Statement from R.c.a
Unfree Citizen1974Loyalism and unionismPartition and the national questionRepublicanism and the IRABritish troops and the occupationLoyalism and unionismPartition and the national questionRepublicanism and the IRABritish troops and the occupation
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the need to resist it by force. of the Irish working class. rule have been overthrown and a Socialist Republic established. political leadership of the Peoples Democracy. The Revolutionary Citizen’s Army is a force of armed volunteers dedicated to the cause of the Irish working class and the establishment of a Socialist Republic in Ireland. We.are organised on a 32 county basis and have been in existence for some time. We have decided to make our existence known to the people at this time because of the rapidly deteriorating situation in the six counties where the daily collaboration between the British Imperialist forces and Loyalist private armies and murder gangs points to the imminent danger of a Britishbacked Loyalist takeover and the establishment_of an Orange Fascist state. We wish to alert the anti-imperialist population of all Ireland to this threat and to The Revolutionary Citizen’s Army was established as an armed force because it is clear that the British Imperialists and the |. cal Ruling Class have no intention of surrendering their control over our country and its people, due to political pressure alone. They have the British Army, RUC, UDR and Loyalist gangs — ‘all armed to the teeth — to enforce their will. Meanwhile in the 26 counties the Dublin government, which is little more than a British puppet, uses the Gardai and Irish Army as auxiliaries to the Crown forces and to protect their own clique of gombeen-men and property speculators. Force must be met with force. We will use force against any body which tries to halt the onward march The Revolutionary Citizen’s Army sees as its most urgent task the defence of the nationalist areas in the six counties against sectarian Fascist onslaughts and all-out and successful resistance to any attempt to re-establish a loyalist controlled state. We are prepared to co-operate with all other anti-imperialist forces in this task and we urge the Provisional and Official IRA particularly to join in making preparations for united defence and resistance in the extremely grave situation which now faces us. The RCA is also committed to the general struggle against British Imperialism and its puppets and we pledge that we will . not cease activity or dump arms until not only British rule but native capitalist The Revolutionary Citizen’s Army supports the politics of the Peoples Democracy both because they have consistently been in the vanguard of the anti-imperialist struggle since 1968 and have faithfully adhered to the objective of a Socialist Republic and because more recently they alone have repeatedly warned of the danger of an Orange Fascist takeover in the North. We believe that victory can only be achieved by armed force combined with revolutionary agitation by the mass of. the people. We urge the anti-imperialist population to follow the