On Saturday 31st August demonstrations were held throughout the UK to protest at ‘Boris’s coup’. Mary McGregor addressed the rally held in Dundee. Allan Armstrong addressed the rally held in Edinburgh. ____________ Speech by Mary McGregor Comrades and friends, We are living through extraordinary times. We live in a time where children go…
It’s the constitution stupid – After the Boris ‘coup’ let’s fUK it!
Allan Armstrong gives his response to the latest constitutional crisis hitting the UK state It’s the constitution stupid – After the Boris ‘coup’ let’s fUK it! Contents A constitutional and legal coup under Crown-in-Westminster sovereignty The UK’s growing constitutional crisis, the retreat of neo-liberalism and liberal unionism and the growth of right populism…
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…
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…
FROM BLATCHERISM TO MAYBYNISM
Below is a synopsis of Allan Armstrong’s new pamphlet The Continuing Shift to the Right in the Transition from Neo-Liberalism to Right Populism https://allanarmstrong831930095.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/right-populism-1.pdf This is followed by the last two chapters (relettered) which deal with the impact of Right Populism since the Brexit vote, _______ THE CONTINUING SHIFT TO THE RIGHT IN THE…
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE IMMIGRATION BILL?
On January 29th members of the Right and the Left of the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn allowed Theresa May’s government to get the first stages of the Tory government’s new Immigration Bill through Westminster. This paves the way for a post-Brexit gastarbeiter-type system of controls over worker migration. We are reposting an article…
CORBYN, LABOUR AND THE TORIES’ IMMIGRATION BILL – A dialogue
This is a new dialogue over the consequences of Brexit following the Corbyn-led Labour Party helping Theresa May get the second reading of the Tories’ Immigration Bill through on Wednesday 29th January see an earlier dialogue at:- FROM FARAGE’S BREXIT TO TRUMP’S “BREXIT PLUS, PLUS, PLUS”, AND ON TO ‘MADAME FREXIT’? – a dialogue This…