Tries of public conventions at which they said that they wanted to hear the views of the people of ireland on the peace process.
In practice these were only opportunities for anti-republican and pro-imperialist groups to condemn the IRA and support partition and the Downing Street declaration.
Given the demands for 'unity', republican supporters had no chance to intervene for fear of allowing their enemies to point to divisions in their ranks.
We have made a number of written submissions to commissions set up by the republicans and we have distributed thousands of leaflets at republican demonstrations. We call for publication of the Hume/Adams document, we denounce the Downing Street declaration arguing that it needs to be condemned rather than clarified.
We call for organised resistance to what it really represents which is an attack on the last 25 years of the democratic struggle. The peace process is a sham. We oppose the idea that there is such a thing as the 'nationalist family' and the republican strategy of seeking allances with Ireland's capitalist class.
The only alternative is an alliance with Ireland's workers in all 32 counties. They are the only real friends that the northern democratic struggle has. • Why has there been an increase in loyalist violence? • IT IS NOT simply because aft BM T.O.M.
London WCIN 3XX the loyalist terrorists have reorganised themselves under a new leadership.
Although loyalist violence is a constant reality, it does increase when it is perceived that nationalists are making political advances.
The collapse of round table talks involving loyalist politicians and the fact that negotiations have only progressed with the Dublin government and the possibility that this government will have some sort of unity with the SDLP an the republicans worries the loyalists. They see the political agenda being set by their ene• mies.
They also feel that Britain should be able to defeat the IRA purely by repression and without Dublin's assistance.
The secretive nature of the process has heightened loyalist fears of the ever present sell-out which has been promoted by Paisley amongst oth ers.
The loyalist terrorists see their campaign as one which will strengthen the hand of their politicians and warn the British not to concede too much to Sinn Fein. AUGUST 13
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