimately a terrible waste of life and talent.
Was it all worth it? In my view it was not. And this is not the time for resurrecting the whole thing again. Your correspondents seem to fear a sellout on the issue of class. But the sellout is a chimera since the 'socialist' in the 'socialist republic' that the Provies sought was always a pious nothing-word with as much substance as the Holy Ghost. The time now is for uniting people in opposition to global capital as it confronts us in this wee place.
Yours sincerely,
J. O'Hagan
FOURTHWRITE, PO BOX 31, Belfast BT127EE

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