Here's some background on the Irish struggle from a 2014 rabble podcast.
https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/awl/2014/05/free-and-united-ireland-ong...
On this issue if [email protected] Radio, KW Radio Basics host Julian Ichim chats with Francis Mackey about present situation in Ireland with a focus on the impact of the occupation and resistance. Topics covered include the attempts of British forces to rewrite history through attacking the collective memory of the Irish people, British policing in The Six Counties and the need for unity in the face attempts by the crown to criminalize political dissent.
Francis Mackey is the Chair of The 32CSM, whose aims and goals are to struggle for a unified 32 County Ireland free from political economic and cultural domination by Britain. As such The 32CSM as a poltical organization has faced severe political repression ranging from its members being interned in jail to constant harrasment. Despite this they have continued there political work and are attempting to break the silence on the realities of the occupation.
The election of Joe Biden, who is of Irish ancestry, has important implications for the situation in Ireland, as he promised in September that there would be no free trade deal by the US with England (I do not use Britain because Scotland is facing its own independence struggle) if it did not respect the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement. The agreement includes a provision for an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. England has continued used the threat of a hardened border between the two as a tool in the Brexit negotiations to such an extent that it is considered the #1 block to reaching an agreement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/17/biden-to-uk-no-trade-deal-unles...
He is only the President elect and he is already interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. God it is so good he got elected because he is fit to rule the whole planet.
And England has been interfering in Irish internal affairs since 1169, including occupying the country until losing the War of Independence in 1921. It then split off the six counties of Northern Ireland, using the militant fundamentalism of religion to maintain control in the North, while militant unionist parties in Northern Ireland provided support to minority Conservative governments in England to help them stay in power and introduce radical right austerity programs. The English Parliament helped maintain religious segregation in jobs, housing etc. by assisting religious rabid haters for more than two centuries after it forced the unification of the English and Irish parliaments in 1801 under the Act of Union following the 1798 Rebellion by Catholics and Protestants in order to split the two sides. One of the most recent of a long line of such rabid haters was Ian Paisley who said:
Now the Conservative Johnson government wants to violate the 1998 peace agreement by putting a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, an agreement "that Northern Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and would remain so until a majority of the people both of Northern Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland wished otherwise", (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement) thereby allowing for unification in the future, which is likely as demographics are likely to make Catholics the majority relatively soon. In other words, England wants to rewrite the rules of the ballgame whenever it pleases its interests. As a member of the EU, Ireland has the support of the EU in opposing the violation of the Good Friday Agreement.
Yes Britain and its bastard offspring America have been interfering in other peoples affairs for centuries. I would prefer it stopped. The US needs to go home and shut its mouth and stop being a fucking bully and the same goes for the vainglorious Brits who still think the UK is an empire.
The US was involved in bringing about the Good Friday Agreement that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland. I recognize that US has overthrown most governments and often occupied many countries in Latin America and elsewhere and failed to recognize Palestinian rights and statehood, but in the case of Northern Irleand it did help bring about peace. It is the UK government that is violating international law in this case, not the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Envoy_for_Northern_I...
https://center-forward.org/us-involvement-in-the-northern-irish-peace-pr...
Just as "the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law, ... [ and BDS] pressures governments pressure governments to fulfil their legal obligations to end Israeli apartheid, and not aid or assist its maintenance", which I support, international pressure can be applied to Britain for its violation of international law with regard to Ireland.
Boris Johnson introduced legislation that would override the Brexit withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland, a move that threatens the collapse of crunch talks with the EU over this issue as well as the breaking of international law. "By reneging on the terms of a treaty negotiated with those institutions, Johnson’s internal market bill inaugurates a new chapter in UK-EU relations. It dissolves the pragmatic foreign policy tradition in an acid bath of Europhobic paranoia. ... Under the withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland ends up with a different customs and regulatory regime to the rest of Britain, unless the differences are eliminated by a free-trade deal." (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/15/boris-johnson-brex...)
In fact even some Conservatives have rebelled against Boris Johnson over his violation of international law with regard to Northern Ireland. Lord Keen, "one of the government’s senior law advisers, ... who was also the Ministry of Justice spokesman in the Lords, was alone in advising the government it would breach the ministerial code if ministers defied international law and overrode the withdrawal agreement." and resigned as a consequence. Later, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, admitted "that the internal market bill [allowing a possible hard border in Ireland] breached international law triggered the latest Brexit crisis." (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/16/lord-keen-events-that-l...)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/17/boris-johnson-fresh-bre...
Johnson's proposed reneging on the Brexit deal in order to create a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland has drawn criticism in both parts of Ireland.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/07/alarm-in-dublin-and-bel...