Around this time Matgamna, who believed that effective working class rule then existed in some Catholic-majority areas of Northern Ireland, proposed that in the probable event of attacks on this control, that those areas should secede to the Irish Republic as a way of making Northern Ireland ungovernable and forcing open the national question in Ireland.

Martin Thomas soon joined, working with Matgamna to take prominent roles in the group.

The group has a complex history but has always been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna.

Similarly, when the I-CL fused with the Workers ' Socialist League, Matgamna was strongly identified as the central leader of one side in the factional fight that later erupted within, and then split, the fused group.

In 1989, Matgamna, along with many other members of the group's national committee, by then known as the Socialist Organiser Alliance, came to reconsider some of its views on the Eastern Bloc.

Matgamna has also, since 1986, argued strongly for a two state solution-that is states for both the Palestinians and Israelis-in the Middle East-even prior to the overthrow of capitalism in the region.

Some commentators have argued that both of these positions are in fact calls for repartition although Matgamna and his supporters have always denied this.

The WSL was a little smaller after the expulsion of the IF and still split between the supporters of Sean Matgamna and Alan Thornett.

Matgamna remains a prominent member of the Trotskyist group he founded, now called the Alliance for Workers ' Liberty.

By 1967 the IWG, then based in London among exiled political activists, was failing and handed over their journal to Sean Matgamna and Rachel Lever who were about to launch Workers Fight.

Matgamna became a full-time theorist within the group, moving to London.

One group was the former I-CL around Sean Matgamna, a second around Alan Clinton and a smaller third group was composed of part of the old WSL.

The AWL traces its origins to the document What we are and what we must become, written by the tendency's founder Sean Matgamna in 1966 in which he argued that the Revolutionary Socialist League, by then effectively the Militant tendency, was too inward looking and needed to become more activist in its orientation.

One key area of disagreement in 1983 was that the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands were considered by Matgamna to have the right to autonomy, a position he worked through during the Falklands War.

Sean Matgamna, also known as John O ' Mahony ( born 1941, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland ) is a Trotskyist theorist, poet and activist.

* Sean Matgamna, Trotskyist theorist.

* Sean Matgamna ( born 1941 ), also known as John O ' Mahony, Trotskyist theorist

* The Fate of the Russian Revolution-Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Sean Matgamna ( editor ) Phoenix Press 1998.

This approach to the national question has since been extended, in large part by Matgamna, to other communities.

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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

Speaking of his work with Johnny Mercer, Arlen says, `` Our working habits were strange.

Reading, writing and simple arithmetic are taught along with such crafts as working in brass.

A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

Mr. Devey will be responsible for the commercial expansion of VecTrol's line of electronic and electrical power control components as furnished to end equipment manufacturers, working closely with Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently acquired Sprague subsidiary.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

They must learn to wear several hats, so to speak, working with management, sales and engineering problems related to the product.

The SCR process, with its precision corner-posts, its precision guide lines, its working level scaffold, and its hand-level brick supply takes eight manhours to get set, but once ready it makes it easy for bricklayers to lay a thousand bricks a day.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

You are conscientious, hard working, honest, accurate, a good penman, and a stickler for a job well done, with no loose ends.

The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

If they'd been working on a bottle or a jug he'd have taken it with him ''.

End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.