Originally posted by
[email protected] 29 2005, 01:24 AM
IRA says armed campaign is over
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4720863.stm
What is your opinion on the matter?
I'm glad the PIRA grasped that there's no chance of armed struggle being a successful tactic right now.
However it's sad that the only conclusion they could draw was to drift into the ranks of the ruling class.
We need an anti-imperialist movement that's organised and led by the working class, the only class now capable of finishing what was started in 1916. That's what the IRSP are attempting to work towards now.
I also think it's obvious that the occupied six counties of 'norn iron' are a failed state. The Brits have had to revert to direct rule since their 'moderates' that they need for power-sharing between protestants and catholics includes fascists like Trimble. That moderate middle is long gone anyway, replaced by Paisley.
And even if the six county state is revived, it will have the power to do nothing. It won't even be able to set its own budget! The revival of the Orange state with some extremely limited catholic participation (read: grovelling) is nothing for socialists to cheer. Our job is not to prop up any crumbling colonial state, but to give guidance and unity to our fellow workers.
And right now those workers are more divided by sectarian lines then they've ever been before.