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By James Conway

In The Plough: Vol. 2 no. 11, c. summer 1974 · scan page 4 · about 140 words

Loyalism and unionism

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intellectuals are admiring latety — Loyalist prejudices. How have things come to such a stage?

Our answer is this: only by mobilising the Catholic workers, North and South, to smash everything that Loyalism stands for; by challenging the Loyalist politicians right to the point of civil war, will any solution to the present crisis in Ireland be found. But the intelligentsia recoils before such a sanguine proposition. It can afford to sit back and ponder the finer points of Loyalist ideology. It is welcome to do so, But the workers of Ballymurphy, the New Lodge and the Ardoyne must fight tooth and nail against Loyalism to surive. Unlike the intellectuals we Marxists are not afraid to stand on their side. It is this practical committment which is the source of our uncompromising hostility to “two-nationism”™. and all its collaborationist -implications.

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