"broad" nationalist front including the SDLP and Fianna Fail has been established, and for these and demographic reasons Irish unity is inevitable.
In other words, the Brits want out and, with a Catholic majority in the Six Counties in sight within a couple of decades, the forces of Irish nationalism are irreversibly stronger than a declining Loyalism - which is a spent historical force.
There is much in this analysis which is questionable. First, Britain may have POLITICS for socialism. This was made explicit by Gerry Adams when he declared that when the national question had been solved, Sinn Fein members would dissolve into other political parties, depending on their overall political viewpoint.
The fight for a 32-county workers republic is not just a matter of addressing the Protestant workers. It is also a question for the vanguard of the national struggle in the Six Counties itself.
From the civil rights struggle of the 1960s onwards, the politically
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