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International Viewpoint is a biweekly magazine published under the auspices of the Fourth International. A one-year subscription costs only $47. Write to: International Viewpoint, 2 rue Richard Lenoir, 93108 Montreuil, France S.A.: Was the hunger strike of Bobbie Sands and others a defeat?
J.M.: No. It developed a mass movement that gave the British all kinds of trouble. They had to admit the hunger strikers were not criminals but political prisoners.
S.A.: Since the decline of the civil rights movement and the hunger strikes, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) seems to take center stage in the struggle.
What is the place for a military campaign?
J.M.: The IRA say to themselves that they are an army fighting the British. But it has become clear that the war is not successful. Some say the IRA must be more determined, and extend the range of its targets. But if they do that too much, they get into situations their supporters say are not justified-bombings where people get killed.
Other IRA leaders realize that military action alone is not enough. There must be a political component as well—a mass movement that involves workers in the Twenty Six Counties and their demands. But the IRA leadership does not know how to build a mass SOCIALIST ACTION