The 133rd Durham Miners’ Gala on Saturday 8th July will see some 150,000 march through the ancient city. Dave Douglass, ex-miner and author of Stardust and Coaldust autobiographical trilogy looks at its history and the ongoing significance. BIG MEETING GETS BIGGER A day of looking back and looking forward Crowds are now back to…
NO G20, NO UK – SCOTLAND GOES TO HAMBURG
The SSP was involved in leading the socialist opposition to the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005. Connor Beaton is currently representing the Scottish Socialist Party at the anti-G20 protest in Hamburg. Here is his report posted on the SSP blog. (https://scottishsocialistparty.org/no-g20-no-uk-scotland-goes-hamburg/) NO G20, NO UK – SCOTLAND GOES TO HAMBURG The Scottish Socialist Party is proudly supporting and participating…
TWO REVOLUTIONS?
Steve Freeman reports on the politics displayed at the Left Unity Party’s conference held on June 24th in London. This was first published as a letter in Weekly Worker (http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1162/letters/) TWO REVOLUTIONS? On June 24, Left Unity members met in conference to consider the way ahead in the next period. Members are aware of…
ADDRESS TO THE LEFT UNITY CONFERENCE ON JUNE 24th
Allan Armstrong was delegated at the RISE National Forum held in Edinburgh on 8th April to be its representative at the LUP conference on May 20th. Due to the General Election this was postponed to June 24th. Attached is the full version of the talk he prepared for the conference held in London. In the…
DEMOCRACY BURNS DOWN
In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy we are posting two articles by contributors to the Republican Socialist Alliance blog. The first is by Steve Freeman (LUP and RISE). The second is by Phil Vellender (Labour Party and contributor to Chartist) 1. DEMOCRACY BURNS DOWN The terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower is a crime against…
VARADKAR ELECTION AS FINE GAEL LEADER SIGNALS FURTHER RIGHT SHIFT
Recently, in France we have see the election of Macron as President, with his new La Republique En Marche party winning a big majority in the French parliamentary elections. This represents one attempt by the neoliberal Right to regain the initiative in the face of Left and populist Right challenges. In Ireland, the election of…