column from Socialist Emergency Democracy, Irish section if the RUC were the be retained. touchstone for the corruption of the north- the ern Irish statelet, then the Potten renort was seen as the touchstone for democracy reform. It promised to moddemocratise and independent desectarianise the RUC.
However the RUC were not sectarian to be disbanded. The issues pogrom. were to be viewed as issues of perception, culture and identity rather than democratic rights. The solution was to be viewed as finding a balance rather Then righting The outcome was an offenwhere the nationalist enquiry shows, working class were to sup- forgollen port the RUC now, but any their major changes were to be aspirations for thirty years Acceptance of Patten rested 11VA on acceptance of the Good Friday Agreement. If the Northern colony was herome democracy and contarioniem was to wither
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