A young comrade after reading the UK State, Britishness and the ‘Racialised’, ‘Ethnicised’ and ‘National’ Outsiders (http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2016/03/02/britishness-the-uk-state-unionism-scotland-and-the-national-outsider/) has asked Allan Armstrong to clarify the differences between Nationalities, Nations and Nation States. Here is a section of Allan’s book, Internationalism from Below, volume 1, which explores these concepts. PEOPLES, NATIONALITIES, NATIONS, NATION STATES, NATIONALISM AND NATIONALISTS…
JUNE 24th – THE FUKers’ BLACK FRIDAY OR RED FRIDAY FOR A EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION?
Allan Armstrong, who first became politically active in 1968, gives his political assessment of the political situation in the aftermath of the June 23d EU referendum. Allan is on the Editorial Board of Emancipation & Liberation, a supporter of the Republican Socialist Alliance, the Radical Independence Campaign and, in the ‘Spirit of 68’, a dissident member of the…
AN OPEN LETTER TO LEXITERS
AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE LEXITERS* OPPOSED TO A SECOND EU REFERENDUM, BUT TOO NERVOUS TO CALL A DEMO FOR A ‘FREE UK’ TO IMMEDIATELY BREAK WITH THE EU, WORRIED WHO MIGHT TURN UP! Dear comrades, June 24th hasn’t quite panned out as you Lexiters claimed it would. All those workers “justified” in supporting…
REMEMBERING THE SOMME
REMEMBERING THE SOMME SATURDAY, JULY 1st, 5.00 pm DONALD DEWAR STATUE BUCHANAN STREET GLASGOW Organised by the Scottish Peace Network On July 1 at 5pm at the Dewar’s statue on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre, the Scottish Peace Network is holding a centenary event to remember the disaster of the battle…
RACISM, IMPERIAL NOSTALGIA AND THE EU REFERENDUM
Below are two related articles and a letter which examine the mounting tide of racism in the EU referendum and relate it to Britain’s imperial legacy. The first is by Brendan McGeever who is a member of RISE and currently a lecturer in the Sociology of Racialisation and Anti-Semitism. The second is second by Nadine El-Enany is Lecturer…
OKRA PEASANTS STRUGGLE IN PAKISTAN AND THE AWAMI WORKERS PARTY
The following motion from the RISE Women’s Network will be will be put to the RISE National Forum on July 9th re Okra Peasants struggle in Pakistan and the AWP We note The brave struggle for land rights by the AMP (Tenants Association of Punjab) and the Okra Peasants Movement This has been going in for…
EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION – A statement from the Republican Socialist Alliance
As part of the continued debate on the EU referendum we are posting this statement from the Republican Socialist Alliance. EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION The European Union (EU) is facing a serious crisis. Vicious austerity imposed on Greece in an effort to uphold the Euro has destroyed living standards and jobs in that country. The EU’s economy is…
STATEMENT FROM THE IRAQI DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT
As the conflict between the sectarian Iraqi state, backed by western imperialism, and the Sunni supremacist Daesh, clandestinely backed by powerful reactionary interests in the Gulf and elsewhere, focuses on Fallujah, the Iraqi Democratic Movement has issued the following statement. AN UPDATE ON IRAQ These are dangerous and critical times for Iraq and…
HILLSBOROUGH – THE CROWN IN THE DOCK
The inquest into the Hillsborough Disaster finally made its ruling on 26th April. It took 27 years, following a prolonged establishment and police cover up, to finally get the verdict that 96 Liverpool supporters were “unlawfully killed”. We are posting the article below by Steve Freeman and Phil Vellender of the RSA. It was first published in…
WHAT’S BEHIND THE RIGHT’S ACCUSATIONS OF ‘ANTI-SEMITISM’
The British ruling class has been upset by a number of events beyond its control. The huge surge in those demanding Scottish independence and those who voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party have opened up politics beyond of the safe Conservative/Lib-Dem/New Labour pro-imperial, pro-Israel and pro-neoliberal consensus. This is the…