North Belfast: Nationalists Under Constant Attack Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - IRSP IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY * PRESS RELEASE 27 September 2001 "Nationalist community under constant attack in North Belfast" - IRSP The Irish Republican Socialist Party today is accusing the authorities and the state of abandoning the nationalist working class in North Belfast in the face of a concerted military offensive by loyalists. The IRSP's North Belfast representative Paul Little said: "The Nationalist working class communities in North Belfast have been thrown to the wolves, on the altar of political expediency, rather than the British government tackling those responsible for the current level of loyalist attacks. It is with incredulity that we listen to Dr. Reid and his claims to be reviewing the UDA ceasefire, whilst the Stormont assembly acts as if the current crisis on the streets of North Belfast has nothing to do with them." In conclusion the IRSP representative said: "All those political parties and governments who are party to the farce that is the Good Friday Agreement should wake up and smell the coffee. Whilst the British government fail to tackle loyalism that is refusing to change, refusing to live beside their Catholic neighbours without attacking them and choosing the weakest in our society as its victims, all talk of a peaceful future here is fantasy, with no basis in reality. "The nationalist working class is entitled to the same peaceful future as everyone else and cannot be written off as a sacrifice to sectarian bigotry." STATEMENT ENDS REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PUBLICITY BUREAU COSTELLO HOUSE, 392 FALLS ROAD, BELFAST. BT12 6DH Tel/fax- 02890 330786 ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-09.27.01-13:04:56-10428