has been an active agent in the imperialist domination of Ireland throughout most of the last imperialism. At various points in time it has served as a veritable counter revolutionary threat, not only in Ireland but in Britain as well a long-term political coalitièn forged by British imperialism in Ireland and used to establish a separate state apparatus in the Six Counties in 1922 Paper sales, pamphlets, pretty speeches, Parliamentary lobbies and peaceful demonstrations cannot split apart such deeply rooted class collaborationism. It can only be smashed through the militant, concerted and armed opposition of the nationalist population. The task of the British left is not to prattle historical nonsense, or to moralise, it is to solidarise, African gold mines put their millions behind the UVF as well.
The money power of the City of London financiers had been brought behind the UVF through the work of Lord Milner, the real power behind the throne in the UVF. Milner was one of the most powert ul imperialists in British history. It was he who had organised the biggest imperialis war Britain had evet been involved in before the First World War the South African Boer War, The British cupitalist class had armed half a million men for that wat, in urder to seize pomplete control of the biggest gold mines in the world. Milner had then laid the foundations of the modern South African state, hasing it upon the thorough and highly regulared explodation of the alack population THE KINDERGARTEN Milner lad his own political high command" in Brilain, called the kindergarden,' These were Oxford University types who he had recruted for the work of setting up the South African state, and who remained an organised and in laential pro-imperialist force for a long time afterwards. His second-in-command was a Tory MP. Leo Amery.
Amery was a rapacious imperialist gangster.
One of his sons became a Nazi in the 1930s and organised the British-manned Legion of St. George, which fought for Hitler on the Russian froat. He wet his end on the Wandsworth Prison gallows, hanged for treason in 1945. Anotber son followed a century. It has served as the mass, armed striking force both of its own ruling class and of British All this cannot be explained away by the passing confusion of Protestant workers. It results from I slightly different career, and is now Tozy Housing Minister.
Milner brought Carson together with the Trading finance capiralists, and top ruling class politicians, editors, and administrators, - aDd with the imperialist military chiefs. Lord Roberts, the conqueror of the Boers, was a patron of the VP, and its maut military commander was the British general respon sible for the massacre of the Boxers in Peking, Through Milner, Carson was in touch with Sir Henry Wilson, Director of Military Operations on the limperial General Staff Wilson was hirselt an Orangeman, and later helped to set-up the infamous 'B-special police.
CLASS COLLABORATION Beneath these hangmen of finance came a rank-and-file of 100,000 Orangemen, the bulk of then. Protestant workers, The Lame section of the UVE, which was responsible for landing guns, shows up the type of class collaboration that was at the hasis of this movement.
The Commander of the Central Antrim UVE was chairman of the company that owned thi harbour, his second in-command worked for the Shamrock Shipping Company and conmanded the Larne group of the UVF. The rank-and-tile were men who worked at the harbour.
The UVF was made up of sections of the Protestant working class plus the small farmers was finanoed organised, and directed by Lon I don-based imperialists, and officered by the