Talk:British and Irish Communist Organisation
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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)
