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Vol. 71/No. 13      April 2, 2007

 
Letters
 
On Sinn Fein and police
In a letter in the February 26 Militant, Natan Mosquera raised a series of questions on Sinn Fein's new stance on policing. The Republican leadership team won their role as revolutionaries by leading a decades-long struggle and they have stood up to everything that British imperialism threw at them. On the other hand, a wrong political position taken by the Republican leadership could lead to needless defeats and the postponement of Ireland's reunification for another generation.

Make no mistake about it: the Police Service of Northern Ireland, no matter how reformed, will remain a BRITISH state agency policing part of Ireland, and also, a capitalist force of repression against the working class. In the 26-county state, the Garda remain a capitalist force of repression against the workers and small farmers and there too, Sinn Fein is endorsing the police.

In State and Revolution Lenin, drawing on the experience of the Paris Commune and the Russian revolutionary process unfolding before his eyes, taught the Marxist lesson that the workers cannot simply take hold of state power, that they must dissolve the capitalist state and build a new state to defend their rights.

Roy Inglee
Elsmere, Delaware  
 
 
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