IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Red Weekly No. 169, 7 October 1976 · p. 11 of the scan · 162 words

The scan: rw-no169-oct-7-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 11 of the scan

Similarly, Ciaran McKeown, described by the Financial Times as 'the man behind the peace people, has said that his aim is to work out 'how a stable democracy can develop in Northern Ireland'. But the whole history of the Six Counties has shown ine impossi bility of developing it into a democratic state. And this is because the nature of the state itself is undemocratic, in that it was articially created by brutam te appease a privileged minority in the north-east of Ireland.

In saving that the state can be reformed, McKeown is putting over the Lovalist view that the state is a natural one; and although Britain itself hasn't a clue how to enact this wonderful 'reDivided Where the Loyalists and Republicans also dilter is in what they are lighting for:

the Loyalst cause seeks to maltam Protestant privileges, and maintain a divito demoralise tants in the Catholic ghettoes.

4. Where Will It End? raids, beaten up more people.

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