Éire Nua -- A new Ireland

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I dont think what they are advocating could be called in the least a watered down version of the Orange state because they also advocate giving a large degree of independence to Connaught, Leinster and Munster aswell. What they are advocating is greater regional autonomny which would give people more control over their own lives though in the context of industrial capitalism at this stage it seems a bit utopian.

The problem is what you just said- being utopian. it would likely empower the petit bourgeoisie. it doesn't really offer much to anyone else, and I don't think RSF would deny that. They idolise Ireland when it was dominated by family owned farms and had more small locally owned firms.

What does the IRSP advocate instead....a centralized exceutive along the lines of Belarussia or Cuba? Where the various business interests and bourgious liberbal social planners are replaced with bureaucrats and "Marxist" social planners who may or may not be more beign than our current masters?

The IRSP advocates a typically Marxist programme. Democartic control and planning. Workers councils as well as whatever state structure is required to defend the revolution.

Someone in Provisional Sinn Fein told me that we were going to have a united Ireland in 9 years very recently...Which I doubt but even if its true I doubt that the vast majiority of people on this Island will not have that much control over their own lives in Gerry Adam's "united Ireland" than they do now. Though it would probably be a safer place to live with loyalism gone.

of course even in a united capitalist Ireland, the working class would not be divided by the border and this could do some good.