We are posting this article by David Kellaway of anti-capitalist resistance. It describes well the growing working class resistance to Macron’s proposed pension counter-reforms. It is followed by a statement from the Fourth International affiliated New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA). In a comment at the end, EL&SD EB member, Allan Armstrong makes some additional points about…
Olof Palme: the last Social Democrat
Today, following the economic crisis beginning in the 1960s and the rise of neo-liberalism in the UK (1979) and USA(1980) and its triumph in 1989 with collapse of the USSR in 1989, Social democracy has largely degenerated into social neo-liberalism, or even further into Left populism which sometimes allies with and sometimes morphs into Right…
RIC reconstituted and the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill
This is the conclusion of Completing Scotland’s Democratic Revolution, in which Allan Armstrong examines the legacy of of Scotland’s 2014 Democratic Revolution and the 2023 Declaration of of Calton Hill, designed to complete that unfinished democratic revolution. RIC RECONSTITUTED AND THE 2003 DECLARATION OF CALTON HILL After the attempted shutdown on 17.1.21[1] the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC)…
Dictating to power
We are posting this article, written by Marc Mulholland and first posted by Weekly Worker. We we feel that it makes a valuable contribution to the debate around the important but often under-theorised topic of the Transition from Capitalism to Communism via Socialism. It emphasises the general point of the importance of a thorough going democratic…
Just when you thought Britain couldn’t get more racist, the Tories bring in the Illegal Migration Bill
The following article by Eliza Egret was first posted by The Canary. It outlines the Tories’ latest attack on migrants in their ‘Brexit Britain’. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE BRITAIN COULDN’T GET MORE RACIST, THE TORIES BRING IN THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BILL Rishi Sunak has announced that refugees arriving into the UK by small boats…
Off Brand: the problem with ego, charisma and conspiracy
The following article, written by Mike Small, was first posted on bella caledonia. Using Russell Grant as an example, this article examines the the gallop to Right by many high profile men, particularly online. In the days of the Arab Spring, the Indignados in Spain and Greece, and the 2014 democratic revolution in Scotland many…
Offshore energy workers lay out their vision for the future in a just transition plan
The following article written by Tracy Keeling was first posted by The Canary. On this offshore energy workers and their allies lay out their vision for the future in a just transition plan. OFFSHORE ENERGY WORKERS LAY OUT THEIR VISION FOR A JUST TRANSITION PLAN Offshore oil and gas workers revealed their plan for a…
It’s time to reclaim International Working Women’s Day
We are posting this article as a contribution to International Women’s Day. It was written by Grace Blakeley and was first posted by The Tribune. IT’S TIME TO RECLAIM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY International Women’s Day has radical roots, but its contemporary incarnation has been co-opted by corporate elites – it’s time to put the women…
The Ohio train disaster is on Biden’s hands
This article on the Ohio train disaster was written by B.A. Daurelle and Lee Palmer and was first posted by Left Voice (USA). It addresses the kind of environmental disasters which are inevitable when workers voices’ are suppressed and ‘health and safety’ are left to the corporations backed by their state, in this case Norfolk…
For a republican all-islands coalition (update)
In March 2022, Allan Armstrong announced the intention to write three reviews of books written in Ireland addressing the current political situation Socialists face there. The purpose in doing this has been to build the case for an all-islands, republican internationalist coalition to challenge the UK state and its imperial allies. These have now been…