[lbo-talk] Orange and Green

[james daly]

In bourgeois political circles the best approach to the loyalists was shown 
by Charlie Haughey, who became the leader of Fianna Fail, but only after 
Jack Lynch had damaged the situation irreparably, and Fianna Fail and 
Haughey were very weak and vulnerable.  Nevertheless Haughey negotiated the 
Anglo Irish agreement with Maggie Thatcher "over the heads of the 
Unionists" -- the Trilateralist member and future President of the 26 
counties Mary Robinson left the Labour Party in protest.  In his last period 
of office Haughey was finally uttering the words  which should have been 
spoken decades before -- "a unitary state".