This series: The Northern Ireland crisis of 1968-9 and the left (Part 5, section 2) Next article in this series: Part 6: SWP (IS) and Northern Ireland in 1968-9: Advocating civil war until it starts! McCann: We have failed to get our position across. We keep saying parrot-like that we are fighting on working-class issues for working-class unity, that our objective is a workers’ and farmers’ socialist republic.