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July 2021 €1.50 Communist Party of Ireland Páirtí Cumannach na hÉireann Partisan Patriotic Internationalist Number 192 February 2021 Socialist Voice €1.5www.commmunistparty.ie Number 197 July 2021 €1.50 H H H Page 2 Crisis in colonialism Page 4 NATO/EU threat H H Page 6 Work and alienation Page 8 Stormont centenary Page 10 Fine Gael and Ireland United Page 12 Imperialism H H Page 14 Books Page 16 Housing crisis The Irish government, aided and abetted by its British counterpart, has been trying to assist and solve the “crisis in unionism” since the DUP began to self- destruct last month. Jimmy Doran writes Crisis in “To blame Ulster is sheer dishonesty. It is not Ulster but the British backers colonialism of Ulster who must bear the responsibility for all that has occurred within the last four or five years in Ireland.”—Robert Lynd (writer and editor), 1916 IRELAND Crisis in colonialism JIMMY DORAN This is missing the reality of what years ago was a brutal act of British is happening and ignoring the imperialism to protect its colonial HE IRISH GOVERNMENT, aided elephant in the room. The crisis is not interests. The world has moved on and abetted by its British in unionism but in the colonial and has accepted long ago that Tcounterpart, has been trying to construct of “Northern Ireland” and colonialism was wrong, it should assist and solve the “crisis in the unravelling and self-destruction of never have happened, and has no unionism” since the DUP began to this abomination. place in the world today and must be self-destruct last month. The partition of Ireland a hundred abolished, in the same way that Time for Britain to leave! Let the people of Ireland decide their own future Communist Party of Ireland statement 18 June 2021 carefully nurtured by Britain, that it is “internal” solution within the anti- neutral, an honest broker, with no democratic sectarian statelet that is The resignation of Edwin Poots as selfish or strategic interests in “Northern Ireland.” The very nature of leader of the Democratic Unionist continuing to control the North of the six-county statelet was created on Party, and the implosion of the DUP, Ireland, directly or indirectly a sectarian head count imposed by the should not come as a surprise to (devolution), when clearly it is a central British state to thwart the long anyone with a modicum of part of the problem. It has used and demand and struggle of the people of understanding of the entrenched manipulated unionism for its own Ireland for an independent national anti-democratic nature of unionism strategic imperialist ends for more than democracy, for sovereignty and control and the historical manoeuvrings of a century, and continues to do so. by the people of Ireland. the British colonial power. This latest crisis is just one in a What is obvious is that partition has It is time to end the charade, so long line of attempts at finding an failed all the people of Ireland, and 2 Socialist Voice July 2021 The partition of Ireland and the subjugation of the Irish people by Britain has long passed being acceptable—no more acceptable than apartheid was in South Africa. slavery was. Unfortunately, the and all as it is—has proved to be a Ireland unionists fared much better in unionists in the North have not faced step too far for unionism. The the South. Despite the Catholic ethos up to the reality of life in the twenty- agreement sets out a route to British of the state, there was little or no first century. withdrawal and the reunification of discrimination against citizens based Unionism, as a remnant of this Ireland. on religion. Despite this, it is brutal past, can no longer stand in the Honest brokers may have naïvely understandable why many who identify way of, or veto, the self-determination believed that it was only a matter of as unionist (and republican, for that of the Irish people. The partition of time before unionism would accept matter) would want no truck with the Ireland and the subjugation of the Irish the reality of a changing world and Southern regime as it stands. It is far people by Britain has long passed fully engage with the spirit of the from a workers’ paradise. being acceptable—no more agreement and concede equality to The working class have been kept acceptable than apartheid was in their republican neighbours. This was apart for a hundred years by their South Africa. The partition of Ireland never going to happen, such is their common if unrealised enemy: was a component of the British supremacist, “no surrender” mentality, imperialism. Empire; that empire no longer exists. evident in their refusal to introduce an A socialist republic has always The last remaining vestiges of it must Irish Language Act. been at the heart of the struggle for be confined to history also. When campaigning for abortion self-determination. Socialism will unite Neither veto, excuse nor rights and marriage equality, the people the working class naturally on their delusion will stop the course of confronted many powerful opponents, own programme, instead of being history nor deny the legitimacy of in church, state, and beyond. This did cajoled or bought off into an unnatural the self-determination of the Irish not stop the struggle and eventual alliance with manufactured enemies people. victory for what was right. and so continue to be exploited by the To think that the unionist ruling The same goes for Irish unity. Self- same ruling class. A consensus will class can be cajoled, persuaded or determination is the legitimate goal of not mean a unionist veto in a socialist convinced into joining a united Ireland the Irish people and will not be republic: it will be a united working is deluded in the extreme. We only stopped by colonialists or by those class, Catholic, Protestant, and need to look at the reality of unionist who wish to continue to walk over the Dissenters. majority rule in the North for a rights of their neighbours. As James Connolly said, “To effect hundred years, which amounted to Unionism’s divide-and-conquer rule its emancipation Labour must subjugation and discrimination in a has done nothing for their followers reorganise society on the basis of 1922: British troops leave the Irish Free State 1922: British troops leave the Irish Free two-tier society, of privilege for one and has inevitably failed the unionist labour; this cannot be done while the and discrimination for the other, kept section of the working class, leading forces of government are in the hands in place by force: by the RUC, the B them into a cul de sac of reaction. The of the rich, therefore the governing Specials, the British army, and loyalist unionists have used and manipulated power must be wrested from the death squads. their followers as a weapon with which hands of the rich.” After a thirty-year war and eighty to stoke division any time they felt the When Ireland joins the nations of years of misrule, the majority of need, only to abandon those followers the world as an independent sovereign people in Ireland voted for the Belfast to prison cells when they didn’t. country, socialism is the glue that will Agreement. The agreement—weak Unlike the North, in post-colonial join all the people of Ireland together. has left a deep scar and a bitter legacy of our people as well as of other doublespeak. of hatred, division, institutionalised nations. There can never be a stable sectarian discrimination, violence, and Britain needs to declare that it is internal political settlement, as the Six repression, resulting in countless disengaging and to set in motion the Counties cannot be stable or deaths. This bitter harvest has been necessary negotiations to ensure an democratic. It is too contested a borne most heavily by the working orderly departure and to meet its long- space in which to find a democratic class and working people. term economic and financial settlement. That can only be achieved This legacy cannot be wished away commitments to the people of the Six in a new, all-Ireland democratic state. but rather needs to be challenged, Counties. It is time for working people to with an all-Ireland strategy for healing The Irish establishment must also organise and put forward their own those divisions, partition being the be forced to engage and to pursue a demands and what type of united central one. British disengagement, for they have Ireland is in their best interests. The Now is the time for the British also for nearly a century hidden cobbling together of two failed government to declare its intention to behind the language of neutrality and economic and political entities is not a withdraw in an orderly fashion from “honest brokers” to mask their solution to the many problems that Ireland and to finally end its colonial complicity with continued British rule working people face, only a unitary relationship with Ireland. It is also clear and interference, as it is in their own national democratic state built upon that it is in the best interests of British parasitic economic and political absolute equality, on unity of our democracy itself to end its anti- interests, and not those of the people class, and on economic and political democratic interference in the affairs of all Ireland. It’s time to end the democracy and social justice. Socialist Voice July 2021 3 PEACE Preparing the ground for joining NATO JIMMY CORCORAN Forces Review, 2020,² to see how an the interests of the state.
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