War and an Irish Town

Author: Eamonn McCann

Pluto, London, 1980, pp. 176

Originally published: 1974

Describes the genesis of the civil rights and housing action campaign in Derry in which he played a leading role, and the civil rights march through the city in October 1968, which was attacked by the RUC and is now widely regarded as marking the start of the Troubles. Analyzes subsequent political developments from a radical socialist perspective and argues that the solution to the conflict lies in the creation of an all-Ireland workers’ republic. Critical of what he regards as the apolitical stance of NICRA , and of the later Women Together and Peace People campaigns. McCann took part in the Battle of the Bogside in 1969 and the civil rights march in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Argues that there is war in Ireland ‘ because capitalism, to establish and preserve itself, created conditions which made war inevitable.’

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Volume Two -> I. Regional Campaigns for Civic, Cultural or National Rights -> I.2. Northern Ireland -> I.2.c. Action at the Grassroots -> I.2.c.i. Civil Rights Movement 1967-73

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