Report of the campaign’s founding conference On 8th December 2007, over 80 people gathered in central London for the Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) founding conference. HOPI was started early in 2007 by Iranian activists in the UK and UK left groups, to oppose imperialist war with Iran whilst supporting the struggles of…
Iran And The New Threat Of War
Over the last few days US websites have been full of debates about an article first published on the US News and World Report website. This was sparked off by the sudden resignation of the top US military commander for the Middle East, William Fallon. The six reasons can be summarized as follows: Fallon’s resignation:…
Turkey: A Country At War With Itself
Steve Kaczynski explains the link in Turkey between head scarves and the Turkish army’s invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan Recently, two issues involving Turkey have received wide coverage in the international media. The first is Islamic head scarves, the second is the Turkish army incursion into northern Iraq. I will look at these matters in turn.…
The Defiance Of Science
Rod MacGregor looks at science, secularism and the role of religion In his book about oil depletion, Half Gone, Jeremy Leggett, one-time oil company high flier and former chief scientist with Greenpeace, tells of a particularly bizarre conversation he had with a lobbyist from the Ford Motor Company at a conference on climate change. The…
Letter agreed (10.3.2008) at SSP International Committee to be sent out to organisations in Ireland, Wales and England
The Scottish Socialist Party is inviting your organisation to send a speaker to Socialism 2008 to be held on …………… at ……………… Our last Conference agreed to arrange a meeting of socialists in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. It is clear that the ruling classes of the UK and Ireland have come to a shared…
Motion Passed at SSP Conference in October 2007
The SSP agrees to contact socialists in England, Ireland and Wales to discuss a republican socialist strategy to counter current US and British plans to maintain imperial control over these islands on behalf of the global corporations. If the initial discussions prove fruitful then the SSP should, if possible, organise a conference in 2008 to…
Socialists And The Republic
Taken from SSP website Soon to be included in a forthcoming RCN pamphlet. When people are asked what is meant by the word ‘republic’ they usually answer, A country without a monarch. In today’s world this covers a great variety of states, including the USA, France, Germany, Russia, Israel, China, South Africa and Cuba. At…
‘Celtic Tigers’ And ‘Celtic Lions’ Both Pussycats For Big Business
I have come to Dublin to set our aspirations for Scotland’s future. Alex Salmond, speaking at Trinity College, Dublin, 13.2.2008 There two official economic visions currently being offered to the electorates of these islands. The first has been promoted by Blair, Brown and New Labour. Their British imperial vision involves bowing and scraping before the…
Paisley’s Legacy
An article on the Socialist Democracy website by US socialist, Matt Siegfried After 45 Years as Northern Ireland’s leading demagogue the 82 year old sectarian preacher, Reverend Doctor Ian Paisley, has exited the political stage. He has resigned, as of May, his position as Stormont’s First Minister as well as Leader of his Democratic Unionist…
Ken Livingstone: The End of Road
Gerry Fitzpatrick (Socialist Resistance), provides a personal memoir of the evolution of ‘Red Ken’ the first celebrity socialist. Today he has betrayed the Black, Irish and socialist activists who battled against the ‘Met’ – the corrupt police force ‘Red Ken’ now defends. Some years ago in the early 1970s – it seems a very long…