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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: INLA group to renounce violence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8301241.stm

The INLA killed more than 120 people during the troubles

An Irish republican paramilitary group responsible for hundreds of murders during Northern Ireland's troubles is to announce it is renouncing violence.

It is expected that the Irish National Liberation Army will say on Sunday afternoon that in future it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.

The INLA is a small but ruthless group that murdered more than 150 people, but has been on ceasefire for 11 years.

The group is expected to decommission its weapons within months.

The INLA was established in 1975, with many recruits being former members of the Official IRA.

They murdered Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman Airey Neave in 1979 by leaving a bomb under his car at Westminster.

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Holebender · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

Better late than never, I suppose.
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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

It is to their credit for holding to their ceasefire for 11 years. The IRSP/INLA have done a lot of good work against drug barons and improving the community particularly in Strabane.
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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

I'm glad they're seeing the electoral light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm very glad the violence is ended.
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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

It could be supposition from the bourgeois media. I rather wait for a statement from them.
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Holebender · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:48 am Post subject:

So why did you start the thread?
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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:56 am Post subject:

Because it's news. I don't believe everything that comes out the BBC but I want to know more they have strongly hinted at a INLA announcement today.
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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1011/inla.html?RTEMAILID
INLA ends campaign of violence
Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:17

The INLA has announced that it is to end its armed struggle.

In a statement read out at the commemoration of its founding member, a spokesperson said that it would continue its campaign for a 32 County Socialist Republic through peaceful and political means.

This afternoon in Bray, Co Wicklow, around 60 republicans and socialists gathered for their annual commemoration of Seamus Costello.

He was the man who, 35 years ago, founded the Irish National Liberation Army.

After the traditional wreath -laying ceremony, a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the political wing of the INLA, announced that the organisation had decided to end its armed struggle.

He said that the group had concluded that its objective of a 32 County Socialist Republic was best achieved through peaceful and political means.

The announcement brings to an end a 35 year campaign which has claimed around 150 lives.

After the IRA called its ceasefires in the 90s and eventually ended its campaign, the INLA remained in existence.

The INLA was notorious for the ruthless nature of its attacks and today's decision is both a significant and welcome development.

In recent years it was involved in several murders and has remained active in Derry, Strabane, parts of Belfast and in Dublin.

The PSNI and gardaí often linked it to racketeering and drugs related businesses.
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Holebender · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:

Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject:

Holebender · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

I suppose you prefer unconstitutional nationalism?

I'm a civic nationalist, actually.
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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

Now now boys... you're confusing this anti-constitutional independentist with all these big words.
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Red Justice · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

11 October 2009
Irish Republican Socialist Party

STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IRISH REPUBLICAN
SOCIALIST MOVEMENT

The Irish National Liberation Army and Irish Republican Socialist
Party were formed in 1974 in order to create a 32 County Socialist
Republic. In those 35 years, military volunteers and political
activists have fought with courage and honour and have struck at the
heart of the British military and political machine in Ireland and in
Britain. The INLA is a key constituency within the Republican
Socialist Movement. The INLA recognised that its struggle was based
upon two distinct phases:

1. Armed Resistance
2. Political Organisation

In 1994, the INLA put in place a no first strike policy and in 1998
called a complete ceasefire. Both of these decisions were based on
its political analysis and monitoring of the changing military and
political environment. The recent progress on loyalist
decommissioning can be traced back to the INLA's no first strike
policy of 1994 and the INLA acknowledges this progressive step by
loyalism.

The RSM has been informed by the INLA that following a process of
serious debate, consultation and analysis, it has concluded that the
armed struggle is over and the objective of a 32 County Socialist
Republic will be best achieved through exclusively peaceful political
struggle.

The RSM agree with this analysis and are fully supportive of the move
to build a left wing party that has a clear objective of a 32 County
Socialist Republic based on the principles of equality, justice,
inclusion, human rights and dignity.

It is within the above objective that the RSM opposed the Good Friday
Agreement and continues to do so. We as a movement believe that the
Six County State is not a viable political entity, which cannot be
reformed and fitted into a flawed two state solution.

The RSM has always aspired to the principle of the primacy of
politics as espoused by Ta Power.

The future struggles are political. We urge all comrades, members,
volunteers and supporters to join the political struggle ahead with
the same vigour, commitment and courage that was evident in our armed
struggle against the British State.

To paraphrase James Connolly, "let us arise," build a left political
alternative in Ireland and support the struggle against global
capitalism.

Ultimately our allegiance is to the working class. Onwards to victory.

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Irish Republican Socialist Party
Costello House
392B Falls Road
Belfast BT12 6DH
Ireland
http://www.irsm.org/irsp/

From Scottish Republican Socialist Newsletter
http://dawnofliberation.blogspot.com/

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