Old Faces

Pacer Seana Sia bee ee Oe nee eT SSE LR SPE ee ne i en a Prema ePaAi ISIS REC GTMREESEE TER TG VISITED: PSOE a TOS ET I” a SSE Information has leaked out that many members of the Fusiliers have refused to come to Northern Ireland, so obviously some of the Black Watch have stayed behind to keep up battalion strength, AND to tutor the new regiment in how to keep the area under thumb.

it will make little difference however for whatever regiment is on the streets, to the people of Andersonstown any regiment is a British regiment and any British regiment is there for only one thing — to impose the British solution, to crush the struggle, whether it is done with kid gloves or rifle butts, basically doesn’t matter.

The present 26-Co. Army is no exception to this rule although their are myths and misconceptions about what exactly the purpose of that particular army is — this misconception arises mainly out of the nature of its founding and the politics of the state of which it is the armed wing.

Far from being a revolutionary army, however, the 26 Co. army was founded War is an extension of politics and armies pursue that extension with the use of calculated physical force and violence. Few if any armies are exceptions to this universal rule. Thus the American Army in Vietnam and the British Army in Ireland, as elsewhere throughout the world and through the ages, fight in support of imperialist policies. On the other hand revolutionary armies fight for revolutionary aims — they are an extension of revolutionary politics.

political solution with the Empire and it’s job was to enforce that compromise and fight against the mass of the IRA who opposed that solution.

Since then that political line has been central to the function of the 26 Co.

Defence Forces whether guarding anti-imperialist prisoners in prisoncamps, providing execution squads for the same anti-imperialists or inere from Mountjo ; Army entering Portloaise prison after political prisoners are moved eewencendines as cee oe t