Emancipation and Liberation is reposting this article by Rowan Fortune of Anti-Capitalist Resistance, which has appeared on the Republican Socialist Platform website. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl…
Popular Culture, Brexit And One Nation Toryism
The following article by Jim Aitken, first appeared on the Culture Matters blog. There was a palpable sense of euphoria on the BBC during the morning after the night before of the General Election of December 12, 2019. It had a feeling of glee about it; a childish excitement that the un-English dragon of socialism –…
Emancipation & Liberation – Welsh Coverage 2002-2020
Following the posting of our Irish coverage, E&L is posting our Welsh and republican related coverage from 2002 to 2020 to promote a wider socialist republican ‘internationalism from below’ alliance 2021 BEYOND LEEK-FLAVOURED UKism – Robat Idris – Undod 2020 The British Left and the UK State – Allan Armstrong, RCN, Republican Socialist Platform From grey to…
John Manson – Socialist, Literary Critic, Translator And Poet (1933-2020)
Allan Armstrong writes about John Manson, socialist, literary critic, translator and poet who died on August 3rd. It was with considerable sadness that I learned of John Manson’s death a month after it occurred on August 3rd. John had been a “a non-party Socialist since the dissolution of the CPGB”[1] and a significant literary critic,…
PAULINE BRADLEY SINGS ‘ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE’
Pauline Bradley sings Only Our Rivers Run Free also see:- Pauline Bradley sings The Workers Song http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2020/06/15/14168/ Pauline Bradley sings about Helen MacFarlane on May Day http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2020/05/03/pauline-bradley-sings-about-helen-macfarlane-on-many-day/
In memory of Neil Davidson: The West – No Better Than All the Rest
Allan Armstrong was reading How the West Came to Rule – The geopolitical origins of capitalism, by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglum, as he learned of the tragic death of Neil Davidson. This book was influenced by Neil’s work on Uneven and Combined Development at a world scale. Allan has engaged in several debates with Neil…
NEIL DAVIDSON MEMORIAL MEETING, 11.7.20
NEIL DAVIDSON MEMORIAL MEETING Saturday, July 11th, 20.00 Join comrades and friends in an online event to remember Neil Davidson who died on 3 May 2020. You need to REGISTER to receive details by email of how to join this Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAof-yorjktEtGWmauKAb958o3TEgvpAD– Neil Davidson was a socialist militant and a highly innovative…
RACISM – CALLING A DIFFERENT TONE
The Emancipation & Liberation Editorial Board (EB) is posting this article by Will Stratford of the Platypus Affiliated Society (PAS) in the USA about the Left’s response to the BLM protests. PAS is a Left propagandist think-tank. The EB is taking up Stratford’s challenge to the Left to publish his arguments. We invite others to…
KEVIN KEATING – An Appreciation
It was with great sadness I learned of the death of Kevin Keating. I first met Kevin and his partner, Anne Conway, at the Socialist Democracy (Ireland) weekend schools held near Kippure, in the upper Liffey Valley in the Wicklow Mountains, from 2007-9. The political debates were of a very high standard, and the camaraderie…
INTERNATIONALISM FROM BELOW – Volume 3
Allan Armstrong has completed the third volume of his book – Internationalism from Below: Reclaiming a communist tradition to challenge the nation-state and capitalist empire. This volume is titled, Revolutionary Social Democracy, Nation-States and Nationalism in the Age of High Imperialism and the Second International (1889-1916). It can be read online at:- https://allanarmstrong831930095.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/internationalism-from-below-book-3doc-1.pdf Most of…