The press speculates that a group of around 100 terrorists made upof the Continuity IRA, Real IRA, the Irish National Liberation Armyalready includes new dissidents from the Provisionals. The protestantparamilitaries are heavily armed too, and they will inevitablyretaliate against any attacks by these splinters. This is the edifying perspective positively encouraged byspecialists like Jonathon Stevenson of the Institutional Institutefor Strategic Studies. In fact, collectively they areunlikely to agree to do so ever. With only a smaller retrograde IRArump remaining out in the political cold, security could bemaintained by vigorous policing.
All capitalist paths lead to a new nightmare for the people ofIreland.
Under modern conditions there can be no solution anywhere to thenational problem. A decade ago the illusion of such solutions was allpart of the New World Order. In today's Disorder not only have thoseillusions been shattered, but new ethnic and national divisionsacross the planet are exploding to create a more turbulent anddangerous world. Today only the working class plays the progressiverole in society required to solve these problems. United by the needto struggle over social and political questions, the working classalone can provide the only realistic lasting peace in a Socialistunited Ireland linked by a free and voluntary federation to aSocialist Britain and a Socialist United States of Europe.