by Kevin Keating and John McAnulty, Socialist Democracy (Ireland) In the run-up to the Irish election of 25th February a number of key issues arose. The major issue was the imposition of four years of renewed austerity overseen by the intervention of the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The second issue was the…
The 1% Network
Dan Finn of the Irish Socialist Network shows how socialist groups in Ireland are coming together to fight the cuts agenda of the Irish ruling class Ireland is undergoing neo-liberal shock therapy as a result of the Government decision to guarantee the debts run up by speculators in our hyper-inflated housing market that went down…
An appeal from the International Federation of Iraq Refugees
The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees needs your support for the demonstrations and the movement for freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan. The people of Kurdistan have launched a movement for freedom, justice, jobs and services, and against political corruption. They organised civil demonstrations against the authorities of Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling parties, the…
Egypt’s Uprising: Not Just a Question of ‘Transition’
Adam Hanieh examines the revolutionary process in Egypt and looks at the broader implications for the Middle East. This article first appeared on the Monthly Review website The events of the last weeks are one of those historical moments where the lessons of many decades can be telescoped into a few brief moments and seemingly…
Claiming Feminism
Susan Dorazio, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is a retired child care worker and past-convener of the Women’s Commission of the Socialist Party USA. She is a member of the Glasgow North East branch of the Scottish Socialist Party. For at least the past 100 years, socialists in Europe and the United States have debated…
Welsh Referendum
The referendum, which took place on March 3rd, on whether or not to provide law-making powers to the National Assembly in Cardiff has gone by with hardly a murmur on the British or Scottish Left. The ‘Yes’ result represented an advance for liberal unionism over conservative unionism. It has also confirmed an ongoing tendency to…
English republican socialism
In last May’S general election I stood against Simon Hughes in Bermondsey and Old Southwark as an Independent. The main message was that working people must oppose the “Great Bankster Robbery” being planned by the banks and the major parties. Whoever won the election, Labour, Tory or the Liberal Democrats, the embedded ‘coalition’ with the…
No British Withdrawal? No Royal Visits!
Statement from eirigi, an Irish republican socialist organisation Preparing the Ground There has been much political and media speculation in recent years about the possibility of a state visit to the Twenty-Six Counties by the British head of state, Elizabeth Windsor. This speculation has formed part of an elaborate ‘softening-up’ exercise designed to prepare the…
Two Royal Weddings and…. A Republican Funeral for the UK?
Allan Armstrong argues why we need to build a militant republican movement in the UK 2011 – what they don’t want us to remember 2011 brings the tenth year of the US/UK imperial war in Afghanistan and the third year of the ongoing economic crisis, brought to us initially by the US and British banks…
Editorial
Resisting Public Spending Cuts: The Movement We Need, The Movement We Don’t Introduction The neoliberal austerity agenda of the Con-Dem coalition government, in the form of massive cuts to public spending, has become today’s defining political issue. Physical and ideological resistance to cuts has already begun, including mass rallies and an insurgency among youth and…