class-struggle-anarchism:

jethroq:

When talking about the Troubles, I think pretty much everyone awareof the conflict can name the IRA as one of the participants, but probably a majority couln’t name a militant group on the unionist side, despite them also killing a lot of people. This didn’t happen by accident.

also the fact that loyalist terrorists killed substantially more civilians than the IRA did, more civilians than the IRA and the British Army put together actually. 85.4% of the people killed by loyalists were just ordinary people – that’s what they are all about, so it’s far closer to what people commonly understand as ‘terrorism’