The SSP is currently going through another crisis. It survived the traumatic experience of Tommygate, but despite promises, the leadership declined, once the court case was over, to have a full debate on the lessons to be drawn. Instead those who raised these issues (including the RCN) became the subject of attack. However, the position…
OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY
We have revived this open letter and petition from Ian Allinson of UNITE Grassroots Left. It calls upon UNITE members to reject Len McCluskey’s call for the Labour Party to adopt the IHRA definition anti-semitism. OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY We the undersigned call on you to oppose the adoption by the…
STOP UNION BUSTING IN UKRAINE
HOW WORKERS IN UKRAINE’S STEEL INDUSTRY ARE FIGHTING FOR WAGES, RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY UKRAINIAN UNIONS UNITE IN MAJOR STRUGGLE WITH GLOBAL GIANT ARCELOR MITTAL
NO VOTE WASTED – FOR PURE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
Murdo Ritchie argues that Socialists should support the purest form of proportional representation. NO VOTE WASTED – FOR PURE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION The outcomes of all elections are the resultants produced by misshapen class struggles. The consciousness of the participants and the audience are formed in the policies. But the institutions as well as…
EUROPE AND THE TRUMP DOCTRINE
In this article Paul Demarty argued that Donald Trump is following a logical policy which meets the requirements of a declining US capitalism, and its growing economic weakness, highlighted in the aftermath of the 2008 Crisis. EUROPE AND THE TRUMP DOCTRINE If Donald Trump is such a disastrous president, why is America not suffering? …
THE BREXIT RATIFICATION REFERENDUM
This blog has been covering the case for holding a Brexit Ratification referendum. This was brought up at the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) conference held in Edinburgh in March. The motion below was passed at the RIC AGM held on June 30th. This is followed by a letter by Allan Armstrong which was printed in…
A QUIET TWELFTH
We are posting the latest update in out coverage of events in the Six Counties. This article was first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) A QUIET TWELFTH Capitulation to Orangeism pays off, but at what price? …
STILL TALKING ABOUT JOHN MACLEAN
Gerry Cairns replies to Allan Armstrong’s review of his book, The Red and the Green – A Portrait of John MacLean (http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2018/06/22/allan-armstrong-reviews-the-red-and-the-green-by-gerard-cairns/) STILL TALKING ABOUT JOHN MACLEAN Replying Reviews and reviewers can vary. In reply to a new book or a new film the reviewer has different motives – be they professional, journalistic or…
ISRAEL – CLARITY AS TO THE REALITY
Netanyahu’s new Jewish Nation-State Act gives constitutional status to what has long been Israel’s reality. It is a racist apartheid-type state. Netanyahu’s confidence in stating this openly has come about because of the general drift to the Right of politics, underlined by Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in defiance of the…
LESSONS OF THE RED (REPUBLICAN) STATES TEACHER STRIKES
Eric Chester has sent in this article form Jack Gerson, a teacher activist on California, about the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona. LESSONS OF THE RED (REPUBLICAN) STATES TEACHER STRIKE Last Saturday (June 9), I attended the “Lessons of the Red States Teacher Strikes” forum featuring teacher leaders of the…