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Emancipation & Liberation Index 16
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 16, Spring 2008 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…
Man’s Best Friend?
This experience comes from leafleting during a council by-election in the Lochee ward in Dundee, but I imagine that what is described in this little ditty is transferable to anywhere that dogs lurk unseen, waiting to give their canine judgement on political activists of any persuasion. For we, who politics inspire, There is a time…
Life With You
by The Proclaimers Like many people I have liked the Proclaimers for years. I really enjoy their love songs which have a Tom Leonard quality to them in terms of their ability to express profound emotions in the language of the working class. I was therefore really pleased to be given Life with you as…
Democracy 2
Review: Alan Graham Keynesian Economy Simulator Format: PC Publisher: Positech Developer: Cliff Harris (probably in his bedroom) Price: £15.28 Bourgeois Democracy: Another simulation Following on from the original Democracy, Clif Harris has released a sequel: imaginatively titled Democracy 2. The game is a simulation of politics. You have been elected President of X country and…
Punk, Politics and Perdition
Mary McGregor interviews communist and actor, Tam Dean Burn. Tam Dean Burn is the most respected political actor in Scotland today. He was born in Leith and grew up in Clermiston, a west Edinburgh housing estate. He went to Queen Margaret College to study acting at a time when working class men were encouraged to…
Workers, Serfs And Slaves: Managed Migration And Employment Rights
Reprinted from the No One Is Illegal website Whatever the merits of Tony Blair’s recent retrospective apology for Britain’s leading role in the slave trade it would be less hypocritical if his government was not developing a modern system of slavery and the reintroduction of sweated labour through the reshaping of immigration controls. The mechanisms…
The SSP Gives Its Support To The ‘No One Is Illegal’ Campaign
Taken from SSP website If anybody had any illusions that Gordon Brown was going to be a better and more principled Labour leader than Tony Blair, they were soon rudely shattered. When Brown declared his support for British jobs for British workers, at the Labour Party Conference, he lifted a slogan straight from the BNP…
Hands Off the People of Iran
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:…