Allan Armstrong was delegated at the RISE National Forum held in Edinburgh on 8th April to be its representative at the LUP conference on May 20th. Due to the General Election this was postponed to June 24th. Attached is the full version of the talk he prepared for the conference held in London. In the…
DEMOCRACY BURNS DOWN
In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy we are posting two articles by contributors to the Republican Socialist Alliance blog. The first is by Steve Freeman (LUP and RISE). The second is by Phil Vellender (Labour Party and contributor to Chartist) 1. DEMOCRACY BURNS DOWN The terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower is a crime against…
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT, THE FUTURE IS ORANGE!
Emancipation & Liberation has been chronicling the rise of reactionary unionism for some time. Following the shift further Right in UK politics after the Brexit vote , this has culminated Theresa May’s deal with the DUP after the June 8th Westminster general election. we are posting this article form Socialist Democracy (Ireland) which examines some…
LEFT UNITY AND THE GENERAL ELECTION
We are posting this position paper from Steve Freeman (Republican Socialist Alliance and Campaign for a European Socialist Republican Party) first posted on the Left Unity blog. SCOTLAND AND THE TORY BREXIT ELECTION The general election is an opportunity for the working class in Scotland to build a stronger and more militant opposition to Tory…
RIC-EDINBURGH STATEMENT ON THE JUNE 8TH GENERAL ELECTION
The Radical Independence Campaign- Edinburgh has produced the following statement in response to forthcoming Westminster General Election. Theresa May’s forthcoming general election is not a normal election. It is being called in defiance of the Tories’ own 2011 Fixed Term Parliament Act. It bears a strong resemblance to a presidential-style plebiscite. But in…
MASS STRIKES AND OCCUPATIONS BY UKRAINIAN MINERS
These three articles were first posted on the Ukraine Solidarity Committee website at:- https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/ 1.URGENT APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY Ukrainian miners are engaged mass action in the city of Kryvyi Rih with strikes, occupations and a hunger strike of 400 miners underground in the “Yubileynaya” (Jubilee) mine of EVRAZ Sukha Balka JSC in Kryvyi Rih.
TURKEY – IT’S NOT OVER YET
This article by Even Uslu, a Turkish communist, exposes the fraud involved in Recep Erdogan’s recent referendum designed to concentrate power in the Turkish Presidency. TURKEY – IT’S NOT OVER YET THE AKP GOVERNMENT IS IN CRISIS FOLLOWING THE RIGGED REFERENDUM Celebrating amid the fraud The shambles that followed the April 16 referendum to amend the constitution…
KEN LIVINGSTONE FACES LABOUR’S STAR CHAMBER
We have been chronicling the combined political offensive of the Labour Right and Zionist groups and individuals to deny Palestinian self-determination and suppress any opposition to the Israeli state and its brutal repression. We are posting Tony Greenstein (himself a victim of Labour’s witch hunt) comments on the latest Livingstone verdict. This is followed by a…
THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND
Steve Freeman of the Republican Socialist Alliance and the Left Unity Party draws on the revolutionary democratic political tradition in England, linking the Levellers, the Chartists and the Suffragettes. He outlines its strengths compared with the social democratic and economist political tradition of Labour and most of the British Left sects. Steve argues that Socialists should be championing the…
RADICAL INDEPENDENCE CAMPAIGN STATEMENT – DEFEND DEMOCRACY
The Radical Independence Campaign has produced this new statement following Theresa May’s rejection of the right of the the Holyrood Parliament to hold a second Scottish independence referendum. DEFEND DEMOCRACY With the election of Trump, the chaotic handling of Brexit by an unelected Tory leader, and the ongoing crisis of the global economy,…