Reprinted from Issue no. 64, Nov/Dec 2005, of Class Struggle, produced by the International Communist Union (Trotskyist) More than 5 years ago, on 7 May 2000, British troops landed in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. This was the first major intervention by the British army in sub-Saharan Africa since the end of its bloody…
A Change of Course Required
Philip Stott, member of the SSP and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) gives his analysis of the Scottish Independence Convention and the trajectory of the SSP. It’s been more than a decade and a half since the soothsayers of capitalism pronounced the triumph of the market and read the last rites for socialism.…
The Crown Powers and an Anti-Imperialist Agenda
John Mitchell, an independent Scottish republican and member of the SSP As always Allan Armstrong’s analysis of the Scottish Independence Convention (SIC) is a welcome, well-developed and considered response. Indeed Allan’s critiques in previous editions of Emancipation & Liberation have helped clarify my own thoughts on this matter. It seems strange that anyone proclaiming themselves…
Rights for the People Not Royal Prerogatives
Republican St. David’s Day Demonstration 10am Wednesday March 1st, Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay Mrs Windsor will officially open the National Assembly for Wales’ new debating chamber on March 1st St. David’s Day. Our National Assembly does not have the powers to meet the needs of the people of Wales. It has fewer powers than a…
Cooperating in the International Struggle Against Imperialism and for Socialist Republicanism
A response to Scot MacCreamhin’s Can Scottish Socialists and Irish republicans work together? Scot MacCreamhin’s article, Can Scottish socialists and Irish republicans work together?, is a welcome contribution to what has often been a fraught debate. Scot concentrates on possible electoral cooperation in the 2007 Holyrood elections. He goes on to consider various options for…
An Electoral Alliance for the 2007 Local Elections?
Iris, the magazine published by Cairde Na hEireann in Scotland, initiated a debate in asking: Can Scottish socialists and Irish republicans work together? Below are reprinted two contributions to the debate. The first, from Scot MacCreamhain, was first printed in Iris, Autumn 2005. This is followed by a reply from Allan Armstrong. Questioning the logic…
Glasgow Commemorates Bloody Sunday
Jim Slaven, Secretary of the James Connolly Society, reflects on the events surrounding this year’s Bloody Sunday commemoration and the task of republicans in Scotland Opposition to commemoration Following the furore over the recent Bloody Sunday commemoration in Glasgow it is perhaps time to reflect on the political questions raised. Why did the BNP and…
Emancipation & Liberation Index 11
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 11, Autumn 2005 The Legacy of the Gleneagles Summit, John Wight Facing up to the challenge, Nick Clarke Obstructing a legal demonstration, John Wight Two Words Collide – Nationalism and Republicanism, Allan Armstrong When ‘raising consciousness’ ain’t enough, Mumia Abu-Jamal Fight the power, Alan Graham Empty bombast marks the end of…
Who Were the Galloway Levellers?
Alistair Livingston Local variations aside, what was the fate of those who were no longer required on the land that once fed them? More than Adam Smith, more than any of the other Enlightenment theorists, it was the ex-Jacobite, James Steaurt, who foresaw their fate. As Marx recognised, ‘He examined the process [of the genesis…
Oor Wullie? – William Wallace and Socialists Today
by Allan Armstrong Commemorating William Wallace, yesterday and today This year is the 700th anniversary of the death of William Wallace. He was brutally killed at what is now Smithfield Market in London, on the orders of Edward I, the Plantagenet King of England. How is this event viewed today? Whatever the real significance of…