John Tummon of the Republican Socialist Alliance makes a plea for a new international republican politics. For an Internationalist Republican politics that adapts to 21st century terrains of struggle. FOR AN INTERNATIONALIST REPUBLICAN POLITICS THAT ADAPTS TO 21st CENTURY TERRAINS OF STRUGGLE The Dalmeny Declaration of 15 October 2016 argued the need for a “new federal, social…
REPORT OF THE REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST ALLIANCE MEETING IN WAKEFIELD – 23rd JULY
Allan Armstrong (acting convenor of RSA-Scotland) attended the RSA meeting in Wakefield on 23rd July. Steve Freeman (RSA-London) has written the following report of this meeting. REPORT OF REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST ALLIANCE MEETING IN THE RED SHED IN WAKEFIELD, 23rd JULY Brexit The meeting had a thorough discussion on future perspectives for republican socialism in…
2 RESPONSES TO CHAKRABHATI REPORT
Julia Bard and Tony Greenstein have written their own responses to the official Chakrabhati Report into Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Julia Bard is a freelance journalist, a member of the NC of the Jewish Socialists’ Group and the Editorial Committee of Jewish Socialist magazine. Tony Greenstein is a log standing Jewish anti-Zionist and currently…
BREXIT – VIEWS FROM IRELAND
We are posting two pieces from Ireland in the aftermath of the UK Brexit vote. The first is by D.R. O’Connor Lysaght, a member of Socialist Democracy (Ireland) written soon after the result was announced. The second is a collective statement from Socialist Democracy (Ireland). 1. BREXIT – THE HANGOVER The good news is that…
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…
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…
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…
SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY (IRELAND) STATEMENT ON THE EU REFERENDUM
As part of the debate our online debate on the EU referendum we are posting this following statement from Socialist Democracy (Ireland). SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY (IRELAND) STATEMENT ON EUROPE No to the Racism! No to imperialist Europe! Yes to Britain remaining in Europe! Yes to a United Socialist States of Europe! Within moments of the…