The IRA’s International

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has, still, many friends in the United States, but less is known about its friends and supporters in other countries. Together they constitute a kind of “International,” an apt Leninist term in that the IRA Provisionals, if ever they achieved power in Ireland, would rapidly turn the island (north and south) into Britain’s own offshore Cuba.

The phenomenon is of special interest to Americans, and not merely to those of Irish descent. The political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein, portrays its cause as a “national liberation movement” in line with the global campaign against “imperialism” (meaning principally the United States).

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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has, still, many friends in the United States, but less is known about its friends and supporters in other countries. Together they constitute a kind of “International,” an apt Leninist term in that the IRA Provisionals, if ever they achieved power in Ireland, would rapidly turn the island (north and south) into Britain’s own offshore Cuba.

The phenomenon is of special interest to Americans, and not merely to those of Irish descent. The political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein, portrays its cause as a “national liberation movement” in line with the global campaign against “imperialism” (meaning principally the United States).