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The
comments made by the letter posted on the 15 November
in response to my letter of so-called ‘gibberish’
are to be welcomed. I respect your point of view,
which contains a number of valid points that are in
need of some form of answer. Such discussion and debate
in our society is vital, especially as authority under
any disguise stifles individual initiative, critical
analysis and dignity and instead ensures compliance,
conformity and obedience. People outside this ridged
elitism are immediately looked upon as aliens or strangers
and are deliberately silenced by force etc., which
for me to remain silent is to collaborate with our
oppressors.
Firstly
you equate me to an ‘intellectual … which
is fine over a cup of tea’. I am neither an intellectual
nor some that sits in an ivory tower and knows what's
best for society. Anarchists do not seek to ‘lead’
people, but to play an active role in the world wide
working class struggle against the parasitic minority
who divide and rule us by using all instruments of
division including sectarianism and racism. Anarchism
otherwise known as libertarian communism has always
been inherent in the working class by their desire
for equality and liberty and to control their own
destiny and fate in cooperation free from those who
seek to led and control us. The spirit of revolt will
never die within us. The working classes have a proud
history of spontaneous class struggle against the
rich and powerful and its protector the state, including
the anti-colonial revolt here in 1969, poll tax rebellion
and the current bintifada in Dublin, just to mention
a few.
I
make no apologies for my opposition to capitalism
which basically rests on the exploitation and domination
of the working classes, which has proved fatal for
millions upon millions of citizens around the world.
The fact that the world's richest 324 people have
the combined wealth of 40% of the world's poorest
tells others and me that it has failed the people,
except for the boss class. At the minute we are seeing
the American ruling class advancing the corporate
agenda, the agenda of the rich and the complete agenda
of oppression and subjection. However we will never
bow to the neo-liberal agenda however extravagant
and moderate it appears. At the minute, (just to mention
a few) the battle of liberation is being fought in
the gallows of Palestine, in the streets of Dublin,
in the hills of the Chiapas in Mexico, all across
Latin America and in the death chambers of Turkey.
It’s a fire of hope, it’s a fire of freedom
and it’s a fire of social justice that will never
be distinguished! Capitalism’s plight and burden
can be vividly seen in the streets and ghettos of
the North of Ireland including high unemployment (especially
in N.Belfast), misery, squalor, neglect, homelessness
and suffering, all caused by a lethal cocktail of
competition and enshrined inequality. Not to mention
the recent report published claiming that just about
half of our children live below the government’s
official poverty line. You can call me an utopian
or whatever but I am a truth seeker, and will never
remain in ‘my place’ as a subservient spectator
while our rulers continue to assist in the rampant
imperialist war against the dispossessed masses around
the world. An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere!
(Gandhi) There is no peace between right and wrong,
truth and falsehood, justice and oppression, master
and slave.
What
should be disturbing is the fact that the coming Neo-colonial
parliament on the hill, will not tackle the daily
problems of the working classes on issues that I have
outlined above and the almost weekly job reductions
in the textile sector including Desmonds and the current
industrial dispute at Shorts. Instead there will be
the same old sectarian parties fighting for their
share of the sectarian privilege of the scraps from
their master's table at Westminster, as well as administering
British capitalist rule! Has the GFA delivered the
goods to the working classes in employment and housing
etc.? Where is the peace dividend which we were promised,
and has there been any real improvement in the lives
of the working classes since its signing? You may
say that it is too soon to judge, but 6 years is a
long time in politics and going by current rhetoric,
spin-doctoring amongst the four main players, it seems
nothing has changed. Only time will tell!
There
is a valid point in the essence that if nationalists
don’t vote, it will result in a greater evil
coming to power? Going by the party of constitutional
nationalism's (ie Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum) past
record in health and education, a donkey could do
better! It was one of failure, apart from the proposal
put forward to abolish the discredited and criminal
11 plus. Bairbre De Brun took up a difficult task,
which took courage but she made so many mistakes that
they are too long to list. The discipline amongst
Sinn Fein ranks ensured nobody spoke out. One of the
most major blunders was the signing away of our public
services to corporate greed, which will have dire
long-term consequences. I am quite confident from
the wealth of historical evidence that if a greater
evil did come to power it would be fiercely resisted
and overthrown by a strong and determined working
class, not by the rather diempowering act of electing
a master every 4 years, as it is impossible to fight
a raging fire with a water pistol! Real change can
come about from where we work and live by collectively
organising together as equals and by imposing direct
action as a deadly weapon in winning reforms. This
can curb and cut the respect of governments as millions
of crosses on bits of paper never will. Instead of
participating in an election we expose the State for
what it is, a hierarichal system designed to ensure
a minority in any clothes coerce, dominate and oppress
the majority. We are into the politics of empowerment,
inclusion and co-operaton through people actively
taking ownership of their own lives by wresting power
back from these parasites. Ordinary people in the
communities and workplaces should have the power to
make decisions that affect them. You also made the
assumption that people on the ‘other side’
would automatically vote for loyalists or Unionists
leaving Nationalists in the lurch which is far from
the truth because since the signing of the GFA there
has been a sharp polarization in the underclasses,
leaving Protestant working class areas feeling vulnerable
and isolated As I am writing seven fellow comrades
in Greece are on hungerstrike, virtually on their
last breath. They were arrested and incarcerated over
the summer during an anti-globalisation demonstration.
Media pictures clearly show Simon Chapman’s bag
being deliberated implanted with explosives by Greece
security forces. They are fighting as part of the
struggle for the liberation of mankind from the chains
of confinement and isolation.
Our
passion for freedom and liberty is greater than your
institutions of enslavement!
“It
is not those who inflict the most, but those who endure
the most will be victorious!” (Terence McSwiney).
They are inside for us; we are outside for them!
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