Question for Irish comrades.

[UncleLenin]

Recently there was a Union Flag burnt in Armagh at a war memorial.

Is the flag burning justified?

[Red Banana]

Why should it matter to socialists if someone burns a Union flag or any other flag that represents a bourgeois state? Who cares?

[UncleLenin]

Why should it matter to socialists if someone burns a Union flag or any other flag that represents a bourgeois state? Who cares?

I made it clear that this was aimed at Irish comrades.

[Red Banana]

I was asking a question for Irish comrades as well, why should they care?

[Ace High]

Yeah I agree, why would an Irish leftist care about burning the flag of a synthetic nation state? Not saying the thread isn't justified, but I doubt anyone on this entire forum would be upset at the burning of a flag.

[Brutus]

Only red flags will survive the blaze.

[UncleLenin]

Only red flags will survive the blaze.

Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheEmancipator]

If its just for the kind of bullshit sectarianism we have grown accustomed to, then no.

[Anti-Traditional]

Recently there was a Union Flag burnt in Armagh at a war memorial.

Is the flag burning justified?

I'm of a family of Irish immigrants and used to consider myself an Irish Republican, I don't know if this qualifies my as Irish or not in your eyes. :lol:

Anyway, to be honest I don't care whether a flag gets burnt or not. It doesn't help us really but I don't believe flags are sacred or anything. I'd say the same thing if an Irish flag got burned or even a red flag.

[Dr Doom]

looking at it outside the context of the situation in northern ireland i wouldn't care whether the union flag or the irish tri-colour were on flames, but flag burning here is obviously a sectarian pastime which quite clearly has nothing to do with anti-nationalism but only serves to perpetuate sectarian violence.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

looking at it outside the context of the situation in northern ireland i wouldn't care whether the union flag or the irish tri-colour were on flames, but flag burning here is obviously a sectarian pastime which quite clearly has nothing to do with anti-nationalism but only serves to perpetuate sectarian violence.

Is it your feeling that the British sovereignty in Northern Ireland is acceptable, or, at least, doesn't have a particular colonial character makes it worse than, say, unity with the Republic?

Sincere question - I'm not trying to bait you.

[Dr Doom]

Is it your feeling that the British sovereignty in Northern Ireland is acceptable, or, at least, doesn't have a particular colonial character makes it worse than, say, unity with the Republic?

Sincere question - I'm not trying to bait you.

uh ultimately it comes down to the fact that the struggle for communism transgresses the national question. i am not interested in a free ireland anymore than i am with northern ireland staying within the uk. i dont defend one over the other because neither one is acceptable to me. not sure if that's what you were even asking lol.

but bottom line is protestant and catholic workers are gonna be exploited by the state and will continue to be no matter what set of parliamentary gangsters are in charge, whether it is stormont, westminster or dublin.