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Canary Wharf bomb is a result of the British occupation of Ireland Britain to blame

Socialist Outlook no. 97, February 17 1996 · 303 words

Ireland

T the Canary What r HERE can be no doubt the Canary Wharf bomb lies-at 10 Downing Street. Every bomb and every bullet is a result of the occupation.

By calling for elections in a gerBlame for the Canary Whorf borb lies at 10 Downing Street rymandered state and thereby reInforcing the unionist veto, John Major carried out an outrageous provocation.

He must have known that a resumption of the military campaign-if that is what it Is—-was Inevitable.

There will be only one channel through which the course of Irish peace will flow. That is by the orcupying colonial power leaving and a process of irish re-unificaCot craine Nothing less will deliver peace to the Island of Ireland—on these questions there must be no equivocation.

The whole Sinn Fein strategy of engaging in a so-called peace process based on a framework document that did not question the Unionist veto, and thus the existence of the border, is flawed.

Diplomatic manoeuvres which have depoliticised the nationalist community are at a dead end. Sinn Fein has to draw a negative balance sheet of this approach.

Moves to a strategy based on mass mobilisation of the national. Ist community against the occupation are now essential. This is counterposed to the resumption of a campaign which is centred on military resistance-anoiner dead end.

The ejection of the occupying forces will be achieved neither by quiet diplomacy nor by bombs that can be heard across London.

A 32 county political campaign that will begin on the terrain of democratic questions—-such as the release of political prisonersIs needed. Such a campaign will only ultimately be secured by the creation of a 32-county socialist republic. land on offer from imperialism. following the breakdown of the ceaseDavid Trimble: Unionist pressure behind break-up of peoce preoess The whole "peace process" leaves

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