2 Years Later, "Good Friday Agreement" Testament to Failure: IRSP


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IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY *
   
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10 April 2000
 
"Good Friday" Agreement's 2nd anniversary: "A testament to failure" - IRSP
 
Following April's IRSP Ard Comhairle meeting, the Party has issued a
damning indictment of the politics of the Good Friday Agreement on its
second anniversary.

Ard Comhairle representative Jimmy Bradley following the meeting in Dublin
said:

"The failure of the Good Friday Agreement two years on is a damning
indictment of all those involved in its construction, if the situation
wasn't so serious, the irony of those who negotiated the GFA bringing it
crashing down will not be lost on those who are committed to a non
sectarian society and a durable peace.

The consistency of those politicians warning of a return to conflict is
tedious, they are engaged in the politics of fear, threat and blame. Lets be
clear, it is those same self serving politicians and political parties that
have failed, not the ordinary people. The working class communities have for
far too long taken the blame for the failure of the Good Friday Agreement,
the time has long since past that these politicians stand up and take
responsibility for their own actions.

The IRSP reject the politics of fear, threat and blame, we reject the GFA 
as it supports and promotes sectarian divisions, condemning another
generation of young Irish people to live in a segregated society. Is this
really the future that we envisage in Ireland?"

In conclusion, the IRSP representative said: "The lack of vision displayed by
all those involved in the GFA is frightening, the threat of a return to
conflict so easily used as a justification when there is a crisis in the
'Agreement' is a bigger threat to the peace than decommissioning or any
other contrived crisis. There is an alternative to a return to conflict, the
IRSP's Charter for non aggression offers a genuine commitment to conflict
resolution, it could lead to the breakdown of sectarian divisions leading to
the creation of the trust necessary to build a new equal future for all,
especially the working class community that has borne the brunt of the past
thirty years of conflict."

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