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Unfree Citizen1974Loyalism and unionismNo public scan is online for this item; the text below was read from a privately held copy.
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Workers’ State. The only dialogue possible with Loyalists is on their terms, which are acceptance of partition.
Maybe the Officials need it spelled out again. The 6-County state is an artificial entity created to ensure Protestant supremacy. To perpetuate the 6-County state is to preserve that supremacy. And, since the Loyalists need the British to reinforce and protect them, it is to preserve British rule and British imperialism in Ireland. In the grave situation in the North with the threat of a Loyalist take-over growing daily greater, the Official Republicans are behaving exactly like the German Communist Party during the rise of Hitler — attacking every enemy but the one in front of their eyes who threatens them most.
A SIMPLE CHOICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT THE OFFICIALS Faced with such a craven betrayal of everything their movement used to stand for, it is not surprising that the Officials are beginning to disintegrate. Individuals and small groups have been droping out for months. Now whole cumanns are resigning. It is a healthy development and not before time. But there is no future for scattered groups of leftist Republicans, politically confused and disorganised. There is even less or 6years of struggle.
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