Catholic Community Worker Intimidated from Job

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday January 23, 2003 11:33 by Republican Socialist Publicity Bureau - Irish Republican Socialist Party irsp at netwizards dot net 392 Falls Road, Belfast, BT48 6DH, Ireland Tel: 028 90 321024

The IRSP in North Belfast today said that the intimidation of a Catholic community worker from a community project in the Glenbryn estate is direct result of PSNI/RUC interference in politics and a PUP/UVF electioneering stunt.

22 January 2003
Irish Republican Socialist Party

Catholic Community Worker Intimidated from Job

The IRSP in North Belfast today said that the intimidation of a
Catholic community worker from a community project in the Glenbryn
estate is direct result of PSNI/RUC interference in politics and a
PUP/UVF electioneering stunt.

The IRSP representative in North Belfast, Paul Little, described the
intimidation as: "Extremely sinister and worrying for Catholic
workers in the community sector. Whilst much is being made of
unionist and loyalist perceptions about where exactly politics are
going in the North, the brutal reality for nationalists is that they
are going to continue to be victimised regardless of the Good Friday
Agreement. One person's perceptions are another person's reality!"

The IRSP representative, who knows the community worker,
continued: "The community worker, a mother of five young children,
and who is worried for her life, was threatened at her place of
employment yesterday and the phrase 'ethnic cleansing' was used as
a 'justification' for the threat. The fact that those who issued the
threat believe that ethnic cleansing is a justifiable reason to force
a person out of their employment should come as no surprise, these
are the same people who think it is perfectly okay to terrify and
intimidate primary school children at Holy Cross.

"Further, this intimidation is a direct result of the machinations
and pontifications going on within unionism and loyalism, as they vie
to 'out Prod' each other in the run up to an election. It is about
time that the representatives of unionism and nationalism, many of
whom are elected, grow up and take responsibility for their actions
and words. These threats are result not only of deep sectarianism and
bigotry from anti-Agreement unionism, but also pro-Agreement
unionism, if there is such a thing, which is in a state of total
disarray and relies on sectarianism to get itself elected."

Mr. Little concluded: "The nationalist working class should expect
more of the same in the run up to the Assembly elections as their
rights are culled and diminished, a sacrifice for the Good Friday
Agreement, its supporters and the British government. A British
government which refuses to acknowledge that the Agreement is leading
us all into an apartheid system based on warped equality."

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