Republicanism and socialism 2. Working class democracy?

 There is no working class in Northern Ireland.

From 210 000 (1979) to 230 000 (1981) to 27 000 involved in manufacturing and transport in Northern Ireland presently....

That is why the lunatics who were once arrested for fighting outside public houses, dancehalls and places of entertainment have taken over the asylum.....

I do not want politicians who talk for drunks,drug addicts and layabouts on the radio spouting about wider scale welfare entitlement and universal entitlement to social security....

If you do not work or have not worked or pursued a meaningful occupation,then you should not receive support from the state unless you are a child,orphan or asylum seeker....

People who stand around street corners brandishing knuckledusters and clubs should be sent to labour camps. If they are juveniles they should be sent to reform schools or borstals....

I say,less of the dummy tit and more of the rod on the back....

In El Salvador the activities of the FMLN who called a halt to their activities six years before their Irish equivalents left a legacy of four thousand murders a year and competing gangs of narco-traffickers....

The same development in our society may be kept in control for the present by Provo vigilantees acting in consort with the police but at the end of the day,the police are not the appropriate people to deal with death rages... It is only an army that is trained to deal with the dangerous class of pusher and gangland murderer....

Is Sinn Fein socialist? Is Sinn Fein a party of the working class? Parting with illusions

NO! NO! NO! Sinn Fein in its Northern guise  is a device of British imperialism and American finance to kick the ball of Progress further down the field. Sinn Fein is a democratic party with a few country admixtures from daoine cleasta. It says that it strives for rights and equality of treatment. Opposition to elitism and discrimination is supposed to be its founding principle. Its socialism is petite bourgeois and it cannot truly align itself with big business or mediate the demands of the wage workers. It is in a very difficult place caught between two pillars. However unprepossessing that situation may be,it has survived death,crisis and upheaval to build a strong, determined, cross-class alliance of interested parties,one of whose core values is Irish Unity.

Sinn Fein was historically a party of the lumpen proletariat,the dossers,the small businessmen and the layabouts with a few death riders and upper class literati, doctors and lawyers thrown in. (There is no worse right-winger than a small shopkeeper or publican or tradesman. He wouldn't give you the wind of his fart. No more than Donald Trump or the big-shots in the Houses of Congress want to pay the medical bills of the poor. The Irish Parliament and Senate is no different.) If Sinn Fein wasn't prepared to pay the wages of those who risked their lives on their adventurist games,they are even less likely to care for them in old age or infirmity. Many are replicates of the dissidents who want to bring disorder and chaos. Both parties wish to collapse the taxation and welfare system. It is the enduring law of government income and expenditure in every jurisdiction that the books are balanced from internal revenue not outside cash or foreign subventions, the so-called Barnett Formula included.

Furthermore there is no difference between an Irish Irelander on the end of a needle and an Orange thug high on amphetamines.

At the top and bottom of Dublin and Southern Sinn Fein and at the rural level,there are very few worthy and grounded people involved. Sometimes they  have been badgered by businessmen into doing favours and awarding lucrative government contracts. Often the old hands have been hoodwinked by talk that comes from the criminal classes and have lost their bearings. Then there is the ever present wayfaring stranger like John and Vincent Fitzpatrick. The followers of people such as Adams,Kelly,Twomey and the hangmen who came to prominence in the early days once congregated around street corners to throw bricks and bottles at the British Army. I refer to people like Martin and Mick Mc Manus and Manus Maguire and the people of the Bogside and Lenadoon and Ardoyne and the Lower Falls.

In the past Sinn Fein dragged everyone into the gutter to take part in riots, demonstrations and protest. Those games were what Connolly called a carnival of reaction. Connolly was a man who long foresaw where mob violence and nationalist rhetoric would lead. Sinn Fein sabotaged social and economic outcomes for Young Dreamers to keep its captive audience alert and active as "street players" . Later,it went on to recruit nuisance 'call handlers'  and immobile creepy crawlers.

Some other salient facts must be pointed out to the audience of internet readers and time-expired BBC license holders.

The active component of volunteers never numbered more than hundreds. Perhaps a thousand,no more. The IRA's activities were directed through intermediaries by the Irish Army,those idle mouthpieces who boasted openly about their links to Sinn Fein and financed beer parties all along the Border during the worst days of the conflict. The Irish Army's model was the drunken, German soldiery of the 1930's.

All gone! All long gone apart from the lumpen proletariat which sustains and votes for Green Tories such as Adams and Irish Irelanders. The latter gather around him like flies around dung.

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Just as the English working class must part with illusions about the NHS,so must the Irish workers part with illusions about nationalist parties of tradesmen and small proprietors claiming to be on their side. They are little other than proponents of reactionary change basted with the lard of time-expired dreams of an Irish Ireland.