A story of corporate corruption and seizure of land and property could be told of virtually every city in the UK. The following article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) shows are this process takes place under the auspices of the bisectarian Belfast City Council. Brits Out! – Unless they’re London developers and absentee landlords, in which…
Jamie Driscoll On The Threatened Criminalisation Of Extinction Rebellion
It’s not often that we would post a piece by a Labour mayor, but Jamie Driscoll, Labour’s North of the Tyne mayor, made this very good response to Boris Johnson’s and Priti Patel’s threat to criminalise Extinction Rebellion. “Extinction Rebellion could be treated as an organised crime group as part of a major crackdown on…
Labour’s Historic Defeat In Scotland
We are posting this article by Steve Freeman first posted on the Republican Socialist Alliance outlining, mainly for the benefit of republican socialists in England, the Scottish dimension of ‘Labour’s historic defeat’. You may remember the famous Monty Python sketch about a parrot returned by a dissatisfied customer, John Cleese, to the pet-shop run by…
A TRIUMPH OF IDEOLOGY: JOHN HUME AND THE DEFEAT OF IRISH REPUBLICANISM
The following article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) explains the political reasons behind the adulation for John Hume since his death on August 3rd. A TRIUMPH OF IDEOLOGY: JOHN HUME AND THE DEFEAT OF IRISH REPUBLICANISM The flurry of commemoration by the great and the good following the death of John Hume…
LATEST POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN IRELAND – SOUTH AND NORTH
We are posting an update on the most recent political developments in the Dail and Stormont from Socialist Democracy (Ireland). 1. DUBLIN GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES THE PARLIAMENTARY LEFT – BUT EXACTLY WHO ARE THE LEFT? The 33rd Irish Dail has demonstrated in spades just how unstable it is. Effectively a national government of…
PALESTINE, PAYMENTS AND PURGES
Sir Keith Starmer is out to prove that Labour can be relied upon as a safe alternative party of government, argues David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists PALESTINE, PAYMENTS AND PURGES Last week Keir Starmer gave his clearest signal yet that under his leadership the Labour Party can be relied upon to act…
SCOTTISH LABOUR FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY
In the aftermath of the General Election, 89 Scottish Labour Party activists signed an Open Letter making the case for radical democracy (http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2020/02/09/13676/). As the crisis depend in the Scottish Labour Party this has been followed up by another Open Letter published in bella caledonia on 21.6.20. (https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/06/21/scottish-labour-for-radical-democracy/). E&L are posting this letter below. SCOTTISH…
IRISH GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY
The following three articles from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) contrasts how the Irish government deals with mega-corporations, 12,000 Aer Lingus workers threatened with redundancy, and sacked Debenhams’ workers who have taken action IRELAND BEATS THE RAP ON TAX FRAUD We would sell out to anyone, claims defence! The announcement that the European Court had…
ISRAEL, IRAN AND WEST BANK ANNEXATION
We are posting two articles on the situation in Israel and the Middle East. The first for Socialist Democracy (Ireland) is about Netahyahu’s planned annexation of a further 30% of the West Bank. The second by Yassamine Mather, of Hands off the Peoples of Iran (HOPI), is about the Iranian regime’s response to Netanyahu’s move.…
THE UK STATE, RIGHT POPULISM AND REACTIONARY UNIONISM IN 2020 – rUK IT or fUK IT?
Allan Armstrong has produced his third online pamphlet, following The Continuing Shift from Neo-Liberalism to Right Populism. This follows the last update which looked at the impact of Right Populism and reactionary unionism on the politics of the these islands after the December 12th UK and February 8th Irish general elections. The contents of the…