Socialist Outlook

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Ireland: the killings continue No internment! No British -solution!

Socialist Outlook no. 16, February 15 1992 · 210 words

Ireland

AS THE CATALOGUE of assassinations from the hysterical media coverage is any real analysis of what is happening, and dom.

Both the press and TV portray the killngs as 'tit for tat' reprisal killings, inexplicable but for the 'mad' and 'tribal' passions of the Irish. in Northern Ireland mounts, the knee-jerk primitive caricature. Random sectarian ascries for the introduction of internment sassination is a weapon of the loyalist terand further repression intensify. Absent ror brigades, venting their hatred of the IRA on the nationalist population at ranRepublican attacks have been overto be said the Treebane bombing, which killed seven Protestant workers working freedom one bit nearer. on a military base, was tactically disasPrinted by Tridant Press, Edenbridge, Kent. Published by idolare Ltd, 377 City Road, London EC IV People in the Six Counties know this is a trous. It played into the hands of the loyalist assassins and the British state. It is 23 years since the present round of the 'troubles' began. Thousands of deaths later the war goes on, for the simple reason that its basic cause, the national demands of the Irish people, remain unresolved. Irewhelmingly on military targets. But it has land unfree will never be at peace; and internment will bring neither peace nor

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