The Labour movement must denounce Jeremy Corbyn for his IRA lies

The ongoing argument about Jeremy Corbyn’s support for the ‘armed struggle’ of the Provisional IRA is vacuous and circular. Very few people endorse every single action of any group they support, but Corbyn and his circle were always there to lend their support, particularly when the Provisionals were in difficulty. There are thousands of Labour supporters, in both islands, who were involved in this area over many years, and who know that Corbyn and a small group of extreme leftists in Britain made common cause with the most extreme violent nationalists in Ireland, in order to advance what they saw as revolutionary struggle.

From the Socialist Workers Party to the two foot soldiers of Red Action who were convicted of the 1993 Harrods bomb, a bewildering array of fanatics found common cause in the cause of Ireland. They largely took their inspiration from James Connolly, the Edinburgh-born Marxist of Irish parentage, who was executed in Dublin after the 1916 Easter Rising.