The Revolutionary Democratic Group give their analysis of the Socialist Alliance of England’s conference in December 2001 The Socialist Alliance conference on December 1st 2001 was an important moment to gauge the development of the new left emerging in England and throughout Britain. The SA movement has provided the greatest advance for left unity for…
James Connolly’s appeal on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee In 1897
The great appear great to us, only because we are on our knees: let us rise. Fellow Workers, The loyal subjects of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, etc., celebrate this year the longest reign on record. Already the air is laden with rumours of preparations for a wholesale manufacture of…
Red Republicans or just Red Reformers?
As Elizabeth Windsor’s Golden Jubilee approaches, Mary Ward argues why all democrats should be republicans If, like me, you view the events of the coming Jubilee with a mixture of revulsion and anger, then you may well be assuming that the republican left has gone to sleep or all been deported such has been the…
International Working Women’s Day – Some thoughts
As communists and progressives around the world celebrate International Working Women’s Day, Linda Gibson argues that, under capitalism, gender roles lead to an artificial division in emotional development. As International Women’s Day comes around articles will again be written about how women are still not achieving parity with men. And of course that’s true but…
Dedicated to Gung-ho George…(The Texaco Kid)
Wanted:- Dead or Alive Wars about wars Wars about hate Talk peace & listen Before it’s too late But peace is so boring Let’s go have some fun Nuke a few gooks And let the blood run Saw a swallow nesting today Wars of attrition, Some won & some lost Why try it again? Think…
Lords of the Rings
Nick Clarke describes how the USA has used the Salt Lake City Olympics as war propaganda Nationalism has always been a central and integral part of the Olympics – both winter and summer varieties. However, it seems as if the recent events in Salt Lake City have seen jingoism hit new heights. So much so…
War against terrorism and the threat to freedom of expression
Steve Kaczynski highlights the Blair government’s further attacks on our civil liberties Since September 11, 2001, the bourgeois democratic mask of respecting rights has been slipping. In December, a car bringing the left-wing Turkish language weekly magazine Yasadigimiz Vatan (The homeland we live in) was stopped by British police at Dover, and two issues of…
An eye for an eye? – justice USA style
AN EYE FOR AN EYE? – JUSTICE USA STYLE It is already clear that the number of civilian dead from the bombing vastly exceeds the estimated 500 killed by US air strikes during the 78-day Kosovo war, and may also be higher than the 3,200 Iraqi civilians believed killed during the Gulf war. A lot…
War Against Terrorism?
A symbol of massacre, rape and pillage It is, of course, richly ironic that the first achievement of the war on terrorism has been to install in Kabul the Northern Alliance, for whom terrorism has been the entire line of business and way of life for more than 20 years. But it remains a fact…
Afghanistan Solidarity Appeal
The LPP, in close association with the ALRO, has decided to launch the Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign. The idea to start this campaign was discussed during the recent visit of Alan McCombes (editor, Scottish Socialist Voice). Writing from Peshawar, Alan described the conditions the ALRO face: The activists I met live in grinding poverty, often…