In over two decades since the signing of the Good Friday Treaty, the so called success of the ‘Peace Process’ has not been measured by the absence of violence, but rather by the absence of anti-state violence.
As pro-treaty forces such as Sinn Féin and the SDLP call on the people to stand aside for the normalisation of Britain’s occupation, many continue to die at the hands of British imperialism.
With some of the highest suicide rates in some of the most impoverished areas of Europe, attacks on the working class with the bedroom tax and welfare cuts, and the all too often news of homeless deaths on our streets, the violence never left us.
Whether by the bullet or the pound, Britain continues to murder in Ireland.