Even though British imperialism tries again and again to paralyze the freedom struggle of the Irish people and even tolerates a customs border within its territory for this purpose, just to avoid a hard border between the Free State and its Northern Irish colony, there are always armed actions from the ranks of the Irish independence movement. This has been the case in recent months, with a series of armed actions in Northern Ireland against British imperialism.
On the evening of February 22, there was an armed ambush on John Caldwell, a senior British police investigator, in Omagh in the Tyrone district of Northern Ireland. What is special about the ambush is that the policeman was off duty at the moment of the attack.
According to civic media reports, two masked and armed men approached the policeman from behind, who was in the process of packing sports materials into the trunk of his car, and opened fire on him, whereupon the attackers reportedly fled in a car that was found completely burned out some time later. The policeman has since been hospitalized, his condition described as critical but stable. A few days later, the Irish Republican Army (called the "New IRA" by the British media) claimed responsibility for the attack on the policeman and said it was a targeted attack against a leading member of the British reaction.
The panic in the ranks of British Reaction was also reflected in the fact that a special bomb disposal unit of the British Army was called out to Beragh, Tyrone District, on February 25 for a suspected conspicuous device. As a result, the forces cordoned off the area and after three days announced the successful "recovery" of children's airsoft toy weapons.The weapons were placed during a solidarity march for John cladwellin Beragh.
On November 17 last year, there was a mortar attack on a passing police car in Strabene, County Tyrone, in which two police officers were slightly injured.The IRA subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack. Shortly afterwards, a car bomb was discovered and defused by police outside Waterside police station....
These actions show, on the one hand, the vitality of the struggle for national liberation in Ireland and, on the other hand, the fear of intensification of the struggle in the actions of the British occupiers. The division of the British internal market, as well as the deployment of an immense contingent of soldiers to clear objects, shows how British imperialism is not able to control the situation on its "doorstep".
