Emancipation & Liberation

Issue 17 of Emancipation & Liberation will be coming out for the SSP conference next weekend.

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• Editorial: Well, the crisis of capitalism has arrived – so, what do we do now!, RCN
• The dual crisis of capital and labour, The Commune
• Dublin mobilisation – lions led by donkeys, John McAnulty
• Challenging normalisation on the streets of Belfast, Brian Leeson
• Normality? By whose standards?, Eirigi
• Sinn Fein’s ‘Michael Collins moment’, John McAnulty
• Inside Ulster Loyalism, Ed Walsh
• Deidre McCartin, D.R. O’Connor Lysaght
• March 18th 2001, Charlie Rees
• Isolate ‘apartheid’ Israel, Nick Clarke
• HOPI: campaign update, Andrew Weir
• Brown’s appeal to British chauvinism, Mary McGregor
• Blame the bosses not ‘foreign workers’, Socialist Worker
• Obamanos: Latinos, the US election and the immigrant rights struggle, Dave Moore
• Letter from a contract worker, Antonio Jacinto
• Clearances, Jim Aitken
• Delacroix’s Liberty leading the people – what does it stand for?, Catriona Grant
• Half truths, mistruths and anything but the truth, Rod MacGregor
• Edinburgh People’s Festival – an interview with Colin Fox, Allan Armstrong

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 16, Spring 2008

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SSP – Learning the Lessons

The role of platforms in the SSP

Prospects For Socialists In Scotland

Respect Split

Cartoon

Ken Livingstone: The End of Road

Paisley’s Legacy

‘Celtic Tigers’ And ‘Celtic Lions’ Both Pussycats For Big Business

Socialists And The Republic

Motion passed at SSP Conference in October 2007

Letter agreed (10.3.2008) at SSP International Committee to be sent out to organisations in Ireland, Wales and England

The Defiance Of Science

Turkey: A Country At War With Itself

Iran And The New Threat Of War

Hands Off the People of Iran

The SSP Gives Its Support To The ‘No One Is Illegal’ Campaign

Workers, Serfs And Slaves: Managed Migration And Employment Rights

Punk, Politics and Perdition

Democracy 2

Life With You

Man’s Best Friend?

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 15, Autumn 2007

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Setback or disaster: Can the SSP survive?

The SNP’s ‘National Conversation’ prepares the ground for reform of the Union

Consensus politics or an unprincipled lash-up?

Past mustn’t stand in way of future

Irish election: Downturn in workers struggle means Teflon Bertie rides again

When the fighting is over

Beslan

From Operation Banner to Operation Helvetica

Iranian workers face two enemies

Elections in Greece: Positive results for the left

The Highland Midge

Homelessness- who really cares?

Beggar

No One Is Illegal

May Day: Marching in the footsteps of immigrant workers

It’s a Free World

What Socialists Stand For

Internationalist spirit

To tame the city

Lyrical Delicacy and Political Toughness

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 14, Spring 2007

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Offering a Socialist vision, RCN

Peak Oil, Oil Depletion, & Alternative Energies, Rod MacGregor

One year on, Jim Aitken

Against Imperialist war, for Iran’s workers, Yassamine Mather

No War On Iran!, Hands Off People of Iran

Naming women’s oppression, Catriona Grant

The Sinn Fein Ard Fheis and the collapse of Republicanism, Joe Craig

Footprints on the face, Rod MacGregor

Secularism, Socialism and Religion, Bob Goupillot

Bono finally finds what he’s been looking for – a knighthood, JM Thorn

Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought, Benjamin Zephaniah

Bought and Sold, Benjamin Zephaniah

Parecon: participatory economics and socialism for the 21st century, Neil Bennett

The Republic of the Imagination, Allan Armstrong interviews John Manson

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 12, Spring 2006

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A chance to Vote Socialist at every opportunity, Mary McGregor

Which way now for the SSP, Allan Armstrong

Imperialism’s nuclear hypocrisy, Nick Clarke

Hard truths, John Wight

Choreography of the pratfall, John McAnulty

International Platform Against Isolation, Steve Kaczynski

Glasgow commemorates Bloody Sunday, Jim Slaven

An electoral alliance for the 2007 Local Elections?, Scot MacCreamhain

Cooperating in the international struggle against imperialism and for socialist republicanism, Allan Armstrong

Rights for the people not royal prerogatives, Cardiff Social Forum

RCN, Crown Powers and an Anti-Imperialist Agenda, John Mitchell

A Change of Course Required, Philip Stott

Sierra Leone – Britain’s other invasion – 5 years on, International Communist Union (Trotskyist)

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 11, Autumn 2005

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Death Squad Britain – the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, Steve Kaczynski

The Legacy of the Gleneagles Summit, John Wight

Facing up to the challenge, Nick Clarke

Obstructing a legal demonstration, John Wight

Two Words Collide – Nationalism and Republicanism, Allan Armstrong

When ‘raising consciousness’ ain’t enough, Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fight the power, Alan Graham

Iraqi Kurds – tools of imperialism, Steve Kaczynski

Empty bombast marks the end of the IRA, John McAnulty

In memory of Miriam Daly, James Daly

The way forward for the Scottish Socialist Party, Donnie Nicolson,

Forward Wales In Meltdown, Vic Allen

Computer Game – Democracy, Alan Graham

Armande’s Bed, Mary McGregor

Oor Wullie? William Wallace and socialists today, Allan Armstrong

Who were the Galloway Levellers?, Alistair Livingston

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Comments are open, so feel free to discuss the articles.

• The Euro Referendum: The case for an active boycott, Allan Armstrong
• Statement from the Conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left, European Anti-Capitalist Left
• Another World Is Possible, World Social Forum
• Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002
• Palestine: After Jenin – Ethnic Cleansing?, Hanna Khamis
• How the civilised US treats prisoners of war, Matt Siegfried
• Hooray for Hollywood, Steve Kaczynski
• Jenin, Jim Aitken
• Socialist Alliances in England, Socialist Alliance
• Jubilee: Ireland, John McAnulty
• Freedom Come All Ye, Hamish Henderson
• Jubilee: Wales, Mike Davies
• Linking republicanism and socialism in Scotland, Allan Armstrong
• Empress Brown’s Jingo Jubilee, Terry Liddle
• Republican Forum: A way forward for republicanism, Irish Republican Socialist Party
• The Socialist Alliance in England, Dave Spencer
• Women’s Liberation and Socialism, Mary Ward
• Roads to Freedom or did Marx change his mind?, Bob Goupillot
• Correspondence Red

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Comments are open, so feel free to discuss the articles.

• Why Emancipation And Liberation?, RCN
• We are fighting a duel war, Shoaib Bhatti
• Afghanistan Solidarity Appeal, SSP
• War Against Terrorism?, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women
• An eye for an eye?: justice USA style, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women
• War against terrorism and the threat to freedom of expression, Steve Kaczynski
• Lords of the Rings, Nick Clarke
• Dedicated to Gung-ho George…(The Texaco Kid), Charlie Rees
• International Working Women’s Day – Some thoughts, Linda Gibson
• Red Republicans or just Red Reformers?, Mary Ward
• James Connolly’s appeal on the occassion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee In 1897, ames Connolly
• For A Republican Socialist Party, Revolutionary Democratic Group
• Working class opposition to UDA murder, John McAnulty
• National Workers’ Assembly meeting – a big step forward, Jordi Martorell
• Boycott Any Euro Referendum, Matthew Jones