November Phoblacht/Republican News.
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heard way reputedly 'moderate' from mixing with the DUP.
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'until the Agreement has IN THE 18 months since it was signed the Anglo-Irish Accord has delivered nothing of substance to the nationalist minority in the North of Ireland. At the same time, it has produced new outbursts of sectarian terror from the loyalists. Hilda MacThomas analysed the developments in the loyalist camp in the 13 edition of An ONE year after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Accord, unionists are still as violently opposed to it, alvided on the lacues une stance it the uster Hall Belfast. tee Ulster Party (DUP) leader lan his deputy Peter Robinson and Ulster Clubs leader Alan Wright stood on the platform with the founding committee. The declared aim of Ulster Resistance is to 'destroy its real enemies But there is more to his new fascist militia than just another attempt by Paisley to bare his fangs at the British government. Loyalists are frustrated by their failure to smash the Hillsborough Agreement. Loyalists are, to quote Alan Wright 'baying - a euphemism for 'Fenian blood' no The new movement has been launched at this time to clearly announce the loyalists' intention to It is also an attempt to involve greater numbers of working-class loyalists in a campaign hitherto largely confined to career politicians. The fact that working-class loyalists also perceive Dublin's involvement as a threat to their marginal economic privileges makes them more than willing to get There were few Official Unionist Party officials present at Monday's gathering, but little was For condemnations OUP James Molyneaux. Molyneaux and many in the OUP leadership have opted for unionist unity as the best way to defeat the Accord, and by and large they have refrained from public rows with their DUP allies. But there are those in the OUP, in particular their 'legal and academic wing' led by Robert McCartney and the Young Unionists, who shirk For months now, McCartney has lobbied the OUP for his 'campaign for equal citizenship', another name for total integration. If Northern Ireland was really part of the 'United Kingdom', he could there be no question o meddling by Dublin in the affairs of the North, but there would not be any of this power sharing nonsense as the British Labour and Tory Parties would stand for elections in the Six Counties and majority rule would apply. These views have met with some success in the OUP, traditionally divided between devolutionists and integrationists, but united in its dislike of sharing any power with However, McCartney's views failed to triumph at the OUP annual conference. Molyneaux, the OUP leader, decided to ban the press from his party's conference, and had an emergency motion inserted in the agenda to defer debate on integration been smashed'.
Saturday, the amendment was proposed by Enoch Powell, himself an integrationist, and was carried The ban on the media imposed by the OUP leadership shows a crisis within the party. Not the type of crisis foolishly predicted by John Hume which would some 'moderate unionist leadership' emerging, but a crisis born of the frustration caused in the unionist middle class by London's decision to deal directly with the Dublin government. Unionists have been used to monopolising the political and economic power in the Six-County state for decades.
The fall of Stormont in 1972 chipped away at that power by taking away its parliamentary trappings. But while unionists absorbed that shock, they are not more prepared to accept the Accord than they were to accept Sunningdale in 1974. Northern nationalists will see in the new 'Ulster Resistance movement yet another loyalists murder-gang ready to intimidate, burn and kill innocent Catholics in its campaign to preserve the unionist domination