YOUR editorial about Ireland titled 'The legacy of partition' (SA 1 April) deserves comment.
You state that a nationalist victory in Ireland would 'remove the Loyalist reactionary bloc and open up the way for a socialist Ireland on. Britain's doorstep' Surely, socialists, our first duty is to unite the To label a workine Cass. large section of the Irish "reac tionary Loyalists' can do no good to the cause of a united and even less to the cause of socialism.
Socialists should seek to unite the Irish working class, Catholic and ProtesLaTE As long as there is sectana votence une and the working class will remain divided and as long as the Irish working class divided united socialst ireland Is a utopian dream.
TIM PORTEUS, Edinburgh. The Loyalist general strike in 1974. Working class unity has to confront problem of Loyalist ascendency balale trom those of the working class, actending Its ln terests it only incidentally The possession of nuclear weapons should be the light LU. which they contribute to Soviet Union can only be guaranteed by the overthrow of both imperialism the aster es bureaucracy. The latter not subordinate to the former but part of the same process.
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