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Devlin's Ireland needs socialism, independence
Immediate removal of British soldiers and the establishment of a socialist state are essential to the future of Northern Ireland. The civil rights activist, Bernadette Develin.
She called for a revolution to achieve
lingering and insure freedom for
Northern Ireland.
"The more people become involved in solving social injustice," Devlin said, "the more they are forced into the realization of socialism. The problem must be solved on a long asocialism does not exist in Northern Ireland, we will continue to fight for it."
Devlin, a former member of Britain's Parliament, spoke Friday night before about 1,000 people in H auditorium, as a part of the SUA Forum Series.
Devlin said most Americans had misconceptions about the problems in Iraq.
"Most Americans imagine the problem as a 1968 phenomenon that peaked in 1970 and has continued in a violent relationship," she said. "They see the problem as one of religious intolerance between Catholics and Protestants."
But, Devlin said, this is an oversimplified view.
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"The problem is over 800 years old. It stems from the original British determination to impose its will, its economics and political policies on the people of Ireland."
However, she said, the Irish refuse to be dominated, as shown by their violent uprisings every 50 years for the past 800 years.
"It is the struggle of the working class against the rulling class," Devilin said. "For it is only through the working class that a free socialistic state can be achieved."
"We don't want to exchange British overlords for Irish overlords, British factory owners for Irish factory owners, the British ruling class for an Irish ruling class, or British oppression for Irish oppression," she said.
Discrimination against the minority Catholic population in Northern Ireland is, of course, a great contributing factor to the decline in Catholics in Northern Ireland into the independent state of Eire and the British province of Northern Ireland in 1921. Catholics have been discriminated against in areas of equal rights, employment, education and housing.
"IN IRELAND'S LARGEST shipyard there are 9,000 workers, only 500 of whom are Catholic," she said. "And not one of those men (Catholics) has a skilled job."
From the 1928s through the 1960s, Catholicism was central to Britain. Devlin said, Because of Britain's economic
situation and its wish to negotiate with the predominantly Catholic state of Eire in 1988, however, it was necessary for the Catholics to gesture gestures of reform toward the Catholics.
"In 1867 and 1968," Devin said, "the Catholic minority began to stir. We looked to the civil rights movement in the United States, Catholics, as citizens of Great Britain, to be demand the rights and dignity enjoyed by all other British citizens."
The immediate reaction of the government and protestant establishment, however, was that the Catholic civil rights groups were trying to destroy the state side of the revolution, seen as violent revolutionary and were driven into the Catholic ghetto.
"BY 1869," DEVLIN said, "the instivistic wish of the Catholics was to get out from under British rule. It was a matter of survival."
Eventually, she said, Catholics lost their rights to demonstrate, to organize and to publish their demands. Their rights were violated by the police and then by law, she said.
"Because the Catholics defended justice within the system," Devlin said, "and because the majority party refused to listen, the Northern Ireland government crumbled. Neither could the British govern. Today, Northern Ireland is unovenerable."
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Devlin was the youngest woman elected to Parliament in 1969 at the age of 21. She was defeated in her bid for re-election this year. She said her presence was a threat to the Social Democratic Labor Party rather than being the mainstay of its organization.
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"We've had civil war every year for the last decade," he said, affording the afford of the guard of guerrilla warfare if the enemy was on the march.
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Ireland only contributes to the idea of civil war, Devilin said. If the British were out of the country most of the bombing campaigns were carried out by British men, the bombing is directed toward the British.
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"We need the wealth of the country for our own people," she said. "We need to own and control the means of production in Northern Ireland. We want to control our own destiny, and to do this we must control the means of production."
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