By M. Frampton
The lengthy March examines the hot historical past and evolving political technique of Sinn Fin, from the potent delivery of the occasion in 1981 all the way down to the hot Irish normal Election.
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24 The aim of the republican leadership was to initiate their own process of ‘fighting while negotiating’, by which they might subject the British to their own ‘Vietnam moment’ and force them to finally leave Northern Ireland, just as the Americans had been forced to abandon South-east Asia in the 1970s. On the basis of such logic, therefore, it would seem incontrovertible that the Adams–McGuinness leadership viewed the IRA’s violent campaign as an indispensable part of the wider republican ‘struggle’ in this period.
83 Under the control of Adams and his supporters, though, Sinn Féin’s commitment to the cause of ‘socialism’ was taken to a new level. On the domestic front, this shift was embodied by the new prominence placed on the language of ‘class’. 85 The clear message was that it was with the working class, and even with those below that in society, that 36 The Long March republicans stood. As Adams stated on a separate occasion, Sinn Féin believed its place was with, ‘the “have-nots” against the “haves” .
Ever since the days of Wolfe Tone in the eighteenth century and the first expositions of Irish republicanism, the movement had drawn both ideological inspiration and practical succour from beyond Ireland’s shores (first from France and later from the United States). This willingness to look abroad – what might be termed an ‘internationalist tendency’ – had survived the republican split of the late 1960s that saw the creation of the ‘Provisionals’. 79 Nevertheless, such connections were only taken so far.
