Socialist Democracy (Ireland) reports on the latest UK state accommodation to Loyalism, during their annual Belfast bonfire rituals. LOYALIST BONFIRE VICTORY IN BELFAST Can this be compensated for by dreams of a future modernity? In the aftermath of the paramilitary victory at a Belfast “11th night” bonfire, correspondents were quick to spread…
Promoting Republicanism
Murdo Ritchie addresses the Left’s failing to understand republicanism. This is deeply rooted in the Left’s acceptance of the UK state for as a vehicle for its various economic and political projects. Murdo’s article is an update of his earlier piece (PROMOTING REPUBLICANISM) The advocacy of socialist republicanism has very few current precedents in the United…
BBC’s WAR ON CORBYN
Tony Greenstein takes apart the BBC’s Panorama programme Is Labour anti-Semitic? providing the Right wing, racist and Islamophobic background of its producer, John Ware and highlighting the tendentious biased techniques used in its production. BBC’S WAR ON CORBYN As John Pilger has long argued, the BBC is the most refined propaganda service in…
WHY WOMEN HAVE BETTER SEX UNDER SOCIALISM
Murdo Ritchie reviews the book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and other Arguments for Economic Independence by Dr Kristen R. Ghodsee. WHY WOMEN HAVE BETTER SEX UNDER SOCIALISM Inessa Armand “If women’s liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women’s liberation.” Inessa Armand The collapse of “socialism” in…
ITALIAN DOCK WORKERS SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS
The election of the national populist and racist Five Stars and Northern League government has led to a surge in state and far right in attacks on migrants in Italy. The following article by Karel Ludenhoff, an Amsterdam-based labour activist, is about the heartening response from Genoa dockworkers to attempts by desperate migrants trying to…
BRIAN HIGGINS – A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL TRIBUTE
Communist, Republican, Trade Union Militant, Scottish Internationalist, Glasgow Bear 9th February 1941 – 2nd June 2019 __________ BRIAN HIGGINS A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL TRIBUTE Brian made a big impression upon whomever he met. Nigel Jeffrey, who encountered him on the picket line during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike wrote, “Brian Higgins stands out…
BRITISH GOVERNMENT EXPANDS POWERS IN THE NORTH
The following article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) highlights the impact of the reactionary unionism in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement, with its official recognition of Unionists and Nationalists in a reformed Stormont, acted as liberal mask for the continued sectarian order in Northern Ireland. This placed the UK government in the position of ‘neutral’…
INDICTMENT ON VIOLATIONS WITH IMPUNITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEE PEOPLES
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal met in London on the 3-4th November 2018. During the session on the Violation with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples the following Indictment was submitted. INDICTMENT SUBMITTED TO THE PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL SESSION ON THE VIOLATIONS WITH IMPUNITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT…
NETANYAHU – IN ALLIANCE WITH THE NEO-NAZIS
Tony Greenstein provides an analysis of Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest attempt to shift Israeli politics to the Far Right NETANYAHU – IN ALLIANCE WITH THE NEO-NAZIS In 1984 rabbi Meir Kahane of the ultra-nationalist Kach party entered the Israeli parliament (knesset), having received over 25,000 votes. Kach stood on a programme which, as The Times of…
RESISTING THE LIBERAL ORDER
Murdo Ritchie, who has been an advocate of Leave vote on this blog, continues with his review of The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavistas __________ A REVIEW OF THE THE LEFT CASE AGAINST THE EU BY COSTAS LAPAVISTAS “You can vote for any government you like in Europe pretty much. But…