However long it takes, however many further concessions have to (and at current reckoning it will sooner or later be disarmament), however many appeals to Blair's best instincts or the republican heart of Fianna Fail, in the end there will be a bitter pill to be swallowed by the Republican rank and file.
At this point the rumbling dissent now just kept out of the public eye by "visits" to the homes of dissidents might erupt into some. thing more scrous requing a return to the use of armed force, this time used against its own members.
You can bet than when this starts to happen the Unionists now weeping bitter tears over the exile of nationalist youth for antisocial activities, will be quietly urging the use of weapons against republican dissidents. Dissidents So how should the swelling band of Republican dissidents and socialists respond to stalemate? racy must resist tac temptation of militarism.
A generation of heroic and ded. icated guerrillas, at best, fought the British to a standstill. smaller and more isolated group returning to war now, while they might manage a few "spectaculars in Britain", could be annihilated, if only because the British would have the excuse to unleash again the loyalist death squads.
They THESE refuse to do so would be to commit themselves into the hands the RUC, the armed wing of Unionism. Local defence committees should supervise the protection of cach arca They should oppose all Orange marches and actively participate in local committees. They should fiercely oppose any hint of sectartanism in their own ranks and should open/maintain with loyalist working class organisations who have not participated in sectarian violence. Most of all, they must begin the building of a socialist party on the island which challenge the ruling classes in Britain and Ireland and they foment.
Socialists in Britain should continue to oppose the Stormont