Issue 4 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Fight the imperialist drive to permanent war, RCN The oil and military Industries behind Bush, Matt Siegfried Official Anti Racism – sanitised and useless, Mary Ward David the detainee, Jim Aitken SSP & Socialist…
Letters
Dear Comrades, I disagree with much of what Bob Goupillot has written in his article, Which route for political working class unity in Britain E&L 3. I sympathise with the reasons given for Cymru Goch’s resignation from the Welsh Socialist Alliance in the letter published alongside Bob’s article. I particularly agree where they write, We…
Prisoners of Social Partnership
A socialist analysis of social partnership in Ireland, by Joe Craig of Socialist Democracy Part of the Good Friday Agreement was the creation of the Council of the Islands. This provides the ruling classes of these islands with a forum to discuss their more effective political control. However, whatever political differences still remain, there is…
Rank and File or Broad Left
Workers’ Democracy versus British Bureaucracy Through his experience in the building industry and other working class struggles, Brian Higgins (Building Worker Group, UCATT, TCT) argues for rank and file organisation, not Broad Leftism. Introduction I have been asked as a militant trade unionist and a committed republican to write this article. Recently there has been…
From attack to defence: questions of leadership raised by the FBU dispute
Chris Jones (RDG) Former FBU Brigade Chair, Merseyside The FBU dispute has moved decisively into a new phase in the first month of 2003. The offensive led by the FBU executive against the erosion of firefighters’ and control staff’s pay has now become a defensive battle. Quietly the 40% claim has been allowed to fall…
Red on Green, Green on Red
Alan Boylan argues why campaigning on environmental issues must be a priority for the Scottish Socialist Party. For millions of people across the globe the relationship between humankind, the animal world and our environment is a question, which has brought much heated debate. Humanity’s increasing separateness from nature, and the corporations’ promotion of the technological…
The Great Land Grab
In the light of the Scottish Parliament’s inadequate Land Reform legislation, Iain Robertson looks at who owns Scotland and what is needed to ensure access to all. The day began like many others. It was too early, too cold, and too dark to be getting up and we were still tired from the previous evening’s…
Goodbye to the Good Friday Agreement
Now for the real drive to preserve partition and sectarianism in the North of Ireland John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy, Belfast) details the reasons for the latest crisis of the Good Friday Agreement The history books will undoubtedly list the collapse of the current version of the Good Friday Agreement as stemming from the British raid…
If You’re Happy And You Know It – Bomb Iraq
If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq. If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq. If the terrorists are frisky, Pakistan is looking shifty, North Korea is too risky, Bomb Iraq. If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq. If we think that someone’s dissed us, bomb Iraq. So to hell with the inspections,…
Scottish Socialist Party – Socialist Unity
The Republican Communist Network has submitted the resolution, reproduced here, to be debated at the SSP’s annual conference being held in February. It attempts to get the SSP to take the lead in building and concretising some practical steps to unity with socialist organisations across England, Wales and Ireland. Unfortunately, the Conference Arrangements Committee has…