Bloody Sunday Riot - RSYM statement

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Bloody Sunday Riot

Republican Socialist Youth Movement
29/1/07

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Following last night's riots in the Bogside area of Derry following
the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration there are facts we would like
to place on record.

The PSNI were already in position donning full riot gear with camera
surveillance in the area surrounding the Tower Hotel prior to the
commemorative proceedings being drawn to a close. This was a clear
attempt to provoke youths in the vicinity. There was one arrest that
we know of by the time the commemoration had ended, this only served
to further aggravate the youths who attacked the PSNI with anything
at their disposal.

Not once did we witness the destruction of property belonging to
ordinary working class people but a consistent and determined young
people who attacked their oppressor. As the riot reached it's
height, materials for petrol bombs were seized by local members of
the Provisional Movement and removed from the area. We view this as
an unrivalled act of collaboration with those who occupy our country
and an indication of their newly found positions within British rule
here which they are forced to defend. It is not the first time they
have actively assisted the PSNI and will not be the last by any
stretch of the emagination.

The PSNI were seen to load plastic bullet guns before swarming the
Bogside estate with the assistance of an already airborne helicopter
unit. They were attacked with fireworks at this point and found easy
scapegoats in people not involved in the riot.

www.rsym.org

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[Seven Stars]

The struggle might be over for the provisionals, but it is not for Republicans and Republican Socialists. We will fight on until we have a 32 county Workers' Republic.

This event in Derry proves that there can never be peace in Ireland while there is British troops in Ireland. British rule can not be normalized and we will fight in until we acheive the Republic.

Beir Bua!

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http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/article2193369.ece
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/northwes...icle2188135.ece (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/northwest-edition/daily/article2188135.ece)
Things are still up in the air. It is bad news that there is provocations, is a return to violence really the way forward. If things continue to escalate Adams job may become too difficult. Is it that really what you want?

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Originally posted by [email protected] 30, 2007 08:54 am
http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/article2193369.ece
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/northwes...icle2188135.ece (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/northwest-edition/daily/article2188135.ece)
Things are still up in the air. It is bad news that there is provocations, is a return to violence really the way forward. If things continue to escalate Adams job may become too difficult. Is it that really what you want?
Why the hell do we want to make the US-backed Adams mission easier???!!! :lol:

We're republican socialists, worker partisans. We're not nationalists like Sinn Féin, ok.

check this out for starters: http://www.irsm.org

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http://www.upmj.co.uk/Jun%207%202004.php4

US backed???????????? :o

[welshred]

I still cannot see why the government holds on to northern ireland. By sending troops it is just making the situation worse, take iraq for example.

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Originally posted by [email protected] 31, 2007 12:29 pm
http://www.upmj.co.uk/Jun%207%202004.php4

US backed???????????? :o
SF has a lot of other anti-colonial contacts aroudn the world so it often says things like that. Yet the leadership of SF also meet with Bush (when they're allowed into america) and praise Clinton for brokering the good friday agreement. It is indeed an american backed pacification process.

[gilhyle]

US backed he definitely is and relentlessly rightward moving. But I repeat what I have said beofr, watch this space...Northern Ireland may have become reformable, Ireland unfree may yet be at peace...I'm not sure.

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Originally posted by [email protected] 31, 2007 06:37 pm
US backed he definitely is and relentlessly rightward moving. But I repeat what I have said beofr, watch this space...Northern Ireland may have become reformable, Ireland unfree may yet be at peace...I'm not sure.
I recall that. your post on that topic was very well put. similar thoughts have occured to me, though I'd be inclined to disagree overall.

[farenheit 911]

i'm belgian, so i've got no idea how the situation is over there, but i know one thin: british will have to come between everything, i don't want to insult anyone, but that's just the way it is. they had colonies all over the world, and they always needed to invade everything.

[Hate Is Art]

I'm not sure what your post means F911. Anyway, are there any more details on this to have come out yet? The last we want is for Ulster to get back into the cycle of sectarian violence that has scared the past 30 years of it's history.

[gilhyle]

While noone can disagree with your sentiment wishing not to see sectarian violence, two things seem true:

1. the 'Troubles' should not be characterised as a period of a cycle of sectarian violence;

2. the Good Friday agreement has actually promoted an intensification of sectarian divisions at local levels - in the way the end of slavery and the union victory intensified petty racist violence in the confederate states.

Im not trying to say that there was not sectarian violence throughout those thirty years, but it is important to say that with some dishonourable exceptions in South Armagh and Tyrone, Republicans rarely fell into commiting acts of pure sectarian violence. Secondly, protestants proved incapable of sustaining a campaign of sectarian violence either. Certainly it burst out in fits and starts on their part, but it was only the intensive support and manipulation by British security forces that engendered the sustained sectarian campaign by loyalists in the late 1980s and early 1990s which forced the IRA to give up.

For the record - and in honour of the many who died - it was, almost to the end, on the Republican side an honourable anti-imperialist struggle.

When I speculate on a possible renewed potential for reform, I am speculating on the ability of the North of Ireland to repeat the pattern of Liverpool and Glasgow (and before them - long forgotten - Manchester and London) slowly to erode sectarian divides: just as so many sectarian divides have been eroded in many US cities (granted, to be replaced all too often by others). Eroded, though not eliminated.