Recent events in England at Clapham Bandstand and Bristol have shown a growing resistance to the attempts to resist the post-Brexit strengthening of the UK state. Unlike Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, where constitutional nationalist parties have tried to head off wider opposition to the UK state, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has meekly bowed…
The promise and reality of vaccination
We are posting this article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) about the impact of the global imperialist order on Covid-19 vaccinations through out the world. The roll out of vaccination programmes across the world has raised hopes that the end of the Covid pandemic may be in sight. There are a number of vaccines currently in use…
Challenges for the Catalan left wing movement in 2021
This is the second article we are posting written by Lorena Sorantes, from Galicia in Spain, about the political situation in Catalunya. Introduction This brief article will be an attempt to enumerate and then explain the current challenges the Catalan left-wing movement is facing and will face from this year onwards . In order to…
The Paris Commune’s revolutionary ideas – 150 years on
This article by Ben Wray on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune was first posted on bella caledonia. In the morning of 18 March 1871, a crowd of women in the Parisian working class district of Montmartre demonstrated. They were responding to the regular army of the French Government, fresh from defeat in a…
Expensive, dangerous and unnecessary
We are posting tan edited version of an article by Eddie Ford which first appeared in Weekly Worker. With the Right moving Paul Mason now advocating new nuclear power stations as an alternative to carbon based energy, this article makes the case against. The solution to global warming does not rely on going over to…
Making rewilding part of a socialist future
We are posting this article by Alex Lee of Anti-Capitalist Resistance, which suggest that Socialists should take up the issue of rewilding, but reject attempts by capitalists to co-opt it for their own purposes. If you look in any popular bookstore these days, you’ll find books on rewilding…. There are books about rewilding your garden,…
Free Pablo Hasél
We are posting this statement from the Republican Socialist Platform concerning the Spanish state arrest and imprisonment of Catalan rapper, Pablo Hasél. The Republican Socialist Platform condemns in the strongest possible terms the imprisonment of Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél. Pablo was convicted and now imprisoned in connection with tweets and songs taking aim at the…
Can reason end this witch hunt – Standing with Ken Loach
Sarah Glynn, who is a member of Edinburgh RIC, posted this article about the media treatment of Ken Loach on bella caledonia. It has also been posted on the Edinburgh RIC blog. When, last week, I wrote about attacks on academic freedom in Turkey, I didn’t expect to be following that article with one about…
Science, profit and anti-vaxxers
We are posting this article by Robert Belano of Left Voices (USA) which examines the relationship between science and capitalism, in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding vaccine skepticism requires a look at the nature of health care and science in the U.S. The Capitol takeover in early January put American conspiracy theorists on…
Who Needs Hydrocarbons?
We are posting this article on Hydrocarbons and who uses them by Gearoid O’ Loingsigh, Gearoid lives in Colombia. This article was first posted on by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) There is an argument put forward not only by large oil companies and governments but also by social organisations and one or another run of the…