The Journey Begins 10.30pm - Thursday night - 1 hopped the bus to London. I wheeze for a cigarette the next dadam - Friday morning. larive in 6am - Friday morning. I arrive in London. Stopped off in a greasy spoon café for a cigarette and a coffee. After leaving the café | came across this old woman sleeping rough. I offered her some food but sne said give the tood to someone else" She I asked her for tube directions and she said good. bye.
That evening we caught the bus to Paris from Victoria.
Arrival in France
We got to Paris, hopped on the tube across Paris to that main train which took us to Brioude. The train journey was long and hectic, 6-7 hours. we finally got there, tired and knackered and we still had another journey of three more miles to the camp.
Arrival at the Camp We got to the camp and we pitched our tents and as I looked around I noticed that there were a or al Che Guevara' =-shrs anc peopie it rec were hundreds of revorborares there.
Everybody seemed to just get on with everybody else - the camp was great! The discos and parties were great. There were discussions on a lot of stuff including the massacre of four resistance fighters from the area in the war. We discussed the politics of the right wing and how we can fight to make a better world.
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as a result there are divisions within its ranks. LETTERS IS conceded anything in principle.
Patrick Mayhew spelt out British policy after Drumcree II and that policy was confirmed in, the 'game plan' for Drumcree III.
There was no question of opposing sectarianism. What the British had promised to do and what they would do was try and talk the Löyalists around.
That's what they did at Harryville.
That's what they did at Drumcree III. That's what they did prior to the 12th. With a mass nationalist revolt on the cards they finally got the Orange leaders to blink.
So what we have is a process controlled by a government that has ruled out in the harshest terms any consideration of a united Ireland and has also made it clear that any reform needs the co-operation of the Trimbles and Saulters of this world.
That means that the long term outcome of a review of parades is likely to be the institutionalisation of sectarianism. On the broader political front it means a peace process that can only end in the same way.
The peace process and the nationalist family proved useless in the run-up to Drumcree. The only thing that prevented complete disaster was Sinn Fein breaking in action from that family and calling for mass action on the streets.
We need a strong united 32 county action against sectarianism. Local committees are too weak and give weight to reactionary forces such as those in the Catholic church and other members of an imaginary nationalist family.
As socialists we specifically call on a silent trade union movement and on Irish working class organisations to condemn the concept of "equality of the two traditions". This is a barely disguised recipe for sectarianism built into the fabric of a new state.
The only real alternative to sectarianism is an Irish workers' movement united against Orange sectarianism and British sponsorship of that sectarianism.