IMGpapers 1976–79

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

TOM MFEELY

Socialist Challenge No. 73, 23 November 1978 · p. 8 of the scan · 206 words

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remind anyone in any of these lectures or essays) that Northern Ireland was born against the will of an elected government as the direct result of a 'violent conspiracy' This one was led by the Tory "democrat' Carson, ineral covernments cedaranor to armee me roles ans. are cncourasce British army officers not to obey the instructions of their elected government.

Carson won. The British government was eventually persuaded to parcel off a section of North East Ulster, lumping in Fermanagh and Tyrone with the Protestant counties just to make it 'viable', and to hand it over to the Protestants as a Protestant state for a Protestant people' The whole squalid welcomed and subsidised by British businessmen whose wealth in Ireland at that time was mainly in the North.

James Connolly once warned that if partition was accepted there would be a carnival of reaction' in North and in South until Ireland was united again The prediction has come grimly true The single purpose of Northern Ireland was Protestant The raison d'être of the state was that Protestants were better treated than SEAN 1 AVIRT Catholics, Use dic who defied the Rule for all Ireland. Carson courts, state, doomed. -voence deal was Civil ascendancy. civilians.

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