Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 2, Summer 2002

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?,…

Roads to Freedom or did Marx change his mind?

Karl Marx Favourite maxim – Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (Nothing human is alien to me) Favourite motto – De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything) Bob Goupillot examines Marx’s search for new paths to social transformation Who will mend the hole in the ozone layer? Who will reverse global warming? It is quite clear that…

Republican Forum: A way forward for republicanism

This article appeared in The Starry Plough (Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002) the paper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party It was a momentous day for Republicanism in Ireland. Tuesday the 23rd of September 2001- the day the Provisional IRA decommissioned weapons in order to save not only the Good Friday Agreement but also the Stormont Assembly.…

Empress Brown’s Jingo Jubilee

Terry Liddle (South London Republican Forum) describes the opposition to Victoria’s Golden Jubilee celebrations The year 1887 opened with rioting by the unemployed in Norwich. Two members of the Socialist League were arrested and later imprisoned. The Socialist League was a split by members including Eleanor Marx, from the Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first Marxist…

Linking republicanism and socialism in Scotland

Allan Armstrong looks at recent debates in the Scottish Socialist Party over republicanism and the jubilee Scotland is the part of the United Kingdom with the widest anti monarchist feelings, yet it is somewhat ironic that the Scottish Socialist Party, despite being the most influential socialist grouping in these islands, showed its usual reluctance to…

Jubilee: Wales

Mike Davies reports on Welsh Republicans’ preparations for the Royal Visit: Jiwbili ych a fi! Welsh Socialist Republicans have been at the forefront in building a coalition against the Queen’s Jubilee Jamboree in June. Cymru Goch, Earth First! activists, leading trade unionists and socialists have come together to form an ad hoc group called Stuff…

Hamish Henderson (OBE declined) 1919-2002

Hamish Henderson, folklorist, poet, Scottish internationalist and socialist died on March 3rd this year. In the year of the golden jubilee, it is worth remembering that Hamish turned down an OBE in 1983. Whilst Scotland’s semi-official nationalist anthem, Flower of Scotland, is sung by Princess Anne at Scottish rugby matches, Hamish’s internationalist anthem, Freedom Come…