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Three days after the British paratroopers murdered peaceful civil rights protesters on the streets of Derry at the end of January 1972, tens of thousands of people marched in Dublin to the British embassy and burnt it to the ground. The Southern state decided to stand back was the smartest policy. They knew the Southern masses were fired up and it was best not to put themselves between those masses and the British state. Republicans held the high ground and the northern resistance forces enjoyed mass support in the south. Less than a decade later, in the 1981 hunger strikes, the Southern state unleashed violence against the mass movement, however. They were prepared to use the guards (the Southern cops) to beat thousands and thousands of supporters of the hunger strikers off the streets. This article, written on the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday (in 2012) looks at what happened in the aftermath of the massacre and the burning of the Brit embassy and how the Southern quislings got back the initiative. https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-burning-of-the-british-embassy-40-years-on/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
