A very insightful and correct analysis of the history of the Republican Movement James but you forgot to mention the role of the southern establishment in the creation of the provos. As you correctly point out the Republican Movement in the late sixties concentrated on building social agitation movements north and south. Interestingly the members who eventually became provos did not agree with this strategy and a significant number of them did not engage in the various campaigns. The southern establishment exploited this friction and met with the senior members their military intelligence had targeted as anti-socialist and open to starting a new military campaign in the North and abandoning social agitation in the south. I also believe that in your article you could have dealt in more detail with the primary role of the provos in promoting sectarian warfare and further dividing the working class.