Earth champs

This article written by Mike Small was first posted on  bella caledonia. It highlights Labour’s continued gallop to the Right, this time over the environment.  EARTH CHAMPS Earth Day has long-gone as a meaningful exercise in anything other corporate greenwash as the grim realities wash over our exhausted timelines. The Sierra Club of America offers…

The human cargo of voluntary departure

The following article written by Mike Small first appeared in bella caledonia. It examines the ongoing assault on migrants, which has become the centre-pice of the Tories’ attacks on democratic right across the board in Brexit Britain ,    THE HUMAN CARGO OF VOLUNTARY DEPARTURE “Anyone entering the UK illegally… may now be relocated to…

Developing the case for a republican, all-islands, ‘internationalism from below’ coalition

  Allan Armstrong is writing a review of three books which address the political situation Socialists face, first of all in Ireland, but also extended to Scotland, Wales and England. EL&SD is posting  the introduction to this review, and the link to its first part. The other parts are still to be written and the…

Self determination and sovereignty in Europe

This article by Mike Small was first posted on bella caledonia. It  highlights the Gadarene stampede to the Right by media commentators following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Ian MacWhirter, for a short period a supporter of Scottish independence, but now following his longstanding attacks on public sector workers, followed by transgendered  people and environmental activists,…

Prologue to democratic revolution – part 2

This is the second  part of an extended review by Allan Armstrong, which  addresses some of the issues raised in John McAnulty’s new book.    PROLOGUE TO DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION – Part 2 Allan Armstrong reviews Ireland’s Partition: Coda to counterrevolution by John McAnulty   Contents   a) From the communities of resistance under Stormont mark…

‘From Pre-Brit to Ex-Brit’ update

EL&SD is posting  a new conclusion to Allan Armstrong’s book From Pre-Brit to Ex-Brit FROM AN EX-BRIT END TO THE BRITISH UNIION AND EMPIRE IN AN ‘INTERNATIONALISM FROM BELOW’ CAMPAIGN FOR A EUROPEAN REPUBLIC TO A ‘UNIVERSALISM FROM BELOW’ GLOBAL COMMUNE Despite the claims of liberal EU supporters, the EEC did not bring peace to…

Ireland’s reunification: prologue to democratic revolution

This is the first part of an extended review by Allan Armstrong, which  addresses some of the issues raised in John McAnulty’s new book.    PROLOGUE TO DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION –  Allan Armstrong reviews   Ireland’s Partition: Coda to counterrevolution by John McAnulty     Contents  a) Introduction  b) A Socialist history of Irish history but…

Virginia Guiffre – no justice under the British legal system, “the best that money can buy”

At the Republican Socialist Forum meeting held on 15.1.22, RCF member, Pauline Bradley moved a motion on the trafficking of Virginia Giuffre by Prince Andrew. After a small amendment, it was agreed unanimously.   VIRGINIA GUIFFRE – NO JUSTICE UNDER THE BRITISH LEGAL SYSTEM, “THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN BUY”    Motion Virginia Guiffre The…

Global Britain, Levelling up, Strengthening the Union

The following article by Allan Armstrong (RSP) was first posted by bella caledonia. It looks at the political significance of the appointment of Sir Tony Radakin to Chief of Defence Staff, using his speech to the Royal United Services Institute. This version also included a link to that speech and other references. GLOBAL BRITAIN, LEVELLING…

British politics is an oligarchs’ cocktail party – Tory ministers are the waiters

The following article on sleaze and corruption in British politics by Adam Ramsay was first posted by OpenDemocracy. BRITISH POLITICS IS AN OLIGARCHS’ COCKTAIL PARTY – TORY MINISTERS RE THE WAITERS The recent onslaught of government sleaze shows once again why the UK has been called ‘the most corrupt country in the world’. With the…