The Orange Order & sectarianism in Ireland

Friday July 12, 2002 13:15

by Andrew - The Struggle site

Story and PDF booklet for you to print out and distribute

A new PDF booklet for you to download, print out and distribute has just been added to the Struggle site (struggle.ws). It is on sectarianism and the Orange Order.

This week the results of the 2001 Life and Times survey in the north of Ireland were released. They confirm that sectarian attitudes are spreading and deepening. In 1999 some 12% of Protestants and 6% of Catholics wanted single religion workplaces. In 2001 these figures have doubled to 21% and 14%. In 1999 29% of Protestants and 21% of Catholics wanted their children to go to separate schools. Now this stands at 37% and 29%. Similar figures show an increase in support for segregated housing and a decrease (to 25% and 33%) of people who believe things are now better then they were in 1991!

This booklet looks at the Oranges Orders role in building up sectarianism both historically and today. It also looks at those periods when workers in the north have united against the sectarian divisions and seeks to give an anarchist explanation of why those divisions are deepening today and how they can be overcome.

Articles include
The Orange Order - an enemy of ALL workers
The Protestant working class
Time to stop beating the Orange Drum
Marching to nowhere
Stirring Up Sectarian Hatred
King Billy Revisited
The 1798 Rebellion and the Orange Order
When the Falls and the Shankill fought together
Peace deal offers sectarian war or sectarian peace
Neither Orange nor Green

Download and print out the booklet from
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/pamphlet/orangeorder.html

Read the individual articles online at
http://struggle.ws/wsm/orangeorder.html

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i luv it in belfast, its almost as good as ze old south afrikaers

by sgt derek bulldog bullroot - PSNI/RUC/SPecial branch

Fri Jul 12, 2002 21:38

sgt derek bulldog bullroot, as an ex squaddie and ex special branch pig, i welcomed the privilege and opportunity to protect and police the orange parades in Ardoyne and the springfield road. i see it my duty to misinform and mislead the great british public when ever possible, tactics i learnt during the dirty war in the special branch. to this effect the night before the loyal order orange parades, we released a statement stating that the unruly commie loving republican terrorists were hell bent on instigating violence, we completely ignored and allowed our right wing junta paramilitary UFF loyalists the opportunity to run about at 11th night bonfires displaying their handguns and armoury, to facilitate this we turned a blind eye, and instead focussed it on the commie loving republican bolsheviks of the ardoyne and springfield road. We thrilled at the opportunity of putting republican rabble rousers in their place, by swamping ardoyne with the best of british military might, we even got to use the police dogs, alsations of course, another habit i picked up training with the now disbanded Afrikanears police, shame we didnt get a chance to let the dogs off their leashes, i would have enjoyed watching republican peasant scum run for their lives. have to remember though this aint south africa, but maybe someday soon i'll see our brave butch afrikanears pigs, opps sorry PSNI stomping about Belfast.

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