File spoon-archives/marxism-news.archive/marxism-news_1998/marxism-news.9802, message 13


Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 09:44:33 -0800
From: IRSP <irsp-AT-netwizards.net>
Subject: M-NEWS: Reformed RUC unacceptable, IRSP


             IRSP Slams British Plan for Reform of the RUC

Irish Republican Socialist Party justice spokesperson Paul Little has
slammed the British Government for pushing forward with plans to reform the
RUC as planned by British direct ruler Mo Mowlam as "totally unacceptable
to the nationalist working class."

"The British government is doing little more than tinkering at the fringes
of the RUC, whilst leaving intact its role as the cutting edge  of the
British/loyalist terror machine in the six-counties.

"Does Mo Mowlam honestly expect the Irish working class to accept this
unreconstructed sectarian paramilitary force because it has a new name or
uniform?

"This is the same force that was set up to defend British interests in
Ireland, a role that it continues to fufill today with undisguised relish.

"Even through the duration of the so-called "peace process", the RUC has
surpassed even its own inglorious past, this is evidenced by the brutal
tactics it employed against the nationalist community on the Garvaghy Road,
Portadown. The RUC has also played its part in aiding and abetting
loyalists to forcefully evict over 200 catholics from their homes in the
past three years.

"More recently it stood idly by whilst loyalists kicked Robert Hamill to
death in Portadown. Its chief constable Ronnie Flanagan is on record as
saying after the RUC had forced an orange parade through nationalist north
Belfast two years ago savagely beating nationalists in the process that 
'the RUC had sterilised the route of the march'.

In conclusion, Mr. Little said "like the flawed peace process no amount of
tinkering with the RUC will suffice. The RUC need to be put out of business
immediately."      

ENDS
North American Coordinator
Irish Republican Socialist Committees
2057 15th Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94114
irsp-AT-netwiz.net
http://irsm.pair.com/irscna/





   

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