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	<title>Emancipation &#38; Liberation</title>
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		<title>Republican Socialist Convention Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The contribution by Allan Armstrong (SSP International Committee) at the Republican Socialist Convention in London on 13 02 2010
Allan Armstrong (SSP) welcomed the participation of the veteran campaigner, Peter Tatchell, a ‘republican in spirit’, to the Republican Socialist Convention. However, there was a formalism about the republican principles Peter advocated. This was because Peter had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2010/02/26/republican-socialist-convention-debate/</link>
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		<title>Campaign To Fight The Blacklist And  To Support Brian Higgins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last autumn, the official journal of the construction workers’ union, UCATT, revealed the shocking details of a Blacklist operated by The Consulting Association (TCA), on behalf of a group of named construction companies. 3200 named construction worker trade unionists are on the list. This was followed by an impressive article, Boys from the Blacklist, published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2010/02/20/campaign-to-fight-the-blacklist-and-to-support-brian-higgins/</link>
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		<title>SSP and Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the SSP have been asked to contribute documents on electoral strategy, here is a contribution from the RCN.
A Contribution To The Discussions Arising From The Glasgow North East By-Election
1. How did the SSP publicly assess the by-election result?
The Republican Communist Network (RCN) welcomes the decision of the SSP Executive Committee (EC) to open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2010/01/26/ssp-and-elections/</link>
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		<title>Global Commune Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Global Commune
It is now 20 years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. For most people this signalled the end of communism.  However, there has always been another view, which understands that the USSR and its satellites and emulators were never communist, socialist or workers’ states.  They represented the negation of communism. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/11/25/global-commune-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation, Issue 18, Autumn 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issue 18 of Emancipation &#38; Liberation is out now.
If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us.
Comments are open, so until articles are online, feel free to discuss the articles below. When they are online you can discuss the article in it&#8217;s comment section.

Editorial: Can the SNP deliver Independence?, RCN
Lisbon Treaty passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/11/14/emancipation-liberation-issue-18-autumn-2009/</link>
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		<title>The Need for Socialist Unity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editors Note: still to do footnotes links and tables
A contribution from Allan Armstrong of the Republican Communist Network. This is immediately followed by a supplement analysing the European election results, which assesses the current balance of political forces in the EU.
In Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales the main lesson of the 2009 European elections is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/07/10/the-need-for-socialist-unity/</link>
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		<title>Left Unity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SWP have published an open letter on Left Unity in the past few weeks. There is a reply from the Commune which the RCN is in broad agreement with. We reprint it below.
Reply to socialist workers party’s open letter to the left
Comrades,
We write in reply to your Open Letter to the Left of 9 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/06/21/left-unity/</link>
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		<title>SSP Conference Bulletin March 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The RCN urges Conference delegates and visitors to apply the following principles when they discuss, debate and vote on this year’s Conference motions.

Do they enhance the political independence of our class?
Do they promote greater democracy both in our own organisations and in wider society? 
Do they develop genuine internationalism?
Do they oppose British unionism and Scottish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/25/ssp-conference-bulletin-march-2009/</link>
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		<title>Inside Ulster Loyalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ed Walsh – Irish Socialist Network (first published in Resistance no. 8)
UVF: The Endgame (Poolbeg, 2008) by Jim Cusack &#38; Henry McDonald
Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald are well placed to tell the story of the UVF, having spent decades building up contacts inside the loyalist scene. If you want to know what happened over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/inside-ulster-loyalism/</link>
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		<title>Sinn Fein’s &#8216;Michael Collins Moment&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McAnulty of Socialist Democracy (Ireland) assesses the political impact of the return of physical force republicanism, after the killings in Antrim and Craigavon
There has been a united response by all the Irish and British political parties to the killing of British soldiers in Antrim and the later killing of a policeman in Craigavon. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/sinn-fein%e2%80%99s-michael-collins-moment/</link>
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		<title>Normality? By Whose Standards?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second, from the eirigi website (eirigi) (19.12.08), contrasts the current role of the armed forces in the Six Counties and in Scotland. However, if there is ever to be a serious move towards the exercise of Scottish self-determination, we too could experience such British ‘normality’.
As of January 2009, the British army in the Six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/normality-by-whose-standards/</link>
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		<title>Challenging Normalisation On The Streets Of Belfast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month has now passed since the controversial British military ‘homecoming parade’ in Belfast. While there was considerable media hype in the run-up to the November 2nd military display, there was a noticeable lack of any in-depth analysis as to why the parade was organised in the first place.
Instead, the corporate media ran endless stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/challenging-normalisation-on-the-streets-of-belfast/</link>
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		<title>Dublin mobilisation &#8211; Lions led by donkeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, February 21st, 120,000 workers answered the call of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and took to the streets of Dublin. John McAnulty, of Socialist Democracy (Ireland), makes his assessment of both the potential and the political limitations of this massive demonstration.
It has become unfashionable to speak of working class power. Asserting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/dublin-mobilisation-lions-led-by-donkeys/</link>
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		<title>Well, the Crisis of Capitalism has arrived – So, what do we do now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not just a ‘Credit Crunch’ – but a ‘Crisis of Capitalism’
This year’s SSP Conference takes place against the background of an unprecedented crisis for capitalism. Every day it becomes clearer that the problems in the economy are not just confined to the over-inflated world of finance, but are having a major impact on the productive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/20/well-the-crisis-of-capitalism-has-arrived-%e2%80%93-so-what-do-we-do-now/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation, Issue 17, Spring 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issue 17 of Emancipation &#38; Liberation will be coming out for the SSP conference next weekend.
If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us.
Comments are open, so until articles are online, feel free to discuss the articles below. When they are online you can discuss the article in it&#8217;s comment section.

Editorial: Well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/03/19/emancipation-liberation-17-index-17/</link>
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		<title>Statement on Europe 2008-2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following statement is not authored by the RCN, but our motion to SSP conference in 2009 references it.

We are experiencing, in the world and in Europe, the worst crisis capitalism has known since 1929; a crisis which is hitting head-on the banks and all the financial companies, but whose roots lie in the economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/02/22/statement-on-europe-2008-2009/</link>
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		<title>Internationalism From Below</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The challenge to the UK state and British Empire from 1879-95
Contents of forthcoming book

Introduction
The growing conflict between liberal and conservative unionism in the period of New Imperialism
Michael Davitt and the launching of the Irish Revolution in 1879
Davitt adopts an ‘internationalism from below’ strategy to spread the revolution
The struggle against coercion and for land triggers off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/01/20/internationalism-from-below/</link>
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		<title>Basketball Rules in Palestine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Emancipation &#38; Liberation Issue 10, Summer 2005.

Israelis have the right to play on both sides of the court, whereas Palestinians can only play on their own side.
For security reasons, Palestinians do not have the right to pass the ball between players, the ball could hit an Israeli player.
There will be no basket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/01/11/basketball-rules-in-palestine/</link>
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		<title>Blunderwall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Emancipation &#38; Liberation Issue 8, Autumn 2004.
This wall between us slowly grows
slinking along the dusty earth
like some snake in the desert sands
Once in Jericho it fell down
by those who now do the building
the heirs of the trumpet blowers
Once Belshazzar saw the writing
on the wall, Daniel read the words
Mene, mene, tekel, parsin.
The days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2009/01/11/blunderwall/</link>
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		<title>Republican Socialist Convention Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Socialist Party site is carrying a report on the conference here.
As well as an overview of events there are some comments and feedback from attendees. These are reproduced below, visit the report on the conference for more details.
Brian Garvey, Fourthwrite, Independent Workers Union:
The space given to democratic discussion, the planning and facilitation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/12/09/republican-socialist-convention-report/</link>
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		<title>Greek Police Murder 16 Year Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement from Greece, the posting of which was unfortunately delayed.
Tonight, at 9.30 (Greece time) a 15-16 year old boy was shot twice in the heart and was killed by a policeman in eksarxeia, a neighbourhood which is the basis of plenty left organisations and anarchists&#8217; collectives.
A police car was patroling in Exarchia passing through Mesologgiou [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/12/09/greek-police-murder-16-year-old/</link>
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		<title>Learn the Lessons of the Fedayeen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an edited version of a speech by Yassamine Mather delivered to the September 7 London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
The month of September is known in the Iranian exile calendar as the month to commemorate one of the biggest mass executions of political prisoners in the Islamic republic’s period of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/11/01/learn-the-lessons-of-the-fedayeen/</link>
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		<title>No Attack on Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stark warning by David Owen in his article, Signs of an Israeli strike on Iran,(1) is just one of hundreds of references to the window of opportunity for a US-backed/tolerated Israeli strike on Iran between November 2008 and mid-January 2009, when the outgoing US president might feel inclined to give a ‘nod and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/11/01/no-attack-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>Republican Socialist Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uniting the Left on the basis of &#8216;Internationalism from Below&#8217;
Frances Curran &#8211; Scottish Socialist Party
Mike Davies –  member of former Welsh Socialist Alliance
Dan Finn – Irish Socialist Network
Tommy McKearmey &#8211; Fourthwrite
Declan O’ Neill – Convention of the Left 
Speakers will lead off Introductory outlining struggles in their particular countries and the scope for joint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/29/republican-socialist-convention/</link>
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		<title>New Republicanism pamphlet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just published a new pamphlet titled Republicanism, socialism and democracy
It is available for £1 including postage from the usual address.
A short extract follows.

For socialists republicanism in the United Kingdom describes the movement from below for a radical and militant democracy. Republicanism addresses those immediate democratic issues faced by the working class in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/26/new-republicanism-pamphlet/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Index 16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation &#38; Liberation, Issue 16, Spring 2008
SSP &#8211; Learning the Lessons
The role of platforms in the SSP
Prospects For Socialists In Scotland
Respect Split
Cartoon
Ken Livingstone: The End of Road
Paisley’s Legacy
‘Celtic Tigers’ And ‘Celtic Lions’ Both Pussycats For Big Business
Socialists And The Republic
Motion passed at SSP Conference in October 2007
Letter agreed (10.3.2008) at SSP International Committee to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/26/emancipation-liberation-index-16/</link>
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		<title>Man&#8217;s Best Friend?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 when we’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/26/mans-best-friend/</link>
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		<title>Life With You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/26/life-with-you/</link>
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		<title>Democracy 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 have to choose which policies to implement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/26/democracy-2/</link>
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		<title>Punk, Politics and Perdition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/16/punk-politics-and-perdition/</link>
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		<title>Workers, Serfs And Slaves: Managed Migration And Employment Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/16/workers-serfs-and-slaves-managed-migration-and-employment-rights/</link>
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		<title>The SSP Gives Its Support To The ‘No One Is Illegal’ Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/16/the-ssp-gives-its-support-to-the-%e2%80%98no-one-is-illegal%e2%80%99-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Hands Off the People of Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Report of the campaign&#8217;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 the Iranian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/16/hands-off-the-people-of-iran/</link>
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		<title>Iran And The New Threat Of War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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:

1. Fallon’s resignation: he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/16/iran-and-the-new-threat-of-war/</link>
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		<title>Turkey: A Country At War With Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kaczynski explains the link in Turkey between head scarves and the Turkish army&#8217;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.
In February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/15/turkey-a-country-at-war-with-itself/</link>
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		<title>The Defiance Of Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 man from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/15/the-defiance-of-science/</link>
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		<title>Letter agreed (10.3.2008) at SSP International Committee to be sent out to organisations in Ireland, Wales and England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/15/letter-agreed-1032008-at-ssp-international-committee-to-be-sent-out-to-organisations-in-ireland-wales-and-england/</link>
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		<title>Motion Passed at SSP Conference in October 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 bring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/15/motion-passed-at-ssp-conference-in-october-2007/</link>
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		<title>Socialists And The Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 first glance, then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/14/socialists-and-the-republic/</link>
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		<title>‘Celtic Tigers’ And ‘Celtic Lions’ Both Pussycats For Big Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 rich and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/14/%e2%80%98celtic-tigers%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98celtic-lions%e2%80%99-both-pussycats-for-big-business/</link>
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		<title>Paisley’s Legacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Party.
He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/14/paisley%e2%80%99s-legacy/</link>
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		<title>Ken Livingstone: The End of Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gerry Fitzpatrick (Socialist Resistance), provides a personal memoir of the evolution of &#8216;Red Ken&#8217; 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 &#8211; it seems a very long time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/07/ken-livingstone-the-end-of-road/</link>
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		<title>Cartoon</title>
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		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/07/cartoon/</link>
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		<title>Respect Split</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Walsh, (Irish Socialist Network) gives his personal views on the recent split in Respect
Originally printed at http://www.irishsocialist.net
The British Left has now experienced two acrimonious splits in the space of eighteen months. After the grim transformation of the Scottish Socialist Party into two bitterly-divided camps (The SSP split has been covered in back issues of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/07/respect-split/</link>
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		<title>Prospects For Socialists In Scotland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong interviews Alan McCombes, a key influence on the theoretical direction of the SSP and a member of the SSP national executive. He gives us his views on Salmond’s SNP government, the future prospects for socialist unity, and the SSP’s constitutional conference.
How do you assess the current situation with the new SNP government?
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/04/prospects-for-socialists-in-scotland/</link>
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		<title>The Role Of Platforms In The SSP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Platforms, tendencies, factions – call them what you will – exist in all organisations, not just in political parties. Sometimes they are suppressed (by the controlling and usually undeclared, leadership faction, of course), sometimes they are tolerated and occasionally they are welcomed.
This article argues that not only are platforms inevitable, but that they are necessary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/04/the-role-of-platforms-in-the-ssp/</link>
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		<title>SSP &#8211; Learning The Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the SSP’s 2008 conference approaches, our party is still feeling the effects of the long running perjury investigations and charges linked to the libel trial brought by Tommy Sheridan against the News of the World.
The reality is whatever the outcome of any future court case, the fight for socialism has not been made any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/10/04/ssp-learning-the-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Republican Socialist Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Section on the SSP website on the Republican Socialist Convention.
The agenda is still to be confirmed so watch that page for details. The page also contains links to the motion which led to the convention taking place and an article on it.
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		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/09/30/republican-socialist-conventian/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the blog where the RCN publish our magazine Emancipation &#38; Liberation.
We currently have live issues 11, 12 and 14. 15 is being worked on now. We will then probably start from issue 1, this is due to the number of articles which reference previously published ones making the process slightly easier.
The most current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2008/09/14/emancipation-liberation-blog/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Index 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation &#38; Liberation, Issue 15, Autumn 2007
Setback or disaster: Can the SSP survive?
The SNP’s ‘National Conversation’ prepares the ground for reform of the Union
Consensus politics or an unprincipled lash-up?
Past mustn’t stand in way of future
Irish election: Downturn in workers struggle means Teflon Bertie rides again
When the fighting is over
Beslan
From Operation Banner to Operation Helvetica
Iranian workers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/29/emancipation-liberation-index-15/</link>
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		<title>Lyrical Delicacy and Political Toughness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong interviews socialist activist and poet, Jim Aitken, about his life, politics and works.
Could you please give us some background information about your life?
I was born and raised in Edinburgh. My mother was from Wick, one of a family of six. She left Wick to work in service in London. She never saw the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/29/lyrical-delicacy-and-political-toughness/</link>
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		<title>What Socialists Stand For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scottish Socialist Youth
Review by Andrew Weir
Available from: scottishsocialistyouth@hotmail.co.uk for 
The Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) have put together the pamphlet What Socialists Stand For, adapted from a similar pamphlet published by the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia, to serve as an introduction to socialist politics. The idea is a very good one; a pamphlet-length exposition of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/29/what-socialists-stand-for/</link>
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		<title>To Tame the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grzegorz (Greg) Rybak is Polish worker currently living in Edinburgh. He stood as the SSP candidate for the Leith Ward in the City of Edinburgh Council elections this year.
To tame the city
Sitting on a bicycle
With the speed of the wind
I wend my way through the city
Trying to tame the new city space.
New closes, and new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/29/to-tame-the-city/</link>
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		<title>Internationalist Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong reviews two albums, which address the world of migrant workers – dispossession and discrimination, longing and hope, oppression and resistance.
The Road of Tears
Battlefield Band, £9.50
Battlefield Band released their 26th album, The Road of Tears, last year. The theme is emigration and immigration. The album makes the link between the experience of the dispossessed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/29/internationalist-spirit/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Free World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 showed Ken Loach’s latest film, It’s A Free World on September 24th 2007. We are reprinting this review by Corinna Lotz from ‘A World to Win’ website.
It’s a Free World follows the director’s earlier feature about the Irish war of independence, The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Producer Rebecca O’Brian and writer Paul [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/its-a-free-world/</link>
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		<title>May Day: Marching in the footsteps of immigrant workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an article in the US radical newsletter Dissident Voice (1.5.07) by Sharat G Lin
Over 1.5 million people took part in May Day demonstrations in 2006 in what amounted to one of the single largest days of protest in US history. Many also participated in a general strike by refusing to conduct business, go to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/may-day-marching-in-the-footsteps-of-immigrant-workers/</link>
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		<title>No One Is Illegal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Affilation to the No One is Illegal Campaign is to be debated at the SSP Conference on October. The attitude an organisation takes towards the rights of migrant workers throughout the world defines whether it is international socialist or merely national labourist. We are publishing the first chapter of NOII’s pamphlet, Workers Control Not Immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/no-one-is-illegal/</link>
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		<title>Beggar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They all have their stories.
This one, young and ageing,
says that his stepfather
was ‘a brutal bastard.’
And in those greying eyes
that have seen far too much
I can still sense the child
whose world went upside down.
But this lad has moved on,
now dreams of survival
on the harsh, concrete street
where he must never sleep
       [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/beggar/</link>
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		<title>Homelessness- Who Really Cares?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The experiences of a worker with the homeless in the voluntary sector
The city of origin and writer’s name have been withheld because of the likelihood that the writer will lose their job if identified.
For the last 2 years I have been a support worker in a Homeless Hostel, and I have observed first hand the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/homelessness-who-really-cares/</link>
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		<title>The Highland Midge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is written for anyone who has ever suffered at the hands (or, more accurately, the mouths) of the Highland midge. Over the centuries the bear and the wolf have been hunted to extinction in the Highlands of Scotland, but it has never been remotely within the scope of possibility that its most voracious predator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/27/the-highland-midge/</link>
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		<title>Elections in Greece: Positive Results for the Left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yiannis Kokosalakis analyses the Greek election results and addresses the
prospects and tasks for socialists
That the Greek parliament would be significantly different, as a result of the 16th September elections, was more or less common knowledge in Greece. There had been three and a half years of extreme government incompetence and quite shocking scandals. These included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/23/elections-in-greece-positive-results-for-the-left/</link>
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		<title>Iranian Workers Face Two Enemies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yassamine Mather reports on the Iranian people&#8217;s need for genuine solidarity
The threat of military air strikes against Iran is today probably stronger than ever before.
Many commentators are speculating about possible ‘shock and awe’ attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran’s nuclear installations and other strategic targets. The US, this time supported and encouraged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/23/iranian-workers-face-two-enemies/</link>
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		<title>From Operation Banner to Operation Helvetica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy, Belfast) looks at the changing face of British rule in Ireland
In their usual astounding display of chutzpah Sinn Fein have produced a T-shirt depicting the IRA expelling a Brit soldier, claiming that the ending of ‘Operation Banner’ (the deployment of troops and the armed suppression of the civil population during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/from-operation-banner-to-operation-helvetica/</link>
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		<title>Beslan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Aitken
Eliot said the game was up
after the First World War. How wrong!
For after the Second we fell
into a state of disbelief
that still must make us shake our heads.
And on then to Hiroshima,
To Korea down to Vietnam,
And all the other names we call-
Cambodia, Timor, Iraq.
The list a litany of grief,
and what now to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/beslan/</link>
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		<title>When the Fighting is Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With casualties continuing to rise in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rod MacGregor shows imperialism&#8217;s disdain for working class lives
He’s five feet tall and he’s six feet four,
He fights with missiles and with spears,
He’s all of thirty-one and he’s only seventeen,
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years.
Universal Soldier (Buffy St Marie)
In Dundee’s Eastern Necropolis there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/when-the-fighting-is-over/</link>
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		<title>Irish Election: Downturn in Workers Struggle Means Teflon Bertie Rides Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy, Belfast)
The Irish election of 24th May astounded all the political observers commenting on it. The election was called unexpectedly at a rushed early morning press conference in a transparent attempt to head off a judicial enquiry into suspect financial dealings by the Taoiseach , Bertie Ahern. The enquiry was immediately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/irish-election-downturn-in-workers-struggle-means-teflon-bertie-rides-again/</link>
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		<title>Past Mustn’t Stand In Way of Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below, we reprint the editorial from the Belfast Newsletter, 27 March 2007. As a DUP-supporting newspaper, it gives a clear indication of why Paisley went into coalition with Sinn Fein.
No matter what happened yesterday, Peter Hain had planned to be the winner. If the Assembly had met and a First and Deputy First Minister had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/past-mustn%e2%80%99t-stand-in-way-of-future/</link>
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		<title>Consensus Politics or an Unprincipled Lash-Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the Welsh Assembly elections, Bob Davies (CPGB, South Wales) details the compromises in the pursuit of power
Cross party, consensus politics currently appears in vogue at the moment. As I write, and perhaps encouraged by recent developments in Welsh politics, Gordon Brown has announced that Patrick Mercer and John Bercow, both Tory MPs, will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/14/consensus-politics-or-an-unprincipled-lash-up/</link>
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		<title>The SNP’s ‘National Conversation’ Prepares the Ground for Reform of the Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong assesses the impact of the SNP plans for Scotland in the context of British ruling class thinking about reform of the UK
New Unionism and the reform of the UK constitution
On May 3rd New Labour lost its control of both the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. Scotland now has a minority SNP/Green Scottish Government, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/13/the-snp%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98national-conversation%e2%80%99-prepares-the-ground-for-reform-of-the-union/</link>
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		<title>Setback or Disaster: Can the SSP Survive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the setback of May’s Scottish Parliament election results, June’s issue of Frontline magazine carries two contrasting articles on What next for Scottish socialism? – one from SSP National Secretary, Pam Currie, the other from Gregor Gall. Mary McGregor responds.
We all knew the Scottish parliamentary results in May would be bad for the SSP. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/09/13/setback-or-disaster-can-the-ssp-survive/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Index 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation &#38; Liberation, Issue 14, Spring 2007
Offering a Socialist vision, RCN
Peak Oil, Oil Depletion, &#38; Alternative Energies, Rod MacGregor
One year on, Jim Aitken
Against Imperialist war, for Iran&#8217;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 collapse of Republicanism, Joe Craig
Footprints on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/23/emancipation-liberation-index-14/</link>
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		<title>The Republic of the Imagination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republic of the Imagination
In August 2006, Allan Armstrong interviewed the literary critic and poet John Manson about his life and works
Could you please give us some background information about your life?
I was born on a croft on the coast of the Pentland Firth in 1932. My mother was widowed in 1941. Within that year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/13/the-republic-of-the-imagination/</link>
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		<title>Parecon: Participatory Economics and Socialism for the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 exactly what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/13/parecon-participatory-economics-and-socialism-for-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Bought and Sold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart big awards and prize money
Is killing off black poetry
It’s not censors or dictators that are cutting up our art.
The lure of meeting royalty
And touching high society
Is damping creativity and eating at our heart.
The ancestors would turn in graves
Those poor black folk that once were slaves would wonder
How our souls were sold
And check our strategies,
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/13/bought-and-sold/</link>
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		<title>Me? I Thought, OBE Me? Up Yours, I Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An invitation to the palace to accept a New Year honour&#8230;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 it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/me-i-thought-obe-me-up-yours-i-thought%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Bono Finally Finds What He’s Been Looking For – a Knighthood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of obvious fact; a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/bono-finally-finds-what-he%e2%80%99s-been-looking-for-%e2%80%93-a-knighthood/</link>
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		<title>Secularism, Socialism and Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 opium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/secularism-socialism-and-religion/</link>
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		<title>Footprints on the Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Rod Macgregor
On a clear autumn evening I watched the moon rising,
It was big, it was bright, in its heavenly place,
How clever we are, I thought, we’ve walked on you,
And behind us we’ve left footprints on your face.
No wind will blow there to ever remove them,
No one will build over that desolate place,
Till time ends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/footprints-on-the-face/</link>
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		<title>The Sinn Fein Ard Fheis and the Collapse of Republicanism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Craig (Socialist Democracy &#8211; Belfast) analyses the recent developments in Ireland&#8217;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 UVF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/the-sinn-fein-ard-fheis-and-the-collapse-of-republicanism/</link>
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		<title>Naming Women&#8217;s Oppression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate 98 years of International Women’s Day, Catriona Grant, the SSP Women and Equality Policy Coordinator, explains what feminism is and how it fits into socialist practice and ideology
The suffragette movement was a bourgeois movement
I’m a Marxist not a feminist, I stand for the liberation of all workers
The socialist movement played no significant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/naming-womens-oppression/</link>
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		<title>No War On Iran!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No to imperialist war! No to the theocratic regime!
A statement issued by Hands Off the People of Iran campaign
We recognise that there is an urgent need to establish a principled solidarity campaign with the people of Iran. The contradictions between the interests of the neo-conservatives in power in the USA and the defenders of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/no-war-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>Against Imperialist War, for Iran&#8217;s Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yassamine Mather reports on the growing working class struggles within Iran
Every day the European press and media publishes information about plans for a military attack against Iran. Although many of these articles repeat previous ‘revelations’, there is no doubt that the threat of limited or extensive military action by the US cannot be ruled out. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/against-imperialist-war-for-irans-workers/</link>
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		<title>One Year On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Aitken
One year on
after the wind subsided
and the floods disappeared
there was still a scene
reminiscent of some battle zone
with dilapidated houses
piles of debris lying there
upturned and rusting cars
broken boats moored in-land
amid the empty, eerie desolation
One year on
he said New Orleans will be rebuilt
acknowledging that it had not
but it would be a great city again
in some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/12/one-year-on/</link>
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		<title>Peak Oil, Oil Depletion, &amp; Alternative Energies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rod Macgregor examines the oil depletion debate, its consequences for the
world economy and a socialist response
Peak Oil &#38; oil depletion
A debate is currently raging among oil professionals, and it splits into two camps. This debate focuses on a day called Peak Oil, the day in the future when oil production reaches an all-time high, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/09/peak-oil-oil-depletion-alternative-energies/</link>
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		<title>Offering a Socialist Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is only four years since the Scottish Socialist Party experienced the exhilaration of 6 MSPs getting elected to the Scottish Parliament.
Mass actions
In that time, the SSP MSPs have played a tremendous role in being at the forefront of working class and democratic campaigns throughout Scotland. From the nursery nurses fight for better pay, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/08/offering-a-socialist-vision/</link>
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		<title>International Platform Against Isolation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kaczynski reports on the IPAI symposium held in Paris in December 2005
In December 2005, I attended a symposium in a cinema in north-eastern Paris, organised by the International Platform Against Isolation. The event sprang from solitary confinement and other forms of state repression &#8211; a major fact of our time.
Since 2002, these symposia have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/international-platform-against-isolation/</link>
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		<title>Choreography of the Pratfall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy, Belfast)
‘Independent’ Monitoring Commission blasts Provos &#8211; Paisley lays out agenda for ‘new’ Ireland
Commentators on the various ‘historic turning points’ meant to restore life to the corpse of the Good Friday Agreement in Ireland often use the word ‘choreography’. Translated the term means that the agreement, and all its patches and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/choreography-of-the-pratfall/</link>
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		<title>Hard Truths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Wight argues that the anti-war movement has failed to live up to the challenge
After four years of existence it is time to face some hard truths with respect to the antiwar movement in this country. And in facing those truths it becomes impossible to deny that by and large this movement has failed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/hard-truths/</link>
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		<title>Imperialism&#8217;s Nuclear Hypocrisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clarke exposes Labour&#8217;s double standards when it comes nuclear issues
Nothing better illustrates the hypocrisy of imperialism and its apologists at the United Nations than the nuclear issue. The break up of the Soviet Union and the  subsequent diplomatic thaw ended the Cold War. The peace dividend that was supposed to flow from this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/imperialisms-nuclear-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<title>Which Way Now for the SSP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong sees recent setbacks for the SSP as part of the wider international Left&#8217;s retreat in the face of an imperialist, &#8216;liberal&#8217; counter-offensive
Why have the SSP retreated?
It is three years since the massive international demonstrations, held on February 15th 2003, in protest against Bush and Blair’s’ impending war in Iraq. These were the biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/which-way-now-for-the-ssp/</link>
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		<title>A chance to Vote Socialist at Every Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary McGregor analyses the current debate taking place in the SSP over the party&#8217;s electoral strategy
First-Past-The-Post: to stand or not to stand
There is a debate raging within the SSP which, like so many others, actually goes far beyond the superficial topic of the debate, and goes to the very essence of the nature of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/16/a-chance-to-vote-socialist-at-every-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Index 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation &#38; Liberation, Issue 12, Spring 2006
A chance to Vote Socialist at every opportunity, Mary McGregor
Which way now for the SSP, Allan Armstrong
Imperialism’s nuclear hypocrisy, Nick Clarke
Hard truths, John Wight
Choreography of the pratfall, John McAnulty
International Platform Against Isolation, Steve Kaczynski
Glasgow commemorates Bloody Sunday, Jim Slaven
An electoral alliance for the 2007 Local Elections?, Scot MacCreamhain
Cooperating in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/09/emancipation-liberation-index-12/</link>
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		<title>Sierra Leone &#8211; Britain’s Other Invasion &#8211; 5 Years On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 campaign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/08/sierra-leone-britain%e2%80%99s-other-invasion-5-years-on/</link>
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		<title>A Change of Course Required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Stott, member of the SSP and the Committee for a Workers&#8217; 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. Events [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/a-change-of-course-required/</link>
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		<title>RCN, Crown Powers and an Anti-Imperialist Agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Liberation have helped clarify my own thoughts on this matter. It seems strange that anyone proclaiming themselves a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/rcn-crown-powers-and-an-anti-imperialist-agenda/</link>
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		<title>Rights for the People Not Royal Prerogatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican St. David&#8217;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 council &#8211; it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/rights-for-the-people-not-royal-prerogatives/</link>
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		<title>Cooperating in the International Struggle Against Imperialism and for Socialist Republicanism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/cooperating-in-the-international-struggle-against-imperialism-and-for-socialist-republicanism/</link>
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		<title>An Electoral Alliance for the 2007 Local Elections?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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
In May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/an-electoral-alliance-for-the-2007-local-elections/</link>
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		<title>Glasgow Commemorates Bloody Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Slaven, Secretary of the James Connolly Society, reflects on the events surrounding this year&#8217;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 the Orange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2006/03/05/glasgow-commemorates-bloody-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation Index 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation &#38; Liberation, Issue 11, Autumn 2005
Death Squad Britain &#8211; the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, Steve Kaczynski
The Legacy of the Gleneagles Summit, John Wight
Facing up to the challenge, Nick Clarke
Obstructing a legal demonstration, John Wight
Two Words Collide &#8211; Nationalism and Republicanism, Allan Armstrong
When ‘raising consciousness’ ain’t enough, Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fight the power, Alan Graham
Iraqi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/emancipation-liberation-index-11/</link>
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		<title>Who Were the Galloway Levellers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/who-were-the-galloway-levellers/</link>
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		<title>Oor Wullie? William Wallace and Socialists Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Wallace in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/oor-wullie-william-wallace-and-socialists-today/</link>
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		<title>Armande’s Bed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by John Aberdein, (Thirsty Books, £9.99), Reviewed by Mary McGregor
For me, reviewing a novel rather than writing a conventionally political article for Emancipation and Liberation was always going to be a pleasure. Even more so when it is written by Scottish Socialist Party comrade, John Aberdein.
I am a great believer in the power of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/armande%e2%80%99s-bed/</link>
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		<title>Computer Game &#8211; Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keynesian Economy Simulator

Format: PC
Publisher: Positech
Developer: Clif Harris (probably in his bedroom)
Price: $19.95+VAT (Approx. £13 &#8211; £14)
Reviewed by Alan Graham

(Bourgeois) Democracy: the game
I had heard about this game and was intrigued, so when I saw the demo on a magazine I installed it immediately. Two hours later I shelled out to download the full version from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/computer-game-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Forward Wales In Meltdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forward Wales is in meltdown after losing many of its leading activists including its sole councillor Dave Bithell, the National Secretary and International Organiser.
The party’s website has been under construction for the past four months and members haven’t received a newsletter from the Wrexham HQ.
Those who quit are citing disagreements with the political direction of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/forward-wales-in-meltdown/</link>
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		<title>The Way Forward for the Scottish Socialist Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donnie Nicolson, ISM platform member and SSY Organiser, contributes to the debate in a personal capacity.
The RCN article in March’s Frontline was very welcome in that it identified and clearly described many dangers facing the SSP, and competently argued the case for a new ‘Marxist pole of attraction’ within the party.
The purpose of my article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/the-way-forward-for-the-scottish-socialist-party/</link>
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		<title>In Memory of Miriam Daly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following address was given by James Daly at the 25th anniversary commemoration of the murder by loyalists of leading socialist and republican Miriam Daly, at her graveside, Swords, County Dublin, 25 June 2005.
At commemorations like this in earlier years, while the struggle continued, we could think in terms of the nobility of the cause [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/in-memory-of-miriam-daly/</link>
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		<title>Empty Bombast Marks the End of the IRA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McAnulty analyses what Sinn Fein and the IRA are signing up for
Tony Blair managed to avoid saying that the hand of history was on his shoulder, but even without that there was enough overblown bombast from London, Washington and Dublin to reward the Provisional republican leadership for their 28th July announcement effectively disbanding the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/empty-bombast-marks-the-end-of-the-ira/</link>
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		<title>Iraqi Kurds &#8211; Tools of Imperialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kaczynski looks at how imperialism has used the Iraqi Kurds
The Iraqi Kurds are the only ethnic group that is considered 100% loyal to the US-UK imperialist occupation of Iraq. So much so that when the US-backed Governing Council tried to introduce a new flag for Iraq, it included a yellow line across the flag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/iraqi-kurds-tools-of-imperialism/</link>
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		<title>Fight the Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Graham examines how politics and music link up
Looking back on the Make Poverty History march and the events surrounding it, it is hard to ignore the effect music had on the event. But how did it compare to other political/music events, and how political was the music?  I will look at various bands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/fight-the-power/</link>
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		<title>When ‘Raising Consciousness’ Ain&#8217;t Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Column written by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The images of voracious famine leaking out of the steamy deserts of the Northwest African nation of Niger, cuts to the soul’s quick.
Babies barely able to grasp a breath.
Mothers with breasts as flat, and milkless as boys.
Men and women, dizzy with hunger, laid low in the barren dust, awaiting whatever release [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/when-%e2%80%98raising-consciousness%e2%80%99-aint-enough/</link>
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		<title>Two Words Collide &#8211; Nationalism and Republicanism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong reviews Two Worlds Collide &#8211; power, plunder and resistance in a divided planet by Alan McCombes
Earlier this year, Scotland hosted a series of activities in response to the G8 Summit held in Gleneagles. The key events were the official ‘Make Poverty History’ march in Edinburgh, held on July 2nd, and the G8 Alternatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/two-words-collide-nationalism-and-republicanism/</link>
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		<title>Obstructing a Legal Demonstration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of July 6th, myself and Raphie DeSantos, both members of the SSP, were tasked with organising buses, bus stewards and getting people on buses to go up to Gleneagles from Waterloo Place in the centre of Edinburgh. It was a chaotic scene, with many more people showing up without tickets than with, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/obstructing-a-legal-demonstration/</link>
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		<title>Facing up to the Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clarke looks at the left&#8217;s response to G8
Over a year ago, comrades from the anti-capitalist movement, Globalise Resistance and the Scottish Socialist Party came together to create G8 Alternatives. G8 Alternatives immediately started organising, agitating, and campaigning to make sure that, when the world’s leading imperialists turned up at Gleneagles in July, they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/facing-up-to-the-challenge/</link>
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		<title>The Legacy of the Gleneagles Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2005 G8 Summit, held at the luxury Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland from July 6th to July 8th, was notable for many reasons but three which stood out in particular were:

(i) the failure to come up with anything to alleviate unremitting poverty in Africa other than a pledge to raise aid by a paltry 15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/the-legacy-of-the-gleneagles-summit/</link>
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		<title>Death Squad Britain &#8211; the Case of Jean Charles de Menezes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Jean Charles&#8217; murder, Steve Kaczynski looks at Britain&#8217;s shoot-to-kill policy
On July 7 and July 21, bombs exploded in London. On July 22, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician named Jean Charles de Menezes left his flat. He was followed by anti-terrorist police and in Stockwell underground station , he was shot a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2005/09/13/death-squad-britain-the-case-of-jean-charles-de-menezes/</link>
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		<title>Cymru Goch’s Resignation Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Julian Goss, Welsh Socialist Alliance Secretary
Despite being a founder member of the Welsh Socialist Alliance, Cymru Goch will not be re-affiliating to the WSA for a number of reasons.
Firstly, the WSA has failed to develop as an alliance in terms of attracting non-aligned members who put the alliance before party affiliation. For the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/08/04/cymru-goch%e2%80%99s-resignation-letter/</link>
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		<title>Successful republican festival and victory at free speech trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following report comes for Y Faner Goch, issues no 134 and 135
More than 300 people attended the three day Stuff the Monarchy festival organised by Cymru Goch in Pontypridd’s Clwb y Bont over the Jubilee bank holiday. Those attending were a broad mix of republican, socialists and greens from across Wales and enjoyed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/08/04/successful-republican-festival-and-victory-at-free-speech-trial/</link>
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		<title>Colombia, the IRA, the  US and Manifest Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the implications for the US government&#8217;s Plan Colombia
This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 10, Summer 2002.
The ruling class of the United States has long viewed everything south of the Rio Grande as its exclusive domain. The United States became a capitalist power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/08/04/colombia-the-ira-the-us-and-manifest-destiny/</link>
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		<title>Unfinished Business: 11 September, one year on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve months after the attacks on New York &#38; Washington, Nick Clarke examines what their impact has been internationally
It is now one year since two passenger jets were piloted into the World Trade Centre&#8217;s Twin Towers, while another was diverted into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. The images of the attack were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/08/04/unfinished-business-11-september-one-year-on/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation, Issue 2, Summer 2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments are open, so feel free to discuss the articles.

The Euro Referendum: The case for an active boycott, Allan Armstrong
Statement from the Conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left, European Anti-Capitalist Left
Another World Is Possible, World Social Forum
Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002
Palestine: After Jenin – Ethnic Cleansing?, Hanna Khamis
How the civilised US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/emancipation-liberation-issue-2-summer-2002/</link>
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		<title>Correspondence Red</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allegiance
In this year of Jubilee and celebration of monarchy, a lot will be said about allegiance – allegiance to Queen and country. It slips off the tongue quite readily but carries a heavy message. Allegiance is a powerful emotional attachment to a cause or person or place and experiencing and expressing this deeply felt emotional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/correspondence-red/</link>
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		<title>Roads to Freedom or did Marx change his mind?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx
Favourite maxim &#8211; Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (Nothing human is alien to me)
Favourite motto &#8211; De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)
Bob Goupillot examines Marx&#8217;s search for new paths to social transformation
Who will mend the hole in the ozone layer? Who will reverse global warming? It is quite clear that it will not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/roads-to-freedom-or-did-marx-change-his-mind/</link>
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		<title>Women’s Liberation and Socialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Ward reviews Women’s Liberation and Socialism by Gill Hubbard and Angela McCormick published by the Socialist Workers’ Platform, part of the Scottish Socialist Party. £1.50
I started reading the above pamphlet with some trepidation. It was produced in the midst of a heated, divisive and misleading debate on whether or not to adopt a mechanism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/women%e2%80%99s-liberation-and-socialism/</link>
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		<title>The Socialist Alliance in England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Spencer has been a committee member of Coventry Socialist Alliance since 1992. Before its abolition in 1986, he was a Labour Councillor on West Midlands County Council. Here he assesses the way forward for the SAs in England.
The SA in England is a hybrid organisation &#8211; neither a party nor a federation. On the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/the-socialist-alliance-in-england/</link>
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		<title>Republican Forum: A way forward for republicanism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared in The Starry Plough (Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002) the paper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
It was a momentous day for Republicanism in Ireland. Tuesday the 23rd of September 2001- the day the Provisional IRA decommissioned weapons in order to save not only the Good Friday Agreement but also the Stormont Assembly. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/republican-forum-a-way-forward-for-republicanism/</link>
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		<title>Empress Brown’s Jingo Jubilee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry Liddle (South London Republican Forum) describes the opposition to Victoria&#8217;s Golden Jubilee celebrations
The year 1887 opened with rioting by the unemployed in Norwich. Two members of the Socialist League were arrested and later imprisoned. The Socialist League was a split by members including Eleanor Marx, from the Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first Marxist organisation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/empress-brown%e2%80%99s-jingo-jubilee/</link>
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		<title>Linking republicanism and socialism in Scotland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong looks at recent debates in the Scottish Socialist Party over republicanism and the jubilee
Scotland is the part of the United Kingdom with the widest anti monarchist feelings, yet it is somewhat ironic that the Scottish Socialist Party, despite being the most influential socialist grouping in these islands, showed its usual reluctance to deal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/linking-republicanism-and-socialism-in-scotland/</link>
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		<title>Jubilee: Wales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Davies reports on Welsh Republicans’ preparations for the Royal Visit: Jiwbili ych a fi!
Welsh Socialist Republicans have been at the forefront in building a coalition against the Queen’s Jubilee Jamboree in June. Cymru Goch, Earth First! activists, leading trade unionists and socialists have come together to form an ad hoc group called Stuff the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/jubilee-wales/</link>
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		<title>Hamish Henderson (OBE declined) 1919-2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamish Henderson, folklorist, poet, Scottish internationalist and socialist died on March 3rd this year. In the year of the golden jubilee, it is worth remembering that Hamish turned down an OBE in 1983. Whilst Scotland’s semi-official nationalist anthem, Flower of Scotland, is sung by Princess Anne at Scottish rugby matches, Hamish’s internationalist anthem, Freedom Come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/hamish-henderson-obe-declined-1919-2002/</link>
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		<title>Jubilee: Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McAnulty remembers the Silver Jubilee celebrations, 25 years ago
One of the unfortunate things about being long in the tooth is that you occasionally have to confess to being present at historical events. I have to confess to being a political activist at the time of the last jubilee, 25 years ago. In fact, following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/jubilee-ireland/</link>
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		<title>How republicans around Britain and Ireland are celebrating the jubilee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socialist Alliance in England
It is the queen’s jubilee time and the Socialist Alliance in England supports all republican activities which seek to expose the lack of democracy at the heart of British society. The jubilee does not end on June 4. That is just the beginning of the monarchist jamboree up to the 50th anniversary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/26/how-republicans-around-britain-and-ireland-are-celebrating-the-jubilee/</link>
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		<title>Jenin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Aitken
Jenin, o Jenin
dust, all over the camp,
has settled like a shroud
and this was supposed
to fight the terror
and deliver whatever
with Apache helicopters
themselves recalling
an earlier ethnic cleansing
raining down missile and flame
what havoc was wrought here
in refugee impoverishment
insults the whole of humanity
but it is those especially
who chose to be silent
and we know who they are
the ones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/jenin/</link>
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		<title>Hooray for Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kaczynski looks at September 11, Hollywood and the portrayal of war and terrorism
The cinema, like other forms of entertainment and the media, is a powerful means of reflecting what goes on in society. It, like other forms of entertainment and the media, is also used by the powers that be to shape public perceptions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/hooray-for-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>Palestine: After Jenin – Ethnic Cleansing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hanna Khamis the myths of the Oslo Process and why it has failed to deliver peace or economic and social gains to the Palestinians
As Israeli tanks and bulldozers bury any lingering hopes of an early peace settlement in the rubble of West bank towns, it is legitimate to ask, why? What can the Israeli State [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/palestine-after-jenin-%e2%80%93-ethnic-cleansing/</link>
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		<title>How the civilised US treats prisoners of war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the fate of prisoners of war held at Guantanamo Bay.
This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 9.
The United States is the country with more people locked up, both as a percentage and in absolute numbers, than any other country in the world. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/how-the-civilised-us-treats-prisoners-of-war/</link>
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		<title>Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[European Socialist Alliance
The SSP supports the creation of a broad-based European Socialist Alliance. Therefore, it calls upon the incoming national office-bearers to contact all those independent socialist parties/alliances in Europe to organise a joint conference, putting forward the following proposals for discussion:

a) joint work and mobilisations directed against the EU leaders’ support for

1.massive job cuts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/resolution-passed-at-scottish-socialist-party-conference-march-2002/</link>
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		<title>Another World Is Possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resistance to neo liberalism, war and militarism For peace and social justice
Call of social movements at the second World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan 31st &#8211; Feb 5th, 2002
Profor Progress
1. In the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all over the world, have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/another-world-is-possible/</link>
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		<title>Statement from the Conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brussels, 12-13 December 2001
1. For the third time in ten years, imperialism is at war. After the unfinished war (for oil) against Iraq and the humanitarian intervention in the Balkans, the United States is bombarding Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries on earth, pretending in doing so to eradicate terrorism worldwide.
Self-defence, humanitarianism, western civilisation, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/statement-from-the-conference-of-the-european-anti-capitalist-left/</link>
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		<title>The Euro Referendum: The case for an active boycott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allan Armstrong why workers should support an active boycott of the Euro referendum
The rise of the populist and fascist Right in Europe
The rise of the populist and fascist Right in the Netherlands, France and England has caused considerable debate amongst the Left throughout Europe. We cannot be complacent in Scotland, just because the far Right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/07/25/the-euro-referendum-the-case-for-an-active-boycott/</link>
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		<title>Emancipation &amp; Liberation, Issue 1, Spring 2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments are open, so feel free to discuss the articles.

Why Emancipation And Liberation?, RCN
We are fighting a duel war, Shoaib Bhatti
Afghanistan Solidarity Appeal, SSP
War Against Terrorism?, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women
An eye for an eye?: justice USA style, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women
War against terrorism and the threat to freedom of expression, Steve Kaczynski
Lords of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/emancipation-liberation-issue-1-spring-2002/</link>
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		<title>Boycott Any Euro Referendum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Jones on an independent working class response to the bosses’ referendum
Neither the European ruling classes, which have created the Euro nor the British capitalist supporters of the pound sterling are friends of the working class. Both are our sworn enemies. The choice being offered to us in this referendum is – a yes vote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/boycott-any-euro-referendum/</link>
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		<title>National Workers’ Assembly meeting &#8211; a big step forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following article by Jordi Martorell is from the website of Socialist Appeal. Despite our many political differences with this grouping we thought that the piece was full of useful information concerning recent revolutionary events in Argentina. Of particular importance is the growing ability of the Argentinian working class to find new democratic, organisational forms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/national-workers%e2%80%99-assembly-meeting-a-big-step-forward/</link>
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		<title>Working class opposition to UDA murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McAnulty reports on the wave of working class opposition to Danny McColgan’s killing
On the rare occasions that the Irish trade union leadership organise a demonstration against sectarianism in the North the standard left-wing leaflet calls for it to be the beginning of a new movement. Yet the lessons of the last thirty years is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/working-class-opposition-to-uda-murder/</link>
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		<title>For A Republican Socialist Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Revolutionary Democratic Group give their analysis of the Socialist Alliance of England’s conference in December 2001
The Socialist Alliance conference on December 1st 2001 was an important moment to gauge the development of the new left emerging in England and throughout Britain. The SA movement has provided the greatest advance for left unity for many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/for-a-republican-socialist-party/</link>
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		<title>James Connolly&#8217;s appeal on the occassion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee In 1897</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The great appear great to us, only because we are on our knees: let us rise.
Fellow Workers,
The loyal subjects of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, etc., celebrate this year the longest reign on record. Already the air is laden with rumours of preparations for a wholesale manufacture of sham popular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/james-connollys-appeal-on-the-occassion-of-queen-victoria%e2%80%99s-diamond-jubilee-in-1897/</link>
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		<title>Red Republicans or just Red Reformers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Elizabeth Windsor’s Golden Jubilee approaches, Mary Ward argues why all democrats should be republicans
If, like me, you view the events of the coming Jubilee with a mixture of revulsion and anger, then you may well be assuming that the republican left has gone to sleep or all been deported such has been the lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/24/red-republicans-or-just-red-reformers/</link>
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		<title>International Working Women&#8217;s Day – Some thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As communists and progressives around the world celebrate International Working Women&#8217;s Day, Linda Gibson argues that, under capitalism, gender roles lead to an artificial division in emotional development.
As International Women’s Day comes around articles will again be written about how women are still not achieving parity with men. And of course that’s true but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/international-working-womens-day-%e2%80%93-some-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Dedicated to Gung-ho George&#8230;(The Texaco Kid)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wanted:- Dead or Alive
Wars about wars
Wars about hate
Talk peace &#38; listen
Before it’s too late
But peace is so boring
Let’s go have some fun
Nuke a few gooks
And let the blood run
Saw a swallow nesting today
Wars of attrition,
Some won &#38; some lost
Why try it again?
Think of the cost
Order, fight to the last
There will be no surrender
Then send off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/dedicated-to-gung-ho-georgethe-texaco-kid/</link>
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		<title>Lords of the Rings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clarke describes how the USA has used the Salt Lake City Olympics as war propaganda
Nationalism has always been a central and integral part of the Olympics – both winter and summer varieties. However, it seems as if the recent events in Salt Lake City have seen jingoism hit new heights. So much so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/lords-of-the-rings/</link>
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		<title>War against terrorism and the threat to freedom of expression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kaczynski highlights the Blair government’s further attacks on our civil liberties
Since September 11, 2001, the bourgeois democratic mask of respecting rights has been slipping. In December, a car bringing the left-wing Turkish language weekly magazine Yasadigimiz Vatan (The homeland we live in) was stopped by British police at Dover, and two issues of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/war-against-terrorism-and-the-threat-to-freedom-of-expression/</link>
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		<title>An eye for an eye?: justice USA style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is already clear that the number of civilian dead from the bombing vastly exceeds the estimated 500 killed by US air strikes during the 78-day Kosovo war, and may also be higher than the 3,200 Iraqi civilians believed killed during the Gulf war. A lot of civilians are clearly being killed or injured. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/an-eye-for-an-eye-justice-usa-style/</link>
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		<title>War Against Terrorism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A symbol of massacre, rape and pillage
It is, of course, richly ironic that the first achievement of the war on terrorism has been to install in Kabul the Northern Alliance, for whom terrorism has been the entire line of business and way of life for more than 20 years.
But it remains a fact that from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/war-against-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan Solidarity Appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The LPP, in close association with the ALRO, has decided to launch the Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign. The idea to start this campaign was discussed during the recent visit of Alan McCombes (editor, Scottish Socialist Voice). Writing from Peshawar, Alan described the conditions the ALRO face:
The activists I met live in grinding poverty, often eating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/afghanistan-solidarity-appeal/</link>
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		<title>We are fighting a duel war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adel is the central leader of the Afghan Revolutionary Labour Organisation.  Shoaib Bhatti, editor of the Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers Struggle) interviewed him on 11th November in Lahore, before the fall of Kabul.
Why were Osama and the Taliban held responsible immediately after the 11th terrorist attacks?
Osama bin Laden was wanted by America for his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/we-are-fighting-a-duel-war/</link>
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		<title>Why Emancipation And Liberation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emancipation and Liberation are heady words. Yet it is vital that we give serious consideration to what we stand for &#8211; not merely what we are against.
The left is best known for being anti &#8211; anti-cuts, anti-poll tax, anti-Nazi, anti-fascist, anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-globalisation or anti-capitalist. Some will argue that as long as we stand as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2002/03/23/why-emancipation-and-liberation/</link>
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