ALL UNDER ONE BANNER DEMO – EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 6th

ALL UNDER ONE BANNER Saturday 6 October Assemble 12.30pm, Johnstone Terrace Edinburgh   RIC Edinburgh has agreed to organise a contingent on the march to emphasise RIC’s Scottish republicanism, internationalism and diversity. We have new banners for the event including – Another Scotland Is Possible, Another Europe Is Possible, Another World Is Possible For an…

REVIEW: BALLYMURPHY PRECEDENT (Channel Four)

The following review from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) is of the film Ballymurphy Precedent made by Callum Macrae for Channel Four.     A HIDDEN HISTORY OF BRITISH MILITARY REPRESSION AGAINST CIVILIANS  The Ballymurphy massacre has the simplest of all dramatic structures. It is a narrative built around a chronology – a three-day assault by the…

THE IHRA AND APARTHEID ISRAEL

We are posting three pieces following the Labour Party’s adoption of the IHRA statement on Anti-Semitism. the first is by Moshe Machover, founder member of the socialist Matzpen Party in Israel, who successfully resisted  a joint Zionist and Labour Right attempt to have him expelled from the  Labour Party. The second is by a Shahd…