Emancipation & Liberation

Issue 20 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now.

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• Editorial, RCN
• Two Royal Weddings and…. A Republican Funeral for the UK?, Allan Armstrong
• No British Withdrawal? No Royal Visits!, eirigi
• English republican socialism, Steve Freeman
• Welsh Referendum
• Claiming Feminism, Susan Dorazio
• Egypt’s Uprising: Not Just a Question of ‘Transition’, Adam Hanieh
• An appeal from the International Federation of Iraq Refugees, International Federation of Iraq Refugees
• The 1% Network, John O’Neill
• Irish elections: Revenge, but not yet resistance, Kevin Keating and John McAnulty
• The Sheridan Perjury Trial, Allan Armstrong
• Remembering Charlie Rees
• The Only Boss I Ever Liked, Rod MacGregor
• The Sane Society – Erich Fromm, Joe Conroy
• Book Launch: From Davitt to Connolly: ‘Internationalism from Below’…, Angela Gorrie
• Book review: Around the Time of Michael, Andy McPake
• In Search of Middle England, Jim Aitken
• Book review: Keir Hardie: Labour’s Greatest Hero?, Richard Price

Issue 19 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now.

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• Editorial, RCN
• Global Commune day school report, Mary McGregor
• RCN extends its platform points, RCN
• 2nd Republican Socialist Convention, Allan Armstrong
• Militant anti-fascism: the achievements of Scotland’s Anti-Fascist Alliances, YK
• British nationalism and fascism, Chris Ford
• The new Hillsborough Agreement, John McAnulty
• Independence Referendum, RCN
• Revive the Declaration of Calton Hill for the Diamond Jubilee, Angela Gorrie
• Iceland joins the ‘Arc of Resistance’, Mimir Kristjansson
• Business as usual for Israeli Apartheid, David Landy
• Tibet – A country suffering from Chinese imperial repression, Rod MacGregor
• The Alberto Durango Campaign, David Broder
• Campaign to fight the Blacklist and to support Brian Higgins
• John Venables – The lynch mob and our ‘broken society’, Adam Ford
• The North must have its own inquiry into child sex abuse, Bernadette McAliskey
• Notes from Copenhagen, Eric Chester
• Book review: The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party, Colm Breatnach
• White Pete, Jim Aitken
• Word Power – an interview with Elaine Henry, Allan Armstrong

Issue 18 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now.

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• Editorial: Can the SNP deliver Independence?, RCN
• Lisbon Treaty passed in second referendum, JM Thorn
• August 1969, Patricia Campbell
• Migrant Workers are at the heart of our fightback, The Commune
• Highland migrant workers, Bill Scott
• History and Resistance: The rise of Latin America’s indigenous movements, Ewan Robertson
• Portugal’s Left Bloc consolidates its gains, Raphie de Santos
• Afghan women bear the brunt of the hypocritical war on terror, RAWA
• Iran after the elections – an interview with Yassamine Mather, Anne McShane
• Solidarity with Scottish PSC action, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
• It was the worst of times, it was the best of us!, Rod MacGregor
• Book review: A Celebration of the Life & Times of Robert Burns and What Burns means to me, Mary McGregor
• Book review: Out of Eden – the Peopling of the World, Richard Abernethy
• Savings in the Down-Turn, Jim Aitken
• An unrepentant revolutionist, Jim Slaven
• The Legacy of James Connolly – an interview with Jim Slaven, Allan Armstrong

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, RCN
• The role of platforms in the SSP, RCN
• Prospects For Socialists In Scotland, Allan Armstrong
• Respect Split, Ed Walsh
• Cartoon, Rod MacGregor
• Ken Livingstone: The End of Road, Gerry Fitzpatrick
• Paisley’s Legacy, Matt Siegfried
• ‘Celtic Tigers’ And ‘Celtic Lions’ Both Pussycats For Big Business, Allan Armstrong
• Socialists And The Republic, Allan Armstrong
• 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, Rod MacGregor
• Turkey: A Country At War With Itself
• Iran And The New Threat Of War, Steve Kaczynski
• Hands Off the People of Iran, Yassamine Mather
• The SSP Gives Its Support To The ‘No One Is Illegal’ Campaign, Allan Armstrong
• Workers, Serfs And Slaves: Managed Migration And Employment Rights, No One Is Illegal
• Punk, Politics and Perdition, Mary McGregor
• Democracy 2, Alan Graham
• Life With You, Mary McGregor
• Man’s Best Friend?, Rod MacGregor

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 15, Autumn 2007

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• Setback or disaster: Can the SSP survive?, Mary McGregor
• The SNP’s ‘National Conversation’ prepares the ground for reform of the Union, Allan Armstrong
• Consensus politics or an unprincipled lash-up?, Bob Davies
• Past mustn’t stand in way of future
• Irish election: Downturn in workers struggle means Teflon Bertie rides again, John McAnulty
• When the fighting is over, Rod MacGregor
• Beslan, Jim Aitken
• From Operation Banner to Operation Helvetica, John McAnulty
• Iranian workers face two enemies, Yassamine Mather
• Elections in Greece: Positive results for the left, YK
• The Highland Midge, Rod MacGregor
• Homelessness- who really cares?, Republican Worker
• Beggar, Jim Aitken
• No One Is Illegal, No One Is Illegal
• May Day: Marching in the footsteps of immigrant workers, Sharat G Lin
• It’s a Free World, Corinna Lotz
• What Socialists Stand For, Andrew Weir
• Internationalist spirit, Allan Armstrong
• To tame the city, Grgorz Rybak
• Lyrical Delicacy and Political Toughness, Allan Armstrong

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 13, Autumn 2006

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The RCN published a special issue of Emancipation & Liberation after the Tommy Sheridan News of the World court case and the consequent split in the SSP. After an extensive enquiry the Crown has now initiated perjury proceedings. The SSP has taken the decision not to jeopardise the position any of its members who may be cited in this case. This means not placing any documents in the public arena, which have been made or written by possible witnesses, that could be relevant to this case.. Therefore the RCN has only selected documents of a general political nature which do not refer to the specifics of the case. When the case has been concluded, the other documents will be placed on our website too.

Now that the case has concluded, the other documents have been placed on our website too.

• Editorial, RCN
• Meetings & documents, Nov 2004, Allan Green
• Open letter to SSP members, Tommy Sheridan
• Statement in response to Open Letter, SSP – United Left
• Equal fights, Carolyn Leckie
• RCN welcomes the formation of United Left, RCN
• SSP-United Left respond to Sheridan’s victory, United Left
• For democratic renewal of the SSP, SSP ‘Majority’
• Critique & exposure of Sheridan’s Daily Record & ‘Crossroad’ manifestos, Allan Armstrong
• Future of socialism in Scotland, Tommy Sheridan
• CWI press release, CWI
• SWP statement, SWP
• How dare they split the SSP, Richie Venton
• When two tribes go to war, Rae Bridges
• SSP Crisis: rebuild on socialist principles, Workers Unity
• Call for Unity, RCN
• SSP Split by Sheridan, Socialist Resistance
• We salute your democracy, equality and accountability, Irish Socialist Network
• A message from England, Steve Freeman

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