The dissident republican group, the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, has rejected the Northern Ireland Agreement as "fundamentally undemocratic, anti-republican and unacceptable", writes Suzanne Breen, in Belfast.
In a hard-hitting message, the Committee predicted that if Britain succeeded in "modernising its occupation of our country", there would be further conflict in the North.
At a press conference yesterday, the group issued a two-page statement criticising the peace deal. "We believe that rather than aid or assist the goal of a genuine and just peace, it will compound the problem as it does not address the fundamental cause of conflict, the denial by Britain of Ireland's right to sovereign independence".
The Committee said the agreement upheld the unionist veto and was an attempt to buy off republicans.
Two leading members of the group, Ms Bernadette Sands-McKevitt, sister of the dead IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, and a Sinn Fein councillor in Omagh, Co Tyrone, Mr Francie Mackey, leave today for a 10-day speaking tour of the US.