This is an edited version the article, written by Eddie Ford, which first appeared in Weekly Worker. This blog has often warned how the use of the Crown Powers could stymie any attempt to set-up an independent Scotland. This article provides a warning to those who look to Jeremy Corbyn to lead a new Labour government. Under the Crown…
JOHN MACLEAN – SPEECH FROM THE DOCK, 9th May 1918
It is the centenary of John Maclean’s Speech from the Dock on 9th May 1918. Emancipation & Liberation are commemorating the occasion by posting it this famous speech. SPEECH FROM THE DOCK It has been said that they cannot fathom my motive. For the full period of my active life I have been a teacher of economics…
LABOUR EXPEL LEADING ANTI-RACIST FROM PARTY TO APPEASE THE RIGHT
We are reposting this article by Tony Greenstein, writing on the sacrifice of an outstanding anti-racist, Marc Wadsworth for having dared to criticise a pro-Israel MP. CORBYN GROW A BACKBONE Watching the uncritical acceptance by Jeremy Corbyn’s office of the expulsion of Marc Wadsworth is like watching someone slowly committing suicide oblivious to all offers of help.…
SYRIA – DOUBTS, LAW AND GRAND STRATEGY
Yassamine Mather argues that behind the cruise missile strikes in Syria lies the plan to bring about regime change in Iran SYRIA – DOUBTS, LAW AND GRAND STRATEGY Irrespective of what the experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say, there is no doubt that the Syrian dictator is…
20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT
We are posting this article on the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement from Socialist Democracy (Ireland). CLINTON AND BLAIR CELEBRATE SUCCESS 20th Anniversary of Good Friday Agreement In some Roman societies of late antiquity, after a death the body would remain for a time in the family home. It would be…
FRENCH PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS UNDER ATTACK
We are posting this article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) about the attacks the French Macron government is launching on French rail workers. As the world retreats behind new national state barriers, France inside the EU seeks to pave the way for private capital to match those already achieved by its major competitor the USA, and…
UKRAINIAN UNIONS UNITE IN MAJOR STRUGGLE WITH GLOBAL GIANT ARCELOR MITTAL
UNIONS UNITE IN MAJOR STRUGGLE WITH GLOBAL GIANT ARCELORMITTAL APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY A major dispute is developing in the industrial city of Krtviy Rih in south east Ukraine. Trade unions form both the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and also the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) have united…
SMEARS ROLL ON
Mike McNair ( CPGB-Weekly Worker) examines the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears currently focussed on the Labour Party, and in particular Jeremy Corbyn. He shows the wider political intent behind these for the Right and the Israeli state. SMEARS ROLL ON Kate Hopkins and Ian Paisley Junior, two…
‘SCOTTISH STAND UP TO RACISM’ BOWS TO ZIONIST PRESSURE
On Saturday, 17th March, the organisers of ‘Scottish Stand Up to Racism’ (SUTR) are organising a march in Glasgow in which the racist Confederation of Friends of Israel, displaying Israeli flags will be allowed to participate. Not surprisingly this has aroused considerable opposition, not least amongst Palestinians who are victims of Israeli state racist oppression.…
SCOTLAND’S RATIFICATION REFERENDUM
Below is a leaflet from the ad-hoc Committee of Campaign for a European Republican Socialist Party being distributed at the Radical Independence Campaign’s Spring Conference in Edinburgh on March 10th. Location of Dalmeny Declaration – Out of the Blue Centre, Dalmeny Street, Leith SCOTLAND’S RATIFICATION REFERENDUM The Scottish Ratification Referendum Act 2018 empowers the…