It strikes me that the decision, after 30 years, to send the Orange Order fascists down the Garvaghy Road is a deliberate provocation by the British state forces. This follows the mobilisation of the loyalist mobs earlier in the year. I suspect that what's being done here is a deliberate series of escalations planned by those who will use any method possible to stop even the suggestion of a united Ireland coming about. We are talking about extremely reactionary forces from within the British state here who would try and pull off a Curragh mutiny even at the hint of a united capitalist Ireland that was within NATO, even that would be too much for these people. Having been around a few British reactionaries from the bourgeoisie at university I know something of their mentality and nothing enrages them more than Irish republicanism and the prospect of "losing" the occupied six counties. To them its like their class lost a private fiefdom when the 26 counties gained even nominal independence. Some of them even dream of marching back and raising the butchers apron over Dublin again. They really are that insane. These fevered dreams of theirs won't happen of course but this is the mentality within the security services and the hierarchy of British armed forces. This is where some Marxist analysis of the Irish question has fallen down in the past. Some in the British ruling class and government circles had favoured withdrawal since the 1960's and, over a century ago, many favoured home rule. There is a militarist clique though in the British state which is prepared to plot against governments and use extreme violence to oppose this though and no government has ever dared to truly go up against them.