Peaceline Prods and Catholics Under Fire from UFF
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Thursday May 16, 2002 22:29
by agnesvandervan - community worker
The desolate wasteland of one of north belfasts notorious peacelines, and favourite hunting ground of the Shankill butchers, Duncairn gardens, interface between loyalist UFF, tiger bay, and republican New lodge, the few remaining families on lower Duncairn had their windows broken on Monday.
An elderly protestant lady who has cancer, and a another catholic male resident, had the windows of their houses broken, by rampaging UFF thugs from loyalist UFF tiger bay. The isolated lower Duncairn community, whats left of the once mixed religion Duncairn gardens area, working class protestants and catholics who lived side by side in the once thriving Duncairn gardens. New lodge Sein fein were the first on the scene, and they offered their support to the residents who had their windows broken, regardless of the residents respective religions. As a former prod resident of Duncairn gardens, i can say that Sein Fein have given us their utmost support and unbiased friendship to all the lower Duncairn residents, and have stood side by side with all residents of Duncairn Gardens, regardless of the religion of the residents against UFF neo nazi thugs.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8All working class people in the area concerned have to stand together in order to comba the bigots.
thru the darkest peaceline night, nothing could put out your light, ma's at mass everyday, saying prays to shield your way, thru the darkest peaceline night nothing could put out your light.
One night i fell asleep on the settee in the front room, i was very blocked, i was awaken by what i thought was daybreak, the dawn lighting up the front room window, then i thought have i been asleep that long?, it was as though i had only had 2 hours sleep and it was daybreak already. then i noticed the light on the front window get suddenly brighter, i went to the window, but it wasnt the daybreak, it was my next door catholic neighbours new car ablaze, the woosh that i had heard in my dreams, was the woosh sound of a petrol bomb flying throught the air and landing on my neighbours car, setting it ablaze.
strange how a nice posting about sein fein should appear on this day. should we read community worker as sein fein member?
Who is feeding Oliver the SWP autocue?
I am not and never will be a member of the Socialist Workers Party. My friends would be shocked that you could think I was.
no you can read community worker as an ex loyalist neo nazi, turned socialist/anarchist PUP trade unionist. lifes a journey and we all make mistakes along the way, maybe due to influences in our environment and the need to toe the line, even though we know the line is wrong.
Having visited the general T-bay/Limestone interface on more than one occasion and and only being able to guess at the difficulties facing prods like yourselves who try to break out of the mold can I express my solidarity and respect for the stance you are taking.
The Pat Finucane Centre keeps a log of sectarian attacks across the North which it publishes monthly. Have you thought about logging incidents with them?
Once again, we get the usual leftie sectarianism where people denounce other groups for being somewhat strange, creepy and irrelevant. Maybe it's about time some of us spent more of our time tackling the problems rather than attacking each other for how we tackle the problems..
Some anarchists seem to think that leftie socialist types are worse than tories. At least, that's what their unerring devotion to knocking socialist groups would seem to suggest...
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