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When the British troops moved in, McCann said that many supposed that they were there to invade the area. McCann calmly told me that he thought that they would have lost a shooting war. By that time the war had spread to Belfast and eight people had been killed...
...McCann said that most of the street people enjoyed it as much as he did. "The fighting was exciting. I enjoyed it tremendously. In fact, I'm rather nostalgic for it." Many of the people in Derry learned politics as they fought. They learned through their own fighting to support the Panthers...
...Northern Irish, the problem is just as clear. From everything McCann said, Northern Ireland is a British colony by any definition of the word. The British government gives over two hundred million dollars in direct subsidies to Northern Irish industry, almost all of which is directly owned by English companies. Those same companies remove over three hundred million dollars a year in profits from the island. In other words, English taxpayers subsidize English industry in Northern Ireland which pours profits into the pockets of the English industrialists...
With the economic conditions as bad as they are, the movement throughout Ireland should continue to grow. McCann said that one of the main problems last August was the lack of a solid political organization that could consolidate the rebellion into a united force...
...numbers of the Protestant working class. If the British troops left Derry, the fighting would certainly break out again between Catholics and Protestants. "When Catholics see evtremist Protestants charging into the Bogside carrying the Union Jack, it's hard to convince them that the Protestants aren't the enemy," McCann said...