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...aligned party finds itself living up to its name as Northern Ireland's peace process verges on collapse. Britain on Thursday gave the IRA a week in which to disarm or face the suspension of the power-sharing government and the return of direct rule from London. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has warned that the IRA's refusal thus far to begin turning in weapons makes his party's presence in a coalition government with Sinn Fein untenable, and vowed to quit unless London suspended the institution...
...secret report by the Canadian overseer of the arms-decommissioning process could be a decisive setback. General John De Chastelain is widely expected to find little progress toward IRA disarmament in his report to the governments of Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and that has the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party - the largest party in the territory's historic joint administration - once again threatening to walk out, a move that would collapse the Northern Ireland Assembly and restore direct rule from London. "Disarmament is primarily a psychological issue for both sides," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "The weapons...
...party has no control over IRA decisions, even though it's universally accepted that they're two wings of the same Republican movement - which is not to deny, of course, that the peace process has created serious divisions between moderates and hard-liners. The same division on the Unionist side may force Trimble's hand: "Trimble faced a mutiny in his own ranks over the IRA weapons issue last November, and only won 58 percent of the Unionist vote for staying in the peace process after promising that he would resign from the new government by February...
Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave...
...difficulties faced by the peace process are exemplified by the boycott of the cabinet's first meeting by two of its 12 ministers. These two, as members of the hardcore Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, have agreed to serve as ministers of the cabinet, but never want to be in the same room as Sinn Fein's two representative ministers...