Daly’s Code for Collaboration!

itis to Karl Marc thatwe must turn inorder to find the most radical iniecpretation if the concept of alienatbon, For Murs argued that humanity is mol condemned to tive by the swent of ite bree under alienated conditions throughout its whole term oon earth. Ir can become free, its labour con become free, it 4s capable if self emancipation, though only under-specitic historical cond itions.

Under the system of capitalism the economic obligation of peuple who enol wherwise survive bas forced them to sell ihe only commadity they poses — their labour power — om the Inter moirket; According to “lara. this t& the alkenation of LDH? OC Re Ce Oe bece 5 Of stllite labour par Heats ne Worker ics Ont over coer wok belongs to the employer. ioe otker, The the w wit the worker willar will mat do dining this period in time and otto studies the ultimute and meat perfected fern # this control, the boss even tries to comtral evers second Interally evel ona the time vou spend in nsemployment. Alienation in jhe workplace alse on another term: when a wane carer lias sold her labour pH the products al tet products of Lntsoar bec Whilst worker, in reality under capitalism, tis aen tothe worker's disadvantage, Por example, shift work was created m suit the needs of the machine, the introduction of the microchip fas resulted in the loss af thousands of jobs. The assembly linc ts designed totum qaick profits for the employer, ohilst the worker must suffer bering, and often dangerous work tauthives.

Thus. alicnation §s complete, Work is i Jonger on menns of sulf-cxpression for those who seil their labour pewer, Work is just a Means 1 dh end ane! that-end is to pet enough minty to live. Sonn income to make it possible to buy the consumer goods necessary to antishuone's ngeds, Thus a basic aspect of human ature. tee capa cit ro perfor creative work is twitbed amd dist ried undor capital ism This is highhghtes in Hove: Beyni's book, ‘Working for Ford": a mugen stad, of the workitg conditions ina car assembly line plane. One Ford worker is quoted as savine, “its got mo interest, you emul? take the job bome. There's naching to take. [t's different tor them inthe office, they are a part of For 6. We are oot, we are ineibers The workers fold the stary about the man whe left Ford te work imo ty here for haa boss. Ut rs Bg hours. Tris time amplaver will dictate wer for a verain pant of ber fife to the emphiver lobtor are mot ber own. Under capitalism the me the property of the emplose credlian of oew lechnokyr should benefit the The SDLP, the Catholic hierarchy and the main political portics in the sowth, Flanna Fail, Fine Gael and the Labour Party, all have of ready phrase when describing the sltuadion of the nationalist popalation in the north. The phrase used 1s allenathon, The tern alienation fannd expression in the language of the Meow Ireland Forum Repert, We are told nationalists in the worth foal alienated fren political ind civil institutions, frem the security foracs aid from the rule of lav Heeiiless in-say the conclusian to be drawn, that the only way to cwercome this ulenathon is to dismenile the ‘six-county state aod catablish an Lroited Ireland wos tol utrived a. The reason beige that the politcal partes behind this document do not s1bsetibe to the coucepl of an inde: pendent United Ereland, but to how they can best protect their interests. and thar boils down to more collaborate with British imperialism, The SOL, Free State parties and the catholic church seem te have forgotten thal nationalists have alwaes felt alenated in relation to the sisn-cooniy partitionis? state. The British government set if up asa bulwark for Unionist wes Craigavon who said tn 1974, iad | have always suid thar | am an Orangeman first aod «politician and a member of parliament afterwards .. All | beast is that we have o protestant parliament and a protestant state.”

With that tpeoof mecatality sill pertaliing amungst loyalists then itis to-be oxmected that natlonalists want ne track with) This secta fan state. Prom the clay and hour ofits inceprtian it has. always. amempted to repress the aspirations for 4 Voited Ireland.

Su when Dr Daly and John Aime puniiliae tram their respeccive pulpits on the danger of albenatien god how the British government should not ignore It, ler ws oot imagine for a second that they are really concerned about the midnight snide on nationalist homes by ie British Army and the RUC ot the shoot-ic-kill policy a-extracdition and the attacks on The pradicnt discinlrane liserietd at part of the electorate, . the attempt by lovalist councillors to expel Or John MeAnultof PD, or the thrent te end the provision of leisure services to an area of West Belfast. simply because a Trcolo & Mean over the contre — this- is the restity of life for La S.8/5H0P C4HAL OAL F nationalists wid we keow why the catholic hbetarchy ancl Irish, politiclans wring their homds, These people such as Home, Ualy and Peter Barry otauth whet alicnation, because they Enow that a grovdig anti-imperialisi concingsness threatens their fewer base ond will undermine their attempis io farther wollabore with Brivsh iinperialisen. The sittge oof suppom for the recent hunger strikes ond the thousands of votes for Sinn Fein hasthem bernfied For example they boasted in the New [reland Forum Report thal the Forint sought the views: cf all traditions who ngreed with ins ehjectives and who reject. vinlence. This miver tok plate, becadse the loyalists who were invibed, saapport vidkence ayninst nitionalis! resistances to their thie. The decoment was mee at the British ogereernment and nobody could say thar Mageie disagrecs with the weapan af viddence to solve polttiical problems, we have to ‘lock mo further than the miners’ strike.

Another thing which 15 ancoving is how the SDLP and dis allies attempt to limit the nature of ahenition to nationalises in. the north.

As Marxists we contend that alienation is a widespread plenamenon throughout the whale of Ireland, ‘his has been exploined bv those whe, under the cover of “pure” socialism, Sappat imperiaism and refuse to challenge loyalism, Jim Kemmy has sad that protestant wotker; also suffer unempliyment, bad heosing. ete und are also alicoated, IF OU ARE INTERESTED IN JOIMIAG THE PEOPLES DEMOCRACY AND FIGHTING FOR A SOCIALIST 22 COUNTY REPUBLIC, FILL IM THE FORM BELOW OND SENDIT TO: We agree! But we realise that loyalist workers auppart Lhesame Paliticalsvatem which guaranters imperialist rule and all the Wiemplayment that flows fron ic. tis the srrupele for acunited Ire land that threatens Us dacnina tion and it is nathenalist workers who suppor this fight who have suffered the worst repression and discrimination, Be it at the factory of the working cles women who ure forced to spend long. hers at deeme;- bei amongst the unemployed who have been told that capitalism has no place lor thems: or the workers living on housing estates lacking in facilities; of the ever-inercasing use of reprcasive legislation desianed to break the back of any icsistance that may emerge from withers.

Let us also temember that the neat ser af Amgie-[rish talks: ell only inerense this alienation: acd not start te gradually erode i. The aintinuation of the emstene of multinational companies only ensures futther alienation and the gerall subserqence of the southern econonie to British imperialism is a sure PunTEntes that-alicnation fp Ireland will nor wilhet away.

So next Ome you bear Hume or Daly talk about Alienation, remind them about the Marxist concept of alienation. guaranteed te bring buckets of seat onic their forcheads. For ak Marxists we firmly lay the blame for alienatomar the dear of imperialism, Ona wethklwide scale the precotittens for @ pracival disappearanee of alicnation cat only come about with an end to te system of capitalism,