The Irish Left Archive: Militant Irish Monthly, Issue No.3, June 1972 April 13, 2009
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Under the heading “Introducing the Irish Monthly” this four page broadsheet is confusingly numbered as No. 3 and introduced as ‘the first issue of the MILITANT Irish Monthly”. It continues:
The great success of the MILITANT Irish Editions made it absolutely clear that there was a real demand for a paper which put forward a clear and consistent Marxist view of the bloody events in Ireland.
This speaks of a concentration on the events in the North which is exemplified by the photograph of the Vanguard March at Craigavon Bridge, an inside photograph of Craig and Enoch Powell in full Orange regalia and accompanying articles on the situation including an highly critical overview of the Northern Ireland Labour Party. Note the main headline: North and South: Fight Orange and Green Tories with: Class Action.
An article calls for the ‘creation of an armed TU defence force to fight sectarianism coupled to a socialist programme for the nationalisation of the banks, insurance companies and major monopolies’ in order to ‘side-step’ the ‘possibility of a protracted civil war’.
As ever with Militant it is a clear and well produced document.
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The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
Here’s a question for any Irish Millies out there. About a decade ago I was doing some work on the Shankill, and noticed Socialist Party posters put up for the local elections. What struck me as interesting about them was that they were all done in a certain colour – the colour orange.
I hasten to add that I am not making this up, and I’m not trying to be snide or a stirrer. And I’m not saying that this is when the mask slipped and the Millies revealed their true. . . colour. I don’t think any reasonable person could disagree with the Militant contention that workers’ unity was a more attractive proposition than sectarian division. But why put up orange SP posters on the Shankill? Were there similar posters in green on the Falls?
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at least, I can remember, that some stuff of the SAV, the German CWI section, was also in orange around 10 ago …
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I like the sub heading – For a Socialist United Ireland-
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Hmmm… entdinglichung, and what of the Dutch socialists – eh? 😉
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