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| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: October, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: The Buck Stops . . . where? |
| When Britain decided to divide Ireland and hold part of it within the UK, it arranged that the remaining British quarter of Ireland should be undemocratically governed. It placed the Unionist/Protestant community in the North over the Nationalist community, in a form of government that consisted of little more than a system of Police and Militia control. The whole arrangement was excluded from the democratic political life of the state, though remaining entirely under its sovereignty. After 50 years this system exploded under pressure of an absurdly moderate reform demand by the minority. The ruling Unionist body, both the formal police and the popular Loyalist movement associated with it, launched a wild assault on the Catholic minority. This provoked the Catholic community, which until then had on the whole been quiescent under oppression, into defending itself so vigorously that it found itself in a condition of insurrection. Insurrection then organised itself into war and ensured that the system imposed by Britain in 1921 could never be restored.Read Full Article |
| From: Church & State: Editorials |
| Date: October, 2013 |
| By: Brendan Clifford |
| Title: Historic Destinies |
| Some Fine Gael TDs who voted for abortion complain that they are being denied Communion in the Catholic Church, and their complaints are treated by the Sunday Independent as having legitimate grounds. But it is well-known that the Catholic Church regards abortion as a form of murder. So we cannot see what their legitimate ground for complaint is.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Foreign Affairs: Editorials |
| Date: September, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: British Vote on Syria |
| August 29th was a day of infamy. Britain refused an opportunity for doing good in the world by making war. The Government wanted to make war on Syria. It was constitutionally entitled to do so without consulting Parliament. Britain remains an absolute monarchy in this respect, with the Prime Minister exercising the power of the Monarch. But the Prime Minister, in breach of precedent, referred the decision to Parliament, and Parliament, to its disgrace, refused to commit the state to war.Read Full Article |
| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: August, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Egypt And Syria: the sins of democracy? |
| Democracy must be reaching the end of its shelf-life as a manipulable illusion. It has served Western Imperialism well. But can it survive its Egyptian fiasco?Read Full Article |
| From: Church & State: Editorials |
| Date: July, 2013 |
| By: Editorial |
| Title: Egypt: Hardly A Coup ? |
| Egypt had undemocratic liberal government for almost a century and a half, with a short interlude in the middle of that period. For about seventy years it was undemocratically governed by Britain. Then, following an interlude of a kind of national democracy, it had a couple of generations of military dictatorship supported and paid for by the West, mainly the United States. Britain invented political Egypt of modern times. It cut it out of the Ottoman State in the 1880, recognised it as an independent country around 1920 but continued governing it until the early 1950s. Egypt was in Constitutional fiction an independent country. In Constitutional fact it was under British government. The fiction was maintained by having a puppet Government which acted on the advice of the British Ambassador. It was the diplomatic adviser who had the guns. Egypt therefore took part as an ally of Britain in both World Wars...Read Full Article |