Emancipation & Liberation Index 14

Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 14, Spring 2007 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…

Parecon: Participatory Economics and Socialism for the 21st Century

by Neil Bennet What do you want? It’s a question that we, as revolutionary socialists (or communists) face more often than any other when talking about our politics. We are more than happy to tell people what we are against – war, exploitation, suffering, injustice…but more often than not, when it comes to telling people…

Me? I Thought, OBE Me? Up Yours, I Thought

An invitation to the palace to accept a New Year honour…you must be joking. Benjamin Zephaniah won’t be going. Here he explains why. We have reprinted this article from The Guardian, Thursday November 27, 2003. I woke up on the morning of November 13 wondering how the government could be overthrown and what could replace…

Bono Finally Finds What He’s Been Looking For – a Knighthood

by JM Thorn This article is reproduced from the Socialist Democracy website I have no embarrassment at all. No shame. Bono, 2006 The quotation above was Irish rock star’s Bono attempt at self deprecating humour. However, being devoid of the humility required to make it work as a joke, it stands more as a statement…

Secularism, Socialism and Religion

Bob Goupillot outlines a Marxist approach to religion A Marxist understanding of religion Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is…

The Sinn Fein Ard Fheis and the Collapse of Republicanism

Joe Craig (Socialist Democracy – Belfast) analyses the recent developments in Ireland’s republican movement The vote at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis to support the police force and judicial system of the Northern State is dramatic evidence of the collapse of republican consciousness. Publication the week beforehand of the ombudsman’s report into police collusion with…