----- Original Message ----- From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:08 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] British Empire (was US Imperialism)
"However, I think a lot of Kenyans, Irishmen, Tanganyikans, Singaporeans and Malay Chinese would be irritated to hear that the Empire was finished in 1945". ********* In "Ulster" it shows no sign of dying. "Ulster is British" corresponds to "Algerie Francaise". If you wore a T-shirt saying "Ulster is Irish" outside the kind of ghetto I live in, you would not get back alive. Years ago I asked posters to the A-list and Marxmail what sign they saw of the British withdrawal their abstract theories confidently a priori predicted. Nobody came up with any. Even New Sinn Fein sees none. J. D.