Breaking ranks in Northern Ireland

One of the core ideas of working-class politics, a journalist from Belfast writes, "promoted by both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries, is the need for community cohesion and solidarity around the cause. The paramilitary organizations on both sides have tried to monopolize the expression of the areas they occupy. Contradict them and you are not just a traitor to a political cause, you are a defector from your own root community."