lies reverted to their old conditioned response, and voted for the Catholic politicians of the SDLP. This political schizophrenia, which has survived mainly because of the political inadequacy of the forces leading the anti-imperialist struggle in the North, contains immense dangers, but it does not imply the collapse of the extraparliamentary struggle, as the period since the election has shown.
One event, more than any other, illustrates the reasons for the turn in the tide during August -the Farrell/Canavan case. The legislative lumber left over from the Unionists made it possible to jail Farrell and Canavan for a minor offence. A sectarian judge ensured that their sentences were suitably vindictive. The situation inside Crumlin Red Weekly 14 September Tor the struggle by the workers themselves; the refusal to bow down before the requirements of capitalist legality; these are their concrete replies to the question: how to struggle? Before the attentive gaze of millions, the Lip workers have publicly demonstrated what the revolutionaries have been patiently explaining to a limited audience for years: yes, the workers can run the factories without the bosses, yes, they can refuse to be victims of the capitalist law of profit; yes, a different way of organising work and different relationships between people are possible The theoretical debates formerly confined to small groups of militants are now suddenly being taken up all over the country through the mass media: is self-management possible under the capitalist system? What is workers