Settler Colonialism
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And what of the page called Designation? It starts off: On the first day the Assembly meets after an election, MLAs sign the Register and designate themselves as ‘nationalist’ or ‘unionist’. This is to facilitate cross-community voting on certain key decisions […] Such decisions must be supported by a certain percentage of MLAs from both…
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The Occupied Ireland Assembly has as its chief goal its own continuance. It has developed a strange website to teach young people of various ages about the colonial administration. The pages for children and young people from primary school up to age 15 are all about how a law is made, who are your colonial…
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It is well known that the London media betrayed an extraordinary confusion when a Conservative government relied on the support of DUP MPs for its majority. Each publication carried short explainers, so that readers might understand how it is that there are Irish MPs when Irish people have been so keen for so long to…
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It is diverting to the observer looking for something bleakly entertaining in the current political chaos, that Trump’s policies are not only splitting apart the white world, but also the white settler world. By far the least crazy of the man’s policies is the integration of Canada into the USA. This would represent the rolling…
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I The reader will notice a relentless affectation on the part of the present writer: referring to the settler colonisation of Ireland. Now there is no secret to the fact that such a phenomenon took place. The settlers themselves know it, the natives know it, though the word Plantation is preferred. Making use of an…
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Macdara has lately been struck by a softening of the aggressive neo-unionism of the Irish Times. On a recent podcast (which he had avoided listening to for a month), he kept on expecting some of the standard inanities or insanities of the Partionist mindset to surface. In fact, it was all quite reasonable, even with…
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The creation of a regime on stolen land that derives its mock legitimacy from a separate entity that has not existed for two thousand years, inscribes the most anachronistic nativism into geopolitical reality during the post-war period, a time when one might have expected that this type of ideological manoeuvre would have been held in…
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European nazis used advanced technology to visit slaughter upon their victims, an industrial operation of transport, containment and murder; not only the scale of it appalls, but this quality of modernity. This new generation of nazis occupying Palestine also uses the latest technology, but to kill Palestinians where they are, without the need for a…
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Let us use the concept of translatio imperii—transfer of imperium (authority, rule)—as an experiment upon today’s geopolitics. This idea is an ideological manoeuvre whereby the authority of one regime was said to have transferred to another distinct regime, one that came later and was based elsewhere. So various European elites claimed that their State was…
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They insist on their unformed cognitive abilities, making a show of being stuck in the gap between cause and effect, demonstrating their existence in a continual now in which the past cannot be linked to anything taking place, or anything to be anticipated. So anticolonial violence is described as an explosion of inexplicable hatred and…