Allan Armstrong puts the case for building a Scottish-wide Left contingent on the ‘All Under One Banner’ march in Edinburgh on October 6th EDINBURGH OCTOBER 6th – A RALLYING CALL FOR THE LEFT 35,000 in Glasgow, 10,000 in Inverness, 13,000 in Dumfries and 16,000 in Dundee – ‘All Under One Banner ‘ clearly…
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? …
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…
CATALONIA: A NATION THROWN FORWARD
Murdo Ritchie reviews Catalonia Reborn. How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish State and the Legacy of Franco, Chris Bambery & George Kerevan, Luath Press, 2018. CATALONIA – A NATION THROWN FORWARD When exiled Catalan minister Clara Ponsati spoke recently in Edinburgh she had to explain why the Spanish Constitution was not a mechanism…