The press speculates that a group of around 100 terrorists made up of the Continuity IRA, Real IRA, the Irish National Liberation Army already includes new dissidents from the Provisionals. The protestant paramilitaries are heavily armed too, and they will inevitably retaliate against any attacks by these splinters. This is the edifying perspective positively encouraged by specialists like Jonathon Stevenson of the Institutional Institute for Strategic Studies. In fact, collectively they are unlikely to agree to do so ever. With only a smaller retrograde IRA rump remaining out in the political cold, security could be maintained by vigorous policing.
All capitalist paths lead to a new nightmare for the people of Ireland.
Under modern conditions there can be no solution anywhere to the national problem. A decade ago the illusion of such solutions was all part of the New World Order. In today's Disorder not only have those illusions been shattered, but new ethnic and national divisions across the planet are exploding to create a more turbulent and dangerous world. Today only the working class plays the progressive role in society required to solve these problems. United by the need to struggle over social and political questions, the working class alone can provide the only realistic lasting peace in a Socialist united Ireland linked by a free and voluntary federation to a Socialist Britain and a Socialist United States of Europe.