Talk:British and Irish Communist Organisation

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[edit] Errors

As someone who was a British member of B&ICO, I felt the need to correct the more obvious errors in the piece. I've a feeling there was a Jim Lane who was an ICO member, though it may not be the same fellow. He is definitely not the same person as Jack Lane, any more than Colin Powell is Enoch Powell.

Some of the other comments are no better informed, though I accept them as honest errors from someone who was trying to fill in the gaps.

What I've left unchanges isn't necessarily accurate, just I'm not going to undertake to write the definitive history. More important is the massive neglect of Workers' Control, the big missed opportunity of the 1970s.

I have however added and linked to the Dublin Housing Action Committee, which every Irish leftists alive at the time likes to have on their CV. As is documented in the links for that page, the Secretary and leading spirit was Dennis Dennehy, a founder-member who later left. His own history is very interesting, but I am not qualified to write it.

--GwydionM 17:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

Given their rather abrupt changes of view, I think a criticism section would be appropriate - where would be the best source to start with for this? Autarch 19:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You might consider the possibility that abrupt changes of view are related to abrupt changes in the world. Notably the Soviet collapse of 1989-91. Also the collapse of the first power-sharing in 1974 and the apparent success of the latest round. --GwydionM 17:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

What I've seen of their writings about that period claims that their change of view was due to a collapse of the nationalist position in the Republic, rather than the collapse of the Soviet Union. (In fact, there's at least one webpage - a reprint of a 1975 publication that denies that they are a Marxist organisation.here) Some of the changes are across the Nationalist/Unionist divide, suggesting a local reason. Autarch 19:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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