Norn Iron should go independent.
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it keeps being trotted out that 75% of N.I. trade is with UK.The place would be bankrupt in a week, no? Unless that boost has reversed that situation.
until digital TV came in people in South East got Welsh versions of UK channelsI'm glad I got hear all about the lads in Waterford who lived through the troubles. Aye mate dead on.
I live here in a semi failed state, that was a disaster for almost four decades after independence.
Yeah, detaching Ireland from the UK and later the 1937 treaty were achieved surpringly easily.the more I learn about the early history of the free state, the more impressed I am at what crazy stuff they managed to pull off, even though, in many ways, it *was* a disaster for a long time after independence
ardnacrusha was the infrastructural equivalent of a national space program or the like. and they did it while being a load of catholic weirdos, traumatised by civil war, partition, and economic war, and with ww2 looming in europe. wound up supplying 80% of ireland’s electricity, made economic sovereignty a possibility, demonstrated to the world that such things were possible, and inspired mao to dam the fucking yangtze! and it *still* supplies a slice of ireland’s electricity to this day. and they also started all the social housing programs, universal schooling, reclaiming the treaty ports, etc, etc. there’s a reason why so many people were so loyal to devalera. (I say that as no fan of the man)
anyway, happy christmas pricks
On Social issues they were often brutally cruel.
They, as were the vast majority of the population, schooled and acculturated to a particular strain of Catholicism. That norm was common across the treaty divide, and even was fairly strong in the labour/union side of things as well.
For a lot of them (and a lot of folk at large) the idea that the Catholic Church wouldn’t have had a major role in the state would have seemed odd.
But yes - they achieved a lot against the odds, and perhaps a soft abandoning of the north allowed them the latitud
Joe Brolly, who grew up not a million miles from me saying the same thing but with more eloquence.
If Joe Brolly doesn't float your boat, Bernadette McAliskey spoke of the same things on TV this week - and brings it round to Brexit, which obviously once again has thrown the six counties under the bus to serve London's interests.
class politics has to appeal to all working class people. what does Bernadette offer working class folks in N.I. who are protestant or aren't Catholic?
WSM and Organise are both alright really, in my opinion, but it's definitely the case that Organise seem much more authentic than the WSM these days. WSM used to have a bunch of good people involved but it seems like there is something rotten there somewhere because all the good ones always seemed to leave after a bit.I saw the end of this last night.
i'll put it this way there are two main anarchist groups in Ireland Workers Solidarity Movement in Dublin and Organise! in Belfast.
I have never been involved in either.
Organise! as I know was set up because they thought WSM pandered too much to republican politics.
class politics has to appeal to all working class people. what does Bernadette offer working class folks in N.I. who are protestant or aren't Catholic?
and what kind of support do folks in N.I. want from people in the South?
I have no connection with N.I. so when I just don't get it - I could be completely wrong
of course I have no lived experience of being a Catholic woman from Derry born in 1947.WSM and Organise are both alright really, in my opinion, but it's definitely the case that Organise seem much more authentic than the WSM these days. WSM used to have a bunch of good people involved but it seems like there is something rotten there somewhere because all the good ones always seemed to leave after a bit.
McAliskey was always being tarred as a 'Republican' but it always seemed to me that was just a convenient way for people who didn't like her to dismiss her. She seems fairly alright on a lot of actual working class issues.
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