I never could have expected to see such nonsense as this on
a leftie site.
There's a lot of people in Northern Ireland with really crap views, and little of what l have read above has done anything to change my mind on that.
The RUC (or PSNI or whatever) are pretty unpleasant, as are the Community Restorative Justice people.
Neither offer any kind of analytic solution to dealing with crime and social delinquence. The RUC regularly hassle and occasionally beat up people from working class communities. Once in a while they lock them up, too. The CRJ regularly hassle and occasionally beat up people from working class communities.
Neither see the indignity of poverty and deprivation as the root cause of social delinquence. Rather, it's just a case of some young lads getting out of hand, and having to be dealt with.
Fuck you both.
And an Anarchist voting Republican? Giving Anarchists a bad name, l reckon. Not just for voting, but for supporting fairly sectarian organisations like Sinn Fein. And when's the last time a protestant worker ever gained from Sinn Fein's blatantly Blairite, corporatitst politics.
And what l really want to know is how can you have contributors using fairly class-conscious language asking people to support Sinn Fein? If there is going to be a class-based, irreligious political party in Northern Ireland, it will NOT be Sinn Fein. They have too much of a sectarian history to ever appeal to Protestant workers. Besides, Sinn Fein has made too much of a rightwards shift to recover to a left-leaning position where they can even pretend to be a party acting ON BEHALF of workers' interests, as they once did.