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Loyalism � A Socialist Perspective
Paul Morrow
����������� To my mind we live in dangerous times, especially if you happen to be a member of the P.U.P.� We are of course, the source of all evil which would explain why both Republicans & Unionists have set their face against us.� The prospect of being in the middle of all this dangerous turmoil would not be the rational reason why someone would sign-up for membership of the Party, yet people do by the score.� My decision to join, taken in the face of this death defying logic, leaves me with not one single regret.
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����������� Yet in the scheme of things I am no one, irrelevant, to some maybe even expendable but by virtue of the fact that I am here representing a voice for radical change is enough to scare the hell out of those who oppose us.� Their only concern when confronted is to cling to their own positions, privileges and power.� To some we signify the most dangerous of weapons, �ideas�, spoken openly.� That said I have no desire to be the hero or the �man in the big picture�.� The risks associated with being a public figure is probably more than I or my family could bear.� However, if it was necessary to make the difference then we should all be prepared to follow through with our principles and convictions.
����������� But the point I allude to is that we shouldn�t need any more heroes if we all can share a common conviction.� From a socialist view, our battles and wars cannot be won for us but by us.� Not by following leaders but by leading those we choose to represent us.� Our job as a Party is to set the framework of principles; the people have the job of put the flesh on the bones of that framework that will embody that commonality.
����������� Still the debate rages on about the constitutional position of Ulster, the maintenance of the Union and the Sell-out that will lead us to a United Ireland.� In all of this debate, we as one community deprive ourselves of the truth.� We hide from the light of reality that describes our own conflicts.� We seek to throw ourselves upon the sword of patriotism, prepared to die for Ulster, yet death brings us no recognition, no social, economic or political strength or advantage.� Our plight is best expressed in the phrase, ��better the master in Hell than the servant in Heaven�, but our sought mastery leaves us reign over nought, others will continue to subvert our loyalties and lord over us by manufacturing our consent.� We are left fighting for a nationality to hide the fact that it is all that we have to fight for.� We are roused to make much of concessions made to nationalists yet many of those concessions we should have been angered for ourselves.� We react with dismay when others demand rights yet we make no clear demands ourselves for equal or reciprocal rights.� We as a Party, in isolation, endeavour to battle for those rights to be offered to us all.� So are we to blame when those who seek to manufacture your consent, those who see themselves as �born to rule� democrats, sideline us and attack us at every given opportunity.� When the P.U.P. stand up and confront these great democrats we ask. �What have they done for the people?�� Those who reply do so by calling us �Traitors�.� I�ve never understood how those who have held power for thirty years and more could be the ones who felt betrayed.
����������� Add to this the open hostility of the LVF/UFF towards us.� It is no secret that they would prefer it if we were all dead.� But in light of what I have just said, whom would our demise most benefit?� I would ask them to drop their sights for one moment and reflect upon whose agenda they are serving, knowingly or not?� Are they soldiers and defenders of working class loyalist or puppets and drug pushing wise guys, manipulated directly by an unseen military hand?� In whose interest does conflict lie?
����������� I put it to you that given the circumstances; all working class loyalists should seek empowerment.� That each and every one of us should be able to hold our heads high and stop looking at our feet marching nowhere.� That we must act and react with honour and honesty, untainted and uncorrupted.� We should lower our gun-sights from each other�s backs and with unity set our political sights on holding the balance of power.� By doing thus, we can conceive and set the agenda that others must follow.�
Only by vision can we become masters of our own destiny.